Scientists find more industrial chemicals, fungi in urbanized homes What are the differences between life in a walled urban apartment versus in a jungle hut that’s open to nature? Researchers at Rutgers and other universities found city homes to be rife with industrial chemicals, cleaning agents and fungi that love warm, dark surfaces, while jungle […]
Red Algae Thrive Despite Ancestor’s Massive Loss of Genes
Study may spawn ways to genetically alter and control red seaweeds You’d think that losing 25 percent of your genes would be a big problem for survival. But not for red algae, including the seaweed used to wrap sushi. An ancestor of red algae lost about a quarter of its genes roughly one billion years […]
Rutgers Holds 12th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop on Diabetes
By Jeannette Mullins “Diabetes” was the theme of the 12th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held at Rutgers on October 14, 2019, at the Busch Student Center. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; Rutgers-RWJMS Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition; the Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and […]
Cook Community Alumni Association announces George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
The Distinguished Alumni Awards were bestowed on October 20th 2019 to Susan Carson, Joseph Charette and Donald C. Heilman. The award, established in 1976, commemorates the life of George Hammell Cook (1818 – 1889) whose efforts helped to bring Land Grant College status to Rutgers and to create the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. […]
RCE part of Rutgers-led collaborative awarded $3.6M NIH grant to build infrastructure for minority aging research
Collaborative will bring together researchers and community leaders to increase engagement of black, Hispanic, and Asian older adults in New Jersey. A new collaborative led by the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH) has received a $3.6 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to increase participation […]
Monmouth County Partners with Rutgers NJAES to Develop Hazelnut Demonstration Research Orchard
Worldwide demand for hazelnuts is exceeding supply and this presents an incredible opportunity for farmers. Except here in the Northeast, Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB) has made growing this valuable crop impossible…until now. On September 24, the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Rutgers Fruit and Ornamental Research and […]
Marine Ecologist Malin Pinsky Selected as one of Science News’ Top Scientists to Watch in 2019
For the fifth year in a row, the award-winning magazine, Science News, is recognizing young stars—all under the age of 40—across scientific disciplines, from genetics to astrochemistry, from quantum mechanics to climate change. By recognizing their work now in a feature highlighting 10 early- and mid-career scientists, the magazine hopes to shine a light on […]
Local Volunteers Test the Lower Raritan River for Pathogens
By Michele Bakacs This summer, water quality has been a hot topic of discussion with news about harmful algal blooms closing lakes in New Jersey. On the Lower Raritan River in Middlesex County, volunteers have been focused on sampling for another human pathogen – enterococci, an indicator of possible disease-causing bacteria in recreational waters. Rutgers […]
Preventing the Impact of Harmful Algal Blooms on Florida’s Shellfish Harvesting Areas through Agricultural and Public Education
By Alexandra Kelly ABSTRACT Harmful algal blooms along the Gulf Coast of Florida have been increasing in size, duration, and frequency. They are caused by an influx of nutrients into the ecosystem which stimulated the growth of the organism Karenia brevis. The blooms use up the oxygen in the water, killing the majority of marine […]
Is Theory on Earth’s Climate in the Last 15 Million Years Wrong?
Rutgers-led study casts doubt on Himalayan rock weathering hypothesis A key theory that attributes the climate evolution of the earth to the breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the past 15 million years, according to a Rutgers-led study. The study in the journal Nature Geoscience could shed more light on the […]
