Literally off the beaten path in the woods on the Douglass Residential Campus, Eliot Nagele (SEBS ’15) stumbled across a hidden trail while doing clean-up around a nearby creek. Intrigued, Nagele set about investigating this forgotten trail that wound its way behind the historic Carpender House, known to most of us now as the University […]
Archives for November 2013
Movement of marine life follows speed and direction of climate change
Scientists expect climate change and warmer oceans to push the fish that people rely on for food and income into new territory. Predictions of where and when species will relocate, however, are based on broad expectations about how animals will move an…
Cranberries help improve heart health and prevent urinary tract infections
Ten worldwide experts in cranberry and health research contributed to the article, including scientists and medical experts from Tufts University, Pennsylvania State University, Boston University, Rutgers University, French National Institute for Agric…
Entrepreneurship Agriculture Day 2013 a Success
On October 26, the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) celebrated its first Entrepreneurship Agriculture (EA) Day on the George H. Cook Campus. This event was part of the Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program initiated at the School in spring 2013 and comprised the teaching of a Jr./Sr. Colloquium on Entrepreneurial Agriculture, a competitive student internship […]
Rutgers University Food Innovation Center w/Diane Holtaway [audio]
The Rutgers Food Innovation Center is a unique business incubation and economic development accelerator program, which provides business and technology expertise to startup and established food companies in the mid-Atlantic region. [With Diane Holtaway…
Rahway High School Sophomores Nominated for 4-H Science Day
Christopher Stardford, a Rahway High School sophomore, joined other students from New Jersey and around the country at the annual 4-H National Youth Science Day held on Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Washington, D.C. He and another Rahway sophomore, Sean Penara…
Landscape Architecture Program Hosts High School ACE Mentor Group
Landscape Architecture undergraduates guided the visiting group on a tour of the new facilities—the fabrication lab, computer lab and various studios in Blake Hall, the home of the Department of Landscape Architecture on the George H. Cook Campus. The visit was a combination of informal and formal interactions. The high school students chatted informally with […]
Rutgers Leads International Underwater Glider Mission Along the Eastern Seaboard
Researchers at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences helped to deploy a fleet of gliders that will navigate the Eastern Seaboard as part of a collaborative ocean survey coordinated by American and Canadian government agencies and research teams. A total of 15 gliders will journey from Nova Scotia to Georgia in a monthlong underwater […]
New Beginnings for New Communities
Former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture Shirley Sherrod and her husband, Charles Sherrod, have devoted their lives to civil rights and quality of life for rural farmers. On November 8, she gave a talk at Rutgers about New Communities, a non-profit organization with a mission to empower […]
Animal Sciences Faculty Receives Digital PCR System to Further his Research
Andrzej “Andre” Pietrzykowski, assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and an adjunct in the Department of Genetics, was honored by Life Technologies Corporation as an Innovation Grant recipient at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Boston on Oct. 23. Pietrzykowski was one of only five recipients in the Digital PCR Applications […]