Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s FCHS Offers Healthy Food Tastings and Cooking Demonstrations at Trenton’s Greenwood Ave Farmers Market to Promote Healthy Eating! Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) has been a partner of the Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market since its inception in 2015 when the NJ Partnership for Healthy Kids-Trenton and the Trenton Healthy Food Network […]
Changlu Wang’s Urban Entomology Program Earns HUD Secretary’s 2017 Healthy Homes Award
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) announced that Rutgers Urban Entomology program is one of four model programs around the nation that are recipients of the HUD Secretary’s Award for Healthy Homes, an award recognizing excellence in making indoor environments healthier through healthy homes. For […]
Dipak Sarkar Receives 2017 Distinguished Researcher Award from International Society
Dipak Sarkar, distinguished professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and director of the Endocrine Program at Rutgers, was awarded the 2017 Distinguished Researcher Award by the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA). Director of the Biomedical Division of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, Sarkar’s work on the impact of excessive alcohol intake on endocrine and […]
Rutgers Atmospheric Science Graduate Program Turns 10 Years Old
Faculty, students and alumni of the Rutgers Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science (GPAS) marked the 10th anniversary of the program’s establishment with an afternoon symposium held during the Spring semester at the Cook Student Center. The event featured a keynote address by Arlene Fiore, professor and accomplished atmospheric chemist from Columbia University, as well as […]
Distinguished Professor Tim Casey Retires After 40-Year Career at Rutgers
By Henry John-Alder, Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Tim Casey, distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources has retired, effective July 1, 2017. Tim, the son of a steelworker, was raised in Bethlehem, PA, and received his bachelor’s degree in zoology at Penn State before moving to the […]
RU a Storm Chaser?
Where are you when funnel clouds appear? Most people head inside and to the basement. Not Steve Decker’s fearless and inquisitive storm-chasing meteorological students! Steve Decker, associate teaching professor in the Meteorology Undergraduate Program in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led his students on a two-week field trip to the Midwest as part of the […]
Norwalk Connecticut to Tap Rutgers Noise Expert to Revamp Noise Ordinance
The Rutgers Noise Technical Assistance Center (RNTAC) has been training noise investigators, conducting research, and providing technical assistance to governmental agencies, industrial clients, and residents since the 1970s. For the past 25 years, RNTAC has operated under the direction of Eric Zwerling, Department of Environmental Sciences, who conducts the training and the research, regularly published […]
Shawn Arent is the 2017 William J. Kraemer Outstanding Sport Scientist of the Year
The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) proudly announced their selection of Shawn Arent as the 27th recipient of the William J. Kraemer Outstanding Sport Scientist of the Year award. Arent is the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at Rutgers Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), associate professor in the […]
Ticks and Gardening: What’s the Risk?
By James L. Occi, graduate student, and Dina M. Fonseca, professor, Department of Entomology Reprinted from Gardener News, August 2016 How likely is it that you will get Lyme disease while gardening? Assuming you are a New Jersey gardener, a state in the U.S. epicenter of Lyme disease, it turns out it depends on how […]
Meteorology Alumna Christina Speciale (SEBS’11) and the Week that Determined Her Career
When Christina Speciale (SEBS’11) was majoring in meteorology at Rutgers University, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in the atmospheric sciences. But she wasn’t sure what to focus on until she attended the Undergraduate Leadership Workshop (ULW) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the summer before her senior year. The […]
