Editor’s Note: A grant of $27.5 million by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) was awarded to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences to develop a comprehensive, interdisciplinary project to create job opportunities for youth in the agriculture and food sector in Greece alongside the Agricultural University of Athens and the American Farm School. The […]
Alumni
Rutgers Backstage at the PGA
Rutgers Turf Students & Alumni Give an Insider’s View of Prepping the Black Course for the championship by Casey Sky Noon While Tiger Woods, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, and over one hundred other superstar golfers took swings to compete in the 101st PGA Championship, graduates of The Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School worked long […]
2019 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Executive Dean Bob Goodman
Good morning! First of all, congratulations and warmest best wishes to the Class of 2019. You are a special class… an indelible piece of the rich, ongoing history of this special place. I am going to tell you a few brief alumni stories to illustrate what I mean by special. We start with Paul Robeson, on […]
Rutgers Study Shows Medicine and Personal Care Products May Lead to New Pollutants in Waterways
When you flush the toilet, you probably don’t think about the traces of the medicine and personal care products in your body that are winding up in sewage treatment plants, streams, rivers, lakes, bays and the ocean. But Rutgers scientists have found that bacteria in sewage treatment plants may be creating new contaminants that have not […]
Restoring the Arbor Trail
Tucked on the back of the Rutgers University Inn on Cook campus lies a hidden and once forgotten gem: the Arbor Trail. Four years ago, senior environmental planning and design major Elliot Nagele was walking along the inn’s lawn and noticed this hidden Rutgers relic overgrown with weeds, leaves and tree stumps. Intrigued, Nagele, went […]
Charging the Field: ESC Awards Spirit of the Horse to Kennis Fairfax, the Original Scarlet Knight
The Equine Science Center honors Kennis “Buttons” Fairfax, the cowboy, artist, teacher, judge, coach, mentor, and Scarlet Knight, with the 2019 “Spirit of the Horse” award. This story is excerpted from Equine Science Quarterly, Winter 2019. From a young age Kennis “Buttons” Fairfax developed a strong connection to his family, and what it really […]
Earth in Balance
Accelerating changes in the climate are a growing concern. Scientists at the Rutgers Climate Institute are evaluating the peril on many fronts. Jennifer Francis was 22 years old when she and her future husband embarked on a five-year sailing voyage around the world that forever altered her life. Francis had always nurtured an abiding interest in the […]
Fast Track, Young Alumni on the Move: Tracy Wiegner (GSNB’02)
After earning her doctorate in oceanography, Tracy Wiegner landed a position as professor of marine science at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo). She’s been there for 14 years as a teacher, mentor, researcher and community advocate. On her Rutgers mentor: My doctorate adviser, Dr. Sybil Seitzinger, has been a long-term sounding board […]
Helyar House Celebrates its Golden Jubilee in 2018
Helyar House alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends gathered on September 22, 2018, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Helyar House, a thriving cooperative living community, open to undergraduates at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), and its precursors Cook College and the College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies. Located […]
Helyar House Celebrates 50 Years: The Beginnings – A Legacy Lives On
On September 22, 2018, Helyar House alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Helyar House in the fall of 1968. Dick Merritt, an alumnus, inspired by the early alternative housing provided by then director of resident instruction Frank Helyar, honored his legacy when he served in […]
