The Fall 2018 edition of Explorations Magazine, published by the Office of Alumni and Community Engagement for Rutgers SEBS and NJAES, featured the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology. The article highlights the department's history and significant achievements, as well as current research and opportunities to study and attend conferences abroad.
From the article, "Over a Century in the Making":
If there's one thing that defines the history and future of the study of biochemistry and microbiology, it's collaboration. It was collaboration that first merged these two previously separate departments in 1965 to become what it is today, and it's what will propel groundbreaking research in both areas moving forward.
This spirit of working together is alive and well when it comes to microbiology, even within Rutgers' own campus. "Microbiology is so widespread at Rutgers," says distinguished professor and department chair Max Häggblom. "There are microbiologists at a dozen or more departments across the university, and our department is tasked with bringing all of this expertise together."