Sunny skies and seasonal temperatures brought a record crowd of 84,000 to the sixth annual Rutgers Day where visitors learned what the state university – with its expanded mission of medical education and transition into the prestigious Big Ten Conference – has to offer…Marissa Letinski, president of the Rutgers Undergraduate Food Science Club, spent the day at the Food Science building on the Cook/Douglass campus explaining the connection between food and science to those who dropped by for the homemade Tahitian Vanilla, Blueberries and Cream and Cappuccino Ice Cream. “Everything you eat from the supermarket, a food scientist has developed, reformulated and made healthy.” Letinksi told the crowd.
Archives for April 2014
Grad Student Brittany Graf Receives Student Fulbright Award for Plant Research in Ecuador
Brittany L. Graf, a graduate researcher in Plant Biology, was recently granted a U.S. Student Fulbright Institute of International Education (IIE) Award, which carries a 10-month stipend and travel support. Graf will travel to Ecuador from Sept. 2014 to July 2015 to conduct field and laboratory-based research on the medicinal properties of food crops as […]
Cooperative Extension marks 100 years of service
May 1 begins the month long celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Cooperative Extension. And not just for Rutgers Cooperative Extension here in New Jersey, but also for Cornell in New York and Penn State in Pennsylvania and the entire nationwide Coop…
Honeybees Took a Beating During Brutal Winter
With wind gusts in excess of 30 mph buffeting him, Gary Schempp struggled to check the health of his honeybee hives. The insects, enduring another day imprisoned in their hives by the uncooperative weather, reacted to Schempp’s intrusion with a few well-placed stings to his left eyelid, left ear and upper lip…”Severe cold is a problem, but what is worse are dramatic fluctuations in temperature that we often have in South Jersey during the winter,” said Jenny Carleo, agricultural and resource management agent with the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in Cape May Court House. “Insect activity is largely governed by temperature.
The transformative power of salt: Why you should use salt at both ends of cooking
Simple table salt can be transformative on food — imagine unsalted potato chips or french fries. But what happens when salt hits the tongue? Why do some people add salt to coffee? And do we really need to add salt before and after cooking (yes). Paul …
Four area incubator companies cited for success
Four Burlington County businesses were among 18 high-performing companies cited Friday at the second annual Business Incubation Awards held at the Rutgers EcoComplex on Florence-Columbus Road. The award-winning companies were from a wide range of indus…
Get Ready for Rutgers Day on G.H. Cook Campus!
The Rutgers New Brunswick campus will be celebrating Rutgers Day Saturday April 26, while the spirit of the event’s origins, Ag Field Day, lives on at the George H. Cook Campus. All the original favorites of plant sales, egg toss, cockroach races, and alumni gatherings are joined by hundreds more activities which will intrigue, entertain, […]
NEW ONLINE TOOL GAUGES LOCAL, STATEWIDE THREATS FROM RISE IN SEA LEVEL
A new online tool to help assess New Jersey’s vulnerability to sea-level rise was released on Thursday, one that delivers both a micro and a macro level of information to homeowners, planners, local and state officials, first responders, and a host of …
Prof. Mukund Karwe Gives Keynote at Kuwait International Conference on Life Sciences
Mukund Karwe, professor of food engineering and chair of the Department of Food Science at Rutgers, was one of two keynote speakers at the First Kuwait International Conference on Life Sciences, held April 6-8 in Kuwait. Karwe’s talk on “New and emerging food processing methods,” addressed how the traditional method of heat processing to destroy […]
Graduate Student Lisa Beirn Receives Fellowship from Golf Course Association
Lisa Beirn is one of three recipients of a $5,000 postgraduate grant by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, as part of the Watson Fellowship Program. Beirn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, also recently won a 2013 Gerald O. Mott Scholarship for Meritorious Graduate Students in Crop Science, […]