Cara Cuite is an assistant extension specialist in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. She started at Rutgers as a graduate student in 1995 and has never really left. Cuite is a health psychologist who studies community food security, risk communication and public perceptions of food-related issues, including food safety and genetically […]
Rutgers Equine Science Center Supports Innovative Research on Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapies on Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
By Kyle Hartmann Walter Cooper stands in an enclosed dirt horse arena with Titan, a thousand-pound cross-bred pony that almost overshadows him. A Vietnam veteran from the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry (1969 – 1970), Cooper can appear to be quite an imposing man himself, but next to a horse almost anyone seems small. Cooper was […]
Optimizing Soil Health in New Jersey
By Stephanie Murphy, Director, Rutgers Soil Testing Laboratory Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Gardener News, January, 2017 While spring yard work involves preparation for summer vegetable gardens or rejuvenating lawns, at the top of your to-do list should be soil testing–after all, your landscape and garden crops are grounded in soil, relying on […]
Johnny Quispe Selected by ESA as a Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award Recipient
Johnny J. Quispe, doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution in the School of Graduate Studies, has been selected by the Ecological Society of America (ESA) as a Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award Recipient (GSPA). This award provided graduate students with the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. for policy […]
Congratulations to SEBS Undergrad Samantha Fagundez for her First Place Finish at the Mid-Atlantic ESA conference
A group of undergraduate students from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources—Samantha Fagundez, Elise McKean and Maxwell Nausbaum—presented posters on their independent research projects at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting on April 7th at Rutgers University-Newark. These students completed their research in Michael Sukhdeo’s lab under the […]
Faculty for a Sustainable Future: Matthew Elmore
Matthew Elmore joined the Rutgers faculty in November 2016 as an assistant extension specialist in weed science in the Department of Plant Biology, focusing on turfgrass, landscapes, pastures and forages. A native of southeastern Pennsylvania, Elmore earned his bachelor’s degree in turfgrass science from Penn State University before moving south and earning his master’s and […]
Fast Track, Young Alumni on the Move: André Hudson (GSNB’06)
In this continuing series, the bi-annual magazine of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, profiles recent graduates who have launched successful careers and are making an impact on society. The editors posed a series of questions about how their Rutgers experience influenced their lives. Here is one such profile that appears in the Fall […]
Entomology Students Honored at Entomology Society Meeting
At this year’s annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America’s Eastern Branch three students working in entomology-related laboratories were honored: Robert (Rob) Holdcraft Robert Holdcraft, a technician and master’s degree student in professor Cesar Rodriguez-Saona’s lab at the Phillip Marucci Blueberry-Cranberry Research Center won the branch’s Asa Fitch award for this year’s outstanding Masters […]
Financial Tips to Last a Lifetime Shared at Workshop for Rutgers Students
Barbara O’Neill, distinguished professor and extension specialist in Financial Resource Management, was named a fellow of Next Gen Personal Finance after attending their 2017 Summer Institute for financial educators. Each NGPF fellow was given a $1,000 grant by NGPF founder Tim Ranzetta to deliver a financial education program where they work. On April 3, O’Neill […]
SEBS Scientists to Help Create ”Songscape” for Mullica River-Great Bay Estuary
Singer-songwriter Ben Sollee to visit estuary, compose original music. Scientists at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station will host singer-songwriter Ben Sollee for four days in April, while Sollee soaks up inspiration from the Mullica River-Great Bay estuary for an original music video. Sollee’s composition will be one of several organized by Sustain Music and […]
