Fresh off the success of a multi-institutional workshop on oceanographic data literacy, Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) staff Janice McDonnell and Sage Lichtenwalner have just completed another data literacy workshop, this time in Princeton, New Jersey. Nineteen undergraduate-level university faculty and staff were invited to the Chauncey Hotel & Conference Center on October […]
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Elizabeth Coogan’s Inspiring Journey from Student to Turfgrass Management at Rutgers
Her office in Room 107 at the NJAES Office of Continuing Professional Education at Rutgers University seems exactly where Elizabeth Coogan (SEBS’17 Plant Science) belongs. Sure, it’s right next to the copier, which is convenient. But it’s more about where Coogan has spent much of her life in this industry, starting as a student assisting […]
Innovative Summer Climate Data and Literacy Workshop Stresses Connections to Local and Global Impacts and Community-based Partnerships
Middle and high school teachers from Belleville, Jersey City, Kearny, Neptune, Newark, and New Brunswick honed their climate change knowledge and made connections to local experts in a four-day Climate and Data Literacy summer workshop on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. With the recent incorporation of climate change into New Jersey’s K-12 Student Learning Standards across […]
Rutgers Students Share STEM Learning through Science-in-Action Storytelling at Environmental Conference
Rutgers science storytellers and their science-in-action videos took a road trip to share their work as featured guests of the Environmental Storytelling Series in Syracuse, NY, on September 26-27. This series was organized jointly by the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s (SUNY ESF) Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications Program and […]
FCHS Educator Karen Ensle Inducted into 2024 NEAFCS Hall of Fame
Karen Ensle, Ed.D., educator and department head, Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS), Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County, was inducted into the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS) Hall of Fame in Tucson, Arizona, on September 19. She was recognized with the 2024 NEAFCS Hall of Fame Award—the most prestigious honor […]
Cows and Solar Panels? In a New Jersey First, Project Melds Farming with Electricity Generation
Rutgers-New Brunswick inaugurates state-of-the-art agrivoltaics research and demonstration project for simultaneous production of food and solar energy Federal, state and university officials are inaugurating a research and demonstration project at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with the purpose of advancing a technology that could produce renewable energy while making farms more sustainable. The New Brunswick project, part […]
Rutgers Researchers Help Redefine Core Microbiome, Opening New Chapter in Precision Health
A collaborative study introduces a new model for the set of gut microbes found in humans Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, along with international collaborators, have introduced a novel method for identifying the crucial set of gut microbes commonly found in humans and essential for health. The researchers, whose study was published in Cell, said […]
Rutgers Awarded $1.1 Million NSF Grant to Support Researchers in Advancing the Societal Impacts of Research
Rutgers Associate Professor and 4-H Youth Development STEM Agent Janice McDonnell is a collaborating partner of the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) who was awarded $1.1 million of a $9.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build capacity in supporting research impact. While researchers around the world are working to […]
RUCOOL Staff Hosts Organizational Capacity in Research Training
Rutgers Associate Professor and 4-H Youth Development STEM Agent Janice McDonnell hosted seven institutions in a training focused on facilitating organizational capacity for research impacts at the Chauncey Hotel and Conference Center, in Princeton, NJ, in July. McDonnell is a part of the leadership team at Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS), an NSF-funded center […]
Apple and 4-H Bring Technology to a New Generation of Learners
4-H, the largest youth development organization in the U.S., reaching more than 6 million young people across the country, has expanded its programming to include greater access to technology, thanks in part to support from Apple and its Community Education Initiative (CEI). Since Apple launched CEI in 2019, the programming has provided coding, creativity, and […]