Mary Whelan, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Scientific Foundation (NSF) for the project, “Constraining land carbon uptake on regional and global scales by enabling the interpretation of two decades of trace gas measurements.” The five-year, $607,772 award from NSF’s Atmospheric Chemistry division is from […]
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Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program Partners with NJBPU in Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) and the Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) have entered an agreement to develop and implement a Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program. The pilot program, which was announced on May 1 and will last for three years, is designed to demonstrate and study the compatibility of agricultural or horticultural […]
Announcement: Ming-Yi Chou is an Assistant Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology
Announcement by Don Kobayashi, chair of the Department of Plant Biology On behalf of Department of Plant Biology and the Center for Turfgrass Science, please join me in welcoming Ming-Yi Chou, who has recently joined the faculty as an Assistant Extension Specialist with expertise in turfgrass pathology. Dr. Chou’s extension program will focus on evaluating […]
Three SEBS Professors Ranked Among “Best Plant Science and Agronomy Scientists”
Three faculty members in the Department of Plant Biology have been ranked “Best Plant Science and Agronomy Scientists” by Research.com. The latest scientific rankings were based on number of publications and their citation values within the discipline. Distinguished Professor Bingru Huang focuses her research on understanding mechanisms of plant tolerance to abiotic stress tolerance, […]
Award-winning Film Highlights Rutgers Efforts to Protect Basil from Blight
James Simon – Dept. of Plant Biology; Andy Wyenandt – Rutgers Cooperative Extention; Dena Seidel – Rutgers Climate Institute
Dipak Sarkar Elected as a 2023 Fellow in the International Union of Physiological Sciences Academy
Dipak Sarkar, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, was recently elected as a 2023 Fellow in the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Academy. The IUPS Academy represents the diversity and excellence of worldwide physiology. It celebrates and publicizes the important contributions made by physiologists globally to science and health. As an international non-political organization, IUPS […]
NJBPU Approves Agreement with Rutgers for Dual-Use Solar Pilot Program
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has approved an agreement with the Rutgers University Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) to facilitate the development and implementation of a Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program over the next three years. The Pilot Program is designed to demonstrate and study the compatibility of agricultural or horticultural production with solar […]
Prof. Pamela McElwee Co-authors Study Offering New Solutions for Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is co-author of a new study, “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts,” published in the journal, Science. She is among 18 international experts who contributed to the study. “This paper emphasizes that biodiversity loss and climate change are essentially two sides […]
Nature Favors all Creatures Great and Small Over Medium
Rutgers researchers conduct survey on the body sizes of Earth’s organisms Life may come in all shapes and sizes, but in nature the most extreme size ranges predominate, according to Rutgers researchers. A survey of body sizes of Earth organisms, published in the science journal PLoS ONE, shows that the planet’s biomass – the material that makes […]
See Gentle Giants up-close with Jersey Shore Whale Watching
Danielle Brown – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
