We note with regret the deaths of these members of our Cook community and extend condolences to their families, colleagues, and friends. For complete, university-wide listings, please visit the Rutgers Faculty & Staff Bulletin In Memoriam notices.
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2006
- Barbara M. Goff
Aassistant Dean of Cook College
June 26, 2006
2007
- Stacy L. Hagan
Laboratory Researcher, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
December 20, 2007
- Madison E. Weidner
Professor and Associate Dean of Extension
December 2, 2007
- Andrew J. Forgash
Professor, Department of Entomology
November 29, 2007
- Francine T. Corley
Dean of Students, Cook College
September 29, 2007
- Philip Granett
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Entomology and Economic Zoology
August 24, 2007
- Stephen Bachelder
Agricultural Agent, Union County
July 27, 2007
- MacLean Babcock
Professor of Biochemistry
August 16, 2007
- Frederick W. Reynolds
Farm Supervisor
March 14, 2007
- Edmund W. Stiles
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
March 7, 2007
2008
- Karan Bhandari
Alumnus, Bioresource Engineering
September 15, 2008
- William Wilson, Jr.
Custodian, Busch and Cook Campuses
June 20, 2008
2009
- Donald J. Sutherland
Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology
August 24, 2009
- Peter W. Remsing
Staff, Facilities Maintenance, Cook Campus
August 13, 2009
- Leland G. Merrill
Professor Emeritus and Dean of the College of Agriculture
July 28, 2009
- Ida A. Leone
Professor, Departments of Plant Biology and Environmental Science
April 18, 2009
- Paul Griminger
Professor of Nutrition
March 1, 2009
2010
- George Luke
Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
November 1, 2010
- Richard D. Ilnicki
Research Professor of Weed Science
October 8, 2010
- Kevin J. O'Connor
Staff, Maintenance Department, Cook and Douglass Campuses
August 11, 2010
- Robert W. Duell
Professor, Department of Crops and Soils
May 21, 2010
- Jacqueline C. Ware
Staff, Neilson Dining Hall
April 23, 2010
- David A. Gant
Staff, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
April 3, 2010
- Norma E. Wanson
Accountant, Cook College
March 22, 2010
2011
- Richard L. Washer
Senior Agricultural Agent, Burlington County
December 10, 2011
- Richard Merritt
Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
October 31, 2011
- John Bezpa
Professor Emeritus and Specialist in Poultry Science
October 24, 2011
- George EB. Morren
Professor, Department of Human Ecology
September 29, 2011
- Dmitry V. Govorko
Research Associate, Department of Animal Science
September 24, 2011
- Dominic Durkin
Professor of Horticulture
July 25, 2011
- Joan G. Ehrenfeld
Professor of Ecology
June 25, 2011
- Norman F. Childers
Chair, Department of Horticulture
April 24, 2011
- Russell Smith
Publication Coordinator
April 20, 2011
2012
- Miriam C. Ward
County Home Economist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Camden County
December 23, 2012
- Dorothy Ancona
Bookkeeper, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
December 3, 2012
- David Fairbrothers
Professor of Botany, Curator of Chrysler Herbarium
December 3, 2012
Remembrance by Lena Struwe, Ph.D.
- Cecil C. Still
Professor of Plant Biology
November 26, 2012
Remembrance by Bruce Clarke, Ph. D.
- C. Reed Funk
George Hammell Cook Emeritus Professor
October 4, 2012
- Frank Wright
Professor of Dairy Nutrition
September 18, 2012
- David C. Wood
4-H Agent, Atlantic County
June 24, 2012
Remembrance by Diana Orban Brown
- Donald Riemer
Chair, Department of Plant Biology, Professor of Soils and Crops
June 13, 2012
Remembrance by Bruce Clarke, Ph. D.
