Wendie Cohick, Vice Provost and Vice Chancellor for Research, Rutgers-New Brunswick and faculty in the Department of Animal Sciences, is one of eight Rutgers faculty named to the 2026 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows. Cohick and her Rutgers colleagues were among the 500 scientists, engineers and innovators spanning 24 scientific […]
Childhood Obesity Makes It Harder to Climb the Economic Ladder, Study Finds
Childhood obesity may be quietly undermining one of the central promises of American life. A study by a Rutgers researcher has found that children who are obese are far less likely to climb the economic ladder as adults, raising concerns that a rising health problem also could deny many young Americans the chance to achieve […]
Professor Siobain Duffy and International Team Receive Prestigious UK–US Breakthrough Award for Global Food Security Innovation
At a reception hosted at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. on March 4, Professor Siobain Duffy and her international research team were recognized with the Pioneering UK–US Breakthroughs (PUB) Award, a distinction honoring seven collaborative teams whose work is addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges. Presented by His Majesty’s Ambassador to the […]
$1.5 Million Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant Supports Rutgers Postdoctoral Researchers
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) is among three schools at Rutgers University-New Brunswick to benefit from a $1.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support 37 postdoctoral researchers. The funding strengthens research in SEBS, the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, advancing discovery in […]
Researchers Present Blueprint for Joint Meteorology and Atmospheric Composition Program
A study published by the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies in collaboration with Rutgers University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, presents a roadmap for harnessing global-scale trace gas and atmospheric wind observations to improve the monitoring, attribution and mitigation of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change. The […]
Kyle Barreiro SEBS’26: Journey from Classroom Learning to Environmental Compliance
Kyle Barreiro, a senior in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), will graduate this May with a degree in Environmental Sciences. He knew right away that this was the major he wanted to pursue. He found himself “both challenged and inspired by coursework that explores the complexity of our environment and its processes.” […]
New Workshop Series Helps SEBS & NJAES Faculty Expand their Research Vision
Faculty from SEBS and NJAES gathered on Rutgers’ Cook Campus in January to kick off a dialogue that the SEBS Office of Research hopes will lead to an increase in the high-quality, cross-disciplinary research at Rutgers that often significantly impacts the state and our society, at large. The in-person event was the kickoff of the […]
Distinguished Professor George Carman Honored as ‘Crucial Gatekeeper’ of Lipid Metabolism
George Carman, Board of Governors Professor of Food Science, Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, first met Herbert Tabor at an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) meeting in 1992. When Carman became an associate editor with the Journal of […]
Scientists Develop New Catalyst That Turns Polluted Water Into Valuable Ammonia
Ammonia is essential for making fertilizers that help feed the world, but producing it typically requires massive amounts of energy and releases significant greenhouse gases. Now, researchers have found a promising new way to create ammonia while simultaneously cleaning polluted water. Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa, affiliate of the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute, and professor in the […]
DMCS Faculty Corday Selden Honored with Oceanography Society Early Career Award
Corday Selden, assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has been selected to receive The Oceanography Society (TOS) Early Career Award. The honor recognizes outstanding early-career research contributions, leadership in ocean sciences, and exceptional promise for future impact in oceanography. Selden will be recognized at the TOS Honors […]
