Principal investigator Brooke Maslo, associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was awarded $268,081 to field-test a promising method of treating environmental reservoirs of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome in bats. The Rutgers grant is part of a total of $770,000 in grants awarded by the National Fish and […]
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Rutgers Graduate Students Explore the Southern Ocean
Rutgers graduate students Quintin Diou-Cass and Joe Gradone joined University of Connecticut Postdoc Jessie Turner on the R/V Nathaniel Palmer to head to the West Antarctic Peninsula to conduct hands-on field research in the Southern Ocean. Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Rutgers leads a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project – entering […]
Sugar detection science in humans may help beverage makers
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Human mouth can detect low-caloric sugar from the high one – study
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences
New Jersey’s Tidal Marshes in Danger of Disappearing, Study Shows
New Jersey’s tidal marshes aren’t keeping up with sea level rise and may disappear completely by the next century, according to a study led by Rutgers researchers. [Includes Elizabeth Ravit of Rutgers’ Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability] The findings, which include potential solutions for preserving the marshlands, appear in the journal Anthropocene Coasts. The […]
Rutgers Awarded $305,000 Grant to Support Water Quality Protection and Improvements in the Delaware River Basin
Daniel Van Abs, professor, and Karen O’Neill, associate professor, Department of Human Ecology, are co-PIs on a new grant of $305,000 from the William Penn Foundation of Philadelphia. The grant funds the second phase of a project to identify all government expenditures for the purposes of water quality protection and improvements in the Delaware River […]
Research uncovers a new human sensory ability to detect sugars in the mouth
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Novel sugar detector system in the human mouth has implications for designing tastier, healthier beverages and foods, according to Monell Center study
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Novel sugar detector system in the human mouth has implications for designing tastier, healthier beverages and foods
Paul Breslin, Department of Nutritional Sciences
To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One
Max McCarthy; Rachael Winfree – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
