Joel Flagler – Department of Plant Pathology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Donald Kobayashi – Department of Plant Pathology
Gardener State: Gardening 101: Sowing seeds of success
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Somerset County
NBC partnership brings new weather technology to Rutgers students
Robert Goodman – School of Environment and Biological Sciences, Dean’s Office
Anthony Broccoli – Department of Environmental Sciences
Dylan Dreyer – Alumnus
Rutgers’ new pink dogwood offers a color breakthrough
Tom Molnar – Department of Plant Biology
Student biotech identifies disease with transparent tissue
Michael Johnson – doctoral student
What’s your summer reading list?
Rutgers Today wondered what books are on the top of faculty’s and staff’s must-read lists for the next few months. Some of the answers are below… Joan Bennett, professor, Department Plant Biology and Pathology, and senior faculty adviser in the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, New Brunswick: “A former student sent me a paperback copy of Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. Although I have read it before, because it is the best novel ever written about a microbiologist, I plan to read it again.” Thomas Leustek, associate dean for Academic Administration and Assessment, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick: I am planning to read Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World’s Most Common Man-Made Material, by Robert Courland. Mark Gregory Robson, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and chair of Plant Biology and Pathology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences: I have two books for my global travels. First is Forty Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World by Howard Buffett. The second book is The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances E. Jensen.
Enabling garden growing, one stone at a time
Last October, RVCC, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Branchburg, broke ground on an enabling garden, or accessible, barrier-free garden at the college’s Branchburg Campus… The enabling garden vision and mission was launched in 2011 as part of a partnership between Rotary International District 7510 (Central New Jersey) and Rutgers University and its entities, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension. Known as the “Rotary and Rutgers: Growing Lives One Seed at a Time” initiative, it features barrier-free, accessible gardens, and/or activities, provided with modifications to be enjoyed by people with disabilities.
World’s richest source of oceanographic data now operational at Rutgers
The National Science Foundation awarded $11.8 million to Rutgers to launch and operate the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s data system. The data center for the pioneering Ocean Observatories Initiative, which collects and shares data from more than 800 sophisticated instruments and a transmission network across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is now operating at Rutgers University… “Rutgers is now the hub for the world’s richest source of new in-water oceanographic data, and we are extremely proud to have been chosen for this important work,” says Christopher J. Molloy, Rutgers’ senior vice president for research and economic development.
GARDENER STATE: Jersey Fresh: Loud and proud!
Jersey Fresh. Now, you might be thinking this may be more about that stray salad item that landed on your lap or the food fight tomato or pie in the face? While those may be embarrassing or even a bit funny, this is really about promoting NJ agricultur…
Why Hurricane Irene fizzled as it neared New Jersey in 2011
A dynamic process that cools the coastal ocean and can weaken hurricanes was discovered as Hurricane Irene made landfall in New Jersey, according to a Rutgers University-led study published earlier this month… “This is a missing piece required to close the intensity gap for land-falling mid-Atlantic hurricanes in summer,” said Greg Seroka, a study coauthor and doctoral candidate in Rutgers’ Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences… “We used IOOS to assemble an unprecedented view of a land-falling hurricane during the highly stratified summer season. We discovered new processes responsible for rapid ocean cooling that reduce storm intensities,” said Scott Glenn, the study’s lead author and a professor at Rutgers…Article also quotes Hugh Roarty, Travis Miles, Oscar Schofield, Josh Kohut, Robert Forney and Yi Xu.
