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.
Endre Szemerédi, State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science, has won the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters’ 2012 Abel Prize, one of the top honors in the field of mathematics.
Szemerédi, recipient of numerous international awards and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was cited “for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.”
The Abel Prize comes with a grant of approximately $1 million. 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.
The academy, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies,
has elected Rutgers scientists Eva Y. Andrei (pictured top), Dennis V. Kent (pictured bottom), and Alexander B. Zamolodchikov as members.Andrei and Zamolodchikov are both professors
in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, while Kent is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
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 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.
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 in January 2011.
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.
