Recently, there has been a lot of news about Rutgers plant varieties, especially the ‘Rutgers 250’TM tomato and ‘Rutgers Scarlet’TM strawberry. What you might not know is where to find them. Whether you are an experienced home gardener or are just starting out, it’s the time of year to start preparing garden beds and getting […]
Archives for April 2016
Fish exchange set to start back up in Lyndhurst
After a winter hiatus, a fish exchange program that allows people to swap fish caught in the Passaic River for tilapia raised in Newark is set to start back up. The fish exchange is operated by the Rutgers VETS program and funded by the Lower Passaic C…
Get ready, allergy sufferers: NJ about to get socked with tree pollen
What is being called “an explosion” of early tree pollen is about to descend on long-suffering New Jersey allergy victims. Blame it on the wet El Nino winter, according to Dr. Leonard Bielory, an allergy specialist with the Rutgers Center o…
Pollen Overload: Seasonal Allergies in a Changing Climate
Leonard Bielory, M.D., an allergy specialist with the Rutgers Center of Environmental Prediction at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and attending physician at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, warns of an increase in both the number of people with allergies and what they’re allergic to, and the likelihood of warming leading more people […]
Warming in Arctic affects middle latitudes — and vice versa
When it comes to climate, what happens in the Arctic, scientists are fond of saying, doesn’t stay in the Arctic… The phenomenon as self-perpetuating, says Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University. Francis and several co-authors argue in a study newly p…
Rising sea levels will reshape the world if we don’t act now
The predictions only get worse… Benjamin Horton, a coastal geologist at Rutgers University who studies sea level, said it did not surprise many people in his field. In 2013, Horton led a survey of almost 100 sea level scientists that concluded that s…
Explosion of tree pollen looms: What you can do to cope
Allergy experts say tree pollen is going to be a significant issue for allergy-sufferers starting this week in the Lehigh Valley region… Birch pollen is also ready to burst onto the scene, said Dr. Leonard Bielory, a specialist in allergy and immunol…
Revolutionary for 250 Years: Waksman, Schatz and the Discovery of Streptomycin
Martin Hall on the George H. Cook campus was the site of the discovery of streptomycin – the first effective treatment for tuberculosis – by Rutgers revolutionary Selman Waksman and his graduate student Albert Schatz. In 1952, Waksman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his “ingenious, systematic and successful studies of the […]
G. Joseph Pennucci (CC’84) Appointed Chief Probation Officer of Lynn District Court in Massachusetts
G. Joseph Pennucci, a 1984 graduate of Cook College, was appointed the Chief Probation Officer at Lynn District Court by the Massachusetts Commissioner of Probation Edward J. Dolan. Pennucci assumed his new role on February 8. Pennucci, who earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at Rutgers, is one of six newly appointed chief probation officers […]
Selman Waksman: Rutgers Alumnus, Researcher and Nobel Prize Winner Developed System to Discover Antibiotics
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis was one of the nation’s most feared killers. At one point, the highly infectious disease known as TB killed more than 400 Americans a day. But by the early 1950s, TB deaths had dropped sharply…