Along the southern coast of New Jersey, stationed at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Kentucky-native Ben Sollee spent a week perched on the Great Bay’s edge, where the Mullica River empties. As a selected partner with Sustain Music and Nature, the Americana artist and cellist commissioned a ‘songscape’ inspired by Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Here, by the wooded marshes, […]
Archives for October 2020
Vietnam braces for Typhoon Molave, in worst tropical storm season for decades
Pamela McElwee – Department of Human Ecology
How to Get a Handle on Carbon Dioxide Uptake by Plants
How much carbon dioxide, a pivotal greenhouse gas behind global warming, is absorbed by plants on land? It’s a deceptively complicated question, so a Rutgers-led group of scientists recommends combining two cutting-edge tools to help answer the crucial climate change-related question. “We need to understand how the Earth is breathing now to know how resilient […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Departments to Present Part 2 of Seafood Seminar
Christine Zellers; Joanne Kinsey; Rachel Tansey – Family & Community Health Sciences
Lauren Errickson – Department of Nutritional Sciences
To stabilize the climate, we must fix democracy first | Opinion
Robert Kopp – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
How to get a handle on carbon dioxide uptake by plants
Mary Whelan – Department of Environmental Sciences
She Was in Labor. Floodwaters Were Rising. Then the Boat Tipped Over.
Pamela McElwee – Department of Human Ecology
National Transfer Student Week: EOF Community College Transfers Fully Engaged as SEBS Students
National Transfer Student Week is celebrated the third week in October and provides the opportunity to highlight transfer students and the professionals who support them on their journeys. We’ve asked Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) transfer students and their advisor to share their experiences. Not only did they have the transition from their community colleges to the expansive Rutgers environment to contend with, but by working with the […]
National Transfer Student Week: EOF Transfer Counselor Edrice Robinson-Wyatt Serves Students as a Compass to Rutgers
Whether changing schools internationally, from across the country, within the same state, or even within the same university, the experience of a college transfer student comes with an added layer of challenges. It requires learning the ropes all over again—from what classes to take; what resources are available; becoming accustomed to campus layout; connecting with new friends and classmates. National Transfer Student Week is […]
National Transfer Student Week: Angely Melendez, Foundation for Success
By Angely M. Melendez (SEB’20), Continuing Transfer Student National Transfer Student Week—every third week in October—celebrates transfer students and the professionals who support them on their journeys. Join us in recognizing those who have made this journey! #TransferStudentWeek. Here we meet Angely Melendez (SEB’20), majoring in Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behaviors in the Department of […]