Fighting for Honey Bee and Pollinator Health Through Scientific Research & Community Outreach With the honey bee population threatened by climate change, Kaitlyn—known as the “Bee Girl” at Toms River High School North in Toms River, New Jersey—decided to take matters into her own hands by studying and protecting honeybees as both a researcher and […]
Community Selections for the Chancellor-Provost Challenge: Toward the Common Good
SEBS faculty are involved in three out of these four cross school collaborations, interdisciplinary projects chosen to foster innovative research benefiting the public and addressing pressing global issues. Rutgers University–New Brunswick has selected four submissions to the Chancellor-Provost Challenge: Toward the Common Good, which invited innovative proposals from the Rutgers community for transformational, campus-wide initiatives to help fulfill […]
Max Häggblom Invited as Kerala Erudite Scholar-in-Residence in India
Max Häggblom, Distinguished Professor and chair of Biochemistry and Microbiology, was invited as the Kerala Erudite Scholar-in-Residence in the Spring under a program sponsored by the Kerala State Higher Education Council, India. His visit was coordinated and hosted by Prof. Salom Gnana Thanga V. in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Kerala. […]
Rutgers Partners With New Jersey Schools to Develop Historic Climate Change Curriculum
Experts from the university to launch series of workshops in collaboration with teachers throughout the state Rutgers will play a central role in New Jersey’s historic move to become the first state in the nation to teach all public school students – from K-12 – about climate change across all subjects. Experts in climate science, […]
Senior Story: Kyra Bostic (SEBS’23) Gets Front Seat in Crafting Historic U.N. Ocean Treaty
For two weeks this spring, Kyra Bostic served as a delegate participating in talks to develop a landmark international agreement to protect the oceans, which play a crucial role in absorbing carbon emissions – a key driver of climate change. The conference in New York ended after a hectic 38-hour final United Nations session when […]
NJBPU Approves Agreement with Rutgers for Dual-Use Solar Pilot Program
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has approved an agreement with the Rutgers University Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) to facilitate the development and implementation of a Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program over the next three years. The Pilot Program is designed to demonstrate and study the compatibility of agricultural or horticultural production with solar […]
Rutgers EcoComplex Improves Campus Sustainability with Earth Flow™ Automatic Composting System
The program at Rutgers will be a model for other universities to follow Rutgers EcoComplex today announced the commissioning of a new automated in-vessel composting system for the university’s Cook Campus in New Brunswick, the campus home of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The Earth Flow™ […]
Rutgers Undergraduates Present Original Science-in-Action Stories at National Conference
Five Rutgers undergraduates doing independent research in immersive learning through science storytelling presented rough edits of their science-in-action films at the Planet Forward environmental storytelling summit in Washington DC on April 20. Working in teams, the undergraduates presented two student-authored science stories that they have developed in trusting partnership with scientists from Rutgers School of […]
Earth Day, Every Day Spring 2023 Webinar Kicks Off New Series
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Earth Day, Every Day and Marine Extension Program Seminar Series present the educational webinar, “All the Small Things with Big Environmental Impacts,” beginning April 17. Open to the public, the free webinar will be conducted online via Zoom every third and fourth Monday evenings in April through June starting at 6:30 p.m. […]
NJHKI Delivers Nutrition Curriculum at National Foraging Youth Resilience Summit in Colorado
In March, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) partnered with Forging Youth Resilience (FYR) to deliver nutrition curriculum for FYR’s national network of 24 clubs at the FYR Local Club Summit in Denver, CO. FYR is a nonprofit organization with the mission to empower young people to build physical and mental strength by supplying […]
