Dan Van Abs, professor of professional practice in the Department of Human Ecology, has been awarded a grant of approximately $200,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to help update the New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan. A former project manager for the 1996 Statewide Water Supply Plan during his previous tenure […]
Xenia Morin Selected as 2022 “Dr. Barbara Munson Goff Teacher of the Year” by Alpha Zeta
Xenia Morin, associate teaching professor in the Department of Plant Biology and undergraduate program director of Agriculture and Food Systems, was named the 2022 Teacher of the Year by the Rutgers Chapter of the Fraternity of Alpha Zeta, the national honor and service fraternity for agriculture and environmental studies. Her teaching style embraces active learning […]
RCE Food Waste Team Awarded State Grant for Program to Curb Food Waste in K-12 Schools
Rutgers University has been awarded $335,261 for “NJ Leaves No Bite Behind,” a two-year, state-funded project focused on educational interventions to reduce food waste in schools. Rutgers will pilot this first-of-its-kind environmental education curriculum for K-12 in two schools in Ocean and Passaic counties to assess an interdisciplinary, experiential program focused on sustainable food habits […]
2022 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Class Representative Juhi Patel
Editor’s Note: Juhi Patel, 2022 SEBS Class Representative, is a double major in Exercise Science and Political Science. Congratulations to my fellow members of the Class of 2022. Congratulations to the friends, families, deans, professors, faculty, and mentors who have supported us on our journey here today. And a special shout out to my mom […]
2022 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Interim Executive Dean Laura Lawson
Good morning! Thank you, Chancellor-Provost Conway, for sharing in this wonderful moment with our school. It is an honor and pleasure having you here and hearing your words of welcome and best wishes to our graduating students and their friends and families. Now, Dr. Conway and I have been together for a number of graduation […]
Jeremy Lewan (SEBS’22), Al Roker’s Former Intern, Makes His Mark in Meteorology and Modeling
Just before Al Roker gives the daily weather forecast on NBC’s Today, he gets a 4:30 a.m. briefing on the latest record-breaking temperatures, hurricanes or snowstorms from his weather producers on the show. Last summer, one of the voices giving him those weather updates via FaceTime belonged to Jeremy Lewan, a meteorology major at Rutgers graduating […]
Alvaro Toledo Among Faculty Awarded Rutgers Global Seed Grant for Projects Addressing Health Inequities
Alvaro Toledo, assistant professor in the Department of Entomology, is the recipient of a Global Health Seed Grant awarded by the Rutgers Global Health Institute. The project, “Ectoparasites and Diseases of Poverty in Low-Income Urban Communities,” is funded by Rutgers Global, the institute’s partner in awarding seed grants, for implementation during the 2022–2023 academic year. […]
Senior Story: Tyler Holden (SEBS’22), Transforming His Life and Campus By Design
Tyler Holden, SEBS’22, graduates this May with a degree in Landscape Architecture from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS). His path to choosing Landscape Architecture as his major was easy, growing more gratifying the deeper he understood the interrelatedness of its many parts. “The most interesting part of my major that I’ve grown […]
Senior Story: Ryan Schmidt (SEBS’22), Ecology is Music to His Ears
Ryan Schmidt (SEBS’22) graduates this May from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources and a minor in Music. He initially was enrolled as a Music Education major in the Mason Gross School of the Arts with the intent to become a high school music […]
Senior Story: Morgan Mark (SEBS’22), Studing Wildlife to Protect Human Health
Donna Fennell, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences, saw firsthand the passion of wildlife enthusiast Morgan Mark, Rutgers Honors College graduate with a dual degree in Bioenvironmental Engineering from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and School of Engineering. “During a trip by Environmental Engineering seniors to a local waterway […]
