SEBS faculty Mukund Karwe, Holly Grace Nelson and Troy Roepke were among the Rutgers faculty recognized with 2023-2024 Faculty Excellence Awards, which honor outstanding members of the Rutgers community selected by their colleagues for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, or public service through a program of seven awards. For each award, the recipient receives a commemorative […]
Rutgers Day Draws Tens of Thousands for Fun and Fanfare to the New Brunswick Campus
Tens of thousands attended the 16th annual Rutgers Day on Saturday to celebrate New Jersey’s largest university. The rain-or-shine event, which began at Rutgers University–New Brunswick in 2009, was held Saturday on Busch campus in Piscataway and the College Avenue and Cook/Douglass campuses in New Brunswick. The Cook/Douglass location is home to Ag Field Day, […]
Jeffrey Bluestone CC’74, GSNB’76: A Pioneer in Immunology
Editor’s note: Jeffrey Bluestone was inducted into the university’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni on April 25, 2024. Jeffrey Bluestone, an internationally regarded immunologist whose work has brought hope to people dealing with diabetes, cancer, and other diseases, traces his love of research to his senior year at Rutgers. Bluestone CC’74, GSNB’76 was a biology major […]
Students Turn Eating Areas on Campus into Living Laboratories
At Rutgers University–New Brunswick, even the cafeterias are being used as teaching tools. That’s because Rutgers–New Brunswick has been a part of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) – an international network of colleges and universities that use campus dining halls as living laboratories – since 2017. “A dining facility, be it a dining hall, […]
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences William Goldfarb Passes Away
Dr. William Goldfarb, of Pennington, NJ, died on April 10, 2024, at 86. Professor Emeritus of Rutgers University, Cook College, N.J., he is survived by his wife of 41 years, Illse, his daughter Catherine Heacox and his grandson, Griffin Cushing. He is predeceased in death by his father, Herman “Chubbie” Goldfarb, an entertainment lawyer and […]
Rutgers SEBS Hosts 2024 World Food Prize New Jersey Youth Institute
On March 8, high school scholars, expert judges, and teachers gathered at the Busch Student Center for the New Jersey Youth Institute (NJYI) event supported by the World Food Prize Foundation and hosted by Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS). The mission of the World Food Prize is to inspire action in sustainability […]
Anne Nielsen: A Childhood Interest in Bugs Leads to Career as a Woman in Science
Rutgers groundbreaking women researchers are making history and making a difference in the world every day. From serving as mission head for NASA’s next space telescope to creating nanorobots to target disease and studying the survival of orangutans in Borneo – one of our closest living relatives – they are advancing our understanding of the natural […]
Television Weather Forecaster Kelly Ann Cicalese (SEBS’11) Shares the Challenges of Her Work and What She Loves Most
When snow is in the forecast, SEBS alumna Kelly Ann Cicalese’s job as a meteorologist with WCVB’s StormTeam 5 in Boston is at its most challenging – and rewarding. The Sewaren, N.J., native who first developed an interest in weather in grade school, found her way to a career as a weather forecaster at Rutgers […]
Plant of the Month: Adonis – No Mere Mortal of a Flower
By Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission The late winter blooming Adonis amurensis or Pheasant Eye, is a member of the Buttercup Family, or Ranunculaceae, with 20 to 30 species found throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia. Pheasant Eye is known for its beautiful golden-yellow flowers that appear before winter’s snow has vanished, yet […]
Rutgers Friends, Art Wolfe CC’82 and Chris Zeliff CC’83, Share the Gift of Life
Art Wolfe felt like a “human pin cushion.” But he knew extensive medical tests were part of what it would take to ensure he would be a suitable kidney donor for Chris Zeliff, a fellow Rutgers forestry major who lived down the hall from him in his dorm freshman year in 1978. The tests revealed […]
