Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University develops oyster reef ecosystem to prevent beach erosion
David Bushek – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
The Science of Comfort Food
Paul Breslin – Department of Nutritional Sciences
Andrew Aldercotte’s Fulbright-Funded Indonesian Pollinator Research Taking Place at Rutgers-Affiliated Field Station
Check out the Borneo tree tops with Andrew Aldercotte in his Peat Swamp Forest Canopy Research Blog Andrew Aldercotte is a third-year doctoral student in the Rachel Winfree lab. Born in Montreal, Canada, Aldercotte left a ten-year career as a ski instructor and guide to return to academia. He has master’s degree in forestry from […]
Rutgers Sandy Operation Helps Forecasters Predict Severe Storms, Saving Livelihood Worldwide
As Superstorm Sandy approached the New Jersey coastline, a single Rutgers glider deployed off Tuckerton by hurricane scientists at Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL), provided an ominous warning. The water mass known as the “Mid-Atlantic cold pool”– an area of cool water off the coast that traditionally makes hurricanes less severe the further north they travel […]
Even a Small Nuclear War Would Mean Mass Famine
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Living at the Shore After Sandy: Should Residents Stay – or Go?
New Jersey needs to plan for at least a 3-foot sea level rise by 2100, Rutgers researchers warn Whether to buy or build a home at the Jersey Shore has become more complicated and personal for Kenneth Miller – a Rutgers expert in sea level change and global warming – since Superstorm Sandy struck New […]
Multimedia Project Honoring Native American History and Culture in New Jersey Wins Public Humanities Award
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) awarded the top prize in the inaugural Stanley N. Katz Prize for Excellence in Public Humanities to a multimedia project headed by Anita Bakshi, assistant teaching professor in the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture, and co-created with the Ramapough Lunaape Nation Turtle Clan. The award-winning project, “The […]
Should I wash my turkey? Follow these Thanksgiving food safety tips.
Dept. of Food Science; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers Family and Community Health Sciences’ Diabetes Prevention Program Receives Full CDC Recognition
November is Diabetes Awareness Month In September New Jersey Empower to Prevent (NJEP), the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) local version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) received full recognition status. Full recognition is the highest level of recognition that can be achieved by a […]
