A coalition of 18 food organizations, including the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the American Bakers Association, has formed the “Back to Balance Coalition,” which aims to promote balanced, practical and achievable dietary guidance. The coalition on Dec. 9 also released results from an October 2014 survey of 300 registered dietitians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants…”Historically, we’ve seen shifts in dietary recommendations that have led to conflicting messages and confusion,” said Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Ph.D., R.N., a professor of nutrition at Rutgers University. “These recommendations often have little to do with what Americans really eat, nor do they consider what working families could achieve given today’s time and economic pressures.”
Archives for December 2014
Dipak K. Sarkar Named Board of Governors Professor
Dipak K. Sarkar, a distinguished professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, has been named by the Rutgers University Board of Governors as a Board of Governors Professor on December 9. The professorship was established to recognize exceptional scholarship and accomplishment by a faculty member at the full professorial rank. Sarkar is also director of […]
Volcanoes May Be Masking the Severity of Global Warming
Global warming continues to heat up the earth, but volcanoes are keeping us just a little cooler. A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that volcanic eruptions may be part of the reason why the earth isn’t heating up quite as fast…
Rutgers Master Gardeners complete two-year project at Old Broad Street Cemetery
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Cumberland County completed a two-year project planting 500 Ice Folly daffodils throughout the Old Broad Street Cemetery in Bridgeton. What a glorious display awaits us this spring. In addition, five trees, four shrubs and 3…
Two SEBS Faculty Receive Fulbright Scholar Grants
Two professors from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences have received Fulbright Scholar grants for research and teaching abroad next year at institutions in Brazil. Eric Lam in plant biology and pathology will continue his work on improving biofuel production by enhancing plant sources. Daniel Hoffman in nutritional sciences will lead seminars and teach […]
Environmental and landscape resolutions for the new year
As 2014 comes to a very quick close in just a few weeks, Rutgers is offering commercial landscapers and private citizens some great opportunities to meet and fulfill their New Year’s resolutions that promise to better their landscape and how they care …
Stop, Slow, & Go: Hormonal Signals from Mother’s Milk
Hormones are like a group email or a Facebook message with many recipients. Just as a Facebook status may be received by only certain (“friended”) people, hormone messages are only received by tissues that have the right receptors. In this way, specialized glands secrete a hormone to convey the body’s “status,” and the “friended” tissues – those with the receptor – are updated..Professors Frank “Skip” Bartol at Auburn University, and Carole Bagnell at Rutgers have been tackling hormones in mother’s milk and the consequences in piglets for over a decade. They and their team have found an exquisite synchrony between hormones in mother’s milk and hormonal receptors in piglets that together affect piglet development, particularly in their reproductive tract.
Emeritus Prof. Karl Maramorosch Receives Honorary Doctorate from Warsaw University
Karl Maramorosch, emeritus member of the Department of Entomology, was awarded the Honoris Causa Doctorate by his alma mater, the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, at a ceremony in Warsaw in October. Over the course of a long and distinguished career spanning over six decades, Maramorosch has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Wolf Prize […]
Why Hasn’t A Major Hurricane Hit the U.S. in 9 Years?
Another Atlantic hurricane season has come to a close, and with it comes the continuation of a remarkable streak: The U.S. hasn’t seen a major hurricane make landfall within its borders in nine years. The last to do so was Hurricane Wilma, which hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on Oct. 24, 2005…Other work has come to conflicting conclusions. A study by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University has suggested that the reduction of Arctic sea ice and the amplified warming at the North Pole could lead to more “blocking situations” like the one that sent Sandy on its westward turn into the U.S. Blocking patterns happen when the kinks in the jet stream get “stuck” for several days or weeks.
IFNH Student Ambassadors Reflect on Research Presentations at National Food and Health Conference
Student ambassadors are an integral component of the New Jersey Institution for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) mission of collective success, interdisciplinary and community responsibility. Students selected as ambassadors are undergraduates in the Nutritional Sciences Department who demonstrate professionalism and dedication to the fields of food, nutrition, and health. These students have the opportunity to […]