The New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA) and Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Office of Urban Extension and Engagement invite urban farmers and growers to explore, use and share the new Urban Agriculture Strategies for the State of New Jersey Report and its associated web portal. The portal and the report that frames the Garden State’s […]
Faculty Spotlight: Malin Pinsky
By: Carol Peters, Institute for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (EOAS) Communications The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded EOAS faculty member Malin Pinsky, associate professor in SEBS Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, and collaborators from Princeton University $1.3 million in funding for the project “Climate Change, Resource Reallocation and Great Power Competition.” The funding stems […]
Inaugural Rutgers Shellfish Research Symposium Brings Together Growers and Researchers
The inaugural Rutgers Shellfish Research Symposium, in partnership with the New Jersey Aquaculture Association and the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, was held on January 18 at the NJAES Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve The symposium was organized by Michael DeLuca, director of the Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center, and Michael Acquafredda, (GSNB’19) a Rutgers graduate […]
AlphaRTK Announces Free Educational RTK Access for Rutgers, West Chester Universities and Warren County Community College
Rutgers University, West Chester University, and Warren County Community College Sign Agreements AlphaRTK, a four-constellation real-time kinematic (RTK) network service provider, formally announced today it will provide students and faculty of Rutgers University, West Chester University, and Warren County Community College access to its global navigation satellite system (GNSS) correction network. The AlphaRTK network launched […]
Access Week, Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Celebration of Equity and Inclusion, Kicks Off Feb. 20
Lectures, workshops and other events aim to bolster awareness as well as highlight programs and services that help underserved students succeed As a freshman, Travis Anane found the resources provided by the Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement (DICE) to be both helpful and meaningful – so much so he decided to join the […]
Graphene Layers joins Rutgers EcoComplex’s WindIgnite “Offshore Wind Supply Chain Accelerator” Program
Graphene Layers, a start-up innovator in the development of graphene-based solutions, and Rutgers EcoComplex “Clean Energy Innovation Center” and its WindIgnite “Offshore Wind Supply Chain Accelerator Program,” announced a partnership aimed at advancing their shared goals and objectives in the fields of clean energy generation, sustainable development, and integrating graphene technology for Offshore Wind (OSW) […]
Want Healthy Valentine Chocolates? We Can Print Them.
Rutgers food scientist Qingrong Huang uses 3D printing to introduce the first in a line of what he calls “functional foods” A Rutgers scientist has developed a formulation of low-fat chocolate that can be printed on a 3D printer in pretty much any shape a person can conceive, including a heart. The work heralds what […]
Meet the People of Rutgers: Alex Sawatzky, Feeding Rutgers
The Basics Title: Student farm manager and part-time instructor in agriculture and food systems Unit: Rutgers Gardens, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences How Long Have You Worked at Rutgers: 4 years What I do I work with Rutgers students to grow and distribute nutrient-dense veggies to our local communities. I manage the summer internship program and […]
NJAES Office of Research Analytics and the Bloustein Local Government Research Center Develop NJ Property Ownership Database
Lucas Marxen, associate director of the Office of Research Analytics, and Marc Pfeiffer, Bloustein Local Government Research Center, worked together to develop he 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 IV database […]
Professional Golf Turf Management School Student is Inaugural Recipient of the GCSAA Larry Powell Scholarship
Travis Campbell will be honored at the the 2023 GCSAA Conference and Trade Show in Orlando, Florida, on February 8, 2023. GCM has announced that Travis Campbell, a second-year student at the NJAES Professional Golf Turf Management School, will be recognized at the 2023 GCSAA Conference and Trade Show in Orlando, Florida, on February 8 […]
