On September 21, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) and the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) hosted “Tossed,” a cooking competition held as a part of the annual Party at the Puddle welcome-back event. Students gathered at the famous Passion Puddle on Lipman Drive for food, a movie night, and to watch the exciting “Tossed” […]
Archives for September 2023
Coastal Fisheries Show Surprising Resilience to Marine Heat Waves
Rutgers-led study finds that in the years following marine heat waves, effects on fish communities were often minimal Rutgers-led research found that marine heat waves – prolonged periods of unusually warm ocean temperatures – haven’t had a lasting effect on the fish communities that feed most of the world. The finding is in stark contrast […]
Rutgers Gardens Awarded Trees for Schools Grant to Help Mitigate Climate Change
Rutgers Gardens, the 180-acre botanical garden of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and a “living laboratory” in North Brunswick, New Jersey, is one of the recipients of a grant awarded by the NJ DEP and Sustainable Jersey via the Trees for Schools program. Funded by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the initiative […]
NSF Grant Recipients Siobain Duffy and Julie Lockwood Advance Infectious Disease Research
Siobain Duffy, professor and chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is the principal investigator for a $2.18 million grant in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases awarded by the National Science Foundation. Duffy and researchers at North Carolina State University, the International […]
Rutgers Helps to Develop New Mapping Tool to Coordinate New Jersey Coastal Resilience Projects
The Department of Environmental Protection announced the launch of an online mapping tool that will help the public, stakeholders and government officials advance work that is needed to bolster the resilience of New Jersey’s coastal areas to climate change. The Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Planning Tool (CERAP Tool), provides the locations of at-risk areas, […]
SEBS and NJAES Help Create Climate Change Learning Stations Unveiled to Mark Climate Week 2023
Editor’s note: Photo documentation stations resulted from a partnership with Rutgers DMCS, JC NERR, NOAA, and the MyCoast New Jersey website. This article first appeared on the DEP website. Marking Climate Week in New Jersey, Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette unveiled the first of five Climate Change Learning Stations in New Jersey’s state parks […]
Rutgers New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative Offers Nutrition Education to Local Youth
This summer, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) worked both on and off Rutgers campus to educate local youth about nutrition and its importance in overall health. Partnerships with Scarlet Kids summer camp on Cook Campus and New Brunswick’s New Brunswick Fit summer wellness program granted dozens of kids and teens access to interactive […]
Anna Schicker (SEBS’27) Embracing the SEBS Community and Helyar House Family
While she didn’t know for sure until she made that final decision, the chances were always pretty good that Anna Schicker (SEBS’27) would attend Rutgers. Rutgers feels like home. A tradition, almost, going by her small nuclear family who have all attended Rutgers. Her parents, Eric and Sue, met in graduate school at Rutgers-Newark. Her […]
Rutgers Synder Farm Hosts 2023 Open House and Tomato Tasting
On August 30, Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm hosted its Open House and Tomato Tasting in Pittstown, New Jersey. Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway and NJAES Executive Director Laura Lawson joined a large crowd of loyal tomato-lovers at the annual event. With paper dishes and plastic forks in hand, visitors sampled more than 50 tomato […]
Agritourism: Fall Season Offers Bountiful Reasons to Visit a Farm
By Michelle Infante-Casella, Agricultural Agent, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Gloucester County What is agritourism? Webster.com defines agritourism (agriculture plus tourism) as “the practice of touring agricultural areas to see farms and participate in farm activities.” There are other names for agritourism– “agritainment,” “rural tourism” and “farm visits.” All are a form of commercial enterprise that links […]
