Media turn to Rutgers experts for insights on current issues, research and trends Rutgers faculty share their knowledge and commitment to academic excellence many ways – through teaching, research, mentorship and service beyond the university community. In addition to scholarly talks and publishing in prestigious journals, many also share their expertise through the news media, […]
Rutgers Graduate Students Receive Awards at 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) together hosted approximately 4,000 scientists, professionals, educators and students at the 2019 International Annual Meeting held from November 10-13, in San Antonio, Texas. Titled “Embracing the Digital Environment,” this international meeting is one of the few […]
Rutgers Against Hunger Receives Outstanding Service Award
Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) was presented an “Outstanding Service Award” in October from the Center for Great Expectations (CGE), one of the agencies with which RAH collaborates on its Adopt-A-Family initiatives. In addition to RAH’s recognition, multiple Rutgers honorees who have supported and/or partnered with CGE over the years were recognized with “2019 Humanitarians of […]
Human Ecology students navigate environmental law and the state of the Raritan River
Environmental law is one of the most difficult areas of law for students. It involves a number of branches of law including trust law, corporate law, administrative law and especially constitutional law. Students learn a lot about basic government, how laws and regulations are made, the relationship between congress and the executive branch and how […]
Student Ambassadors Complete the Puzzle of the IFNH
The Student Ambassadors for the New Jersey Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) take on an interdisciplinary approach to the fields of nutrition, health, and food. Every year the IFNH Student Ambassadors create a display case in the IFNH building to highlight the IFNH as a whole and describe their role in the institute. […]
Samantha Bova Named One of L’Oreal’s 2019 Women in Science Fellow
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’20) and Dana Ikeda (SEBS’20), IFNH Student Ambassadors, and […]
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 […]
