The New Jersey Legislature commemorated the 150th anniversary of Rutgers’ designation as the land-grant institution for the state of New Jersey by passing a joint resolution in the Senate on Sept. 22. In 1862, Congress passed the Land-Grant College Act, a landmark statute also known as the Morrill Act, which established a system of land-grant […]
Bangkok, Thailand: Bringing the Outside World to Students With Special Needs by Alexandra Shishkova (SEBS 2015)
Mark Robson, professor of plant biology and pathology, has been working in Thailand for 20 years. His activities have included being a Fulbright Senior Scientist, teaching risk assessment under a program funded by the Asian Development Bank and training young environmental health scientists under the NIH-funded Fogarty Center. Because of his deep association with Thailand, […]
SEBS Animal Sciences Department Mourns the Loss of Student Caitlyn Kovacs
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Department of Animal Sciences mourn the untimely passing of one of our students, Caitlyn Kovacs. She became an Animal Sciences major at Rutgers because of her passion for animals, especially companion animals, and her interest in animal welfare. Daniela Sharma, who served last year as Caitlyn’s […]
New Jersey’s Got “Terroir,” Celebrates State Wine Week Sept. 19-28
The winemakers’ art relies on the cultivation of select varieties of well-adapted grapes that thrive under sets of conditions unique to every site. The French have a single vocabulary word, “terroir,” to describe this broad set of interacting factors that includes the soils, their orientation, grape variety, farming practices, climate, local microclimate, wine making culture […]
Rutgers Community Comes Together to Help Fight the Spread of the Ebola Virus in West Africa
In August, Jim Simon, professor of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers, “just couldn’t sit still and do nothing” when, like the rest of the world, he began to get a better sense of the growing threat of the Ebola virus in West Africa through daily news reports. In addition, he was getting frantic requests […]
Rutgers Pinelands Field Station Provides Unique Ecosystem for Student Research
Ph.D. students from Rutgers University-Camden and Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) in New Brunswick perform a range of scientific experiments to study the unique ecosystems of the Pine Barrens at the Rutgers University Pinelands Field Station. SEBS Ecology and Evolution doctoral students Joni Baumgarten and Natalie Howe discuss how their research on […]
LA Internship Provides Opportunity to Restore Historic Maplewood Park
Maplewood’s Memorial Park, designed by Olmsted Brothers firm, was in need of sprucing up. The town’s garden club created an internship where SEBS Landscape Architecture students could assist in its restoration. Read more at Rutgers Today.
Rutgers SEBS First Year Student Induction Ceremony 2014 Video
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) held its second annual induction ceremony for incoming freshmen and transfer students for the 2014-2015 academic year on Labor Day, Sept. 1, at the Nicholas Music Center on the Douglass Campus. This new annual tradition welcomes SEBS students with a ceremony that introduces them to the rich […]
Alumni Story: Mark Robson, Making Rutgers His Home
Editor’s Note: In celebration of the 150th anniversary of our designation as the land-grant institution in New Jersey in 1864, alumni were invited to tell their own Rutgers “story.” Mark Gregory Robson holds four Rutgers degrees – a B.S. (1977) in Agricultural Science from Cook College, a master’s (1979) and Ph.D. (1988) in Plant Science […]
SEBS Second Annual Induction Ceremony Welcomes Class of 2018
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) held its second annual induction ceremony for incoming freshmen and transfer students for the 2014-2015 academic year on Labor Day, Sept. 1, at the Nicholas Music Center on the Douglass Campus. This new annual tradition welcomes SEBS students with a ceremony that introduces them to the rich […]
