The Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) has again collaborated with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to secure a $324,151 Team Nutrition Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. The two-year grant renews the Grow Healthy New Jersey–Team Nutrition Initiative that began in 2010. Grant funds will be […]
Foodbank Receives Fresh Corn After Gleaners Save Crop from Frost
Members of the SEBS and NJAES community were on hand at Giamarese Farms on October 23 to pick the corn crop that otherwise would have been damaged by frost. As part of Farmers Against Hunger, the gleaning effort harvested 3,000 pounds of corn that was donated to Franklin Foodbank. Read more about the gleaning.
Rutgers Machine Shop is Back in Business
Tucked away in a secluded spot off College Farm Road on the George H. Cook Campus, the Rutgers Machine Shop, which is administered by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, has been a fixture on campus for over 60 years. After a hiatus of about a year, the shop is again up and running, serving […]
RU COOL Lab Participates in NSF-sponsored STEM Event
On Sept. 27-28, several members of a Rutgers team, led by Mike Crowley Program Manager for the Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (COOL Lab), participated in a Science, Engineering, Technology and Math (STEM) career event hosted by the NSF in Northern Virginia. At the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) exhibit, “Connecting You to the Ocean,” Crowley […]
Old Items Find New Homes: East Brunswick Freecycling Event Oct. 27
The Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission (The Friends) will hold its fall Freecycling event on Sunday, Oct. 27 at the East Brunswick High School. Freecycling is a way for residents to pass items they no longer need onto others who could use them. Freecycle is a network of people in the U.S. and […]
SEBS Faculty Honored with 2013 “Inventor of the Year” Award
With oyster beds and cranberry bogs as their laboratory, two SEBS researchers are using genetics to improve breeds for the shellfish and cranberry industry, respectively. Ximing Guo and Nicholi Vorsa are recipients of a 2013 “Inventor of the Year” Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.
Mayor Booker Presents Proclamation to Rutgers TEEM Gateway
On October 1, Newark Mayor Cory Booker presented a Proclamation to honor Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway as “one of the city’s great organizations” for its work building productive futures for the at-risk youth of Newark and beyond. Proudly receiving the acknowledgment was Kenneth M. Karamichael, director of T.E.E.M. Gateway, a division of the Office of Continuing […]
DAFRE Faculty Receive National Recognition
Paul Gottlieb, associate professor and chair of the Department of Agricultural and Food Resource Economics, was one of ten “thought leaders” who presented his ideas to 330 delegates at the “Remaking Cities Congress” sponsored by Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, October 15 -18. Delegates to this working congress are national and international academics as well as […]
IFNH Building Design Receives Statewide 2013 Architectural Merit Award
The architectural design for the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) housed on the George H. Cook Campus was honored with a 2013 Merit Award in the Unbuilt Category by AIA New Jersey, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The AIA New Jersey Annual Design Awards Program brings public and […]
Students Get Taste of Local Agriculture in NYC
As part of the undergraduate Agroecology course in the Agriculture and Food Systems program at SEBS, Mark Robson, dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs, escorted his class to New York City to see – of all things – local agriculture. While the Big Apple is usually a destination for cultural pursuits, the burgeoning buy local […]
