Rutgers Center for Vector Biology
Archives for November 2017
Forum: Act to avoid a nuclear war in Korea
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
America’s Bottomless Hunger
Richard W. VanVranken – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers scientist’s big adventure near the South Pole in search of meteorites
Juliane Gross – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Four Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of AAAS
Richard W. Padgett – Waksman Institute of Microbiology and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rutgers Center for Vector Biology Helps in Identification of East Asian Tick Species on Hunterdon County Farm
Editor’s Note: Located at Rutgers Center for Vector Biology, the Monmouth County Tick-borne Disease Lab–a collaboration between Monmouth County and the CVB–performed the DNA analysis of the exotic tick. A detailed review on the tick is available on the CVB website. New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced the United States Department of […]
Grad Student Johnny Quispe Selected for “Rising TIDES” Conference Mentoring Program by CERF
Johnny Quispe was among a group of 11 underrepresented (URM) minority students who were selected for a “Rising TIDES” award by the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF). Quispe is a candidate for a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution in the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies. The Rising TIDES “Toward an Inclusive, Diverse, and Enriched […]
French company wins world rights to Purdue-affiliated apple
NC-140, Rutgers Snyder Research Farm
In Memoriam: Audrey C. Burkart (1929 – 2017), Former Chair for the Family and Community Health Sciences Department
Audrey Burkart, a lifelong resident of Ridgefield, NJ passed away on October 9, 2017 at age 88. Audrey earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New York University and her doctorate from Columbia University in the field of Nutrition and Home Economics. In 1954, she began her career as a home economics teacher in Cliffside, […]
IFNH Center for Lipid Research Hosts 2017 Annual Symposium, “Lipid Biology and Disease”
On November 3, 2017, the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research hosted its annual symposium entitled “Lipid Biology and Disease.” It was a full-day symposium that showcased the best and the state-of-art research findings from world-renowned and rising faculty in the center. The focus of the symposium, organized by Grace Guo of the School of Pharmacy […]