Rutgers Professor Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Engineering

Lily Young, Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is among 106 new members of the National Academy of Engineering within the United States and 18 internationally. Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University

Lily Young has conducted research as an environmental microbiologist at Rutgers for more than 30 years. Lily Young has spent more than three decades at Rutgers using her skills as a scientist to gain a better understanding of the contaminants in the environment while working with engineers to find a solution to fix the problem. “I became an environmental microbiologist …