Associate Vice President
Professor Joan W. Bennett is a fungal geneticist whose research specialty is mold toxins. She is a past vice president of the British Mycological Society, past president of both the American Society for Microbiology and the Society for Industrial Microbiology, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

After 35 years on the faculty of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, Joan joined Rutgers University in 2006 as associate vice president for academic affairs, charged with developing a new campuswide effort to support women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Joan is known internationally for her work promoting women entering these fields.

Joan W. Bennett’s curriculum vitae [PDF]

Associate Director
Catherine Duckett is an entomologist originally from central New Jersey whose research specialty is leaf beetle evolution and taxonomy. She is a graduate of Brown University (BA, 1983), University of Texas (MA, 1987), and Cornell University (PhD, 1993). She has been a faculty member at the University of Puerto Rico, a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution, and a bioinformatics administrator at Rutgers before joining the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Catherine Duckett’s curriculum vitae [PDF]

Program coordinator

Carey Murray was born in Malaysia and received business education in England; she is currently finishing her bachelor's degree at Rutgers. She can be reached at careymur@rci.rutgers.edu or at 732-932-9375 x 136.

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Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
145 Bevier Road, Room 221
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Phone: 732-445-5425 and 732-932-9375 x 136.
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