Professors Jimmy de la Torre, Charles R. Keeton II, and Hao Lin were recognized by the White House with the highest honor a beginning scientist or engineer can receive in the United States. The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers recognize researchers whose accomplishments show the greatest promise for leadership in science and technology and demonstrate a commitment to service through scientific leadership, education, or community outreach. Learn more.
Many Rutgers faculty are members of the National Academies. Members are “advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine,” and membership is one of the highest academic honors an American scientist can attain. Learn more about the National Academies.
Rutgers faculty and students get noticed. More than 3,000 faculty teach and conduct research in 175 academic departments and more than 200 specialized research centers at Rutgers. Over 99 percent hold the Ph.D. or highest degree in their field.
Our faculty include MacArthur “genius” award winners, a winner of the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the biosciences, National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology winners, Fulbright Scholars, Guggenheim Fellows, and numerous members of the National Academy of Sciences and its affiliates. In 1952, professor and alumnus Selman Waksman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work in antibiotics.
These outstanding faculty work with equally outstanding graduate and undergraduate students, ensuring a new generation of scholars will be ready to advance knowledge and do great things. View a list of recent faculty awards and recognition.
Jacob Soll, associate professor of history, was one of four professors at Rutgers awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships in 2009. The recipients—from the New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden campuses—were among 180 candidates chosen from 3,000 applicants for the program sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships are awarded based on achievement and promise for continued success. Soll’s Guggenheim Fellowship will support the Rutgers–Camden historian’s next book, which will explore traditional learning institutions and subversive information collections during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history at Rutgers–Newark, received the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The book also won the 2008 National Book Award for nonfiction and the 2009 George Washington Book Prize given annually to the “most important new book about America’s founding era.”
Senior Simon Gordonov received a 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship to continue his studies in biomedical engineering. A Scarlet Knight who competes in men's cross country and track and field, Gordonov was the only biomedical engineering student from New Jersey to receive the honor in 2009 and the first Rutgers scholar-athlete to receive a Goldwater award. Gordonov is an officer in the Biomedical Engineering Honor Society and is a 2009 Rutgers IGERT summer undergraduate research fellow. He is advised by professor Prabhas Moghe and is interested in stem cell-based tissue engineering as well as disease diagnostics using computational and imaging techniques.
Adelle Thomas, graduate student in the Department of Geography, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal, “Climate Change: Implications for Caribbean Tourism and Society.” The award, totaling over $100,000, includes stipend, tuition, and travel support over three years. The NSF program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the United States and abroad.
