Telema Briggs, School of Graduate Studies (SGS)-Nutritional Sciences program, has been chosen as a University and SGS Louis Bevier Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year for his dissertation, “Is There Really an App for That?—Determining the Capacity for Utilizing Diet & Nutrition Smartphone Applications as Extensions of Professional Dietetic Practice.” He is the first Nutritional […]
State 4-H Hippology & Horse Judging Contest Winners Announced
Nearly fifty (50) 4-H horse club members from 10 counties (Atlantic, Burlington, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, and Warren) competed in the New Jersey State 4-H Hippology & Horse Judging Contests held virtually on April 10 and April 11. The New Jersey 4-H Hippology Project is a unique and challenging aspect of […]
Mountain Mint—Truly, a Gardeners Mint
by Bruce Crawford, Program Leader in Home and Public Horticulture Mint is a plant that conjures up a multitude of thoughts and emotions among gardeners. Typically, our first thought is of a plant with wonderfully fragrant foliage that happens to combine well with Ice Tea and Mint Juleps! Unfortunately, this is matched with an equally […]
Rutgers Champion of Student Health and Wellness Is Retiring
Melodee Lasky’s 19 years at Rutgers featured numerous accomplishments When Melodee Lasky joined Rutgers University 19 years ago, behavioral and mental health services were scattered across the individual colleges with little coordination. Psychiatry and the Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program were part of student health, but counseling services were separated and college-affiliated. As the New Brunswick […]
Senior Story: Eva Popp (SEBS’21) Wins Young Botanist Award
Eva Popp spent much of her undergraduate career exploring the field of botany and plant ecology, so it is fitting that the Botanical Society of America chose her to receive the Young Botanist Award. The purpose of the award is to offer individual recognition to outstanding graduating seniors in the plant sciences and to encourage […]
Join the Feed a Family 5K and Help Feed New Jersey Families
This June, Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Family & Community Health Sciences (FCHS) Department will host its first annual virtual Feed a Family 5K and Wellness Walk. FCHS is partnering with Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) to raise funds that will stock NJ food pantries with nutritious foods and help families learn easy, tasty ways to use that […]
Return to SEBS: Online Learning Leads to New Alumni!
A SEBS Academic Programs Initiative welcomes back former SEBS and Cook College students to complete their degree When Rutgers University pivoted to fully online courses for the fall semester of 2020, SEBS Academic Programs staff realized that this might be the perfect opportunity for former students who were missing a few courses to graduate. Too […]
Donald Schaffner Honored with the 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award
The 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award was given to Donald Schaffner—extension specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science—in recognition of his outstanding research to facilitate the adoption of predictive food microbiology and risk-based thinking in government and private industry to support science-based risk management and assurance […]
Plant of the Month: A Delicious Ornamental for Your Garden
by Bruce Crawford, Program Leader in Home and Public Horticulture One of the positive developments from the pandemic is the renewed interest in gardening and in particular, growing food. I have always been astonished at how many children do not know how their food is produced, other than it magically appears on grocery store […]
Top Award Winners at State 4-H Horse Bowl Competition
Sixteen teams consisting of more than 60 4-H horse club members from 12 counties (Atlantic, Burlington, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Sussex and Warren) competed in the New Jersey State 4-H Horse Bowl Virtual Contest held from February 20-21. The New Jersey 4-H Horse Bowl is an educational project in which 4-H […]
