By Casey Sky Noon, Office of Continuing Professional Education The New Jersey Turfgrass Association (NJTA) is proud to support the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science by providing funding for research endeavors, student scholarships, staff salaries, needed equipment, building/farm repairs, and much more. One way the non-profit organization raises money is the annual Golf Classic. Twenty-four […]
2019 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Executive Dean Bob Goodman
Good morning! First of all, congratulations and warmest best wishes to the Class of 2019. You are a special class… an indelible piece of the rich, ongoing history of this special place. I am going to tell you a few brief alumni stories to illustrate what I mean by special. We start with Paul Robeson, on […]
Major Deep Carbon Sink Linked to Microbes Found Near Volcano Chains
Rutgers and other scientists show how microbes help store millions of tons of carbon dioxide Up to about 19 percent more carbon dioxide than previously believed is removed naturally and stored underground between coastal trenches and inland chains of volcanoes, keeping the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere, according to a study in the journal […]
Senior Story: Martha Elisabeth Black (SEBS’19), Inspired by Rutgers Master Gardener Program
Meet Martha Elisabeth Black, a working mother who turned her passion for horticulture fanned by her volunteering as a Rutgers Master Gardener for Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County into a career in horticultural therapy. A G.H. Cook Scholar, Black was inducted in the Matthew Leydt Society and Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society. The Leydt Society […]
Senior Story: Erin O’Neill (SEBS’19), Spirit of Rutgers
Erin O’Neill is a self-described ‘introvert,’ yet in 2018 she won the Spirit of Rutgers Award—an award that recognizes an individual that represents the values, traditions, and mission of Rutgers through their outstanding engagement, enthusiasm, spirit, and commitment to the campus community. Erin has participated in the RU Dance Marathon every year—this year as a […]
Senior Story: Dorothy Lee (SEBS’19), Natural Born Leader
Dorothy Lee is an outstanding student with a tremendous sense of social and societal responsibility, especially in the areas of social and environmental sustainability. Recognizing that food waste is one of the most important contributors to food insecurity and to the emission of greenhouse gases, thus climate warming, Dorothy founded the Compost Club, which has been […]
Senior Story: Joshua Daw (SEBS’19), A Great Eye for Detail
Joshua Daw, a Marine Biology major with a minor in Anthropology, is a unique combination of creative and meticulous, traits that are highly valued in painstaking data collection research projects like the one he’s worked on alongside his thesis advisor Daphne Munroe, associate professor at Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) in Bivalve, NJ. As Munroe […]
Rutgers Student Maxwell Melnick Completes First Year of Leadership Training in the Bioeconomy
At the conclusion of a four-day Spring Conference at North Carolina State University during which students gave their final presentations about current issues in the bioeconomy, Rutgers student Maxwell Melnick was recognized as a graduate of CABLE (the Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Education). Melnick is an undergraduate major in environmental sciences with a minor […]
Climate Change Is a Major Concern for SEBS Senior
Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the ocean’s critical role in absorbing […]
A Little Clarity: Health Woes Draw an IT Professional Back to Historical Family Food Biz
Stories from the Rutgers Food Innovation Center Ghee, or clarified butter, has been sold in India for thousands of years. The Agarwal family has been selling it for 130 of those years out of a small shop in the northern Indian town of Hisar, and for the last 10 years, from a business based at […]
