For 2014, Annie’s Project New Jersey of Rutgers Cooperative Extension has announced its offering of a six-week course for greenhouse growers. This national farm business management program educates and empowers local women farmers, and since 2011 has o…
Archives for December 2013
2013 saw fewest weather disasters in recent history – but will luck hold?
The year 2013 was historically kind to the US, with tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, and other weather-related disasters occurring at near-record infrequency. Still, meteorologists say that global temperatures have continued to rise…"It’s only g…
Your grocery bill could go up because of Nebraska’s weather
For lifelong rancher Susan Straka, 46, the most potent image of climate change isn’t a melting glacier or the rising sea. It’s a burning cow. At the height of a crippling drought last year, an errant spark touched off a vast wildfire near Straka’s ranc…
Union County 4-H STEM Club celebrates 5 years
Union County Freeholders Sergio Granados (far left) and Vernell Wright (far right) joined the Union County 4-H STEM (Science, Technology, Enginering, and Math) Club for a special celebration in honor of the club’s five-year anniversary.
4-H is a nati…
Alumni Story: Dylan Dreyer (CC’03) – Scientist and TV Personality Finds Meteorology Fun
She started out thinking she would be a research meteorologist and even spent some time as a student working with climate organizations, but for alumna Dylan Dreyer all it took was an internship with WCBS-TV New York weatherman Craig Allen and she knew being on television was her “dream job.” Knowing where you want to […]
RCE Announces Annual Wilbur M. Runk and Merle V. Adams Award Winners for 2013
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) held its annual awards program at the 2013 Annual Joint Department Meeting on December 10 to recognize outstanding performances of students, faculty and staff. Two of its awards are in honor of former Extension faculty, Wilbur M. Runk and Merle V. Adams. Dane Jensen, Ph.D. food science candidate whose mentor is […]
Climate Scientists, Then and Now, Espousing ‘Responsible Advocacy’
I’ve long appreciated Gavin A. Schmidt’s approach to doing and communicating climate science. Schmidt, deputy director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has endured many slings and arrows, not to mention hacks and legal tangles, in buildin…
Small Steps to Health and Wealth provides motivation for resolutions
Got New Year’s resolutions to improve your health and/or personal finances? For example, losing weight, increased physical activity, reducing debt, or saving money? Cooperative Extension’s Small Steps to Health and Wealth program has two free resources…
Lester Brown, AG ’55, Discusses New Memoir on WHYY RadioTimes
Lester R. Brown (AG ’55), world-renowned environmentalist and Rutgers Distinguished Alumnus, speaks with RadioTimes host Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY Public Radio in Philadelphia. Brown’s new memoir Breaking New Ground: A Personal History, includes his upbringing on a farm in South Jersey and his time at Rutgers as an undergraduate student. In this broadcast, Brown recalls […]
4-H Offers Lego Robotics Clubs in New Year
The Cape May County 4-H Youth Development Program announces three Lego robotics programs in the new year for youth in kindergarten through one year out of high school.
Six youth ages six to nine years will be accepted to form a 4-H Junior first Lego&…