When he arrived as a freshman at Rutgers, alumnus Lester Brown (AG ’55) had planned to continue farming tomatoes in South Jersey. Instead his path led him to exposure to global issues that he was able to identify as potential environmental crises, and so began his fundamental role in the global environmental movement. Read more […]
Archives for February 2014
New Jersey by Design: Five Visionary Projects for Rebuilding After Sandy
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to make sure that Hurricane Sandy rebuilding efforts are not just focused on short-term goals. That’s why HUD is holding a competition called Rebuild by Design that it hopes not only will rebui…
Grover Cleveland Middle School Students Investigate Climate Change
When students can apply what they learn in school to real-world situations, it helps drives a lesson home. For nine students from Grover Cleveland Middle School (GCMS), Caldwell, the 4-H Rutgers Global Climate & Environmental Change Teen Summit wil…
Support Group Shows Grandparents They Are Not Alone
According to a 2010 U.S. Census, 6.2 percent of all children in New Jersey lived in grandparent headed households and the number of children being raised by their grandparents continues to rise. Whatever the reason and situation, grandparents raising t…
Quick and thrifty meals for grandparents raising grandchildren
Staff members from Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Family and Community Health Sciences Department are teaching local grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, how to stir up some quick and thrifty meals…”If you’re planning a meal make sure it’s colorful and if you have one of the foods from each of the five food groups. But if you plan ahead, make a grocery list and then abide by that you can plan a healthy meal,” says Linda Spengler of Rutgers Cooperative Extension. And on Thursday night, staff from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension demonstrated to grandparents how to prepare Vegetable Quesadillas in under five minutes.
Support Group Shows Grandparents They Are Not Alone
According to a 2010 U.S. Census, 6.2 percent of all children in New Jersey lived in grandparent headed households and the number of children being raised by their grandparents continues to rise. Whatever the reason and situation, grandparents raising t…
Quick and thrifty meals for grandparents raising grandchildren
Staff members from Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Family and Community Health Sciences Department are teaching local grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, how to stir up some quick and thrifty meals…”If you’re planning a meal make sure it’s colorful and if you have one of the foods from each of the five food groups. But if you plan ahead, make a grocery list and then abide by that you can plan a healthy meal,” says Linda Spengler of Rutgers Cooperative Extension. And on Thursday night, staff from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension demonstrated to grandparents how to prepare Vegetable Quesadillas in under five minutes.
Big Ten Ag Alumni Reception in Washington, D.C., on March 3
In the spirit of institutional cooperation, the Big Ten schools with agricultural programs are gathering alumni and friends in the Washington, D.C., area for a special event. Alumni are invited to join Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and fellow Big Ten colleagues at a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., on Monday, March […]
Before we had ‘snowpocalypse,’ it was just called ‘winter’
Disruptive snow! Polar vortex! Thundersnow! Extreme weather event!Whatever happened to the plain old winter snowstorm? …Alan Robock, director of the meteorology undergraduate program at Rutgers University, thinks the abundance of weather coverage of …
Designer Seed Thought to Be Latest Target by Chinese
The case of the missing corn seeds first broke in May 2011 when a manager at a DuPont research farm in east-central Iowa noticed a man on his knees, digging up the field. …”These varieties that Pioneer has, have shown to be better than the best varieties they’ve got in China,” said Carl E. Pray, a professor of agriculture, food and resource economics at Rutgers.