The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has approved an agreement with the Rutgers University Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) to facilitate the development and implementation of a Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program over the next three years. The Pilot Program is designed to demonstrate and study the compatibility of agricultural or horticultural production with solar […]
Announcement: Melissa Bright Appointed County 4-H Agent in Somerset County
Announcement from Rachel Lyons, chair of the Department of 4-H Youth Development. Please welcome Melissa Bright to her new role as County 4-H Agent in Somerset County, effective May 1, 2023. Melissa has served as a site director for the YMCA of Hunterdon and Bucks Counties leading a school age childcare program since 2018. For […]
Plant of the Month: Antiquity in Our Midst
by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission Plant blindness is a term J. H. Wandersee and E. E. Schussler coined in 1999, defining how people do not recognize the importance of plants due to their lack of mobility and motion. I suspect this issue would be even more problematic if the plant […]
Senior Story: Salvatore Fricano (SEBS’23) Studies the Ocean’s Impact on the World
Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider Salvatore Fricano grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore, where the vastness of the ocean captivated his imagination. “I just saw the horizon with nothing on it and it looked like an adventure waiting to happen,” he says. […]
Prof. Pamela McElwee Co-authors Study Offering New Solutions for Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is co-author of a new study, “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts,” published in the journal, Science. She is among 18 international experts who contributed to the study. “This paper emphasizes that biodiversity loss and climate change are essentially two sides […]
Rutgers EcoComplex Improves Campus Sustainability with Earth Flow™ Automatic Composting System
The program at Rutgers will be a model for other universities to follow Rutgers EcoComplex today announced the commissioning of a new automated in-vessel composting system for the university’s Cook Campus in New Brunswick, the campus home of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The Earth Flow™ […]
Nature Favors all Creatures Great and Small Over Medium
Rutgers researchers conduct survey on the body sizes of Earth’s organisms Life may come in all shapes and sizes, but in nature the most extreme size ranges predominate, according to Rutgers researchers. A survey of body sizes of Earth organisms, published in the science journal PLoS ONE, shows that the planet’s biomass – the material that makes […]
Rutgers Undergraduates Present Original Science-in-Action Stories at National Conference
Five Rutgers undergraduates doing independent research in immersive learning through science storytelling presented rough edits of their science-in-action films at the Planet Forward environmental storytelling summit in Washington DC on April 20. Working in teams, the undergraduates presented two student-authored science stories that they have developed in trusting partnership with scientists from Rutgers School of […]
Senior Story: Mox Engelman (SEBS’23) – A Contemporary Polymath!
The Student Mox was a Scarlet Knight even before their freshman year. Pursuing a Ph.D. in marine science has been a dream of theirs since they were eight years old. During their senior year in high school one of their teachers told them about a Stockton University professor who studies microplastics in fresh water at […]
Island Records CEO Imran Majid (CC’05) Found Gateway Into the Music Industry at Rutgers
Billboard magazine recently included Imran Majid on its 2023 Power 100 List, which features the music industry’s top players Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, Imran Majid – whose father, a Pakistani immigrant, came to this country with $100 in his pocket – rarely saw anyone wielding power in the music industry who made […]
