The Rutgers-led Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project—awarded $12.6 million last fall to develop an artificial reef ecosystem to help project coastlines from storm damage, flooding and erosion—recently conducted laboratory testing of modular oyster reef-mimicking structures for eventual installation in the Gulf Coast. The multi-institution project, “Reefense: A Mosaic Oyster Habitat (MOH) for Coastal Defense,” […]
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Food Science Professor Karl Matthews Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
Karl Matthews, chair and professor in the Department of Food Science, was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Food Science/Food Microbial Safety for the 2023-2024 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Matthews’ award will take him to Mauritius where he will teach and conduct research […]
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. […]
2023 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Executive Dean Laura Lawson
Good morning! Thank you, Chancellor-Provost Francine Conway, for sharing this wonderful moment with our school. It is an honor to once again have you celebrate with us. Thank you for your words of welcome and best wishes to our graduating students, and to their families and friends. I’ve had the privilege of joining Dr. Conway […]
Three SEBS Professors Ranked Among “Best Plant Science and Agronomy Scientists”
Three faculty members in the Department of Plant Biology have been ranked “Best Plant Science and Agronomy Scientists” by Research.com. The latest scientific rankings were based on number of publications and their citation values within the discipline. Distinguished Professor Bingru Huang focuses her research on understanding mechanisms of plant tolerance to abiotic stress tolerance, […]
Prof. Pamela McElwee Co-authors Study Offering New Solutions for Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is co-author of a new study, “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts,” published in the journal, Science. She is among 18 international experts who contributed to the study. “This paper emphasizes that biodiversity loss and climate change are essentially two sides […]
Kendall Soto (SEBS’24), Creating a More Just Society
Kendall Soto (SEBS’24), EPIB major, is currently spending a semester abroad in Greece. Kendall recently joined 11 other study-abroad students as a Global Justice Fellow at a conference in London with President Holloway, international Rutgers Alumni, university administrators from RU-Global and ISGRJ-Newark, as well as local activists, to explore and converse about the possible ways […]
SEBS Professors Study the Microbiology of Arsenic-Contaminated Agricultural Soils in the Mekong River and Red River Deltas
Distinguished Professor Max Häggblom, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and professor John Reinfelder, Department of Environmental Sciences, visited Vietnam to initiate collaborative research on microbial arsenic metabolism in rice paddy soils with investigators at Can Tho University, College of Agriculture and Hanoi University of Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology and Food […]
SEBS-NJAES Scientists Lead $3.2 Million USDA Grant to Develop Disease-Resistant Basil
Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick are leading a new $3.2 million study that aims to continue developing sweet basil plants resistant to downy mildew and an emerging bacteria that has decimated the crops of the culinary herb for more than a decade. The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture provided funding […]
SEBS Scientists Explore How Life Flourishes Near Underwater Volcanoes
SEBS scientist Costa Vetriani, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, is currently on the research vessel Atlantis with three of his graduate students: Avanthika Bharath, Olivia Cannon and Ian Schlegel. They are traveling 1000 miles from the shores of Costa Rica to explore and sample the underwater volcanoes along the East Pacific rise. […]
