2025 SEBS/NJAES Excellence Awards
Our strengths as a school and experiment station are made possible through the dedication and impactful work of our faculty and staff. The Excellence Award program is our opportunity to acknowledge individuals and teams who have gone above and beyond an already high bar of expectation. These signature awards meet carefully-considered criteria, including creativity, original work and ideas, innovation, effectiveness, integrity, leadership, impact, community engagement, and excellence.
Congratulations to our 2025 Excellence Winners!
Teaching Excellence Award
Yanhong Jin
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Sustained Career Teaching Excellence Award
Holly Nelson
Department of Landscape Architecture
Early Career Research Excellence Award
Dana Price
Department of Entomology
Sustained Research Excellence Award
Eric Lam
Department of Plant Biology
Faculty DEI Excellence Award
Peer Mentoring in Microbiology
Team Members: Karla Esquilin-Lebron, Ines Rauschenbach
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Outreach and Community Engagement Excellence Award
Rutgers 4-H Computer Science Pathways/Clovers CODE program
Team Members: Brianna Boyd, Kendrin Dyitt, Rodrigo Sanchez Hernandez, Marissa Staffen, Jennie Thomas
International Excellence Award – Early Career
Travis Miles
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
International Excellence Award – Sustained Career
Pam McElwee
Department of Human Ecology
Team Excellence Award
GEAR UP at SEBS: A STEM Collaborative
Team Members: Anastasia Ioshpa, Aparna Zama, Ben Lintner, Brian Canares, Chitra Ponnusamy, Daniel Jacobs, Don Schaffner, Emma-Kate Feeney, Felicia McCloskey, Harna Patel, Hugh Roarty, Janice McDonnell, Jeffra Schaefer, Joseph Goffreda, Kelly Vuong, Mary Nucci, Megan Francis, Melissa Keresztes, Mitaali Taskar, Nrupali Patel, Oi Yin Lo, Patty Oehmke, Paul Takhistov, Sage Lichtenwalner, Sonia Arora, Steven Decker, Youn-Kyung Kim
Staff Excellence Award
Elaine Griffin
SEBS and NJAES Office of Grants Facilitation
Staff DEI Excellence Award
Sharice Richardson
SEBS Office of Academic Programs
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