Jacob Soll, a professor of history on the Camden Campus and a global expert on Machiavelli, is one of 22 Americans selected as a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. Sometimes known as the “genius award,” the five-year, $500,000 grant celebrates individuals who show exemplary creativity and significant achievement in their work. Learn more.
Honors & Recognition
Certified Genius
Major Prize for Brain Research
Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience Gyorgy Buzsaki recently received the “Brain Prize” for his research on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex.
The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, which administers the award, said his work helped “set the gold standard for correlating structure and function, from molecules to behavior.” Learn more.
Newest National Academies Member
Endre Szemerédi, State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science, is the latest Rutgers faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors an American scientist can achieve. His research has spurred important advances in combinatorics and number theory. Learn more.
National Academies Members
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.
Rutgers–Newark Psychologist Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Only 85 researchers nationwide are chosen each year to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and this year Mauricio Delgado, assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers–Newark, is one of the select few. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Delgado’s brain studies focus on how maladaptive decision-making may underlie drug abuse and other problems. Learn more.
Two Guggenheim Fellows
Two Rutgers faculty received Guggenheim Fellowships in 2010. They are Camilla Townsend, professor of history, pictured, and Richard Serrano, associate professor of French. During her Guggenheim Fellowship year, Townsend will analyze 16th- and 17th-century historical texts written by the Nahua (Aztec) people in their own language. Serrano will complete his third book, Qur’an and the Lyric Imperative, as he continues his investigations of the intercultural intersections of information, literary forms, and language.
Rutgers–Camden Computer Scientist is Fulbright Fellow
Rajiv Gandhi, an associate professor of computer science at Rutgers–Camden, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research and teach at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute beginning in January 2011.
Three School of Arts and Sciences Undergraduates Are Goldwater Scholars
The research accomplishments and stellar academic records of three Rutgers undergraduates in the School of Arts and Sciences have earned them prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, awarded for excellence in mathematics, science, and engineering. Yuliya Afinogenova, pictured, is studying molecular biology, biochemistry, and economics; Edward Lochocki is studying physics and mathematics; and Greg Zegarek is studying neuroscience.
Sixteen Students Win Fulbright Scholarships
Sixteen of Rutgers’ best and brightest students are traveling abroad during the 2010–2011 academic year to teach or conduct research as recipients of prestigious Fulbright Scholarships. The group comprises five current graduate students—one of whom, Adryan Wallace, received a Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation award—and 11 recent bachelor degree recipients. The winners will continue their research or serve as English teaching assistants in 13 countries in Europe, Africa, and South America. Their disciplines include anthropology, art history, economics, history, and psychology. This year’s total is the highest at Rutgers in nearly two decades.
School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Honors and Awards
As the largest academic unit at Rutgers, the School of Arts and Sciences is prodigious in the awards, honors, and scholarly achievements of its faculty. Learn more.
