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A cap and gown that belonged to Bill Bauer—a beloved Rutgers professor and generous supporter of the university—will be worn at commencement ceremonies this year by Jon Oliver, a former student of Bauer and longtime Rutgers faculty and staff member who is completing his Ph.D. exactly 40 years after earning his bachelor’s degree.

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Daniel Kopp, who earned BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Engineering’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) has been selected as a Breakthrough Energy Innovator Fellow, which is part of the Breakthrough Energy (BE) network founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to accelerate the clean energy transition and help the world reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.