Classes are canceled starting at 3:45 p.m or later at Rutgers-Camden and 4 p.m. or later at Rutgers-New Brunswick and all RBHS campuses. Rutgers-Newark closes at 2:30 p.m today, Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
For more information >>Rutgers faculty excel as teachers, mentors, innovators, practitioners, and thinkers. Their dedication prepares students for success and improves the quality of life for thousands of people every day. Over the years, their work has garnered the highest honors: Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur “Genius” grants, Grammy Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, membership in the National Academies, Nobel Prize, and top international prizes in fields where Nobels are not given such as the Abel (mathematics), Stockholm (criminology), and Wolf (agriculture). Read about recent recognition below.
Three mathematicians in the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, were named 2018 fellows of the American Mathematical Society. With 47 fellows, Rutgers leads the world in the number of fellows in the society. This year’s fellows are Lev Borisov, for “contributions to algebraic geometry and mirror symmetry”; Feng Luo, for “contributions to Teichmueller theory, conformal geometry, hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, combinatorial topology and computer graphics”; and Stephen Miller, for “contributions to analytic number theory, cryptography, and theoretical physics.”
Five Rutgers University–New Brunswick faculty were included in the 2017 Clarivate Analytics lists of Highly Cited Researchers. They are materials engineer Manish Chhowalla, School of Engineering; food scientists Chi-Tang Ho and Qingrong Huang, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; ecologist Rachael Winfree, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; and statistician Cun-Hui Zhang, School of Arts and Sciences. Researchers on the list rank in the “top 1 percent by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science,” Clarivate Analytics’s research citation index. The list covers 21 fields in the sciences and social sciences.