SEBS faculty members help pioneer groundbreaking studies. Last year, Rutgers announced its list of 12 Big Ideas—world-changing, multidisciplinary research projects that address critical issues of our time—in areas such as public health, climate resilience, social justice, access to education, the human microbiome, artificial intelligence, and more. The Big Ideas initiative was first unveiled in 2018 as […]
Rutgers Alumnus Paul Orbe (CC’94) Receives Fulbright Award
On August 31, the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Paul Orbe (CC’94), an-award winning teacher, has received a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program award. He teaches Honors Chemistry and Forensic Science at Union City High School in New Jersey. Orbe has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from […]
Join the March to Rutgers Gardens Event on September 25
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, September 25, 2021 (rain date: September 26), Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts will co-host a two-mile walk winding from Douglass Campus through Cook Farm to Rutgers Gardens. The March 2RUGardens event is meant to underscore the rich and varied […]
JCNERR and NJDEP Partner to Communicate Coastal Flood Risk in New Jersey
The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR), which encompasses more than 115,000 acres of forested uplands, wetlands, aquatic habitats and barrier islands, is known among coastal practitioners in the state as a resource for tools and information to help communicate coastal flood risks in New Jersey. Managed by Rutgers NJAES in partnership with the […]
Improving Vaccination Rates in Vulnerable Communities
Cara Cuite, assistant extension specialist in the Department of Human Ecology, and Rutgers Cooperative Extension colleagues, lead an outreach program to migrant workers. Their efforts are part of a range of Rutgers community outreach focused on hard-hit populations. The story below originally appeared in Rutgers Today. As the COVID-19 Delta variant spreads and infection rates […]
Rutgers Graduate Julia Engdahl Wins NOAA CO-OPS Professional Excellence Award
Julia Engdahl, a graduate of the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies’ Oceanography program, recently won a Professional Excellence Award during her first year as a contractor for NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, CO-OPS. Julia is also a recent graduate of the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership, RUCOOL. In announcing the […]
Announcement: Leadership Transition at Rutgers Specialty Crop Research and Extension Center at Cream Ridge
Announcement from Margaret Brennan-Tonetta, Senior Associate Director, NJAES; Director, Office of Administration and Strategic Development; and Director, Resource and Economic Development at Rutgers. On Sept. 1, 2021, the role of director of the Rutgers Specialty Crop Research and Extension Center at Cream Ridge (formerly the Rutgers Fruit and Ornamental Research and Extension Center), currently held […]
National Society Names Inaugural Award in Honor of Rutgers Professor Emerita Bonnie McCay
The Anthropology and Environment Society, a section of the American Anthropological Association—the world’s largest scholarly and professional organization of anthropologists—recently inaugurated the Bonnie J. McCay Junior Scholar Award in recognition of McCay’s significant contributions to environmental anthropology, human ecology, marine affairs and theories of governance. McCay, professor emerita of human ecology at Rutgers, was a […]
Rutgers-bred 007 Bentgrass is Top Seed at Tokyo Olympics Golf Tournament
When play got underway for the men’s golf tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the comments from both players and commentators included superlatives like, “perfect,” “immaculate” and “nothing better,” to how well the manicured 007 bentgrass greens at the Kasumigaseki Country Club, the host venue, have performed. Among those watching and listening intently was Richard […]
Four from Rutgers Named 2022 NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellows
Four graduates from Rutgers, which had the most of any institution in the U.S., have been selected for the 2022 class of the NOAA and Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program. Janine Barr, Schuyler Nardelli and Elizabeth Liza-Fairbanks (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences) and Ashlyn Spector (Department of Earth and Planetary […]
