Amy Gage, Ameen Lotfi, and Lena Struwe contributed to this article. On the first warm and sunny spring Saturday this year, scientists, students, naturalists and herbaria enthusiasts alike gathered away from the sun in a Rutgers conference room for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: “Plants in the City” symposium on March 30. They set aside any weekend […]
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2019 NEFS Graduate Student Conference
The 2019 Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference took place on April 2nd at the Cook Campus Center. This year the group welcomed ninety-three attendees including twenty-five poster presenters. This annual conference is the result of collaborations between the Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences, Food Science, and Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student Organizations. The […]
For centuries, scientists sought a tuberculosis cure. A Passaic man found it in the dirt
Douglas Eveleigh, Max Haggblom, Jeffrey Boyd – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Rutgers Graduate Student Researchers Attend USDA Northeast Climate Hub GradCAP Workshop
Rutgers graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19. The workshop capped a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
Streptomycin is named the official state microbe
Max Haggblom, Jeffrey Boyd, Dept of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Breakfast After the Bell in New Brunswick
Authors: Cara L. Cuite, Jennifer Shukaitis, Gina Pope McKeon, Genesis Arteta “Breakfast After the Bell” (BATB) is the practice of serving breakfast to students after the first school bell of the school day rings. A major benefit of this approach is that students who do not arrive early enough to eat breakfast in the cafeteria […]
State Plants Seeds for First Offshore Wind Farms
Joseph F. Brodie – Center for Ocean Observing Leadership, Dept of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Andrea Gallavotti Wins Early-Career Award for Research on Maize Genetics
Andrea Gallavotti, associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, received the 2019 M. Rhoades Early-Career Maize Genetics Award from the Maize Genetics Executive Committee. The award was presented during the 61st Annual Maize Genetics Conference, held in St. Louis, Missouri, from March 14–17. The M. Rhoades Early-Career Award […]
Rutgers Study Shows Medicine and Personal Care Products May Lead to New Pollutants in Waterways
When you flush the toilet, you probably don’t think about the traces of the medicine and personal care products in your body that are winding up in sewage treatment plants, streams, rivers, lakes, bays and the ocean. But Rutgers scientists have found that bacteria in sewage treatment plants may be creating new contaminants that have not […]
More Vitamin D May Improve Memory But Too Much May Slow Reaction Time
How much vitamin D can boost memory, learning and decision-making in older adults, and how much is too much? A unique Rutgers-led study found that overweight and obese older women who took more than three times the recommended daily dose of vitamin D showed improvements in memory and learning – but also had slower reaction […]
