A professor with William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science is one of two to be named "Inventor of the Year" by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, the college announced Monday. Professor Stan Allen and his colleague Ximing Gu…
Archives for November 2013
Tales of Tuckerton’s Historic Houseboat Cynthia
In the 1880s the succulent Barnegat Bay oyster was harvested in the thousands. The fishery employed around 200,000 people directly or indirectly in the oyster harvesting industry that was centered on Tuckerton, Barnegat and the Mullica River. The oyste…
Swords to Plowshares
Matthew Smith (SEBS ’14) is an army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and, upon returning home, found his calling and his health by obtaining access to fresh wholesome local foods. Now an Agricultural Sciences major at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Smith further immersed in community agriculture through an internship at […]
Rutgers Environmental Stewards program offered for ‘citizen-scientists’
The 2014 Rutgers Environmental Stewards program, which helps non-scientists to become citizen-scientists begins the first week of January and typically runs through May. An innovative partnership between Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the Duke Farms…
New Master’s Program in Landscape Architecture Hosts Open House
The new Rutgers graduate program in landscape architecture held its open house on November 2 at Blake Hall, the campus home of the Department of Landscape Architecture. The Master’s in Landscape Architecture (MLA) was developed at Rutgers in response to the growing awareness of the need to plan and design for future environments and for […]
Researchers Examine Effectiveness of DIY Bed Bug Products
A research team at Rutgers has been studying the effectiveness of products such as mothballs and rubbing alcohol, and Rutgers’ Changlu Wang reported on these findings at this month’s Entomology 2013…Spraying a group of bed bugs with rubbing alcohol l…
New Jersey’s Blackout Dates for Fertilizer Use are Upon Us
As the weather turns colder, applying lawn fertilizer makes little sense. The ground is hard and grass has stopped growing. It’s also against the law. Governor Chris Christie signed one of the nation’s toughest fertilizer laws and it sets standards tha…
New Jersey Fertilizer Black-Out Is Underway
As the weather turns colder, applying lawn fertilizer makes little sense, say state Department of Environmental Protection officials, noting three things: the ground is hard, grass has stopped growing—and using fertilizer at this time of year is …
Bedbugs! Many DIY methods of getting rid of them don’t work, but some do.
As bedbugs become more resistant to various pesticides, other defenses are growing in importance. But new tests give low grades to several homespun methods of bedbug defense. Rubbing alcohol is often recommended for killing bedbugs, for example. But sp…
Before They End Up On Your Plate, Canned Cranberries Take Quite A Journey (Video)
A Thanksgiving staple.But before they end up on your plate, those canned cranberries take quite a journey.You may not realize it, but most get their start right here in our area. "There he is now, cranberry researcher Nick Vorsa heading into the bi…