Bova was one of five women in STEM that was awarded $60,000 by the beauty leader to advance important postdoctoral research L’Oréal USA announced the recipients of the 2019 For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship, which annually awards five female postdoctoral scientists grants of $60,000 each to advance their research. This is the 16th year […]
Rutgers IFNH Student Ambassadors Present at Annual Meeting of Menus of Change University Research Collaborative
The Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) hosted its fifth-annual all-member meeting on October 7-9. The meeting took place at the University of Colorado Boulder and was co-presented by The Culinary Institute of America and Stanford University. Rutgers Nutritional Sciences majors Jessica Carr (SEBS 2020) and Dana Ikeda (SEBS 2020), IFNH Student Ambassadors, […]
Five New Jersey Students Attend Global Youth Institute of World Food Prize
Each year, 200 exceptional high school students from around the world are selected to participate in the Global Youth Institute, a prestigious youth education program hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation. Selected students and their teachers/mentors travel to Des Moines, Iowa, in mid-October to attend this three-day event during which they interact with Nobel and World […]
Climate Change is Reshaping Communities of Ocean Organisms
Warm-water species are rapidly increasing and cold-water species are decreasing The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, covers species that are important for fisheries and that serve as food for fish, such as copepods and other zooplankton. “The changes we’re observing ripple throughout local and global economies all the way to our dinner […]
Tom Leustek One of Two Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of AAAS
Rutgers–New Brunswick and RBHS faculty honored for scientific contributions Two Rutgers professors have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, an honor awarded to AAAS members by their peers. They join 441 other AAAS members named new fellows because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to […]
Chrysler Herbarium: A Treasure Trove of Plants from the Past
Centuries ago naturalists and scientists were busy cataloguing and collecting specimens of the natural world. Driving this may have been a desire to tame the wildness of nature, or perhaps the comfort of categorizing and defining the world. For generations these collections have been preserved and added to by individuals and institutions often operating with […]
Registration Open for the 2020 Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program
If you have a passion for the environment, a desire to learn and volunteer in your community, then this program is for you Since 2005, hundreds of volunteers have made the commitment to protecting New Jersey’s environment by participating in the Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program. Offered by Rutgers Cooperative Extension, the program introduces volunteers to the […]
Rutgers Researchers Set Out to Prove Evolution of All Life, Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life
From simple proteins to living cells, NASA-funded research at Rutgers tests theories on the origins of life Using a computer and a protein synthesizer, Josh Mancini builds proteins that are supposed to resemble those that would have existed 4 billion years ago, before life arose on Earth. He places millions of the tiny protein molecules, […]
Rutgers Oceanographers Set Precedent for New Program in U.S. Ocean Coring
This past summer, Samantha Bova, Rutgers post-doctoral researcher, and Yair Rosenthal, distinguished professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, led a team of 33 international scientists on a month-long ocean expedition to the Chilean Margin in the southeast Pacific aboard the JOIDES Resolution, a research vessel that drills into the ocean floor to […]
Rutgers Center for Lipid Research holds 2019 Symposium “Lipids in Health and Disease”
On November 8, the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (RCLR) held its fifth annual symposium, with this year’s theme “Lipids in Health and Disease.” Chaired by George M. Carman, board of governors professor of food science and founding director of the RCLR, the symposium brought together an outstanding group of scientists outside and within the […]
