Carey Williams, extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences and associate director of extension at the Rutgers Equine Science Center (ESC), received the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) Award for Equine Nutrition Research on June 6 at the 26th Equine Science Society (ESS) symposium, hosted by North Carolina State University, in Asheville, NC. The […]
Food and Beverage Manufacturers of All Sizes Find Support and Solutions at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center
For nearly two decades, entrepreneurs developing plant-based meat alternatives, gluten-free breads, functional beverages and many ethnic specialties have leveraged resources at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center to grow their businesses. Startups considering a move to the Rutgers Food Innovation Center can now apply for rent support through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s (NJEDA’s) NJ Ignite Program. […]
Rutgers and NJDEP Underground Storage Tank Training Goes Online
Over the past year, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education joined forces to provide training for operators to prevent, detect and correct leaking underground storage tanks. Together, they’ve hosted more than 40 classes in half a dozen locations across New Jersey to train as many as 2,200 operators […]
SEBS Distinguished Professor Alan Robock Co-authors Study into Implications of Massive Laki Volcano Eruption in Iceland in 1783-1784
An enormous volcanic eruption on Iceland in 1783-84 did not cause an extreme summer heat wave in Europe. But, as Benjamin Franklin speculated, the eruption triggered an unusually cold winter, according to a Rutgers-led study. The study, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, will help improve predictions of how the climate will respond to future high-latitude volcanic eruptions. The […]
2019 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Class Representative Jean-Pierre Jacob
Editor’s Note: Jean-Pierre Jacob (SEBS ’19) is an Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources major and Sociology minor. Hello graduates, family, friends and distinguished faculty. My name is Jean-Pierre Jacob. I am a graduating senior and I majored in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources with a minor in Sociology. Here’s a little bit about me. While […]
2019 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Executive Dean Bob Goodman
Good morning! First of all, congratulations and warmest best wishes to the Class of 2019. You are a special class… an indelible piece of the rich, ongoing history of this special place. I am going to tell you a few brief alumni stories to illustrate what I mean by special. We start with Paul Robeson, on […]
SEBS Class of 2019: Joshua Daw, A Great Eye for Detail
Joshua Daw, a Marine Biology major with a minor in Anthropology, is a unique combination of creative and meticulous, traits that are highly valued in painstaking data collection research projects like the one he’s worked on alongside his thesis advisor Daphne Munroe, associate professor at Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) in Bivalve, NJ. As Munroe […]
Rutgers Student Maxwell Melnick Completes First Year of Leadership Training in the Bioeconomy
At the conclusion of a four-day Spring Conference at North Carolina State University during which students gave their final presentations about current issues in the bioeconomy, Rutgers student Maxwell Melnick was recognized as a graduate of CABLE (the Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Education). Melnick is an undergraduate major in environmental sciences with a minor […]
Rutgers Graduate Student Researchers Attend USDA Northeast Climate Hub GradCAP Workshop
Rutgers graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19. The workshop capped a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
CABLE Student Delegate Maxwell Melnick Coordinates Event Promoting Low-Carbon Transportation Options
The “Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership” (CABLE) is a 20-university partnership that aims to guide the next generation of bioeconomy leaders. Participating universities, which include Rutgers, select one student to become its student delegate whose role is to collaborate in small working groups with the other student delegates to research and present a specific industry […]
