Brooke Maslo, associate extension specialist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, is among the outstanding Rutgers faculty to be recognized with Universitywide Faculty Awards for 2020-21 that were recently announced by President Jonathan Holloway and Prabhas Moghe, executive vice president for academic affairs. Maslo received a Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, which honors newly-promoted and tenured (as of July 1, 2021) members of the […]
Archives for 2021
Does The 5-Second Rule Actually Mean It’s Safe To Eat Food Off The Floor?
Don Schaffner, Department of Food Science
Turkey Talk with Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Food & Nutrition Experts: The Department of Family & Community Health Sciences
By Luanne J. Hughes, MS, RDN: Educator & Professor, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County Thanksgiving is just a few days away. One of our biggest food holidays of the year, Thanksgiving brings with it great anticipation about family, food, and fun. But it can also arouse a bit of apprehension over the monumental task of food preparation and keeping food safe so […]
Turkey Talk with Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Food & Nutrition Experts
Rachel Tansey – Family and Community Health Sciences
National Weather Service recognizes Rutgers weather station
Tony Broccoli, Department of Environmental Sciences
Engineering, Data Science and Mathematical Models to Optimize Wind Energy Farms
The wind energy industry could soon count on a much-needed precise analysis to achieve an optimal balance for wind farm productivity and profitability, thanks to a team of researchers working with digitization, predictive and prescriptive analytics to bring down its operational costs. Rutgers researchers led by Principal Investigator Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, assistant professor of Industrial […]
DEP says no immediate health risk in tainted Middlesex water
Dan Van Abs, Department of Human Ecology
National Weather Service Recognizes Rutgers Weather Station with 2021 Honored Institution Award for 125 Years of Service
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service has selected Rutgers University as a recipient of its 2021 Honored Institution Awards for 125 years of service and providing outstanding weather service to the nation. Rutgers has maintained a weather station on campus as part of the Cooperative Observer Program since Jan. 1, 1896, […]
RU Ready 2 Garden Holiday Plant Edition
Bill Hlubik, Bill Errickson, Tim Waller, Angela Monaghan – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers Executive Dean Receives National Honor for Advancing Agricultural Education
Laura Lawson, interim executive dean at Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, recently received an Honorary American FFA Degree from the National FFA (Future Farmers of America.) Lawson, along with her fellow honorary degree recipients, were recognized as “individuals who have provided exceptional service on a national level to agriculture, agricultural education, or FFA.” […]






