The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) released a new report that measured the effectiveness of NIFA’s investments to our nation’s land-grant universities — investments that benefit the American public through agriculture and food research, extension, and education projects. A key component of this federal funding has been Capacity […]
SEBS Students Transforming Blighted Housing into Valued Community Environmental Amenities
By Pat Rector, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor, and Tobiah Horton, Specialist in Landscape Architecture Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Assistant professor Tobiah Horton is providing Rutgers landscape architecture students in his Design/Build studio a unique opportunity in the Spring 2017 semester. The class is “Transforming Blighted […]
SEBS Launches Inaugural Science Café: An Informal Exchange of Thoughts between Faculty and Students
The inaugural Science Café at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) was launched spring semester, 2017. Sponsored by SEBS Academic Programs, Cook Campus Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, and the Department of Human Ecology, the cafés are held the first Tuesday of the month during the semester. A global phenomena, Science Cafés are events […]
Nutritional Sciences and RWJ Medical School Collaboration Dishes Up Some Culinary Medicine
The Department of Nutritional Sciences at School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is collaborating with Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to teach medical students the role of food in preventing disease. Watch this Rutgers Today video where students learn how to create “culinary medicine.”
Shawn Arent Receives 2016 IFNH Director’s Award for Excellence
The IFNH Director’s Award for Excellence is given to a member of the Institute in recognition of outstanding contribution to the vision and mission of the Institute. At the annual meeting of the IFNH Extended Leadership Team in December, the Institute’s founding director, Peter Gillies, presented the 2016 award to Shawn Arent of the Department […]
Marine Agent Gef Flimlin Retires After 38 Years with Extension
Professor and marine extension agent George (Gef) Flimlin, retired as of January 1 after a career of more than 38 years with Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Ocean County. Flimlin, who worked with commercial fisheries and aquaculturists in New Jersey, began his career in 1978. He formed the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association and […]
IFNH Student Ambassador Alumna Presents “Cooking on a Budget” for Price Family Fellows
It’s not every Friday night students gather in the Davison Hall Food Lab on the Douglass Campus to learn how to cook delicious and nutritious meals on a budget, but on January 27 that is exactly what took place. Taylor Palm (SEBS ‘16), an IFNH Student Ambassador alumna, who is currently a dietetic intern at […]
SEBS Staff Gain Insight into Why Diets Fail
On January 20, Michelle Arent, director of training and conditioning at Rutgers Center for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH), gave a presentation to SEBS staff members on “Why Diets Fail.” The talk was an activity of the “SEBS Staff Scene,” which offers administrative staff […]
Rutgers Center for Lipid Research Hosts Inaugural Big Ten Academic Alliance Lipids Symposium
On November 10, 2016, the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research hosted the inaugural symposium of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Lipids entitled “Lipids and Metabolic Diseases II”. The goal of the symposium was to bring together the lipid community from across the BTAA to discuss the state of science in the role of lipids […]
Rutgers CHHP Appointed as Lifetime Member of the US Army’s 3-314th Field Artillery Thunder Battalion
When U.S. Army trainers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst wanted to optimize their workout program for training their soldiers, they turned to the Rutgers Center for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH). Their initial visit to the Center, located on the Rutgers G.H. Cook Campus […]
