This year, Rutgers University is commemorating its 250th anniversary. To celebrate, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station is selecting a plant bred at Rutgers as a Rutgers 250 Variety of the Month for each month of the year. This month’s variety (April 2016) is the Rutgers 250TM tomato! Rutgers’ tomato breeding program has been selecting […]
New Jersey 4-H Members to Attend National 4-H Conference
Six 4-H members from New Jersey have been selected to represent the state at the 86th National 4-H Conference to be held April 9-14 in Washington, D.C. The New Jersey delegates are Teresa Coppola, Hunterdon County; Kacey England, Ocean County; Nikayla Hetzell, Cumberland County; Abigail Sharp, Salem County; Madeline Teitsma, Sussex County and David Wolverton, Middlesex […]
Beyond Words: Carl Safina, GSNB’82,’87
Note: This article first appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Rutgers Magazine. Years of studying animals at sea and on land convinced scientist Carl Safina that many creatures in nature think, express emotion and communicate. In his new book, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Henry Holt and Company, 2015), Safina GSNB ’82, ’87 couples personal […]
Deer in the New Jersey Landscape and Garden
Spring is when many New Jersey residents purchase and plant trees, bushes and garden plants only to find them consumed by deer. This article was written by Brooke Maslo, assistant extension specialist in wildlife ecology and assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources and originally appeared in Gardener News. White-tailed deer […]
4-H Salutes New Jersey Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
Each year, thousands of volunteers in New Jersey donate their time and energy to make their communities a better place to live. These volunteers will be among the millions across the country who will be spotlighted during National Volunteer Week, April 10-16, 2016. One group that relies heavily on volunteers is the New Jersey 4-H […]
Rutgers Ecological Preserve: A Living Outdoor Classroom
Charlie Kontos, Jr. loved wild places and all forms of wildlife. In fact, he was the first person to document and verify the return of the fisher (Martes pennant), part of the weasel family, to the woods of New Jersey after its extirpation in the 1900s. Kontos passed away in 2010 while in the process […]
Hunterdon County Ag Agent Win Cowgill Retires
Professor Win Cowgill retired April 1, 2016 after 38 years of service. Cowgill started his extension career in 1978 as a county agricultural agent in Warren County, and transferred to Hunterdon County in 1989. He served as the area fruit agent for North Jersey for most of his career. Cowgill helped establish the Rutgers Snyder […]
Decreasing Arctic summer sea ice favors occurrences of blocking-high pressure events over Greenland, increasing its melt
A study co-authored by Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences professor Jennifer Francis shows that an important contributing factor to Greenland’s melt is the decreasing Arctic sea ice that favors stronger and more frequent occurrences of blocking-high pressure events over Greenland. Blocking highs enhance the transport of warm, moist air over Greenland, which increases downwelling […]
Nutritional Sciences Prof. Paul Breslin Elected a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice
Paul Breslin, professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has been elected to Distinguished Fellowship in the National Academies of Practice (NAP) and the Psychology Academy. Breslin, who holds a doctoral degree in experimental psychology, is a NAP distinguished scholar, one of five categories of membership at the academy. He and the 2016 fellows will […]
Rutgers Equine Science Center Helps to Gain Commitment of Player for the University’s Women Volleyball Team
Kamila Cieslik, a high school junior volleyball MVP from Tennessee, wanted to attend a school that had both an equine science program and good volleyball. She had a lot of big-time offers, but it was the university’s equine science program that won her over and led to her commitment to attend Rutgers. Read more at […]
