Donna E. Fennell, Ph.D.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Donna Fennell, Ph.D., is professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on pollutant degradation from sediments to the atmosphere. Her work has been funded by NSF, DoD-SERDP, NIEHS, NJDEP, the Hudson River Foundation and industry, and has been published in Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research and Applied & Environmental Microbiology, among other journals.
Fennell grew up in small town Arkansas and earned a B.S. in agricultural engineering from the University of Arkansas. She has an M.S. in biological and agricultural engineering and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Cornell University. She was a post-doctoral associate at Cornell and in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers, prior to joining the Department of Environmental Sciences as an assistant professor in 2002. She teaches water and wastewater treatment, biological unit processes and bioremediation courses.
She previously served as the Chair of ASM’s Division Q (Environmental and General Applied Microbiology) and President of the Theobald Smith Society, New Jersey Branch of ASM. She is on the Board of the Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors and is a fellow of the Rutgers Leadership Academy program, “Changing The Future For Women In STEM at Rutgers,” and the Higher Education Resource Services Leadership Institute.
Fennell grew up in small town Arkansas and earned a B.S. in agricultural engineering from the University of Arkansas. She has an M.S. in biological and agricultural engineering and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Cornell University. She was a post-doctoral associate at Cornell and in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers, prior to joining the Department of Environmental Sciences as an assistant professor in 2002. She teaches water and wastewater treatment, biological unit processes and bioremediation courses.
She previously served as the Chair of ASM’s Division Q (Environmental and General Applied Microbiology) and President of the Theobald Smith Society, New Jersey Branch of ASM. She is on the Board of the Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors and is a fellow of the Rutgers Leadership Academy program, “Changing The Future For Women In STEM at Rutgers,” and the Higher Education Resource Services Leadership Institute.