Scientists and businesses working full steam to produce lab-created meat claim it will be healthier than conventional meat and more environmentally friendly… “Maillard reactions are very important,” says Paul Breslin, a nutritional sciences professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “They are the flavour of cooking and give baked cookies, fresh-baked bread and grilled ribs their characteristic flavours, which we obviously love.”
Archives for May 2016
NJ’s cool start to May could be erased by the end of the month
You can tell just from walking outside, but the weather records prove this May in New Jersey is definitely cooler than usual… “Temperatures are averaging, daily highs and lows — in the upper 50s,” Dr. David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University, told New Jersey 101.5. “And we should be, on average for the first part of May, in the lower 60s.”
Student Debt Causing a Lag in Life Moves
Student debt is taking a staggering toll on new graduates to the point where many feel their lives are “hung up” and they can’t make major moves such as getting married, buying a house or pursuing more education, a new survey released Tuesday states… Barbara O’Neill, distinguished professor and specialist in financial resource management at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, had a different take. “It’s having a major impact not just on the students themselves, but also on the rest of society,” O’Neill said of student debt in general.
World’s richest source of oceanographic data now operational at Rutgers
The data center for the pioneering Ocean Observatories Initiative, which collects and shares data from more than 800 sophisticated instruments and a transmission network across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is now operating at Rutgers University… The OOI cyberinfrastructure team is led by Manish Parashar, distinguished professor of computer science and founding director of the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2), in collaboration with Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield, distinguished professors of marine and coastal sciences and directors of the Rutgers University Center for Ocean “Our OOI partners have deployed advanced platforms and a wide variety of sensors in challenging environments at sea,” Glenn said. “Enabling unprecedented access to scientists and educators through an equally advanced cyberinfrastructure is our goal. We are excited that Rutgers is part of the team.”
Even for the fast-melting Arctic, 2016 is in ‘uncharted territory’
(This story has been updated) One of the oldest and best-established ideas about global warming is that it will hit the Arctic the hardest. The concept, which goes back to papers published decades ago, is called “Arctic amplification,” and the basic idea is that there’s a key feedback in this system that makes everything worse… ‘We’re in record breaking territory no matter how you look at it,” says Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University who has published widely on how Arctic changes affect weather in the mid-latitudes. “The ice is really low, the temperatures are really high, the fire seasons have started earlier,” she says.
Alumni Story: Peggy Policastro (GSNB’93,’15) – Food with Thought
Fortunate is the person who can parlay a childhood fascination into an academic and professional career. Peggy Policastro is a fortunate person. Peggy, a registered dietician, is the nutritionist for Rutgers Dining Services, and the director of behavioral nutrition with the Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH). She also holds a master’s degree in […]
7 shout-outs to Jersey in Obama’s Rutgers speech
President Barack Obama has never lived in New Jersey, but his speech to Rutgers University’s graduating class Sunday showed someone clued him in on some of the state’s quirks and cultural touchstones… Obama gave shout-outs to several Rutgers graduate…
Recalling the Life of Karl Maramorosch: 1915-2016
Karl Maramorosch, professor emeritus and renowned scholar, died on May 9, 2016, at the age of 101. Well known to the Rutgers community and active in teaching and research up until recently, he was known throughout the world as an eminent virologist, entomologist, and plant pathologist. His Rutgers “home” for the past several years was […]
Why the new Rutgers tomato is a sell-out hit with gardeners
The hunger for a Jersey tomato is so great that it’s already sold out… The Rutgers tomato has been popular for decades because it gave growers that “tomato tastiness” that came to be lacking in the tomatoes sold at grocery stores. Those tomatoes have to be tough enough to withstand factory farming and transportation, Rutgers plant biologist Thomas Orton says.
Canada wildfires in ‘bullseye’ of warming planet trends
Experts say climate change is contributing to the wildfires raging across Canada, and the increasing frequency of such fires may overwhelm one of Earth’s most important ecosystems, the boreal forest… “There is almost certainly a connection between the exceedingly warm Arctic, especially so this past winter, and the early fire season in high-latitude land areas, which includes much of Canada,” said Jennifer Francis, research professor at Rutgers University.