Max Häggblom, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, is one of two long-standing editors-in-chief honored with a Federation of European Microbiological Societies Special Merit Award for his extraordinary support of students and early-career researchers in addition to his ongoing efforts in growing the impact of the journal, FEMS Microbiology Ecology. This […]
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International Floricultural Expert Robin Brumfield Teaches Women to Manage Business Risks
This article was first published in Lancaster Farming. When Robin Brumfield, extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Rutgers, joined her high school’s FFA club in 1969 as one of the chapter’s first girls, she had no idea that her passion for greenhouses and bedding plants would lead to a […]
A Look at Climate Change and the IPCC as the U.S. Re-enters the Paris Agreement
Climate change is one of the most serious global problems today. Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, acidification of the ocean, damaging hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and other extreme events have caused devastating human, environmental and economic damage. In response to escalating climate change concerns, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created in 1988 by […]
Important Climate Change Mystery Solved by Scientists
Revised Holocene temperature record affirms role of greenhouse gases in recent millennia. Scientists have resolved a key climate change mystery, showing that the annual global temperature today is the warmest of the past 10,000 years – contrary to recent research, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Nature. The long-standing mystery is called the “Holocene temperature […]
Rutgers Co-sponsors Global Microbiome Network First Latin American Symposium
The first Global Microbiome Network Symposium was launched by Rutgers University, Peruvian Universities Cayetano Heredia, and Universidad Catolica and the Microbiota Vault – a global non-profit initiative to conserve long-term health for humanity. The virtual symposium, held January 15-17, brought together local and foreign scientists that lead the fields of microbiology, anthropology, ethics, public health and bioinformatics, to teach, learn and discuss the importance of conservation efforts on […]
Nuclear War Could Trigger Big El Niño and Decrease Seafood
Unprecedented warming in equatorial Pacific Ocean could last up to seven years A nuclear war could trigger an unprecedented El Niño-like warming episode in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, slashing algal populations by 40 percent and likely lowering the fish catch, according to a Rutgers-led study. The research, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, shows […]
Announcement: Leadership Changes at Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science
Announcement by Laura J. Lawson, Interim Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that James (Jim) Murphy, extension specialist in turfgrass management, and Stacy Bonos, professor of turfgrass breeding, have been named director and […]
The Road from Food Science to the Jamaican Senate for Alumna Sherene Golding Campbell
Newly appointed in September 2020 as a senator in her native Jamaica, Sherene Golding Campbell is among a record number of women in that nation’s parliament: eight out of 21 Senate members, and 18 of 63 in the House of Representatives. Although Golding Campbell GSNB’02 traveled a twisting road from studying food biology to evaluating […]
Celebrating International Education Week (Nov.16-20): SEBS Faculty and Staff Share their “Culture Shock” Stories
When Mukund Karwe, distinguished professor and dean of international programs first arrived on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus as a graduate student in 1981, he was struck by how sparsely populated the campus and the surrounding areas were and was even more shocked when his international student adviser said that New Jersey was one of the most densely populated states. “Looking back,” reflected Karwe, “that should not have been surprising for someone like me coming […]
Most Nations Failing to Protect Nature in COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Plans
Outbreak provides opportunity to reset economy and reverse ecosystem, species losses The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to reset the global economy and reverse decades of ecosystem and species losses, but most countries are failing to invest in nature-related economic reforms or investments, according to a Rutgers-led paper. Indeed, some countries, including the United States, Brazil […]
