U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $4.5 million grant to LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC) and Rutgers University-New Brunswick to support The Animal Science Discovery (ANSCId) Program: A Summer Experiential Learning, Career Development, and Scholarship Pipeline Between LAGCC and Rutgers. ANSCId is one of 33 programs funded under a […]
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How you can get involved in science from your own Pennsylvania backyard
Liti Haramaty – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
A Kitchen Challenge: Nudging College Students Toward Healthy Eating
Yanhong Jin – Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
Oyster Recycling Programs are Coming Out of Their Shell
By Doug Zemeckis, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Oysters are found in New Jersey’s bays and rivers throughout much of the state. There are several different species of oysters around the world, but the species that we have here in New Jersey is the Eastern (or American) oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Our wild oyster populations are now a […]
Smoke in NYC result of Canadian wildfires, not geoengineering | Fact check
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Oyster Recycling Programs are Coming Out of Their Shell
Douglas Zemeckis – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Could climate change be behind uptick in tick population? NJ group aims to study reason why
Dina Fonseca – Department of Entomology
Alumnus Doug Piekarz (CC’89): Wildlife Is His Life
Rutgers alumnus Doug Piekarz has devoted his life to saving wildlife, wild places, and the world. By Debbie Meyers Doug Piekarz grew up spending holidays and weekends at his grandfather’s cabin nestled in the wilderness of upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. His childhood love of nature led Piekarz (CC’89) to Rutgers University and ultimately to […]
Lily Young Appointed Board of Governors Professor of Environmental Sciences
Lily Young, an environmental microbiologist at Rutgers for more than 30 years who is recognized for her research to help prevent pollution and restore the environment, has been appointed as a Board of Governors Professor of Environmental Sciences. The Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences focuses her research on anaerobic microbes – organisms […]
Gladiolus murielae–Without Doubt a Beautiful Flower
Bruce Crawford – Morris County Park Commission
