Rutgers Master Gardeners of Cumberland County recently named Doris Koering Morgan Master Gardener of 2014. Having grown up in Vineland before moving to Pittsgrove Township, Koering Morgan is a native of South Jersey. She eventually settled in Deerfield…
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New Jersey 4-H youth to compete in State 4-H Small Animal Show
4-H members from throughout the state will be participating in the New Jersey State 4-H Rabbit, Cavy, Small Animal, Herpetology & Poultry Show on Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Gloucester County 4-H Fairground in Mullica Hill. The show will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m…”The 4-H members attending this event are the best from each county because they have earned the right to participate by receiving excellent ratings for their animals at county level shows,” says Jeannette Rea Keywood, Rutgers Cooperative Extension 4-H Agent and State 4-H Small Animal Program Liaison.
Jersey Crowds Brave the Sunshine to Taste Tomatoes: 2014 Tomato Tasting at Rutgers Snyder Farm
Armed with plastic forks, a crowd descended upon Rutgers Snyder Research Farm in Pittstown on August 27 to attend the Annual Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting. Tasters had an offering of eighty varieties of tomatoes to taste from as well as basil, peaches, apples and honey. The samplings provided a glimpse of […]
Regional food center award will benefit Burlington County
The Rutgers Food Innovation Center in Cumberland County was the only winner in New Jersey among 50 selected from 800 applications to the U.S. Small Business Administration for its first Growth Accelerator Fund. The recipients represent 31 states, the D…
Alumni Story: Sue Wicks (CC’88), The ‘Whole Package’
On the eve of her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, Sue Wicks (CC’88) was interviewed by Mechelle Voepel of ESPN.com. She was asked how she felt about playing basketball as a professional with the New York Liberty of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her answer: “It was the communication […]
SJSU grad student featured on “Shark Week” program, looks to discover more new species
As a kid, Paul Clerkin explored the tide pools of the Mendocino shoreline, was mesmerized by the exhibits at Monterey Bay Aquarium and grew to love the deep-sea predators featured on “Shark Week.” But when he started college in 2000, he was considering a career in medicine. His mom knew better…Developing this early interest as an undergraduate, Clerkin had several internships, including at Rutgers University’s marine station at Little Egg Harbor in New Jersey and the Cornell Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake in New York.
Big Ten schools work to develop environmentally friendly lawns
How much are homeowners willing to pay for a lawn that looks like this and resists drought, disease and wear? Scientists from Rutgers and the University of Minnesota are trying to find out…”We’re trying to make the low-maintenance grass less vulnerable to disease and more wear-tolerant for homeowners’ lawns,” said Austin Grimshaw, a research technician at the Center for Turfgrass Science in Rutgers’ New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, who is working with colleagues Stacy Bonos and William Meyer on researching fine fescue.
Gulf of Maine: “Poster Child” for Global Warming
Imagine Cape Cod without cod. Maine without lobster. The region’s famous rocky beaches invisible, obscured by constant high waters. It’s already starting to happen. The culprit is the warming seas – and in particular the Gulf of Maine, whose waters are heating up faster than 99 percent of the world’s oceans, scientists say…”These changes are very real, and we’re seeing them happen quickly,” said Malin Pinsky, a biology professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers University who studies ocean temperature change and was not involved in the research that resulted in the 99 percent statistic.
NJTV News Segment on Helping Struggling Veterans Spotlights Rutgers VETS Program
In the August 28 segment of NJTV News on “Helping Struggling Veterans,” the recently launched Rutgers VETS program was featured (appears at 1:35 in video). This unique program, led by Jan Zientek, senior program coordinator for Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Essex County, and Amy Rowe, environmental and resource management agent, RCE Essex and Passaic […]
Alumni Story: Ratemo Michieka (CAES’74), Sharing His Education
As an adventurous young man, Ratemo Michieka (CAES’74) left his home in Kenya to travel to the United States and to Rutgers to study agronomy, attracted to the university “because of its excellent reputation” even as far away as East Africa. As the story goes, his parents were peasant farmers who used the income from […]
