To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15), we caught up with some of our recent alumni to see where they are in their journey as they launch their careers. Amber Lynn Betances SEBS’16 (LA), GSNB’17 (MLA) Assistant Landscape Architect NYC Department of Parks & Recreation When people ask me what I do, […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Morris County Win Prestigious International Award
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Morris County is proud to announce that the Rutgers Master Gardener Community Garden Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Team has won 1st Place in the 2021 David Gibby International Master Gardener Conference Search for Excellence (IMGCSFE), Innovative Projects Category. This team of volunteers regularly inspects plots in Morris County community gardens to identify insects, diseases, […]
Rutgers Acclaimed Hort Therapy Program Grew From Seed Planted Over 50 Years Ago
Anyone who has marveled at the growth from seed to sprout and bud to bloom, relished the aroma of herbs, or found themselves calmed in the presence of greenery, can understand the restorative power of plants. But professor and Bergen County agricultural and natural resources agent Joel Flagler (CC ’74), a registered horticultural therapist, has […]
America’s Grow-a-Row Hosts Rutgers Interns for Culinary Workshop
Sarah Curran – Department of Nutritional Sciences
Homefront Celebrates the Opening of its Healing and Memorial Garden
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Collaborates with HomeFront on their Family Campus Garden for Shelter Residents HomeFront celebrated the opening of its Healing & Memorial Garden at their Family Campus in Mercer County on July 1. The Campus is their dignified shelter for 38 local families at a time who are homeless. This lovely garden will provide […]
Global food supplies will be in danger from nuclear war climate change
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Hurricane Science: Using Ocean Gliders to Improve Hurricane Intensity Forecasts
The year of the pandemic has been challenging for everyone. When the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences‘ COOLroom was formed, one goal was to develop an automated system that minimized the amount of time humans need to be at sea to collect ocean data and use it to educate our future generations. Given social […]
Blocking the sun to control global warming
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Smoke From Nuclear War May Eradicate Humans by Threatening Global Food Supplies, Warn Experts
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Ida Caused More Immediate Deaths Than Sandy: Rutgers Prof
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
