Following a three-year campaign and a petition drive that collected over 3,000 signatures, the Rutgers University dining program will no longer purchase eggs from hens raised in battery cage confinement systems, Rutgers United for the Welfare of Animal…
Archives for July 2013
Rutgers Alumna Promotes Nature in NYC
When referring to New York City as filled with diversity, it is not usually concerning nature. But to double Rutgers grad Marielle Anzelone, who earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences in 1993 and a master’s degree in ecology and evolution in 2000, that is precisely what comes to mind. Anzelone is well acquainted with […]
Rutgers Helps Farmers Fight an Old Enemy
Late blight, a serious disease that affects tomato and potato crops and caused by Phytophthora infestans, the pathogen largely responsible for the Irish Potato Famine in the mid 1800s, last threatened New Jersey’s tomato and potato industry in 2009. The disease, which has the potential to become a major problem because it can quickly kill […]
Brunswick area benefits from not-so-secret garden
Traveling on Ryders Lane at 50 mph, motorists concentrating on driving may miss a small sign with white letters on a green background. Drivers may be distracted as they approach Route 1 – perhaps planning to go north on the highway before the overpass,…
Horse riding 4-H club honors hospitalized member at Gloucester County fair
Every Gloucester County 4-H club marched across the main arena Thursday night to officially open the 60th annual fair. While every club parades its banner across the ring with pride and excitement, the Freedom Riders, a Southern Gloucester County horse…
Board of Public Utilities Hopes to Get Into Garbage in a Big Way
Each year in New Jersey more than 8 million tons of waste – yard litter, trash from residents, and livestock manure, among other debris – is thrown away in garbage dumps, burned in incinerators, or disposed of elsewhere…If tapped, those 5.4 million t…
Northeast Cooperative Extension Directors Honor Rutgers Program
A Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension program designed to conduct research and outreach programming on the marketing and production potential of new ethnic crops for East Coast farmers was honored at the annual meeting of the Northeast Extension Directors held July 8 at Cornell University. The program, An Integrated Multistate Research […]
NJ 4-H Teens Boost Leadership Skills and Civic Engagement at Citizenship Conference in the Nation’s Capital
New Jersey 4-H Members learned about government processes in the vibrant, living classroom of the nation’s capital as part of Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF), an intensive 4-H civic engagement program for high-school youth held at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The New Jersey 4-H delegation of 30 youth and three […]
SEBS Graduate Student, a Sustainable Fuels IGERT Fellow, Wins Two Awards in NSF Research Competition
Philomena Chu, graduate student in Plant Biology and Pathology, recently received two awards in the 2nd Annual Online Video & Poster Competition of the National Science Foundation’s IGERT Program. IGERT, which is an acronym for Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, is the NSF’s flagship interdisciplinary doctoral training program. Since 1997, the program has supported […]
Rutgers OCPE Courses and DOL Grants Help NJ Unemployed Gain New Skills
New Jersey Department of Labor training grants and Rutgers continuing and professional education courses lead to practical skills and new employment opportunities for state residents The first part of Sergio Sosa’s story is far too familiar: the Union City resident was inches away from earning his Master’s degree in Biology from Rutgers, and was transitioning […]