Dr. Mike Westendorf, Animal Sciences Extension Specialist and Professor, retired on January 1, 2025, after 31 years at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

Ankita Gupta is a distinguished Fall 2023 Ph.D. graduate in the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State University. She is a DVM/Ph.D. student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences graduate program. As a former Rutgers undergraduate, we congratulate her on getting her Ph.D.!

Dipak Sarkar, Distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences, and his team recently published the manuscript, “DPPA4 increases aggressiveness of pituitary neuroendocrine tumors by enhancing cell stemness,” in the journal, Neurooncology.

SEBS faculty Mukund Karwe, Holly Grace Nelson and Troy Roepke were among the Rutgers faculty recognized with 2023-2024 Faculty Excellence Awards.