Women are strongly advised to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy, and for good reason. A recent study, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, however, shows that alcohol use even before conception also could have negative effects on the offspring’s health and response to stress during adulthood. The research team was led […]
SEBS Launches Inaugural Science Café: An Informal Exchange of Thoughts between Faculty and Students
The inaugural Science Café at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) was launched spring semester, 2017. Sponsored by SEBS Academic Programs, Cook Campus Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, and the Department of Human Ecology, the cafés are held the first Tuesday of the month during the semester. A global phenomena, Science Cafés are events […]
Rutgers Raritan River Consortium Awards Five Mini-Grants for Work in The Raritan River, Basin and Bay
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium has awarded five mini-grants to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues.; All five mini-grants involve partnerships with Raritan stakeholders; four of them were given to faculty in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The five recipients and their […]
Nutritional Sciences and RWJ Medical School Collaboration Dishes Up Some Culinary Medicine
The Department of Nutritional Sciences at School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is collaborating with Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to teach medical students the role of food in preventing disease. Watch this Rutgers Today video where students learn how to create “culinary medicine.”
Bat Research at Rutgers Aided by Two Grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
White-nose syndrome is caused by a fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans or Pd) and in the Northeast, has been responsible for 88% of the mortalities in the bat population. Since it was first documented in New York in 2007, Pd has killed millions of hibernating bats and has now been confirmed in 29 states and five Canadian […]
2016 NJAES Annual Report Available for New Jersey Stakeholders
The Office of the Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Robert Goodman, is pleased to announce that the 2016 NJAES Annual Report is available online and in print. The report highlights the research and extension activities of the experiment station under the six broad categories of commercial agriculture; environment and natural resources; fisheries and […]
A New Report Helps Tally the Social Cost of Climate-Changing Carbon Dioxide
In January, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee released a report aimed at ensuring that estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide used by the U.S. government keep reflecting state-of-the-art science and evidence. But what, quantitatively, is the economic damage caused by a 1-ton increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel […]
Shawn Arent Receives 2016 IFNH Director’s Award for Excellence
The IFNH Director’s Award for Excellence is given to a member of the Institute in recognition of outstanding contribution to the vision and mission of the Institute. At the annual meeting of the IFNH Extended Leadership Team in December, the Institute’s founding director, Peter Gillies, presented the 2016 award to Shawn Arent of the Department […]
Distinguished Professor Nilgun Tumer Receives NIH Grant for $2,182,115 for Ricin Toxin Research
Distinguished professor Nilgun Tumer, Department of Plant Biology, has received a grant for $2,182,115 from the National Institute for Health for her project titled “Inhibitors targeting ribosome interactions of ricin.” The grant covers a five year period for the project which targets toxin-specific and unique steps in the ricin intoxication pathway to identify inhibitors that […]
Hydrothermal Plume Carries Important Nutrient Over 2,500 Miles in the Pacific
Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron Robert Sherrell, from the Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers, and a team of scientists have discovered that particulate iron and manganese from the oceans’ largest known hydrothermal plume travel more than 2500 miles across the deep Pacific. Iron is important in the […]
