Up and down the Jersey Shore, the signs tell the story. They line the curbs in Holgate, at the southern tip of Long Beach Island, and stand in pebbly front yards all the way north to Sea Bright at the bottom of Sandy Hook. Any spot affected last year b…
Archives for October 2013
How we’re failing to prepare for the next Sandy
One year after Superstorm Sandy crashed into New York and New Jersey – leaving behind a dizzying price tag of $65 billion – the elected officials and bureaucrats charged with preventing the next weather disaster from doing that kind of damage still hav…
‘We’ll find joy in each other’: College student raises siblings after losing parents to Sandy
Rich and Beth Everett brought their kids up to be independent. They never could have anticipated how important that would become. "They kind of gave us a lot of room to be independent and learn things on our own," 19-year-old Zoe Everett, a stu…
Rutgers Family and Community Health Sciences Collaborates on Major USDA Grant
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) has again collaborated with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to secure a $324,151 Team Nutrition Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. The two-year grant renews the Grow Healthy New Jersey–Team Nutrition Initiative that began in 2010. Grant funds will be […]
Four Rutgers Professors Honored by N.J. Inventors Hall of Fame
Four Rutgers professors and two former faculty members were honored recently by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Scott Kachlany, associate professor in the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, received the organization’s "Innovators Award" …
Sandy’s lesson: Get out when storm comes
Ann Kooperman thought she had lived through the worst storms the shore could offer. The Ventnor Heights resident was a child living in Atlantic City during the March Storm of 1962. She vividly remembered the devastation and discomfort. So, when the ord…
Foodbank Receives Fresh Corn After Gleaners Save Crop from Frost
Members of the SEBS and NJAES community were on hand at Giamarese Farms on October 23 to pick the corn crop that otherwise would have been damaged by frost. As part of Farmers Against Hunger, the gleaning effort harvested 3,000 pounds of corn that was donated to Franklin Foodbank. Read more about the gleaning.
Livingston student receives award for cancer research
Livingston High School senior Ankush Rakhit received a Student Achievement Award from the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at the Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop, held Sept. 17 at Rutgers University’s Busch Campus. Ankush was one …
Barnegat Bay faces uncertain future
Nearly a year ago, Barnegat Bay’s bottom was littered with broken boats, remnants of shattered homes and keepsakes washed westward when superstorm Sandy destroyed waterfront communities. The Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge – hundreds of acres of prot…
Pollen is Gone, But Allergies Are Not, Rutgers Allergist Warns
Pollen season is over, but allergy season is far from over, according to Leonard Bielory, M.D., specialist in allergy and immunology with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Ro…