After earning her doctorate in oceanography, Tracy Wiegner landed a position as professor of marine science at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo). She’s been there for 14 years as a teacher, mentor, researcher and community advocate. On her Rutgers mentor: My doctorate adviser, Dr. Sybil Seitzinger, has been a long-term sounding board […]
Student Food Sustainability Fair: Making Smart, Environmental Food Choices
By Dorothy Lee (SEBS’19) – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources The Food Sustainability Fair—held on World Food Day, October 16th—aimed to educate students about the cycle of food: before the plate, on the plate, and beyond the plate. I wanted to engage students in learning more about where food comes from and where […]
Blue Crab Baby Sizes and Shapes Influence Their Survival
Rutgers study finds crabs larval differences are unrelated to their mothers’ sizes Like people, blue crabs aren’t all the same sizes and shapes. Now Rutgers scientists have discovered substantial differences in the body structures of larval crab siblings and among larvae from different mothers. And that can mean the difference between an early death and […]
Bringing Back Hard Cider in the Garden State
Rutgers researcher Megan Muehlbauer is studying more than two dozen heirloom varieties of cider apples to identify which grow best in the Garden state Move over microbreweries. Megan Muehlbauer believes she has stumbled upon the next big food trend and she wants to help build a thriving industry in New Jersey. Muehlbauer, a Rutgers New […]
Brand New Trail Opens Access to Remote Section of Rutgers Ecological Preserve
The Rutgers Ecological Preserve and Natural Teaching Area is a 360-acre wooded preserve located between Busch and Livingston Campus in Piscataway. The preserve–one of the largest contiguous patches of forest in the area–is habitat to diverse wildlife including wild turkeys, pileated woodpeckers, salamanders, red tailed hawks, herons, snakes, turtles, fish and foxes. The landscape covers […]
Rutgers Study Reveals Residents’ Attitudes and Home Sanitation Predict Presence of German Cockroaches
With the support of a grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center, Changlu Wang, associate extension specialist in the Department of Entomology, and his team of researchers discovered that home sanitation and residents’ attitudes were a good predictor of the presence of German Cockroaches (Blattodea: Ectobiidae) in their apartments. The study […]
Rutgers Site Honored for 50 Years of Weather Observations by National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) presented Rutgers with a 50-Year Honored Institution Award for the long record of service of the current weather station operated by Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Each morning at 8 o’clock, an observer visits the weather station located at the Rutgers Gardens to record air and soil temperature, rainfall, snowfall and evaporation […]
Rutgers Joins with Local Farmers to Promote New Jersey Farm Wineries
Rutgers Cooperative Extension is helping New Jersey farmers thrive by revealing the uniqueness of their wines through science. Rutgers faculty and staff collaborated with local farmers who were interested in highlighting their farm wineries as unique to the region. The farmers enlisted the help of Jenny Carleo, county agent, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, […]
Rutgers University and the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market Awarded Grant to Promote Fresh Produce
The New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM) has been selected to receive a 2018 Farmers Market Promotion Program Grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), designed to increase sales of agricultural products by local farmers around the country. The market is a collaboration between Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension, Johnson […]
Rutgers Holds 11th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop
“Endocrinology of Women’s Health” was the theme of the 11th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held at Rutgers on September 17, 2018, at the Busch Student Center. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; Rutgers-RWJMS Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological […]
