Announcement by Laura Lawson, Executive Dean, SEBS Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to share the results of the 2023 Excellence Awards. Each award recognizes outstanding work conducted by our colleagues within the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. These awards spotlight individuals and teams whose creativity, innovation, […]
Plant of the Month: A Seasonably Fashionable Maple for the Holidays
By Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission There are a number of plants that look seasonally fashionable and retain their cheerful colors throughout the winter. One tree that always seems most appropriate for the season is the Coral Bark Japanese Maple or Acer palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku’ whose beautiful red stems bring tree-sized masses of holiday color […]
SEBS Senior Kiran Ganesh’s Transformative Rutgers Summer Service Experience in Washington D.C.
Kirandharshini (Kiran) Ganesh, a senior at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), had the experience of a lifetime this past summer as part of a cohort of 26 undergraduates selected this year for the Rutgers Scarlet Service in Washington DC RSS-DC program. Managed by the Rutgers Office of Federal Relations, the program offers […]
Rutgers Center for Lipid Research Holds 8th Annual Symposium
On November 10, 2023 the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (RCLR) held its 8th annual symposium under the theme, “The fat-soluble vitamins strike back.” The symposium, which was held at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health on the Rutgers–New Brunswick campus, was attended by more than 100 participants. The annual event drew […]
Researchers Show Promising Results in Effort to Reinvent Herbicides to Combat Invasive Plants
Invasive plant species are typically fast growing. Highly competitive with native plants, they are ecosystem disruptors, often displacing native plant as well as animal species. A research team led by James White, professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Rutgers University, and Kurt Kowalski, a wetland ecologist and research scientist at the U.S. Geological […]
Rutgers Mental Health Resources That Will Help You Finish Strong This Semester
As the semester comes to an end and winter quickly approaches, everyone may start feeling hints of the dreaded “winter blues.” Midterms may have just ended, but final exams are a few weeks away. The polarity between excitement for winter break and stress over final exams is stark, and the decreased sunlight and colder weather […]
Ph.D. Student Bill Errickson Places 2nd in Poster Session of the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Meeting
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) held its 2023 International Annual Meeting from October 29 to November 1, in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual meeting is an opportunity for leading scientists, researchers, educators, policymakers, students, exhibitors, and government institutions to gather to […]
Alumni Feature: Kyle David Reiman (SEBS’22)
Rutgers alumnus Kyle David Reiman graduated from SEBS in August of 2022 with a major in meteorology and two minors in science communication and digital communication, information, and media (DCIM). He is currently a meteorologist and weather producer at FOX Weather and is pursuing his master’s degree in communications at Johns Hopkins University with dual […]
Top Provider of Cranberry Varietals in North America, Rutgers’ Breeding Program Welcomes New Director Gina Sideli
Quick quiz: Rutgers is the No. 1 North American provider of which red fruit? No, we are not talking about the Rutgers tomato, although this Thanksgiving staple also pairs well with salads and makes a great sauce. Seven varieties of cranberries developed at Rutgers – grown in bogs from New Jersey to Wisconsin and Massachusetts […]
Rutgers Holds 15th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop
“Early-Life Stress and the Endocrine System” was the theme of the 15th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held at Rutgers on October 3 at the Busch Student Center. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; the Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers – RWJMS Division […]
