The New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM) has been selected to receive a 2018 Farmers Market Promotion Program Grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), designed to increase sales of agricultural products by local farmers around the country. The market is a collaboration between Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension, Johnson […]
Archives for October 2018
Factors That Up the Chances an Exotic Pet Gets Released into the Wild
Julie L. Lockwood, Oliver C. Stringham – Department of Ecology Evolution and Natural Resources
3 Exercises That’ll Seriously Work Your Core
Michelle Arent – Center for Health and Human Performance, IFNH
Rutgers Holds 11th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop
“Endocrinology of Women’s Health” was the theme of the 11th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held at Rutgers on September 17, 2018, at the Busch Student Center. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; Rutgers-RWJMS Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological […]
New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Wins Coastal and Ocean Champions Award
The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (NJADAPT) received the 2018 Coastal and Ocean Champions Award from the Urban Coast Institute at the institute’s 14th annual reception celebrating 40 years of New Jersey’s Coastal Management Program on Oct. 9 at Monmouth University. The event honored six individuals who have made significant contributions to the program and to the […]
Yards With Non-Native Plants Create ‘Food Deserts’ for Bugs and Birds
Myla Aronson – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Here’s how climate change will make N.J. deadlier in your lifetime
Bob Kopp – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
How to Budget for Cancer
Barbara O’Neill – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Global Call to Support Bone Health for World Osteoporosis Day Oct. 20
The International Osteoporosis Foundation and its 240-member societies across the globe have issued a call for the public, healthcare professionals and organizations worldwide to raise awareness of bone health by calling for action on osteoporosis and fracture prevention in their communities ahead of observances for World Osteoporosis Day on Oct. 20. Osteoporosis is a disease […]