Using artificial intelligence techniques, an international team that included Rutgers-New Brunswick researchers have traced the evolution of coccolithophores, an ocean-dwelling phytoplankton group, over 2.8 million years. Their findings, published this week in the journal Nature, reveal new evidence that evolutionary cycles in a marine phytoplankton group are related to changes in tropical seasonality, shedding light […]
U.S. Department of Education Awards $500,000 to Rutgers to Support Students Pursuing Advanced Education in Environmental Sciences
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) was awarded $500,000 in Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) funding by the U.S. Department of Education to support students pursuing a doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences. The GAANN program provides grants to academic departments and programs of institutions of higher education in the U.S. to […]
Assistant Teaching Professor Ines Rauschenbach Receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching
Ines Rauschenbach, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, received The Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is awarded annually to non-tenure-track, full-time faculty members in the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences who have demonstrated outstanding teaching skills in classroom instruction, clinical instruction, curriculum development, or mentoring. She is among […]
Announcement: Lauren Errickson Named Director of Rutgers Gardens
Announcement by Laura J. Lawson, Interim Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Dear SEBS and NJAES community, I am delighted to announce Lauren Errickson will be the new director of Rutgers Gardens, effective January 3, 2022. For the past five […]
Volcanic eruptions contributed to collapse of China dynasties
Volcanic eruptions contributed to the collapse of dynasties in China in the last 2,000 years by temporarily cooling the climate and affecting agriculture, according to a Rutgers co-authored study. Large eruptions create a cloud that blocks some sunlight for a year or two. That reduces warming of the land in Asia in the summer and […]
Engineering, Data Science and Mathematical Models to Optimize Wind Energy Farms
The wind energy industry could soon count on a much-needed precise analysis to achieve an optimal balance for wind farm productivity and profitability, thanks to a team of researchers working with digitization, predictive and prescriptive analytics to bring down its operational costs. Rutgers researchers led by Principal Investigator Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, assistant professor of Industrial […]
National Weather Service Recognizes Rutgers Weather Station with 2021 Honored Institution Award for 125 Years of Service
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service has selected Rutgers University as a recipient of its 2021 Honored Institution Awards for 125 years of service and providing outstanding weather service to the nation. Rutgers has maintained a weather station on campus as part of the Cooperative Observer Program since Jan. 1, 1896, […]
Rutgers Executive Dean Receives National Honor for Advancing Agricultural Education
Laura Lawson, interim executive dean at Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, recently received an Honorary American FFA Degree from the National FFA (Future Farmers of America.) Lawson, along with her fellow honorary degree recipients, were recognized as “individuals who have provided exceptional service on a national level to agriculture, agricultural education, or FFA.” […]
Nutritional Sciences Professor Tracy Anthony Awarded $2,686,804 NIH Grant in Quest to Improve Healthspan
Since she arrived at Rutgers in 2012, fresh from directing an independent research program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Tracy Anthony, professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has focused on exploring how protein nutrition and exercise can be used to reduce disease and increase healthspan. To continue these efforts, she was recently […]
Rutgers Award-Winning Invention Aims to Reinvent Drug Delivery
Lori Dars, associate director in the NJAES Office of Economic Development and Innovation, was a mentor to the students, helping them to better understand customer base and needs, as well as how to market their product. Dars is the director of Rutgers I-Corps, an NSF-supported program designed to assist in the transition of technology concepts […]
