Peter Kahn, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, was recognized with the 2018 Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award “in recognition for distinguished leadership for over 40 years advancing social responsibility and forging intercultural collaborations including the global Bosnian Student Project.” Kahn, a member of the faculty since 1976, served as the local […]
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Graduate Student Alex Shumaker Wins Competitive Grant for Coral Microbiome Project
Alexander Shumaker, doctoral candidate in Microbial Biology in the School of Graduate Studies and a member of the Debashish Bhattacharya lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, has been awarded the 2017 PacBio SMRT grant for his proposed research on the coral microbiome. Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc (PacBio) is the leader in long-read […]
Jonathan Kolby (CC’03): The Frog Prince
Alumnus Jonathan Kolby comes to the rescue of frogs in Honduras—and worldwide. As a boy, alumnus Jonathan Kolby spent hours catching frogs in the woods near his Union, New Jersey, home. He’s still hunting for them, although his efforts these days take him to places like the wetlands of Nicaragua, Australia, Kenya, and Honduras, where Kolby […]
IR-4 is Recognized for its Efforts to Provide Knowledge and Capacity on Pesticide Levels
On December 11, 2017, seventeen senior government officials signed a joint statement acknowledging the productive work of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) in building knowledge and capacity for developing countries in the area of pesticide maximum residue levels (MRLs). STDF provided the funding for the USDA’s IR-4 Project to […]
Rutgers Energy Institute’s Nirav Patel Tours the Oil Sands of Alberta to Learn About Canadian Efforts to Cap Carbon Emissions
The Consulate General of Canada (CGC) in New York, which includes New Jersey as part of its territory, reached out to the Rutgers Energy Institute for participants in an oil sands tour. Oil sands is a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay or other minerals, water and bitumen. The CGC, which is responsible for […]
Rutgers prof receives international impact award
Jim Simon – Department of Plant Biology
Rutgers Hosts 13th International Turfgrass Research Conference, Attracting Attendees from 24 Countries
Excerpted from International Turfgrass, The Newsletter of the International Turfgrass Society (ITS), September 2017. By Bruce Clarke, Director, Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science and ITS Immediate Past-President The 13th International Turfgrass Research Conference (ITRC) was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ from July 16-21, the first time since 1993 that the […]
Kathleen John-Alder and Team Selected for the 2017 Professional Award of Excellence by the ASLA
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has given their 2017 Professional Award of Excellence in Research to a multi-national team of researchers, including team leaders Kathleen John-Alder, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Janike Kampevold Larsen from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial […]
Explainer: North Korea’s nukes, missiles and nuclear winter
Alan Robock, distinguished professor, Department Environmental Sciences
Associate Prof. Pamela McElwee Wins International Prize for Best Academic Book on Southeast Asia
Forests are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam, authored by Pamela McElwee, associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology, won the EuroSEAS Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences. Based on more than 20 years of McElwee’s travel and research in Vietnam, McElwee’s […]
