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Alumni Awards Announced
The Cook Community Alumni Association presented the George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2012. Honored on April 29, 2012 were (from the left above) Stephen Mahfood, Ag '71, a leader in the environmental, energy and natural resource fields; Heather O'Rourke, Cook '93, well known traffic reporter for Metro Networks; and Anthony Broccoli, Cook '77, M.S. '79 and Ph.D. '98, both GSNB, professor of atmospheric science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Prasert Chitapong (not pictured), Ph.D. '83 GSNB, received the 2012 Dennis Fenton Outstanding Achievement Award. |
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Reunion Update:
Calling All
Alumni to Campus
There is still time to register for the Alumni Reunion Weekend to join your friends, classmates and, possibly, some favorite professors on the Executive Dean's Tour and Reception from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and the Cook Cocktail Reception and Champage Toast from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. -- both on the G.H. Cook Campus. Further information and a link to registration can be found on the Discovery Initiative website at www.discovery.rutgers.edu.
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Mark Your
Calendar
May 12, 2012 -
Rutgers Rising Remembrance Service
Alumni Reunion Dean's Tour & Reception
CCAA Reunion Gathering and Candelight Walk
May 13, 2012 - University Commencement
May 14, 2012 - School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Convocation
August 29, 2012 - The annual Great Tomato Tasting at Snyder Farm, Pittstown
September 28, 2012 - RUAA Tour and Tasting of New Jersey Wineries |
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Contact:
Office of Community Engagement
848-932-2000
discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu
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'Rutgers Rising' to Honor Nine; Please Join Us on May 12
Nine members of our community who have passed away will be honored at the 2012 Rutgers Rising remembrance event at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at the Cook Campus Center. Family and friends will reminisce about the departed, and a bronze nameplate for each will be affixed to the permanent monument on the Rutgers Rising Patio.
Those to be honored this year are Dr. Joan G. Ehrenfeld, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources; Dr. Richard H. Merritt, Plant Biology and Pathology; Dr. George E.B. Morren Jr., Human Ecology; graduate student Hannah Kelly; retired professor Frederick A. Perkins, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics; retired professor John Bezpa, Poultry Science; retired professors Eileen G. Brennan and Ida Leone, Plant Science; and retired publications coordinator Russell W. Smith.
The event will begin with a continental breakfast. For further information and to register, please visit the event listing on the Discovery Initiative website. |
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Ag Field Day at Rutgers Day Draws
25,000 to the G.H. Cook Campus
More than one-third of the estimated 70,000 people who enjoyed the 2012 Rutgers Day came to the G.H. Cook Campus to indulge in food, fun and learning. Ag Field Day, which started in 1906, became a Rutgers-wide happening for all the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses four years ago.
Always a fixture on the last Saturday in April, mark your calendar now for April 27, 2013.
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Visitors play the Trivia Game at the Deans' Tent. |
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Robert L. Barchi Named
20th President of Rutgers
Robert L. Barchi -- a renowned neuroscientist, respected educator and academic innovator, and successful fundraiser -- has been named the 20th president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Barchi will begin serving as president on September 1, 2012. He also has been named a University Professor at Rutgers with academic tenure. The selection was made on April 11, 2012, by the Rutgers University Board of Governors and ratified by the Rutgers University Board of Trustees. Read more about Dr. Barchi and his career here. |
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This newsletter is brought to you by the Office of Community Engagement at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. New events are posted frequently on our Discovery Initiative website at www.discovery.rutgers.edu.
Diana M. Orban Brown, Director |
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