Rutgers Cooperative Extension, with funding from the Equine Science Center and Northeast SARE, is to offer a pilot program oriented specifically for horse-business owners. The newly established Equine Business Planning course aims to help horse-busines…
Archives for January 2013
Cook Alumna Named Coordinator of NJDA School Nutrition Programs
Arleen Ramos-Szatmary (CC’98) has been appointed the new Coordinator of School Nutrition Programs in the Division of Food and Nutrition at the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Ramos-Szatmary has been with the Department of Agriculture since 2000, first working as a program specialist reviewing school nutrition programs throughout the state for compliance with the School […]
School districts ban birthday treats
Let them eat cake? Not at some Shore area schools, where sweets or all foods are banned from classroom birthday celebrations…Experts say schools can compromise by ordering treats from the food service provider or buying commercial baked goods with in…
Historic Lewes Farmers Market awards scholarships to local farmers
The Historic Lewes Farmers Market has awarded scholarships to six Delmarva farmers. The scholarships of $500 will enable these farmers to attend sustainable agriculture conferences…The Pennsylvania State University, University of Maryland, and Rutger…
CRSSA assists in Post-Sandy Rapid Assessment of MidAtlantic Coast
As we all experienced firsthand, Superstorm Sandy walloped the MidAtlantic shoreline and interior this past fall. The following week the Rutgers Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis (CRSSA) was asked by the American Littoral Society (ALS) to assist in a rapid assessment of impacts to coastal beach, dune, salt marsh and maritime forest habitats. […]
Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Selman Waksman Nobel Prize
Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology hosted a symposium and dinner event on December 11-12, 2012 on the New Brunswick, NJ, campus in honor of the 60th anniversary of Selman Waksman receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
ACUA to Host Rutgers Environmental Steward Training
The Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA) will be participating in a Rutgers University program designed to introduce non-scientists to key environmental issues in the state, the ACUA announced Tuesday afternoon. The 2013 class of Rutgers Cooperat…
NASA: New study details Arctic snow cover decline
In the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, snow typically covers the land surface for nine months each year. The snow serves as a reservoir of water, and a reflector of the Sun’s energy, but recent decades have witnessed significant changes in s…
Arctic Snow Cover Shows Steep Decline
The blanket of snow that covers Arctic regions for most of the year has been shrinking at an increasing pace over the past decade, researchers say…NASA’s Earth Observatory illustrated the trend with a series of maps based on data from the Rutgers Uni…
Rutgers Trivia Bowl
SEBS students Christina Enoch, class of 2016 and Mary Kate Colquhoun (shown as “Mosie” in video) class of 2013 take part in Rutgers Trivia Bowl.