Template:Multiple issuesLily Young is a distinguished professor of environmental microbiology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick. She is a member of the Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment (Biotech Center) and has her academic appointment in the Department of Environmental Sciences. For 5 years she served as the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at the School and she is also chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences.Lilly Young is married to Wise Young, a professor in neuroscience at the W.M. Keck Center for neuroscience at Rutgers University. They have two grown children, Talia and Jesse.