The sand we spread our towels on in visits to the Delaware beach towns was once at the bottom of the sea, before engineers pumped it onto the shoreline in a wave of beach replenishment projects… Karl Nordstrom, a Rutgers University geologist whose wo…
Archives for January 2016
Rutgers study to help Paterson with new initiative for start-up food businesses
In an effort to convert a 6th Ward warehouse into a center for assisting start-up food businesses, the City of Paterson has awarded a $70,000 consulting contract to a Rutgers-based group. Paterson already has allocated more than $2 million for the project, including $1.3 million in federal community development funds to buy the building at 163-177 Pennsylvania Avenue. Included in the $2 million already allocated is $700,000 in federal money to acquire equipment for the program. The contract with the Rutgers Food Innovation Center will help the city determine the scope of the program and how it will operate…”We are very excited to have been given the opportunity to assist the City of Paterson in moving forward with this project,” said Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers food center.
Zika Virus ‘Spreading Explosively’ in Americas, W.H.O. Says
The World Health Organization rang a global alarm over the Zika virus on Thursday, saying that the disease was “spreading explosively” in the Americas and that as many as four million people could be infected by the end of the year…”As long as we are on the ball, if somebody is sick they get removed from proximity to mosquitoes,” said Dina M. Fonseca, an entomology professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She added that her state, New Jersey, has a plan in place for chikungunya, another related virus, that includes testing mosquito pools, and if any are positive, taking action, which could include spraying.
New Jersey 4-H Members Attend National Agri-Science Youth Summit
Six New Jersey 4-H members representing four counties–Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Warren–attended the National Agri-Science Youth Summit held Jan. 15-18 at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The purpose of the conference was to provide youth with an opportunity to learn about and develop an understanding of the critical role of […]
Bed Bugs that Feed Are More Likely to Survive Pesticide Exposure
Researchers from Rutgers University found that bed bugs that were allowed to feed after being treated with insecticides either had greater rates of survival, or they took longer to die than bed bugs that were not allowed to feed after being treated, ES…
Harvest: IFNH Brings Healthy Dining Venue to Cook Campus
Since opening in fall of 2015, Rutgers New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health’s new dining venture, Harvest, dishes up healthy fare based on the concept of minimally processed food, and from-scratch culinary techniques. Read more at Rutgers Today.
11 Crazy Gene-Hacking Things We Can Do with CRISPR
CRISPR/Cas9 is a futuristic gene-editing technology that is either the key to a number of medical breakthroughs or a terrifying step toward an unnatural future of altered organisms. Possibly both. Regardless of what you think about genetic engineering,…
Bed bugs that feed are more likely to survive pesticide exposure
Many studies have been done on how effective certain pesticides are when they are applied to bed bugs. However, most have not allowed the bed bugs to take a blood meal after being exposed to pesticides, which can change the mortality rates, according t…
Bed Bugs That Feed After Pesticide Exposure More Likely To Survive, Study Reveals
Tired of those bed bugs? They never seem to die or just go away. Researchers at Rutgers University found in a study that bed bugs that fed are being treated with pesticides had greater survival rates or took longer to die compared to bedbugs that did not feed after being treated. “Many of the insecticides labeled for bed bug control may not be as effective as claimed, because of the inadequate testing method,” Dr. Narinderpal Singh, coauthor of the study, said in a news release. “Current established test protocols for bed bug insecticides do not provide blood meals to bed bugs during the test period. We suspect the mortality data typically observed might be different if the tested bed bugs were provided a blood meal during the observation period.”
The surprising truth about the ‘food movement’
Let me ask you a question: When it comes to our food supply, what do you care about? Think about it for a second. Make a mental list. Now, let me ask you another question: Do you care about farmworker exposure to pesticides? I sure do, and I’m betting you do, too. But was it on your list? I’m betting it wasn’t…That 7 percent study was done by William Hallman, professor and chairman of the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University, who points out that “most of the research that is out there that has tried to gauge how much people care about such things [has] asked people to react to lists of foods that are nasty or nice, and there are certainly social-desirability biases baked into the responses to such questions.”