Katherine Aquino

Contact

Phone
848-932-1528

Research

Disability and accessibility in organizational environments

Activities

  • Directs the SGS–BHS Training Grant Support Office (TGSO), providing strategic, administrative, and operational leadership for training-grant proposal development; oversees staff, data systems, and infrastructure that support competitive, high-quality research training initiatives across Rutgers Health.
  • Implements strategic and educational priorities for SGS–BHS, collaborating with senior leadership and faculty, to advance graduate education institutional effectiveness.
  • Leads the development and implementation of fully online graduate programming, coordinating instructional design teams to translate in-person master’s programs into high-quality, accessible online learning environments.
  • Oversees CTSA-affiliated translational science training initiatives (NJ ACTS), supervising cross-institutional personnel and operations related to program activities, outcomes assessment, and data management in partnership with Rutgers, Princeton, and NJIT.

Contreras and Pasupathy

  • November 20, 2025
Grad CareerCraft

Join us for December’s Research Café, where we’ll explore how creative and scientific innovation intersect from graffiti and street art in the algorithmic economy to machine learning models that help us better understand brain white matter and traumatic injury. This virtual session will feature presentations by Ph.D.

Kover & Chaturvedi

  • November 13, 2025
Grad CareerCraft

We’re excited to invite you to this month’s Research Café featuring two graduate researchers whose work spans environmental stewardship and cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Joshua Kover will share his innovative approach to urban forestry management, redefining how communities can help shape sustainable, resilient urban ecosystems.

2025 Aaron Shatkin Scholarship Award winners

  • October 29, 2025
Awards & Honors

Please join us in congratulating the 2025 Aaron Shatkin Scholarship Award winners who were honored at the Aaron Shatkin Memorial Lecture on Tuesday October 28. The award recognizes outstanding current graduate students who have excelled in their research and coursework with a plaque and $3000.