Announcement by Nick Polanin, chair of the NJAES Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources I am very excited to announce Jean Epiphan as the newest faculty member of the ANR Department, joining the RCE team in Morristown on Feb. 1. Jean holds a Masters in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers and a Bachelor’s in Forestry […]
Plant of the Month: The Tree of Life for the Winter Garden!
by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission Evergreens are a group of plants that naturally garner a gardener’s attention during these bleak days of winter. There are many types of evergreens from which to choose, including those with painfully sharp needles to those with more user-friendly scale-like and soft foliage. Of course, […]
Clean-tech Company Princeton NuEnergy, Incubated at Rutgers EcoComplex, Awarded $12M Grant
Rutgers EcoComplex supports PNE at its Clean Energy Innovation Center in Bordentown Princeton NuEnergy Inc. (PNE), a New Jersey-based innovative clean-tech company incubated at the Rutgers EcoComplex “Clean Energy Innovation Center” in Bordentown, NJ, has been awarded a $12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). PNE is focused on recycling, repurposing and commercializing lithium-ion […]
In Memoriam: Theodorus van Es, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry
Professor Emeritus Theodorus van Es died on October 8, 2022, at the age of 92. Van Es was born shortly before World War II in Rotterdam. Food was very scarce, and he told stories of himself and his mother riding on their bicycles into the countryside to buy eggs from a farmer they knew. It […]
Excellence Awards Given at Rutgers Cooperative Extension Annual Conference 2023
The Annual Conference brings more than 300 Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) faculty and staff together to network, engage in professional development, exchange ideas for programming and research collaboration, and share best practices for service excellence in the delivery of research-based educational programming. The two-day program was held virtually on December 14 and in person at […]
Rutgers Powers Up for Offshore Wind Energy Research
Rutgers researchers recently shared their expertise in offshore wind energy with each other and those expected to play a key role in New Jersey’s effort to help the nation fight global warming by shifting to offshore wind energy. “We’re well positioned to support needs of the offshore wind industry,” said Denise Hien, vice provost for […]
Preparing Tomorrow’s Meteorologists
The undergraduate program in meteorology at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences prepares students for a host of careers, from television broadcasters to research scientists, after completing a demanding curriculum. From this rigorous program come operational meteorologists whose work involves weather forecasting, environmental meteorologists who address air pollution and air-quality monitoring and modeling and […]
Gearing Up for the Gardening Season
By William Errickson, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent for Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County As the days grow longer and the temperature slowly rises, a restlessness starts to build inside most gardeners. We are ready to be outside again, breathing the fresh air and tending the gardens with our hands in the earth. However, […]
Meet Alumna and RDN Jenna Deinzer (SEBS’16): Doing Great Things!
Registered Dietitian, Jenna Deinzer completed both her B.S. in Nutritional Sciences as well as her dietetic internship at Rutgers University, crediting mentor Peggy Policastro, director of the Culinary Health Program at the Rutgers Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), and others for the valuable lessons she learned and her current success. EatRight, an affiliate […]
Rutgers Doctoral Candidate Kirsten Allen Selected for Inaugural Quad Fellowship Program
Kirsten Allen, doctoral candidate in Rutgers School of Graduate Studies, was named to the inaugural cohort in the Quad Fellowship program supporting international students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). An initiative of the four governments of Australia, India, Japan and the United States that was announced at a summit of the quad countries […]
