Food entrepreneurship is growing in Hawaii and could bring venture capital to the Aloha State, members of a Hawaii Venture Capital Association panel said on Wednesday… “We are seeing a huge migration of venture dollars to the food space,” said Lou Cooperhouse, director of Rutgers Food Innovation Center at Rutgers University.
Archives for April 2016
How a giant space umbrella could stop global warming
The race to find a solution to a rapidly warming world is one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet. One proposal to try to halt this warming is literally out-of-this-world: a giant, space-based sunshade. We’re already modifying our climate…
Rutgers Forestry and Wildlife Management Graduate Selected to Lead National Park in Alaska Region
Rutgers graduate Ben Bobowski (CC ’91), who earned a bachelor’s degree in forestry and wildlife management, has been selected as the new superintendent of the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve, part of the National Park Service (NPS), in south central Alaska. Bobowski, who will soon begin his tenure in Alaska, is currently the […]
Prof. Pal Maliga Honored for Excellence in Plant Biology Research by National Society
Pal Maliga, distinguished professor in the Waksman Institute of Microbiology and professor of plant biology in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, has won the Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research from the American Society of Plant Biologists. Maliga received a master’s degree in genetics and microbiology from the Eotvos Lorand […]
Oyster Farms, Shorebird Vie for Space on NJ Bay Beaches
Oyster farming is the kind of business an environmentalist should love: it doesn’t use harmful chemicals or deplete natural resources, and the locally grown shellfish actually help clean the water… The 17 farms in the area produced 1.6 million oyster…
Starting a food business? Rutgers incubator can help
Patrick Leger stood in a processing room at Rutgers Food Innovation Center on Friday, watching as an assembly line of bottles were filled with pure strained tomatoes, First Field’s latest product… “They need a place to go,” said Lou Cooperhouse, the center’s director. “Our job is to find a pathway for them to go after they leave our facility.”
These two changes in the ocean are downright scary
The oceans are warmer and more acidic than ever before in recorded history, and likely ever since modern humans evolved. That should worry everyone alive today. Why? As go the oceans, so goes the health of the globe. Oceans produce more than half the o…
Marine Ecologist Malin Pinsky Pens Op-Ed to Mark Earth Day
To mark Earth Day on April 22, Malin Pinsky, marine ecologist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources and an affiliate of the Rutgers Climate Institute, penned an op-ed for Dow Jones & Company website, MarketWatch. He writes, “If we continue on our current path of carbon emissions, we can expect ocean warming […]
New OCPE Summer Weekend Programs Help Au Pairs Earn Academic Credit Toward J-1 Visa Requirements
School may be out for the children they care for, but the classroom is open for au pairs interested in fulfilling their J-1 visa academic requirements by enrolling in new Rutgers weekend summer programs. To introduce them to one aspect of American culture, au pairs can register for “American Food – Then and Now,” an […]
Dramatic climate change is upon us, but will we be prepared?
Significant climate change is upon us and is no longer a question of if but rather when and how fast, according to Oscar Schofield, chair, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He believes the most important qu…