On introducing a new interactive flood mapping website, www.NJFloodMapper.org, Lisa Auermuller, watershed coordinator for the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, acknowledged that playing with the controls and seeing the implications …
Archives for March 2013
J&J Executive Dominic Caruso Speaks to Business Finance Students
Dominic J. Caruso, vice president for finance and chief financial officer of Johnson & Johnson admits that his journey to success was part serendipity, part planned. That also could describe his journey to the George H. Cook campus to talk to undergraduate students in the “Business Finance II” course offered through the Department of Agriculture, […]
Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spawn a New Era of the Hybrid
A bird that once darkened the skies of the 19th-century U.S. no longer exists, except as well-preserved museum specimens bearing bits of DNA. An ambitious new effort aims to use the latest techniques of genetic manipulation to bring the passenger pigeo…
Get to Know the Food Science Club
The Food Science Club is a good way to get a “taste” of what this popular major at the Rutgers School of Environment and Biological Sciences is all about.
Alumni: Plan to ‘Do Lunch’ With the Executive Dean
Are you an Ag, CAES, Cook or SEBS alum who is planning to come to the 2013 Ag Field Day at Rutgers Day? Then come “Do Lunch With the Executive Dean!” Join Executive Dean Bob Goodman and alumni lunch chairman Barry Adler (’72), for some good eats and good fun. This first-ever “new tradition” will […]
4-H Youth Development Garners Program of Excellence Awards
On Feb. 21, the New Jersey Association of 4-H Agents announced the winners of its “Program of Excellence” awards for the year at its annual meeting at Mastoris Diner in Bordentown, NJ. The association is the professional organization for 4-H faculty and staff in New Jersey who provide leadership on state and national levels related […]
Extreme cold linked to climate change, say scientists
Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice…"The sea ice is going rapidly. It’s 80% less t…
Pollen counts – and allergies – expected to double by 2040
Spring has sprung, and allergy season won’t be far behind. But if you think last year’s allergies were bad, just wait until a few years from now when climate change will cause pollen counts to rise dramatically…Leonard Bielory is a visiting researche…
Governor’s Award Honors Camden SMART Initiative Green Efforts led by RCE Water Resources Program
In January 2013, the Camden SMART Initiative received the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for its efforts to promote sustainability and the use of green infrastructure to reduce flooding and combined sewer overflows in the City of Camden. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Water Resources Program is a founding member of the initiative and, for the […]
Middlesex County students help seniors in growing initiative
Starting with seedlings and small plants, residents with AristaCare at Cedar Oaks have spent the past three months watching the "Growing One Seed at a Time" take root in their residence. As part of activities to mark National Horticultural Ther…