Melodee Lasky’s 19 years at Rutgers featured numerous accomplishments When Melodee Lasky joined Rutgers University 19 years ago, behavioral and mental health services were scattered across the individual colleges with little coordination. Psychiatry and the Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program were part of student health, but counseling services were separated and college-affiliated. As the New Brunswick […]
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New Rutgers program hopes to grow a new generation of NJ farmers
Brendon Pearsall – Rutgers Cooperative Extention
Join the Feed a Family 5K and Help Feed New Jersey Families
This June, Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Family & Community Health Sciences (FCHS) Department will host its first annual virtual Feed a Family 5K and Wellness Walk. FCHS is partnering with Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) to raise funds that will stock NJ food pantries with nutritious foods and help families learn easy, tasty ways to use that […]
LA Graduate Student’s Art Installation Connects and Documents Ecological Change in Abbot Farm Marshlands
In March 2021, Zoe Orlino, a graduate student in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, installed a series of bricolage art pieces at the Abbott Farm Marshlands in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. As the culmination of her thesis research on design, making and representation, these handcrafted pieces reveal the hidden story embedded in the […]
Return to SEBS: Online Learning Leads to New Alumni!
A SEBS Academic Programs Initiative welcomes back former SEBS and Cook College students to complete their degree When Rutgers University pivoted to fully online courses for the fall semester of 2020, SEBS Academic Programs staff realized that this might be the perfect opportunity for former students who were missing a few courses to graduate. Too […]
Return to SEBS: Online learning leads to new alumni!
Penny Carlson; Julie Traxler – SEBS Academic Advising
Rutgers creates course to train the next generation of farmers
Brendan Pearsall – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Grounded in Good Health
Stephanie Murphy, Rutgers Soil Testing Laboratory
FCHS Offers CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program Virtually to NJ Residents
The Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) of Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) has launched “NJ Empower to Prevent,” its version of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This project is funded by a grant from the New Jersey Diabetes Prevention and Control Program […]
Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Sciences Hosts 30th Anniversary Turf Symposium
By Phillip Vines, assistant professor of turfgrass breeding, Department of Plant Biology The 30th Anniversary Rutgers Turfgrass Symposium was held on March 18 and livestreamed as a virtual event. The theme for this year’s symposium was, “Advances in Turfgrass Science: Looking to the Future.” Although the Turfgrass symposium is an annual event, this was the […]
