Kenneth H. McKeever, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers University and associate director for research at the Rutgers Equine Science Center, was recently appointed to the Association of Racing Commissioners International’s (RCI) new Scientific Advisory Board. The RCI is the preeminent international body of regulators, scientists, and others involved in the oversight […]
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2014: A Year in Review at Rutgers
Looking forward to 2015, Rutgers Today takes a look back at the milestones, achievements and big stories of 2014 to bring back memories and remind all of us that Rutgers is a vibrant and diverse place to live, work and study. The following stories and videos on the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences were […]
New zoo president follows passion
Growing up in New Jersey, Doug Piekarz always had a love of nature. It’s something for which Piekarz, the newly named president and CEO of the Akron Zoo, gives credit to his grandfather, who had a cabin in the Catskills… Those experiences influenced …
Rutgers gives landscapers, gardeners winter education
Since 1980, Rutgers University has offered the short course Landscape Plants Identification Selection and Application. Created by “Rutgers legend” Bruce “Doc” Hamilton, the course was based on the premise that the “plant must be seen in its environment.” …The class is now taught by Steve Kristoph, one of Hamilton’s original students. “He passed the torch onto Steve,” said Joe Canzano, landscape program coordinator of Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Office of Continuing Education. “They go out in the cold – no matter how cold – because that’s the only way Steve feels a student can learn about plants. In the plant scene, Steve is a very well known figure. I don’t think anyone loves plants more than Steve.”
Vorsa Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his Pioneering Work with Cranberries
Nicholi Vorsa (CC ’76, GSNB ’85-Horticulture), research professor and developer of high-yielding cranberry varieties with enhanced fruit chemistry attributes, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Vorsa is also the director of Rutgers’ Marucci Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension Center. The academy, which was founded four years ago, announced its […]
Rutgers Research Professor: State Needs to Invest in Infrastructure
The infrastructure that carries water to your tap is aging and in need of repair. Groups including New Jersey Clean Water Council, New Jersey Future and the American Society for Civil Engineers worry utilities aren’t keeping up with necessary mai…
Executive Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Celebrates 150 Years as Land-Grant by Saluting George Hammell Cook
“In the early 1860s Rutgers College was in the doldrums,” writes biographer Jean Wilson Sidar. “An ailing and aging president, apathetic alumni, and a lack of support … made the college an unlikely place for a dynamic change of direction and growth.” Due to the Civil War, the entire institution was reduced in size from […]
Annie’s Project NJ Receives 2014 Rutgers Cooperative Extension Team Award
Each year, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), honors faculty and staff for their outstanding work and outreach through their programs and support. The winners for 2014 received their awards at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Annual Conference at the Cook Campus Center in New Brunswick on October 20.
Dept. of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Celebrates 100th Anniversary
One day after an on-campus event celebrating the 150th anniversary of Rutgers’ designation as New Jersey’s land grant institution, an important component of that institution – the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics – marked its founding exactly fifty years later, in 1914. The department’s centennial event, held on November 6th in the Cook […]
Alumni Story: Mark Zarrillo (CAES ’70), Present at the Revolution
The Department of Landscape Architecture each year honors an alumnus/a who has contributed substantially to the landscape architecture profession. Mark J. Zarrillo, Class of 1970, is the Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture 2014 Outstanding Alumnus. As part of the honor, Mark was invited to the G.H. Cook Campus recently to deliver a presentation in […]
