Rutgers faculty excel as teachers, mentors, innovators, and practitioners. Their dedication prepares students for success and improves the quality of life for thousands. 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 such as the Abel (mathematics), Stockholm (criminology), and Wolf (agriculture). Read about recent recognition below.
Rutgers faculty are supported and recognized by the most esteemed academies, agencies, associations, and foundations.
Honored for Night Watch, her “beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War.” Jayne Anne Phillips is Board of Governors Professor of English Emerita and founding director of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Rutgers–Newark.
Ranked 7th most prominent microbiologist in world and known for his “immunology research that focuses on disease and how it connects with microbiome.” Martin Blaser is the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine.
Recognized for addressing “vital U.S. health system implementation challenges for vulnerable populations [including] research that integrates care of cancer and other chronic illnesses for patients and families.” Medical sociologist Shawna Hudson is Rutgers Health vice chancellor for dissemination and implementation science.
Rutgers–Camden political scientist Kelly Dittmar is a widely sought-after national expert on gender and American politics and frequent contributor to outlets such as the BBC, NPR, and The 19th News. Dittmar is director of research and scholar at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics.
Throughout the year, many awards programs are available for eligible members of the Rutgers community. Faculty are encouraged to apply for these awards and grants at both the university and national levels.
“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges. The Guggenheim Fellowship is an investment into the lives and careers of cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on.”—John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation president Edward Hirsch on announcing the 2024 fellows, including three Rutgers–New Brunswick professors—our latest to earn the distinction.
