Research at Rutgers–New Brunswick

The Climate Change Initiative Advisory Group is tasked with:

• Developing a proposal to re-envision all existing Rutgers New Brunswick-wide climate/environmental systems/energy centers, programs, and faculty into a new framework.  
• Proposing a working Mission and Vision Statement and set of Initial Strategic Plan Goals, Key Objectives and Results (OKR) that spans domains of Research, Education and Policy  
• Determining possible reporting structures and organizational leadership and makeup.
• Envisioning a new budgetary system with a general idea of what commitments NB Schools/Centers/Institutes and the Chancellor-Provost's office would need to make to provide a core set of resources that will be mutually supported.

Advisory Group Members

• Debashish Bhattacharya, Distinguished Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
• Dunbar Birnie, Professor & Corning/Saint Gobain/Malcolm G. McLaren Chair, Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering
• Anthony Broccoli, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
• Robin Leichenko, Professor and Co-Director of the Rutgers Climate Institute
• Julie Lockwood, Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
• Oscar Schofield, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
• Rachael Shwom, Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute (REI)
• James (Jim) Wright, Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Taskforce Members

• Mark Aakhus, Co-Chair, Associate Dean for Research Professor of Communication, School of Communication and Information
• J. Barr von Oehsen, Co-Chair, Associate Vice President, Office of Advanced Research Computing
• Alyson Brooks, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Yuebin Guo, Henry Rutgers Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Ronald Hart, Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
• Woojin Jung, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
• Regina Liu, Distinguished Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
• Meredith McGill, Professor and Chair, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of English
• Thu Nguyen, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Computer Science
• Katherine Ognyanova, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information
• Jaideep Vaidya, Distinguished Professor and Department Vice Chair, Rutgers Business School, Management Science & Information Systems

Major Stakeholders

• Yana Bromberg, Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
• Stephen K. Burley, University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, RCSB Protein Data Bank
• Enrique Curchitser, Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences
• Richard Ebright, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Distinguished Professor & Chair of Critical AI @ Rutgers, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of English
• Shantenu Jha, Professor, School of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Matthew Weber, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information, Department of Communication
• John Wilkin, Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences

In 2019, the Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs (EVPAA) and a faculty taskforce published a document to broadly define publicly engaged scholarship for Rutgers University. Since then it has been used by all Chancellor-led schools, centers, and institutes for the purpose of facilitating the tenure and promotion process for those who do publicly engaged/community engaged scholarship (P/CES). Now, and as part of the Academic Master Plan launch, the Office of the Chancellor-Provost has established a P/CES Taskforce of faculty across Rutgers–New Brunswick charged with making recommendations to the Chancellor-Provost and the Deans’ Cabinet in order to provide further guidance for the implementation of the general policy outlined by the EVPAA.

Taskforce Members

• Denise Hien, Co-Chair, Vice Provost for Research, Office of the Chancellor-Provost
• Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke, Co-Chair, Senior Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Office of the Chancellor-Provost
• Emily Allen-Hornblower, Associate Professor of Classics, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classics
• W. Steven Barnett, Board of Governors Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Senior Co-Director, National Institute for Early Education Research
• Brittney Cooper, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Laura Curran, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Office of the Chancellor-Provost
• Sara Elnakib, Chair/Program Leader, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Family and Community Health Sciences
• Nichole Garcia, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Graduate School of Education, Educational Psychology
• Alexander Guerrero, Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy
• Andrea Hetling, Provost Leadership Research Fellow, Office of the Vice Provost for Research
• Radha Jagannathan, Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
• Brooke Maslo, Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
• Sheila Borges Rajguru, Director for Research Development and Strategy, Office of the Vice Provost for Research
• Saul Rubinstein, Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Labor Studies and Employment Relations Director, Center for the Study of Collaboration in Work and Society
• Nancy Wolff, Distinguished Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
• Todd Wolfson, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Co-Director of the MIC Center