The Department of Nutritional Sciences unveiled a new teaching kitchen on September 11 as part of a state-of-the-art culinary foods lab that is designed to support exciting new courses and serving more undergraduates. A novel bread ribbon-cutting for the new teaching kitchen drew students and faculty to the second-floor culinary foods lab in Davison Hall […]
Maria Grant CC’86 Among 2024 Inductees into Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame
Maria Grant ‘CC86 is among the 2024 Hall of Fame class announced by Rutgers University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Fellow inductees include John “Pomp” Chandler (lightweight football), Hallie Cohen (softball), Devin McCourty (football), Jason McCourty (football) and Ralph Tedeschi (men’s fencing). The 2024 Rutgers Hall of Fame induction will take place on September 26 at […]
Plant Biology Professor Andrea Gallavotti Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant for Maize Research
Andrea Gallavotti, professor in the Department of Plant Biology, has been awarded a grant worth $1,088,678 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the project, “Collaborative Research: PlantTransform: Morphogenic-based mechanisms of maize regeneration.” Gallavotti, who is attached to the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, is the principal investigator of the three-year project, for the period Jan […]
Professor Yanhong Jin Served as a Distinguished Speaker at Global Workshop on Agri-food Systems
Yanhong Jin, professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, served as a distinguished speaker at the “Workshop on Transforming Agri-food Systems: Global Perspectives.” Jin presented on the topic, “Impact of GMO on agricultural productivity in a global perspective” at the workshop, which was hosted on August 8 by the Centre for International […]
Distinguished Professor Oscar Schofield Named a Marine Technology Society Fellow
On September 9, Oscar Schofield, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS), was officially named Fellow of the Marine Technology Society (MTS), one of highest accolades an MTS member can achieve. Schofield, who chairs DMCS, is also a Life Member of MTS. Schofield is a visionary whose work has transformed ocean […]
SEBS Team Receives Funding for Solving Oceanic Challenges: Harnessing Seaweed for Feedstock of the Future
A multi-institution Sargassum Biorefinery (SaBRe) team, which include researchers from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is working to develop a Sargassum seaweed biorefinery process that ultimately turns a nuisance seaweed into animal feed and other valuable bioproducts. The funded project titled, “Sargassum seaweed as a future renewable feedstock for sustainable biomanufacturing,” is […]
Pollinator Peril? Rutgers Researchers Tracking Decline in Crop Yields
A team of researchers led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has analyzed crop yields of more than 1,500 fields on six continents, and found that production worldwide of important, nutritionally dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes is being limited by a lack of pollinators. The results, detailed in Nature Ecology & Evolution, showed that across […]
Rising Temperatures and Poor Air Quality Signal Future Impacts
A Rutgers-led report details 2023 climate trends for New Jersey Canadian wildfires that severely impacted the air quality in New Jersey and other regions of the United States in June 2023 provide a glimpse into how climate change may affect future environmental conditions in the state, according to a new report released by researchers at […]
Rutgers Doctoral Student, Jae Kerstetter, Awarded Prestigious SARE Grant
Congratulations to Jae Kerstetter, a Rutgers doctoral student on receiving a 2024 Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) graduate student grant for their dissertation research. Titled “Back to Nature: Searching for Novel Sources of Host-Plant Resistance Against Spotted-Wing Drosophila,” their project involves studying the genetic differences between wild and farmed blueberry plants in New Jersey and looking […]
Rutgers–New Brunswick Is Awarded “Innovation and Economic Prosperity” Designation
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has designated Rutgers University–New Brunswick as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University in recognition of its substantial and sustained commitment to economic engagement in the region. The national designation highlights Rutgers’ role as an economic catalyst through transformative innovations in academic initiatives, pioneering research and impactful community outreach programs. […]
