Ph.D. students from Rutgers University-Camden and Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) in New Brunswick perform a range of scientific experiments to study the unique ecosystems of the Pine Barrens at the Rutgers University Pinelands Field Station. SEBS Ecology and Evolution doctoral students Joni Baumgarten and Natalie Howe discuss how their research on […]
Archives for 2014
LA Internship Provides Opportunity to Restore Historic Maplewood Park
Maplewood’s Memorial Park, designed by Olmsted Brothers firm, was in need of sprucing up. The town’s garden club created an internship where SEBS Landscape Architecture students could assist in its restoration. Read more at Rutgers Today.
Thanks to Hardworking Scientists, We Will Never Run Out of Nutella
Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella and spreads joy across the world, currently uses about one-fourth of the world’s hazelnut supply. As prices rise, more farmers around the world have begun growing hazelnuts. But it wasn’t possible to do so in the northeastern region of the U.S. – until now…”All the green leafy things you see here are hazelnut trees. But in the beginning, they all used to die from disease,” says Thomas Molnar, a Rutgers plant scientist who is in charge of this effort. About 10 years ago, though, a plant breeder at Rutgers named C. Reed Funk embarked on a quest for hazelnut trees that could survive Eastern Filbert Blight.
Retail Marketing Conference for Farm Women
Now more than ever, farmers need to have marketing plans. It takes careful planning and a comprehensive understanding of the marketplace in order to develop a business strategy that will ensure success…Annie’s Project New Jersey is funded by the USDA…
Rutgers SEBS First Year Student Induction Ceremony 2014 Video
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) held its second annual induction ceremony for incoming freshmen and transfer students for the 2014-2015 academic year on Labor Day, Sept. 1, at the Nicholas Music Center on the Douglass Campus. This new annual tradition welcomes SEBS students with a ceremony that introduces them to the rich […]
Alumni Story: Mark Robson, Making Rutgers His Home
Editor’s Note: In celebration of the 150th anniversary of our designation as the land-grant institution in New Jersey in 1864, alumni were invited to tell their own Rutgers “story.” Mark Gregory Robson holds four Rutgers degrees – a B.S. (1977) in Agricultural Science from Cook College, a master’s (1979) and Ph.D. (1988) in Plant Science […]
SEBS Second Annual Induction Ceremony Welcomes Class of 2018
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) held its second annual induction ceremony for incoming freshmen and transfer students for the 2014-2015 academic year on Labor Day, Sept. 1, at the Nicholas Music Center on the Douglass Campus. This new annual tradition welcomes SEBS students with a ceremony that introduces them to the rich […]
Rutgers Food Innovation Center Wins Award from U.S. Small Business Administration
The Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC), a food business incubation and economic development program of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as a winner of its first Growth Accelerator Fund competition. The FIC is the only recipient from New Jersey to earn this award and […]
Thanks To Nutella, The World Needs More Hazelnuts
Nutella, that sinfully indulgent chocolate-hazelnut spread, turns 50 this year, and it’s come a long way, baby…And now, one can even find a few hazelnuts in the Northeastern United States, where they’ve never been successfully grown before. They’re standing in a Rutgers University research farm, an oasis of orchards tucked in between highways, just outside New Brunswick, N.J. “All the green leafy things you see here are hazelnut trees. But in the beginning, they all used to die from disease,” says Thomas Molnar, a Rutgers plant scientist who is in charge of this effort.
Rutgers program helps vets learn green skills
The little purple ball of explosive flavor is called the Paul Robeson and it is not a grape tomato, but the result of a hybrid between grapes and tomatoes. “That little purple tomato they grew, man, that was delicious,” said Otis Knight, who lives near a lot Newark where a group of veterans are being trained in the art of gardening…Feeding the neighborhood isn’t the goal of the Rutgers’ training project known as VETS (Veterans Environmental Technology and Solutions Program). It’s just a happy byproduct. The real mission is to give unemployed vets “green, sustainable job skills,” said Amy Rowe, one of the program leaders.
