New Jersey Students Learn How to “Grow Healthy” For every parent who has lamented the blue slushies served in the lunchroom or watched in horror as Chef Jamie Oliver revealed the synthetic ingredients of school lunches in his Food Revolution TV series, take heart. Something fresh, local, and healthy is coming to New Jersey schools. […]
Project PORTS: Making a Difference
Kids Help Restore Shellfish Habitat If there was a community service award for the creatures in our bays and estuaries, there would be no more deserving recipient than the oyster. They may be small but these bottom-dwelling feeders can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. As they pump water through their gills, […]
USDA Grant Awarded For Rutgers Center to Continue “Farm to School” Project
Source: New Jersey Department of Agriculture New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced the state has received a $62,713 U.S. Department of Agriculture Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program grant to continue work with Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) – South on a project to bring Made with Jersey Fresh items to schools throughout the […]
Nutritional Sciences Professor Awarded Fellowship by Government of Brazil
Malcolm Watford, professor of Nutritional Sciences, was awarded a fellowship, Escola de Altos Estudos,Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoral de Nivel Superior, by the Federal Government of Brazil. The fellowship enabled Watford to teach the graduate course “Tissue-specific metabolism and metabolic regulation” from March 18-25 at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
SEBS Doctoral Student Earns Second Place in American Phytopathological Society Competition
Lisa Beirn, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, won second place in the graduate student competition for her talk entitled ‘Putting to rest a 75-year-old controversy: The true taxonomic placement of the dollar spot pathogens of turfgrass’ at the Potomac Division Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society on April 4, […]
4-H Offers Free Poultry Workshop for Cape May County Residents
The 4-H Livestock Clubs of Cape May County will host a Poultry Clinic and Picnic on May 4, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The hands-on workshop is open to the public and will be held in the Lockwood 4-H Youth Center, located at the Cape May County 4-H Fairgrounds. Poultry showmanship expert Richard Hickman […]
What’s in Your Attic? Freecycling Event Scheduled for May 5 in East Brunswick
If you got a NutriBullet for Christmas and now your old blender is collecting cobwebs or if that old lampshade looks hideous in your newly painted room, then Freecycling is for you, without the guilt of throwing away otherwise perfectly good items. This year, the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission will hold their […]
Rutgers Plants Trees on Cook Campus through Tree Campus USA
Students and staff at Rutgers University planted trees donated by the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota on the George H. Cook Campus on April 18, in celebration of the university’s commitment to tree care and conservation. Rutgers University is working toward Tree Campus USA recognition. The volunteer activity, in which 50 trees were planted along […]
Middlesex County RCE Offers Suburban Organic Homesteading for Beginning Farmers
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County presents an exciting new program for those interested in farming or implementing farming techniques on their residential property. The second of the two-part Beginner Farmers Workshop series, the May 1 workshop will feature “Suburban Organic Homesteading,” conducted by Joseph Heckman, soil scientist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural […]
BBC Program Features Rutgers Marine Science Experts
Philipp Neubauer, post doctoral associate, and Olaf Jensen, assistant professor in the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences were interviewed about their recently published paper, “Global Overfishing,” at the Rutgers iTV Studio on April 17 for the BBC’s Science in Action program. The program was aired in the United Kingdom on April 18 with repeats […]
