More than a hundred thousand people flooded the state university’s three campuses on a near-perfect spring Saturday for the annual Rutgers Day festival featuring a day of food, music, games and a slew of exhibits… Over at the Cook College campus, a crowd watched in the Rutgers Equestrian Science Center as a former harness racing horse had her strength tested… Some got to test their taste buds with the new pepper unveiled Saturday by Rutgers plant researchers, the “pumpkin habanero,” which is hotter than any jalapeno.
Archives for April 2017
Tradition still strong at Rutgers Day 2017
Beverly Hahn, 4-H member
The Evolution of Ag Field Day to Rutgers Day
Rutgers President McCormick was inspired by the festive nature of Maryland Day when he founded Rutgers Day in 2009. But, he built it around a pre-existing annual tradition that has been celebrated on George H. Cook Campus for about a century: Ag Field Day. The history of Ag Field day began as a showcase of […]
Spring is finally in full bloom
Its spring and blossoms are everywhere. Many flowering and fruit tress were at their peak early in the month, but there is still abundant color. Lilacs are so beautiful and they fill the air with fragrance. But probably one of the most loved of all the…
Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes
Orly Levitan – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
H. Boyd Woodruff (1917-2017)
H. Boyd Woodruff, Joan W. Bennett, Douglas Eveleigh, Robert M. Goodman — School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers’ new pumpkin-shaped pepper not so hot
Albert Ayeni, Department of Plant Biology
Tom Orton, Department of Plant Biology
Pumpkin habanero pepper plant debuts at Rutgers Day
Albert Ayeni, Department of Plant Biology
Jim Simon, Department of Plant Biology
Tom Orton, Department of Plant Biology
Learn belly dancing, create a mini-earthquake. Do it all at Rutgers Day 2017
Rutgers Day is Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all three of Rutgers University’s campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden… Learn more about animals and insects though events such as the Farm Animal Showcase, cockroach races an…
Introducing Rutgers’ pumpkin habanero: A cooler hot pepper
Albert Ayeni – Department of Plant Biology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension Breeding Program.