Amy Gage, Ameen Lotfi, and Lena Struwe contributed to this article. On the first warm and sunny spring Saturday this year, scientists, students, naturalists and herbaria enthusiasts alike gathered away from the sun in a Rutgers conference room for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: “Plants in the City” symposium on March 30. They set aside any weekend […]
2019 NEFS Graduate Student Conference
The 2019 Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference took place on April 2nd at the Cook Campus Center. This year the group welcomed ninety-three attendees including twenty-five poster presenters. This annual conference is the result of collaborations between the Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences, Food Science, and Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student Organizations. The […]
Rutgers Graduate Student Researchers Attend USDA Northeast Climate Hub GradCAP Workshop
Rutgers graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19. The workshop capped a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
Malin Pinsky Named a 2019 Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
Malin Pinsky, asssociate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). According to the ESA, Pinsky was “elected for advancing fundamental understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of global change for marine populations and communities, and for facilitating the use […]
Breakfast After the Bell in New Brunswick
Authors: Cara L. Cuite, Jennifer Shukaitis, Gina Pope McKeon, Genesis Arteta “Breakfast After the Bell” (BATB) is the practice of serving breakfast to students after the first school bell of the school day rings. A major benefit of this approach is that students who do not arrive early enough to eat breakfast in the cafeteria […]
WeMake 4-H Club President Receives Prestigious STEM Civic Leadership Award
The New Jersey STEM Pathways Network and the Research & Development Council of New Jersey celebrated NJ STEM Month in March with a STEM Fair at the State House in Trenton. Several STEM organizations from across the state had the opportunity to meet with legislators and staff. WeMake 4-H of Middlesex County was among the invited […]
NJAES Board of Managers Hosts Livestock Summit for Residents and Small Farms
By Brittany Smith, Ag & Food Systems major, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Class of 2022 Over the past several years, New Jersey has had an increase in the number of backyard and small farm livestock owners. Along with the rise in residents raising animals such as chickens, sheep and goats, is the […]
From Concept to Creation, FIC is a ‘One-Stop Shop’
Stories from the Rutgers Food Innovation Center – This is the first of a monthly series on companies spun out of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center. Have you ever spotted Soupman products in your local grocery store? What about the plant-based Impossible Burger on the menu at any of 5,000 eateries from Michelin star restaurants […]
CABLE Student Delegate Maxwell Melnick Coordinates Event Promoting Low-Carbon Transportation Options
The “Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership” (CABLE) is a 20-university partnership that aims to guide the next generation of bioeconomy leaders. Participating universities, which include Rutgers, select one student to become its student delegate whose role is to collaborate in small working groups with the other student delegates to research and present a specific industry […]
Andrea Gallavotti Wins Early-Career Award for Research on Maize Genetics
Andrea Gallavotti, associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, received the 2019 M. Rhoades Early-Career Maize Genetics Award from the Maize Genetics Executive Committee. The award was presented during the 61st Annual Maize Genetics Conference, held in St. Louis, Missouri, from March 14–17. The M. Rhoades Early-Career Award […]
