Staff

Wilda Bleakley

Contact

Phone
848-932-7275

Activities

  • Provides administrative support to the Dean and the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
  • Gathers and processes course proposals, graduate faculty nominations, and other area committee business
  • Coordinates SGS events and functions

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.

Melissa Sporer

Activities

  • Facilitates student status updates, including but not limited to readmissions, transfer of credits, and change of program.
  • Helps review degree paperwork for SGS students completing their degree
  • Provides formatting corrections for dissertation and thesis submissions
  • Assists in planning and executing the SGS Convocation ceremonies

Hae Chang Gea

Contact

Phone
848-932-7275

Activities

  • ​​​​​​Primary liaison for Graduate Directors
  • Chairs the Humanities and Social Sciences Committees for the review of new courses and curricula
  • Supervises and monitors the implementation of student Individual Development Plans
  • Monitors and reviews all exceptions to the SGS seven-year rule policy
  • Prepares annual assessment report for the Assessment Council on Learning Outcomes
  • Chairs the Academic Appeals Committee
  • Facilitates and implements inter-institutional academic agreements with graduate programs as needed
  • Leads the Bevier Awards selection process and serves on the SGS Annual Awards Committee