Farming is a man’s world, but the number of women farmers is on the rise, says Jenny Carleo of Rutgers Cooperative Extension in Cape May County and New Jersey head of Annie’s Project, a national initiative that seeks to educate, support, and connect fe…
Archives for February 2013
Fred Grassle Awarded Japan Prize for Helping Unlock Ocean’s Mysteries
The 2013 Japan Prize, bestowed by the Japan Prize Foundation to honor work in scientific fields not usually recognized by the Nobel Prize, has been awarded to J. Frederick Grassle, professor emeritus of marine science and founding director of the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Grassle led a 10-year-effort to create a Census […]
FDA Convenes ‘Message Fatigue’ Panel
Eager to break through the "message fatigue" that has numbed the public response to food warnings and recalls, the FDA is bringing together food safety and communications experts Tuesday…But "simply telling people about a food recall is o…
Do soaps with triclosan do more harm than good?
The author, Rutgers University food science professor Donald Schaffner, said examples would include instances when a person’s hands were contaminated with "vomit or feces or they had been handling ground beef or raw chicken."
A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming
Alan Robock, meanwhile, has a long list of questions concerning SRM, at the top of which is: can it even be done? Robock, an expert on how volcanoes affect climate and a professor of environmental sciences at Rutgers University, cautions that while the…
Severe flooding, possibly snow for South Jersey as winter storm barrels toward mid-Atlantic region
Significant coastal flooding is likely early Saturday from a potent northeaster that is expected to develop and move northward, bringing blizzard conditions to parts of North Jersey and New England…The storm that will form off the coast is caused by …
EPA Regional Administrator: Taking a Look Back and Toward the Future
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has come a long way, said Judith Enck, Region 2 administrator, but there is much more work to be done. Enck spoke on Jan. 29 to students, faculty, and staff on the George H. Cook Campus as part of a two-week program highlighting the work of the EPA, including […]
McKibben’s Math: Climate Action and College Campuses
"All we’re asking for is for the type of planet we were born on. It’s not radical," said Bill McKibben in the Rutgers University Student Center (New Brunswick, NJ) on Monday, February 4, 2013. "Radicalism is the scientists of fossil fuel co…
Role of land-grant universities in food and ag research is talk topic
Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)..explores the role of land-grant universities and the NIFA in addressing global challenges…As a scientist and department head, he has received a number of awards a…
20 Ways to Go Green in 2013
If you want to be kinder to the planet and save some money at the same time, here are 20 ways to go green in 2013…Buy fresh, local food this summer at Giamarese Farm, the Rutgers Gardens Farmers Market or the Rutgers Community Farmers Market. Have yo…