David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Archives for October 2021
National Transfer Student Week: Pruthvi Talvekar – Smooth Transition to Rutgers During COVID-19
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 Pruthvi Talvekar, a junior majoring in Biological Sciences with a minor in Business Administration. Talvekar transferred from Middlesex County College right when COVID hit in the Spring of 2020. […]
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Mark Robson Delivered the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award Lecture
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Mark Robson (CC’77; GSNB’79, ’88; SPH’95), the 2021 recipient of the university’s Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, delivered the accompanying lecture, “Rutgers – A Public University in the Land Grant Tradition that Provides Opportunities: How We Can Teach Our Students to Address Critical Global Issues,” on October 19. Robson’s presentation […]
Rutgers Awarded $305,000 Grant to Support Water Quality Protection and Improvements in the Delaware River Basin
Daniel Van Abs, professor, and Karen O’Neill, associate professor, Department of Human Ecology, are co-PIs on a new grant of $305,000 from the William Penn Foundation of Philadelphia. The grant funds the second phase of a project to identify all government expenditures for the purposes of water quality protection and improvements in the Delaware River […]
Research uncovers a new human sensory ability to detect sugars in the mouth
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Rutgers awarded $305,000 grant for water quality protection in Delaware River Basin
Daniel Van Abs, Department of Human Ecology
Karen O’Neill, Department of Human Ecology
Lucas Marxen, SEBS Office of Research Analytics
Michelle Stuart, SEBS Office of Research Analytics
RU interns inform N.J. municipalities on urban forestry program guidelines
Jason Graboksy, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Pam Zipse, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Ryan Schmidt, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Brianna Casario, Department of Ecology, …
The costs of climate change are getting lost on Capitol Hill
Robert Kopp – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
SEBS Student Interns Inform NJ Municipalities on Urban Forestry Program Guidelines
Under the supervision of Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources (EENR) professor in urban forestry Jason Graboksy and Pam Zipse, outreach coordinator for Rutgers Urban Forestry Outreach Program and at the behest of the New Jersey Forest Service, two EENR undergraduate students, Ryan Schmidt and Brianna Casario, spearheaded the creation of a set of proposed inventory guidelines for beginning, improving, and established urban tree inventories in […]
Novel sugar detector system in the human mouth has implications for designing tastier, healthier beverages and foods
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences