Crystal Wins Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research

Stephen Crystal, Director of the Rutgers Center for Health Services Research at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, won the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research.

The award honors tenured faculty members who have made distinguished research contributions to their discipline and/or society at large.

Crystal, a Distinguished Research Professor and Board of Governors Professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work, said, “All of this is team research, so I take it as acknowledgment of the work of the community of health policy researchers that I get to be part of.”

The Board of Trustees Award was part of the 2025-26 Universitywide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards presented by President William Tate and Executive Vice President Keena Arbuthnot.

“Each year these awards honor members of the Rutgers community selected by their colleagues for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and public service,” said President Tate.

Learn about Stephen Crystal’s research impact.

The Board of Trustees Award was also presented to:

Michael D. Anestis, Professor, Department of Urban-Global Public Health, School of Public Health, Rutgers Health

Debashish Bhattacharya, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Ashutosh Goel, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Christian S. Hinrichs, Professor, Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Co-Director of the Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Cancer Immunology and Metabolism Center of Excellence and Chief of the Section of Cancer Immunotherapy, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Rutgers Health