AeroFarms, a leading indoor vertical farming company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, was awarded a Seeding Solutions grant of $1 million from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit organization established under the 2014 Farm Bill. Scientists from Rutgers and Cornell universities will collaborate with AeroFarms in research using the tight controls of […]
Archives for September 2017
Rutgers studying young horseshoe crabs and giving them a head start
Mike Deluca – Aquaculture Innovation Center
Thomas Grothues – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Lessons from Sandy: Hurricanes behaving oddly
Travis Miles, Scott Glenn – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Greg Seroka – Graduate Student – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
A Fat-Regulating Enzyme Could Hold the Key to Obesity, Diabetes, Cancer, Other Diseases
George M. Carman – Rutgers IFNH Center for Lipid Research
IFNH Center for Lipid Research Finds a Fat-Regulating Enzyme that Could Hold the Key to Many Diseases
Rutgers researchers shed light on key enzyme’s role in human health. George M. Carman, director of the Center and Board of Governors professor in the Department of Food Science, along with research assistant professor Gil-Soo Han, have found that the fat enzyme, known as phosphatidic acid phosphatase, plays a critical role in in making membrane […]
Rutgers to establish Agribusiness Scholars program
Dean Rogert M. Goodman
Stephen Komar & Brian Schilling – Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Enzyme Plays a Role in Several Diseases
George Carman, Board of Governors professor, Department of Food Science
Rutgers scientists studying enzyme that could ‘hold the key’ to obesity, diabetes
George Carman, Department of Food Science Center for Lipid Research
Gil-Soo Han, Department of Food Science Center for Lipid Research
Appalachian Mountain Club’s AMC Outdoors Magazine Features Hutcheson Memorial Forest
Source: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources For more than 60 years, Mettler’s Woods, an old growth forest at Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center, has served Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources students and faculty as a classroom, research site, and natural wonder. While ancient oaks and hickory still tower above visitors, much […]
NBC’s Storm Team 4 Meets Rutgers Future Meteorologsts
On September 17, NBC’s StormTracker 4 team visited Cook Campus, the site of the Doppler radar tower with its 1,000,000 watts of cutting-edge technology. IT’S GOT THE POWER! StormTracker 4 is powered by one million watts of cutting-edge technology. It can generate 1,000 pulses within the blink of an eye. And it has a range […]