[Editor’s Note: These updates appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of Explorations, the magazine for alumni, donors, and friends.] Herbert L. Ramo AG’50, Chatham, NJ, stays active with Rutgers as a member of the Oral History Archives. He will be celebrating his 60th anniversary with his wife Diana, according to Class of 1950 correspondent Allen […]
Professor Robin Brumfield Brings Suzanne’s Project Overseas to Help Women Learn to Farm
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Farming Magazine Robin Brumfield, professor of farm management at Rutgers University, took a Rutgers Cooperative Extension Project called Annie’s Project and as the result of a feasibility study she did, changed the program to fit Turkish conditions and renamed it Suzanne’s Project in honor of Brumfield’s daughter. […]
Thomas Molnar Plants Rutgers Scarlet Fire Dogwood Tree in Honor of Rutgers University 250th Anniversary
Thomas Molnar, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, worked for 10 years on breeding the Scarlet Fire dogwood that the university planted in front of Old Queens in New Brunswick in honor of #Rutgers250. Molnar’s efforts continued the 4o years of dogwood breeding by renowned […]
What’s in Season from the Garden State: Rutgers on Your Plate – 250th Anniversary Spotlights NJAES-Developed Foods
You wouldn’t know it from looking at your dinner plate, but some of the foods you consume, whether from a supermarket, farm market, garden, or local restaurant, were developed at Rutgers. Through the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), the university has been and continues to breed varieties of fruits and vegetables, and even […]
Rutgers-Led Alliance Awarded Statewide Award For Climate Change Preparedness
The Rutgers-led New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (NJCAA) was awarded the 2016 Outstanding Floodplain Management Award for “progressive collaborative work on climate change preparedness in New Jersey” by the New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management at its 12th annual conference in Atlantic City in October. The Alliance is a network of policymakers, public and private sector practitioners, […]
Rachael Shwom and Cara Cuite Receive National Science Foundation Grant
Rachael Shwom and Cara Cuite, Department of Human Ecology, are part of a multi-university team that received a grant in October 2016 from the National Science Foundation, through their Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water program. The total grant was for $2,983,358, and Rutgers is receiving $419,184 for the project: Reducing Household […]
Chef and Nutritionist Team up for an Evening of Culinary Health and Wellness
What do you get when you mix healthy recipes, an esteemed chef, a nutrition expert, and eager participants? You get a recipe for An Evening of Culinary Health and Wellness at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health. On October 27, more than 35 members of the Rutgers community joined Rutgers Dining Services […]
Professor Mark Gregory Robson Wins Statewide Public Health Award
Mark Gregory Robson, distinguished service professor and professor, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, has been unanimously selected to receive the 2016 Frank J. Osborne Memorial Award by the New Jersey Association of County and City Health Officials (NJACCHO) at the Atlantic City Convention Center on November 16. This award is the highest honor bestowed […]
Debashish Bhattacharya and Dana Price, Part of a Team That Discovered a 100-Million-Year-Old Theft
Rutgers, Carnegie Foundation and German scientists have solved the mystery of how the little amoeba, Paulinella, committed grand larceny, grabbing genes from an unsuspecting bacterium about 100 millions years ago to become photosynthetic. It engulfed the bacterium, kept that cell alive and harnessed its genes for photosynthesis, the process plants and algae use to convert […]
Brooke Maslo and the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Team are Assisting Woodbridge Township in Floodplain Restoration
Brooke Maslo (SEBS’10)—assistant research professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, and wildlife and research specialist, Center for Urban Restoration Ecology—was interviewed earlier this year by Greenable Woodbridge TV. Maslo—along with the Wildlife Conservation and Management Program, and Water Resources Program within the Cooperative Extension—have been assisting Woodbridge Township in the restoration of the […]
