Alumni Updates

Eric F. Vowinkel, 70, of Metuchen, died on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at RWJUH in New Brunswick. Born in Phillipsburg, he was raised in Belvidere in his earlier childhood before moving with his family to Bound Brook, where his heart remained throughout his life. He moved to Metuchen in 1980. Eric...

Paul Schuster, 59, passed away peacefully in his sleep during the night of October 31st in his home in Westminster, Colorado. Paul was born in Camden, NJ on September 8th, 1963. He lived a robust and adventurous life in his 59 years on this planet. After receiving his degree from Rutgers...

At a festive meeting celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Polish Academy of Arts & Sciences in held in Kraków, Poland on October 18th, Rutgers Geology graduate Prof. Michael A Kaminski (’79) was awarded his membership diploma to the Polish Academy. Prof. Mike is a Micropaleontologist with over 250...

Emily received her MS from Rutgers (2012) and a PhD from Baylor (2015). She did post-doctoral research at Georgia State Univ. (2016-17) and Univ. of Michigan (2017-2018) collaborating with Naomi Levin and Ben Passey. Emily’s research is cutting edge working at the interface of sedimentology, soil...

  Rutgers’ graduate, Michael Durcanin (BS, 2006; MS, 2009), received news that his presentation at the 2017 AAPG Conference was the runner-up for the George C. Matson Memorial Award. A panel of judges/experts reviewed over 1000 presentations before selecting Mike’s talk as one of the conference’s top...