The students came in droves to the Cook/Douglass campus on September 17. Community Day gave students a chance to get to know what Rutgers has to offer and how to become a part of the university community.
Archives for September 2014
Bangkok, Thailand: Knowledge and Perspective to Last a Lifetime by Veronica Walentowicz (SEBS 2015)
Mark Robson, professor of plant biology and pathology, has been working in Thailand for 20 years. His activities have included being a Fulbright Senior Scientist, teaching risk assessment under a program funded by the Asian Development Bank and training young environmental health scientists under the NIH-funded Fogarty Center. Because of his deep association with Thailand, […]
N.J. Legislature Honors Rutgers on the 150th Anniversary of its Designation as the State’s Land-Grant Institution
The New Jersey Legislature commemorated the 150th anniversary of Rutgers’ designation as the land-grant institution for the state of New Jersey by passing a joint resolution in the Senate on Sept. 22. In 1862, Congress passed the Land-Grant College Act, a landmark statute also known as the Morrill Act, which established a system of land-grant […]
Bangkok, Thailand: Bringing the Outside World to Students With Special Needs by Alexandra Shishkova (SEBS 2015)
Mark Robson, professor of plant biology and pathology, has been working in Thailand for 20 years. His activities have included being a Fulbright Senior Scientist, teaching risk assessment under a program funded by the Asian Development Bank and training young environmental health scientists under the NIH-funded Fogarty Center. Because of his deep association with Thailand, […]
The state readies for Big Data with passage of bill
“Big Data” has the potential for big results in terms of attracting and retaining industry for the state, public and private experts in New Jersey believe. That’s why a consortium of academia, government and industry leaders have collaborated on creating a one-stop home for the massive amounts of data collected by the likes of sensor cameras, social media and a variety of other sources, said Margaret Brennan-Tonetta, associate vice president for economic development at Rutgers University. The passage of the first “Big Data Bill” by Gov. Chris Christie officially recognizes the New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA) as the State’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Consortium. That move is crucial as it gives the NJBDA legitimacy in the eyes of industry, Brennan-Tonetta said.
SEBS Animal Sciences Department Mourns the Loss of Student Caitlyn Kovacs
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Department of Animal Sciences mourn the untimely passing of one of our students, Caitlyn Kovacs. She became an Animal Sciences major at Rutgers because of her passion for animals, especially companion animals, and her interest in animal welfare. Daniela Sharma, who served last year as Caitlyn’s […]
What is driving the increasingly weird behavior of the polar jet stream?
A big link between climate change and severe weather may be lurking 30,000 feet above your head. More and more scientists are interested in the links among the increasingly weird behavior of the polar jet stream and the disappearance of ice and snow in the Arctic and other extreme weather trends…Rutgers University atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis thinks there is a clear climate change factor in the jet stream’s wobbliness: the warming of the Arctic. Temperatures are rising in the Arctic regions faster than anywhere else in the world, an effect called “Arctic amplification” that may be due to the fact that as sea ice melts it exposes darker water that absorbs more heat then the reflective ice.
New Jersey’s Got “Terroir,” Celebrates State Wine Week Sept. 19-28
The winemakers’ art relies on the cultivation of select varieties of well-adapted grapes that thrive under sets of conditions unique to every site. The French have a single vocabulary word, “terroir,” to describe this broad set of interacting factors that includes the soils, their orientation, grape variety, farming practices, climate, local microclimate, wine making culture […]
Rutgers student who died was animal lover, ‘creative, bubbly, positive’
Caitlyn Kovacs, a 19-year-old Rutgers University sophomore who died Sunday morning, was a great employee who loved animals, her former boss said. “It wasn’t just a job for her,” said Brenda Janner, the owner of the pet-sitting business Beg ‘n Bark in Princeton, where Kovacs worked this summer. “We’re all in shock about the whole thing.” Kovacs, an animal sciences major, was at a small gathering off campus in New Brunswick when she appeared to be in distress, the Middlesex County prosecutor said. Her friends took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead early Sunday morning.
Rutgers Community Comes Together to Help Fight the Spread of the Ebola Virus in West Africa
In August, Jim Simon, professor of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers, “just couldn’t sit still and do nothing” when, like the rest of the world, he began to get a better sense of the growing threat of the Ebola virus in West Africa through daily news reports. In addition, he was getting frantic requests […]