Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Archives for November 2016
Jack Rabin (CC’78) Receives Distinguished Service Award, Capping an Almost 34-Year Career at Rutgers
Jack Rabin, associate director for farm programs, NJAES, has been awarded the New Jersey Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award for 2016, presented at the Farm Bureau Annual Meeting on November 14 at the Westin Princeton Hotel in Princeton, NJ. The award is presented annually by Farm Bureau, the state’s largest membership organization representing […]
Supermoon Floods Warn of Crisis Facing Trump, U.S.
Ben Horton – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Cook/Douglass Campus Fills with Ghosts and Goblins During the 13th Annual Monster Mash
By Samuel Ludescher (SAS’18) On October 28, more than 2,000 children and their parents attended the 13th annual Monster Mash, a safe Halloween alternative to trick or treating dedicated to children in the surrounding New Brunswick and Piscataway areas. Monster Mash is held the Friday before each Halloween, a night dedicated to spooky fun and […]
Rutgers Scientists Say Sandy Exposed our Coastal Vulnerabilities
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in The Press of Atlantic City. Associate professors Daniel J. Van Abs (CC’77) and Karen M. O’Neill, Department of Human Ecology, are co-editors of a book on the aftermath of Sandy called “Taking Chances: The Coast After Hurricane Sandy” and were part of a panel at Rutgers University’s […]
What’s the best way to improve bee habitat?
Michael Roswell – Department of Ecology and Evolution
N.J. water: Plan to sell to N.Y. raises concerns
Daniel Van Abs – Department of Human Ecology
Alumni Notes and Musings – Fall 2016
[Editor’s Note: These updates appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of Explorations, the magazine for alumni, donors, and friends.] Herbert L. Ramo AG’50, Chatham, NJ, stays active with Rutgers as a member of the Oral History Archives. He will be celebrating his 60th anniversary with his wife Diana, according to Class of 1950 correspondent Allen […]
Professor Robin Brumfield Brings Suzanne’s Project Overseas to Help Women Learn to Farm
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Farming Magazine Robin Brumfield, professor of farm management at Rutgers University, took a Rutgers Cooperative Extension Project called Annie’s Project and as the result of a feasibility study she did, changed the program to fit Turkish conditions and renamed it Suzanne’s Project in honor of Brumfield’s daughter. […]
Grapefruit And Salt: The Science Behind This Unlikely Power Couple
Paul Breslin – Department of Nutritional Sciences