- Annie P. Thomas
Staff, Cook Campus
April 7, 2012
- Peter Parks
Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics
April 2, 2012
- Carol Kaiser
FCHS Educator, Middlesex County
March 30, 2012
- Joe Buchel
4-H Agent, Hunterdon County
March 5, 2012
- Alan A. Meredith
Professor of Agriculture and Marketing
February 28, 2012
- Charles Olszewski
Staff, Office of Special Programs
February 12, 2012
- Melvin S. Finstein
Emeritus Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences
January 26, 2012
- Roy L. Flannery
Emeritus Professor of Soils
January 16, 2012
2013
- Richard Emmons
Business Manager, Office of Continuing Professional Education
December 30, 2013
- Arthur W. Edwards
Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
November 30, 2013
- Charles L. Lang
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of 4-H Youth Development
November 7, 2013
- A. Joel Kaplovsky
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Environmental Science
May 29, 2013
- John A. Meade
Extension Specialist in Weed Science
April 17, 2013
- Francis L. Lawrence
President, Rutgers University
April 16, 2013
- Vernon C. Harris
Research Farm Supervisor
January 16, 2013
2014
- Cheryl L. Burdick
Administrative Assistant, Water Resources Program
December 6, 2014
- Jane M. Ferguson
Instructor, Department of Home Economics and Director, Home Economics Nursery School (now the Nutritional Sciences Preschool)
November 17, 2014
- John C. F. Tedrow
Professor Emeritus of Soil Science
October 2, 2014
- Noel W. Hinners
Alumnus of the College of Agriculture and Chief Scientist at NASA
September 5, 2014
- Floyd H. Bragg
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
August 22, 2014
- Ronald F. Myers
Professor of Plant Pathology
July 24, 2014
- Bernard L. Pollack
Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding and Genetics
July 14, 2014
- Eugene H. Varney
Professor of Plant Pathology
June 26, 2014
- Philip M. Halisky
Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
May 29, 2014
- Irving Blatt
4-H Urban Youth Development Specialist
May 19, 2014
- Brevoort C. Conover
4-H Agent, Warren County and Chair, Department of 4-H Youth Development
April 13, 2014
- Roy H. DeBoer
Professor Emeritus, Department of Landscape Architecture
March 17, 2014
- Madgeline Z. Quince
Agriculture Secretary, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County
February 20, 2014
- Peter Rona
Professor of Marine Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences
February 19, 2014
- Stephen E. Hart
Extension Specialist in Turf and Ornamental Weed Science, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
February 18, 2014
- Miriam K. Brush
Professor Emerita of Nutrition
February 12, 2014
2015
- Calvin G. Wettstein
Hunterdon County Agricultural Agent
December 13, 2015
- Mary Jane Willis
Associate Director, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
December 5, 2015
- Hubert Lechevalier
Professor Emeritus, Waksman Institute of Microbiology
March 1, 2015
- Janice S. Meyer
Plant Curator, Chrysler Herbarium
March 1, 2015
2016
- Ann Marie Tauber
Administrative Assistant, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
November 10, 2016
- Carl Price
Professor, Department of Plant Physiology
September 25, 2016
- Dianne Lennon
Family and Community Health Sciences Educator, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County
August 26, 2016
- Glenn Tappen
Research Farm Supervisor (Hort Farm III), Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
August 26, 2016
- Raymond A. Cappellini
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Department of Plant Pathology
July 19, 2016
- George J. Wulster
Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
June 14, 2016
- Karl Maramorosch
Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology
May 9, 2016
- Gail Alexander
Senior Associate for External Affairs
January 3, 2016
2017
- Diane K. Adams
Assistant Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and the Institute for Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
June 22, 2017
- Stuart R. Race
Professor Emeritus and Extension Specialist in Entomology
May 31, 2017
- Jon Stephen "Steve" Carnahan
Member of the NJAES Board of Managers and Former Agricultural Program Associate, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Salem County
April 4, 2017
- David A. Meirs
Former Chair, Rutgers University Board for Equine Advancement
March 27, 2017
- Paul A. Lachance
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Department of Food Science
January 21, 2017
- H. Boyd Woodruff
Graduate Student of Selman Waksman and Discoverer of Actinomycin, the first Actinomycete Antibiotic
January 19, 2017
- Jacquelyn "Jackie" Hlavsa
SEBS and NJAES Grants and Contracts Accounting Manager
January 4, 2017