On September 22, the SEBS/NJAES Office of Alumni and Community Engagement hosted the Rutgers Rising Memorial Service to remember recently deceased alumni, faculty and staff from the school and the experiment station. Nearly 100 faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends attended the event held at the Cook Student Center to pay their respects and celebrate […]
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Plant of the Month: Itea – A ‘Late Bloomer’ Most Worthy of Rediscovery
by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission It is rare for a low maintenance shrub, capable of providing the garden with close to four seasons of interest to be an uncommon plant in the home landscape. Oddly, this has been the fate of Virginia Sweetspire. It was not included in my Woody […]
How Rutgers Is Forging the Next Generation of Climate Change Problem Solvers
Training program created in wake of Superstorm Sandy brings graduate students from varied disciplines together to solve real-world climate problems As a child, Dan Blanco watched low-income neighborhoods in his native Chicago flood during storms while the more affluent enclaves did not. Now, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences at Rutgers so […]
Morris County 4-H “ResistoJets” Rocketry Club Accepted into the NASA 2023 Student Launch Initiative
The “ResistoJets” is one of 18 winning proposals for the High School/Middle School national division. The American Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is an annual competition – one of NASA’s Artemis Student Challenges – which requires middle/high school and college/university students to design, build, and fly a high-powered amateur rocket and scientific payload. Each year, NASA updates […]
Urban Forestry Professor Jason Grabosky on Why Leaves Change Color
What is the chemistry that causes all those beautiful hues to appear in the fall. Jason Grabosky, a professor in Urban Forestry in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, explains the process that makes the leaves change color, the factors that influence the shades that we see and the importance of simply taking the time to stop […]
4-H Launches 2022 STEM Challenge Focused on Marine Science and Climate Change
15th annual youth-led initiative provides hands-on learning opportunities during 4-H STEM Month and throughout the year October is 4-H STEM Month. Rutgers Cooperative Extension has teamed up with Cooperative Extension at Cornell University in New York to bring educators from across two states to the New York Aquarium for an immersive full-day professional development experience. […]
Charlie Kontos Memorial Scholarship for Environmental Activism Awarded to High School Senior
The Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award is named for Charlie Kontos, who passed away in 2010 and was, at the time, enrolled as a doctoral student in the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program administered by the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Before his premature passing at age 33, Kontos had already made a significant contribution […]
Snyder Farms Open House and Great Tomato Tasting Returns with Wagon Rides, Research…and Rutgers Tomatoes!
Rutgers Clifford E. & Melda C. Snyder Research & Extension Farm welcomed more than 600 visitors to its annual Open House and Tomato Tasting event on Aug. 31, Visitors were treated to a wagon ride tour of the current research being conducted at the farm, including hard cider apple variety trials, organic insect control for sweet corn, hemp for […]
Ending Free Meals in Schools is a Mistake | Opinion – The Star Ledger
By Peggy Policastro and Erin Comollo Earlier this month, we got inspired by what felt like exciting new energy from the federal government in fighting hunger. We were at a listening session held at Rutgers by Sen. Cory Booker in advance of a historic White House conference on hunger planned for this fall. “Food is at the […]
Announcement: Gabrielle Peterson Appointed SEBS/NJAES Senior Director of Development
Announcement by Laura Lawson, executive dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and executive director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Dear SEBS and NJAES community, I am delighted to share the news that Gabrielle Peterson has been appointed our new SEBS/NJAES Senior Director of Development, effective October 17. As the chief development officer […]
