County Freeholders are in their 20th year taking turns in the spotlight as the "Spotlight on Middlesex County" cable television show has been presenting topics since 1994, according to the Director of Administration at the Middlesex County Impr…
Archives for March 2013
Cape May County 4-H Presents 2013 Equestrian of the Year Awards
The Cape May County 4-H Youth Development Program announced the winners of its 2013 4-H Equestrian of the Year Contest held on March 5 at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Office in Cape May Court House, NJ. The 2013 Senior Equestrian of the Year title went to Victoria Speece, an active member of the Shore Blazers […]
Sarkar Publication among the Top 15 Articles in Biological Psychiatry in 2012
“Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects of Fetal Alcohol on the Hypothalamic Proopiomelanocortin Gene,” published by the lab of Dipak Sarkar, professor of Animal Sciences, was ranked among the top 15 articles in the field of biological psychiatry in 2012.
Studies Find Wild Pollinators are as Effective as Domesticated Honeybees
The domesticated honeybee has long been recognized as the workhorse of crop pollination but two recent studies turn that assumption on its head, revealing that wild pollinators are as effective as, and at times, more efficient than honeybees. Professor Rachael Winfree, from the department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was involved in both studies. […]
Where Will Your Next Class Be?
How about Boztepe, Turkey, as part of a new Rutgers international service-learning study abroad opportunity from May 16 through June 3? The deadline to sign up for “Empowering Turkish Women Farmers” is March 31. The town of Boztepe is about 25 kilometers from Antalya, which is located on the Mediterranean Sea and one of the […]
Expert: Abundant pollen will trigger intense allergy suffering
If you are an allergy sufferer, start watching the thermometer. Two or three 50-plus degree days are all that are needed for some trees to begin pollinating, according to one New Jersey researcher. "Next week will be very intense," said Leonard…
Jane Goodall’s ‘Seeds of Hope’ book contains borrowed passages without attribution
Judging an author’s culpability in cases of literary borrowing is complicated, said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of a book on press ethics, "Elements of Journalism." Questions of intent, haste…
Sea-level map offers disturbing picture of Shore’s future
Richard Lathrop zeros in on North Wildwood to show off a new tool that predicts where the water will go as sea level rises. Looking at high tide, sections of marsh now flood. With a foot of sea-level rise, water laps at a few streets. Two feet, and som…
Helping to Preserve New Jersey’s Raritan River
James Loring and Gretchen Wittenborn Johnson have a dream to clean up New Jersey’s Raritan River. To that end, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are endowing a new chair position in water resources and watershed ecology at Rutgers University in the department of Ec…
Hurricane Sandy’s latest impact: Severe pollen season
As spring finally arrives, Hurricane Sandy may have yet one more punch in store for New Jersey: extreme seasonal allergies. Moisture from Sandy and other winter storms could have a major effect on when and how trees and other plants start to produce po…