Perhaps parallel with today’s youth teaching their elders about ever-expanding technology, in the late 1800s researchers found that while adults in agricultural areas resisted new ideas developed at the university level, young people were open- minded …
Archives for January 2013
Projesi Sona Erdi (Suzanne’s Project ended)
[NOTE: Article is in Turkish.] Suzanne’s Project organized by Akdeniz University Korkuteli Vocational School, the Municipality of Korkuteli, and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey was held January 21 29, 2013. The project lasted approximately …
Putting Genome Interpretation to the Test
Forty of the participants traveled to Berkeley in December 2010 to review the results. The top prize was awarded to Yana Bromberg, a bioinformatician at Rutgers University in New Jersey, for her work on interpretation software called screening for non-…
Research Into Deep-Sea Biodiversity and Chip-Making Processes Earns Japan Prizes
Conventional wisdom held that the deep-seafloor was pretty much bereft of life at the time marine biologist J. Frederick Grassle rode the Alvin submersible to examine newly discovered hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands in 1979…Grassle, now…
Girl Scouts Investigate the Deep Sea in Ship to Shore Series
It’s “all hands on deck” for Girl Scout Cadettes from Central and South Jersey; that is, hands on ocean sediments, microscopes and “Oobleck,” in the inaugural Ship to Shore series, hosted by Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS). The Ship to Shore program targets girls in 6–8 grades to introduce them to ocean […]
Messing Recognized for Revolutionizing Agriculture
Joachim Messing, among the world’s top experts in molecular genetics, became famous for developing a genetic engineering technique used in laboratories to create plants that have produced disease-resistant crops considered vital to feeding the world’s population. Instead of cashing in on his discovery, he gave this scientific blueprint – which revolutionized agriculture and helped to […]
USEPA presents “Environmental Protection: Accomplishments and Future Challenges” on Jan. 29
The visit to the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences by the Regional Administrator Judith Enck is in conjunction with the USEPA’s “Documerica” exhibit currently on display at Rutgers’ Cook Campus Center until Feb. 5 – a showcase of photographs depicting environmental conditions of the past and present from the region and across the nation. […]
Camden receives ‘Environmental Excellence’ award
The Camden Stormwater Management and Resource Training (SMART) initiative has received the 2012 New Jersey Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award… It is comprised of the City of Camden, Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, Cooper’s Ferry P…
On battered Jersey shore, Sandy victims struggle with costs of climate change
Nearly three months after superstorm Sandy inundated their house with five feet of water, retirees Brian and Dorothy Beebe went to the town hall here, clutching a survey of their home stuffed into a brown envelope, eager to repair their split-level hom…
Editor’s Notebook: Keeping green green
Brown doesn’t have to be the new green if the industry better manages its available water resources and applies practices that more efficiently and effectively keeps turf green. That was the resounding message of Rain Bird’s 2013 Intelligent Use of Wat…