Robert M. Goodman

Dr. Robert M. Goodman is a University Professor at Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey and a Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources. From 2005 to 2020, he served as Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and Executive Director of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

Professor Goodman previously was Professor of Plant Pathology and chair of the undergraduate major in Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1991-2005), Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Calgene, Inc. (1982-1990), and Assistant (1974-1976), Associate (1977-1979) and full (1980-1982) Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His BS and PhD are from Cornell University (1967 and 1973, respectively), after which from 1973-1974 he conducted post-doctoral research supported by a NATO-NSF fellowship at the John Innes Institute in Norwich, UK. Goodman graduated from Trumansburg (NY) Central High School in 1963 and studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from 1963 to 1965 before transferring to Cornell.