Donald Schaffner – Department of Food Science
Archives for May 2017
You’re Not Imagining It: Your Allergies Really Are Worse This Year
There’s a few things you should know: first of all, allergies are on the rise for the overall population and long-term climate change is affecting allergens in our area. But this year’s intensity is mostly due to the stop-and-go end to our winter, a sh…
Overlooked and Insidious: Back-Bay Flooding Plagues Millions
Benjamin Horton – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Scientists issue dire forecast if America pulls out of climate change pact
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Review: ‘Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine,’ by William Rosen
Selman Waksman
Rex Tillerson signed a statement supporting Arctic science. Trump’s budget would cut it.
The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal aims to significantly reduce funding for Arctic climate research, among other environmental programs – a move climate scientists say would be a big mistake… “These cuts would do great harm to NOAA’s crucial research to better predict the behavior of Arctic sea ice, and would in turn jeopardize the safety of fishermen, commercial shippers, and cruise ships, not to mention the effects of ice loss on the local ecosystem, acceleration of land-ice melt and northern hemisphere weather,” Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist and Arctic expert at Rutgers University, said in an email to The Washington Post.
Dining halls at Harvard and Stanford are using their kitchens as ‘living laboratories’ to change the eating habits of students
An unlikely group of scientists, chefs, and academics is banding together to transform the eating habits of college students… Known as the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative, the alliance aims to ditch the unhealthy, unsustainable foods commonly served in dining halls in favor of tasty, more plant-based offerigs. “Hopefully in five years, this will be mainstream. A new crop of students will come in and see a university with a healthy culture around food,” says Peggy Policastro, director of behavioral nutrition with Rutgers Dining Services.
A New Endowed Chair, A New Frontier
For Liping Zhao, world renowned researcher and the School’s new Douglas and Linda Eveleigh and Dennis and Linda Fenton Endowed Chair in Applied Microbiology, the study of the human microbiome brings to mind the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant: in the story, each blind man touches and studies a different part […]
2017 Summer Guide: 7 must-see gardens in NJ
Rutgers Gardens
Dina Fonseca and her Team Study the Worldwide Movement of Über-Mosquitoes and their Increasing Insecticide Resistance
Describing and predicting the unabated movement of mosquitoes across the world has been a research theme throughout the career of Dina Fonseca, professor in the Department of Entomology and director of the Center for Vector Biology. Viruses transmitted by mosquitoes (arboviruses) represent a major threat to public health worldwide, the latest being the Zika virus. […]