Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, was among six new co-chairs named today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to lead work on two major new multi-year international scientific assessments. McElwee is one of three co-chairs to lead the […]
Archives for January 2022
Rutgers Alumnus Frank Minch (CC’89) Named Director of NJDA’s Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources
Rutgers alumnus Frank Minch (CC’89) was named director of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources on December 22 by New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher. Minch, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Planning and Design from Rutgers, has been with NJDA since 2001. “I am pleased to […]
New Jersey 4-Hers Win the North American Dairy Educational Experience Dairy Bowl
With COVID-19 preventing an in-person contest, organizers developed the North American Dairy Educational Experience (NADEE), where youth evaluate a scenario on a dairy operation and provide responses to prompts about the operation. One team per state could enter. The winning team was from New Jersey and is part of the borrow-a-dairy heifer program facilitated by […]
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Donald Schaffner – Department of Food Science
Bruce Clarke, Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology, Retires from Rutgers After a Long and Distinguished Career
Bruce Clarke, extension specialist in turfgrass pathology in the Department of Plant Biology, retired on January 1, 2022, after close to 40 years of dedicated service to Rutgers University and the turfgrass industry. Clarke (CC ’77, GSNB ’82) started his education at Rutgers in 1973 as an undergraduate in the first matriculating class of Cook […]
How will NJ manage stormwater as climate changes, flooding increases?
Daniel J. Van Abs – Department of Human Ecology
Why the East Needs the West to Have Enough Water
The woes of Western water have made the Eastern news from time to time, usually when a major reservoir hits a record low level, snowfalls are badly deficient or a major fire is linked to the long-term drought conditions. But how many in the East really focus on this news, other than to marvel at […]
Your Hot Duck Guide
José Ramírez-Garofalo – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
SEBS Retired Faculty and Staff Luncheon Held in Person!
A group of 59 faculty and staff retirees and their guests met on Thursday, December 9 at the Rectangle Room at Neilson Dining Hall for a celebratory lunch. Reuniting with friends and former colleagues over a delicious meal, surrounded by beautiful varieties of Rutgers greenhouse-grown poinsettia, the group was joined by deans, directors, and some […]
How Marine Wildlife Can Coexist with Offshore Wind
Joe Brodie – Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing Leadership