A Rutgers University–New Brunswick-led team of researchers is calling for the creation of a global microbiota vault to protect the long-term health of humanity. Such a Noah’s Ark of beneficial germs would be gathered from human populations whose microbiomes are uncompromised by antibiotics, processed diets and other ill effects of modern society, which have contributed […]
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Landscape Architecture Student Sophia Trinidad (SEBS ’19) Participates in Summer 2018 Design/Build Sweden: Creating Home Amidst Displacement
Sophia Trinidad, a senior in the Landscape Architecture program at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences participated in a summer abroad program offered through the University of Washington, Seattle for a design/build project in Sweden. The program was in collaboration with HDK-Steneby, a design and crafts school located in Dals Långed, 170 km […]
A look at Rutgers University Department of Agriculture’s impact
Robert Goodman – School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Brian Schilling – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
New Jersey 4-H Members Attend International Leadership for Life Conference in Ireland
Last month, 11 New Jersey 4-H members attended the 2018 International Leadership for Life Conference, which was hosted by Foróige at the National University of Ireland, commonly known as Maynooth University. Foróige is a youth development organization in Ireland that was formed in 1952 and is based on the 4-H youth development program mode. Now […]
Renowned Rutgers Marine Scientist J. Frederick Grassle, Whose Pioneering Work Helped Unlock the Ocean’s Mysteries, Dies
Built a program of excellence in research, education and community service in marine and coastal sciences at university J. Frederick Grassle, a celebrated oceanographer who founded Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, passed away on July 6. As the founding director of the institute in 1989, Grassle was instrumental in establishing the university as […]
Empowering Small-Scale Local Entrepreneurs in Nicaragua
EDITOR’S NOTE: Robin Brumfield, Rutgers specialist in farm management and professor in the Department of Agricultural and Food Resource Economics, writes about her experience in Nicaragua as part of a two-week training program for local residents. In April, I found myself telling indigenous women of the Pinos Fabrettinos Cooperative in San Jose de Cusmapa, […]
Rutgers Receives $27 Million to Help Revitalize Agriculture in Greece
Robert M. Goodman – School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Foundation provides grant to Rutgers to stimulate Greece employment
Robert Goodman – School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
SNF Major Grant to Rutgers for Greece in Collaboration with AFS & AUA
Robert M. Goodman – School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Prof. Ilya Raskin and Collaborators Awarded Global Health Grant to Help Seed Expanded Research in Indonesia
The Rutgers Global Health Institute, with support from Rutgers Global, awards Global Health Seed grants to faculty conducting collaborative, interdisciplinary activities that will impact the health of communities at home and around the world. In April, Ilya Raskin, distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Biology, along with collaborative partners at Rutgers School of Arts […]
