Was it the snowiest winter? Was it the coldest winter on record? New Jersey State Climatologist Dave Robinson was interviewed by RU-tv on how the winter of 2014 stacks up.
IFNH Co-Hosts First Annual Rutgers Human Performance Conference on March 29
The first Annual Rutgers Human Performance Conference will be hosted by the Center for Health & Human Performance of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health and the International Society for Sports Nutrition on Saturday, March 29, from 9a.m. to 5p.m. in Beck Hall, on the Rutgers Livingston Campus. Sponsors include Rutgers’ Department of Exercise […]
Changes in ocean circulation may dramatically accelerate global climate change
Professor of marine sciences Yair Rosenthal co-authored a paper reporting the research findings of an international team that investigated the effects of freshwater input from melting glaciers on the ocean’s thermohaline cycle and its potential impact on climate change. Read about the study at Rutgers Today.
Anthony Broccoli (CC’77, GSNB ’79, ’98): Studying the Bigger Picture of Climate Change
Editor’s Note: This alumni profile on Tony was written in 2014. Since then, Tony served as chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences from 2014-2020, and was named a Distinguished Professor in 2020. “Many of the important turning points in my life took place at Rutgers,” says Anthony Broccoli, an alumnus and professor of Environmental […]
Rutgers Fisheries Research in Mongolia the Subject of Student Film, “The Blue Pearl”
The Mongolian culture has an ingrained traditional respect for water and their cultural practices are aimed at maintaining water quality. The largest lake in Mongolia, known as the Blue Pearl, is sacred to Mongolians. The effects of climate change have had a negative impact on the livelihood of Mongolian herders, who have turned to this […]
Experts Weigh in on Climate Change Impacts in Campus Discussion and Screening of “Shored Up”
What will a rising sea do to our homes, businesses and the survival of our communities? Can we afford to pile enough sand on our shores to keep the ocean at bay? Beach engineering has been our only approach so far but is there something else out there to be explored? In Long Beach Island […]
Entomologist Changlu Wang Helps Eradicate Bedbugs from New Brunswick Public Housing
Insect infestations around the home can easily get out of control when residents don’t have effective ways to tackle the problem. Rutgers Extension Specialist in Entomology Changlu Wang, with Rutgers Department of Entomology, has been on the forefront of developing innovative ways to detect bedbugs and applying non-toxic treatments. He’s working with the New Brunswick […]
IFNH Leadership Team Meets to Chart Course for the Institute
On February 24, the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health (IFNH) held the first official meeting of its collective leadership team. The leadership team is made up of institute champions and advocates from three academic departments, three major staff organizations, and three schools within the university, underscoring the institute’s core values of interdisciplinarity, […]
The Passing of Professor Peter Rona, Deep Sea Explorer
Peter Rona, Rona, professor of marine science and earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers since 1994, was best known for his exploration of hydrothermal vents in the ocean’s Mid-Atlantic Ridge. He also served as a science director for the renowned IMAX film Volcanoes of the Deep. Read more at Rutgers Today.
Early Career Scientist Wins $50,000 Sloan Foundation Fellowship
Malin Pinsky, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, was awarded a $50,000 Sloan Foundation fellowship. Pinsky is one of two Rutgers assistant professors and among 126 recipients of Sloan Foundation fellowships awarded to early career scientists and scholars who do research […]
