4-H horse club members from throughout the state will be participating in the New Jersey State 4-H Championship Horse Show, Aug. 23-25, at the Horse Park of New Jersey in Allentown, NJ in Monmouth County. Over 200 4-H members from throughout New Jersey will gather to compete in the English, Western, Dressage, Driving, Very Small […]
Rutgers Professor Leads Massive Air Quality Study in Southeastern U.S.
For six weeks this summer, Anne Marie Carlton, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led a multi-million dollar atmospheric study in the southeastern U.S., considered the largest air quality study in decades in America. A joint project that involved dozens of national and international partners, including NSF, NOAA and the EPA, the Southeast […]
Rutgers Water Resources Program Administers New Rain Garden Initiative
The New Jersey Water Supply Authority, based in Somerville, NJ, is offering borough residents the opportunity to participate in a new initiative to construct rain gardens on their properties to keep rain water from overwhelming the storm sewers and tributaries of the Peter Brook. The authority, which previously held workshops for residents to construct rain […]
RCE Offers Free Training on Farm Business Planning Aug. 15 & 16
Which agri-business operator or farmer doesn’t want to learn more about farm business planning? Studies show that entrepreneurs who complete a business plan are six times more likely than others to build a successful business. Rutgers Cooperative Extension is offering two live video webinars on writing business plans and marketing. The first webinar, “The Do’s […]
Douglas Eveleigh Recognized with Microbial Diversity Lectureship in His Name
Douglas Eveleigh, distinguished professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, was honored by the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology with a lectureship in his name. “The Douglas Eveleigh Lecture on Microbial Diversity,” is endowed by the foundation in recognition of Eveleigh’s efforts to sustain the legacy […]
Study Reveals Longer and Overlapping Pollen Seasons Related to Seasonal Warming
This year, we’re seeing what we term the allergy season come in stronger due to weather and linked, more and more, to climate change. Allergy sufferers may have wondered why their seasonal allergy symptoms seem to start earlier and last longer into the spring, and even dragged out to the summer. Those sufferers afflicted by […]
Barbara Turpin Elected 2013 American Geophysical Union Fellow
Barbara Turpin, distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, has been named a 2013 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Turpin, who is also Campus Dean for Undergraduate Education for the George H. Cook Campus, joins 61 other colleagues who are members of the union to be so honored for their “exceptional scientific contributions […]
Mark Robson Wins International Leadership Award
Rutgers Professor and Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs Mark Robson (CC’77; GSNB’79, ’88; SPH’95) recently received the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Commission on International Initiatives (CII) annual meeting in Park City, Utah. The award recognizes Robson’s career of outstanding contributions to further international education […]
Award-Winning Student Video: Duckweed as a Renewable and Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock
Plant Biology and Pathology graduate student Philomena Chu won two Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) awards for her submission, “The Little Green Plant That Could: Duckweed as a Renewable and Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock.” Watch Chu reveal the big potential of this tiny aquatic plant.
Garden Field Day at Rutgers EARTH Center Aug. 17
On August 17, The EARTH Center, home to Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, will host its Garden Field Day and Open House from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will take place in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Ave. South Brunswick, NJ, and is great day of fun for the family in […]
