NEWS RELEASE

 

 

Feb. 28, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

 

MALINOWSKI RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

 

            New Brunswick, N.J. – Dr. Karyn Malinowski, an accomplished equine scientist, is to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Graduate School—New Brunswick at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The award will be presented at the school’s Distinguished Alumni Awards on March 2. The award recognizes Malinowski’s extensive accomplishments in the areas of research, education, service and leadership.
 

Malinowski earned her bachelor's degree in animal science, master's degree in animal science, and doctorate in zoology at Rutgers. She went on to a position as equine extension specialist at Rutgers, making her the first woman in the United States to hold this position. Today, Malinowski is director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the director of the Equine Science Center at the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

            Malinowski is the recipient of many awards, including the Outstanding Equine Educator Award from the Equine Nutrition and Physiology Society in 2001; the Marjorie Van Ness Award from the American Horse Council in 2001; the Research Excellence Impact Award from Cook College and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in 2000; and the Woman of Distinction award from the Delaware-Raritan Girl Scout Council in 2000. In 1995, she became the second woman in fifty years to receive the New York Farmers Club Award for her contributions to agriculture. The award was given by the prestigious Northeastern Agricultural Society.
 

As director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Malinowski has direct oversight for outreach and extension programs of the NJAES, which are key components in the delivery of the Land Grant mission of service to the people of the state. Through a large network of faculty, other professionals and committed volunteers, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station's outreach and extension programs deliver research-based education and assistance to hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents each year.  She is recognized for her leadership as evidenced by her service on several regional and nationwide committees for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP).
 

Malinowski also serves as director of the Equine Science Center at Rutgers. She has been a faculty member at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the new name for Cook College, since 1978. She has served in various roles as a specialist in equine sciences, animal sciences professor and interim chair of the extension specialist department in 1993. Her research and extension programs concentrate on improving the well being and quality of life of the equine athlete while ensuring the vitality and viability of the equine industry, both statewide and nationally. She has taken a lead role in building the equine science program at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
 

In addition, Malinowski has long been active in cultivating funding for research and extension programs from horse industry sources as well as research companies.  She led the industry effort which resulted in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station receiving $1.2 million for Strategic Initiatives in 1992 from the state legislature. The equine science program continues to receive $300,000 per year. In 1997, the excellence of the equine science program was recognized with a $267,000 bequest from the Doris Murphy estate.  She has also solicited more than fifty horses from New Jersey horse owners and breeders since the start of the NJAES broodmare herd in 1981, valued in excess of $100,000.
 

Malinowski is the author of over 50 refereed journal articles and abstracts and numerous book chapters.  Her expertise in the area of aging and stress management in horses has resulted in her speaking at numerous international venues, and her extension project entitled, “Careers in the Green Industry:  Youth Sow Seeds for Their Future,” which involved horses and adjudicated youth, has served as a model for a similar program at Texas A&M.
 

Most recently, Malinowski authored a white paper entitled “A Delicate Balance: The Future of Horse Racing and the Preservation of the Equine Industry, Agriculture and Open Space in the Garden State,” which was featured in The State of the Garden State, a new book published by the Hall Institute of Public Policy.
 

During her tenure at Rutgers, Malinowski has been devoted to educating young people through her involvement with the New Jersey 4-H Horse Program, the American Youth Horse Council, and through her interactions with both undergraduate and graduate students.  She continually participates with national volunteer organizations such as the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association and served as president of the American Youth Horse Council.  While she was president, Malinowski co- facilitated the production of the popular Horse Industry Handbook, which has sold over 50,000 copies, with proceeds going to youth education.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Equine Nutrition and Physiology Society and the Horse Industry Alliance.  She previously served as chair of the State Horse Council Advisory Committee for the American Horse Council.