The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station 2020 Annual Report spotlights the many stories of outreach and resilience during COVID-19. To read more, see the NJAES 2020 Annual Report. In its 70-year history, Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp has never missed a summer of welcoming youth to its camp. Thanks to the creativity of counselor staff, the […]
A Voice of Reason During Troubled Times
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station 2020 Annual Report spotlights the many stories of outreach and resilience during COVID-19. To read more, see the NJAES 2020 Annual Report. Don Schaffner, Distinguished Professor and extension specialist in food science, has been thinking about the risks posed by microorganisms for more than 30 years. About 20 years ago, […]
James Murphy Appointed to Ralph Geiger Chair by Rutgers University Board of Governors
On Feb. 23, the Rutgers University Board of Governors appointed extension specialist James A. Murphy, who is widely recognized as one of the nation’s top scientists in turfgrass management, to the Ralph Geiger Chair in Turfgrass Science. His term began July 1, 2020. Murphy is renowned for developing environmentally sound management practices, recently leading a national […]
Rutgers “Earth Day Every Day!” Spring 2021 series Begins March 8
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s “Earth Day Every Day” educational webinar series is back for Spring 2021. Open to the public, these free sessions focus on steps everyone can take to protect the environment. We can all do our part to take actions that make our homes more sustainable, from starting a native plant garden, to protecting […]
Max Häggblom Recognized with Federation of European Microbiological Societies Special Merit Award
Max Häggblom, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, is one of two long-standing editors-in-chief honored with a Federation of European Microbiological Societies Special Merit Award for his extraordinary support of students and early-career researchers in addition to his ongoing efforts in growing the impact of the journal, FEMS Microbiology Ecology. This […]
International Floricultural Expert Robin Brumfield Teaches Women to Manage Business Risks
This article was first published in Lancaster Farming. When Robin Brumfield, extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Rutgers, joined her high school’s FFA club in 1969 as one of the chapter’s first girls, she had no idea that her passion for greenhouses and bedding plants would lead to a […]
FCHS Teaches Nutrition and Lifeskills to the Developmentally Disabled
FCHS, the Nutrition Guru! Programs that offer long-term support and assistance help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities reach new heights and thrive in our communities. Thanks to a NJ SNAP-Ed grant, from the New Jersey Department of Health, FCHS partnered with ARC Gloucester County, a local organization in Woodbury, NJ, to create a nutrition […]
Microbes could pose health, ecosystem risks when rain brings them to Earth
Human health and ecosystems could be affected by microbes including cyanobacteria and algae that hitch rides in clouds and enter soil, lakes, oceans and other environments when it rains, according to a Rutgers co-authored study. “Some of the organisms we detected in clouds and rain are known to have possible impacts on human health and […]
A Look at Climate Change and the IPCC as the U.S. Re-enters the Paris Agreement
Climate change is one of the most serious global problems today. Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, acidification of the ocean, damaging hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and other extreme events have caused devastating human, environmental and economic damage. In response to escalating climate change concerns, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created in 1988 by […]
Acknowledging Harm From Insensitive Post
Dear SEBS students, Earlier this week we shared a post on our Instagram account of one of our associates at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources in a farm field. The image of an African American woman in a farm field, especially out of context, has rightly caused concern and alarm. […]
