Former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture Shirley Sherrod and her husband, Charles Sherrod, have devoted their lives to civil rights and quality of life for rural farmers. On November 8, she gave a talk at Rutgers about New Communities, a non-profit organization with a mission to empower […]
Animal Sciences Faculty Receives Digital PCR System to Further his Research
Andrzej “Andre” Pietrzykowski, assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and an adjunct in the Department of Genetics, was honored by Life Technologies Corporation as an Innovation Grant recipient at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Boston on Oct. 23. Pietrzykowski was one of only five recipients in the Digital PCR Applications […]
Orange and Yellow Make “Green” for SEBS Turf Club
As fall slides into winter and the last few leaves of yellow and orange cling to the trees, these colors remind us of an annual event that has taken place on the George H. Cook Campus for many years: The Annual Turf Club Citrus Sale. Each year at this time, the SEBS Turf Club takes […]
Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Along the Jersey Shore Linked to Increasing Temperatures
Ben Horton, professor of sea level research at Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and his colleagues have shown that the rate of sea-level rise along the New Jersey coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,500 years. In a new study published in ScienceDirect, a full-text scientific database offering […]
Marine Sciences Senior Awarded ASM Research Fellowship
SEBS senior Jeremy Schreier, a marine sciences major, was selected by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) as a 2013 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at highly competitive students who wish to pursue graduate careers in microbiology. Schreier was one of just 37 fellows to be chosen from […]
You Don’t Need a Horse to Participate in a 4-H Horse Club!
While the 4-H program was born over 110 years ago in the United States with a focus on corn, cooking and cows, this non-formal educational program for youth has evolved in many ways to meet the needs of more suburban states like New Jersey. For example, you can be a member of a 4-H horse […]
Alumni Story: Building Communities from the Ground Up – Michael S. Gould (GSNB ’76-Env. Science)
Not long after the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated the Sri Lanka coast the day after Christmas in 2004, Michael Gould, Ph.D. (GSNB 1976 – Environmental Science), a manager with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), began developing and then implementing a reconstruction project to help the Sri Lankan people restore their infrastructure, their lives […]
Graduate Assistant Wins Prestigious Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
Research Assistant Anna Hermes, a master’s of oceanography candidate in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was recently selected for the prestigious Knauss Fellowship by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC). The Knauss Fellowship Program, created in 1979 as a Sea Grant vehicle to match marine science-interested graduate students with hosts in the […]
Rutgers Ph. D. Candidate Lisa Beirn Wins Crop Science Award
Lisa Beirn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, won a 2013 Gerald O. Mott Scholarship for Meritorious Graduate Students in Crop Science, awarded by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Agronomic Science Foundation. This award recognizes top students pursuing advanced degrees in crop science disciplines, with selection […]
Pollen Season May Be Over But Allergies Continue
The pollen season may be officially over, especially with the advent of the first frost in New York and Northern New Jersey and with temperatures approaching freezing point in parts of the northeast United States, but “mold spores are on the rise” and indoor allergens are becoming more of an issue, says Leonard Bielory, specialist […]
