Lucas Marxen, associate director of the NJAES Office of Research Analytics, and Marc Pfeiffer, Bloustein Local Government Research Center, worked together to develop the NJ MOD IV Historical Database an online, searchable database of New Jersey MOD IV parcel information data sets from 1989 to 2022. Providing land parcel and property ownership data, the MOD […]
Rutgers Students Work to Bring Wind Energy to New Jersey
This September, Gov. Phil Murphy signed an order to increase New Jersey’s offshore wind goal to nearly 50 percent by 2040. A group of 12 Rutgers students is hard at work to help the state meet that deadline. They are part of the inaugural cohort of the Wind Institute Fellowship Program: a pilot launched last […]
Preserving the High Seas and the Life Within
Rutgers professor participating in historic ocean treaty negotiations predicts it will increase ocean resilience to climate change Climate change. Overfishing. Seabed floor mining. These are some of the epic challenges that would be addressed by a historic United Nations treaty protecting ocean biodiversity that gained backing in early March when a significant majority of nations […]
Kendall Soto (SEBS’24), Creating a More Just Society
Kendall Soto (SEBS’24), EPIB major, is currently spending a semester abroad in Greece. Kendall recently joined 11 other study-abroad students as a Global Justice Fellow at a conference in London with President Holloway, international Rutgers Alumni, university administrators from RU-Global and ISGRJ-Newark, as well as local activists, to explore and converse about the possible ways […]
“Fields of Devotion” Wins Best Short Documentary at Garden State Film Festival
On March 26, Fields of Devotion was shown to a packed house and won the Best Short Documentary Award at the 2023 Garden State Film Festival. This is the second award for the film, which was awarded Best Climate Film by the New York Science and Nature Feedback Film and Screenplay Festival in late 2022. In attendance at the Garden State Film Festival’s […]
Plant of the Month: Subtle Bells Peal the Beauty of Spring
By Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission Without a doubt, there is no shortage of color throughout April and May. This also implies that for a spring bloomer to be garden worthy, it must have bold blossoms or colorful foliage. Or, at least that was my viewpoint when I first began to […]
Rising Waters on Our Coasts and What It Means for Public Access?
New Jersey law ensures the public’s right to access coastal shorelines and waters. To help people know where to access tidal waterways and get information about the amenities at each location, the state has an online map that shows over 3,900 public access points. However, the impacts of climate change are likely to affect public […]
In Bid to Make Child Cancer Treatments Safer, Scientists Find Possible Warning Signs of Severe Reaction
Rutgers researchers show importance of low vitamin A levels as harbinger of adverse event Scientists seeking a way to eliminate an adverse reaction to treatments for acute lymphocytic leukemia, a common childhood cancer, have found what they believe to be an early warning indicator. Mouse studies conducted by Rutgers researchers as part of a larger […]
Rutgers Scientists Identify Substance That May Have Sparked Life on Earth
Research could provide clues to extraterrestrial life A team of Rutgers scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism – a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth – has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life. The […]
Rutgers Hosts 2023 World Food Prize New Jersey Youth Institute
High school students participate in global fight against hunger The New Jersey Youth Institute (NJYI), hosted by the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is a transformative experience for high school students. Rutgers welcomed 177 students, 21 teachers/mentors, and 28 expert judges comprised of Rutgers staff, faculty and industry professionals to the Douglass […]
