From Rutgers Gardens and Helyar Woods to the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences makes full use of its resources around the Garden State to serve as living labs for students and the public, according to the school’s new interim executive dean. “SEBS is on the front lines of addressing community, environmental […]
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Stories of Life at Rutgers Through the Pandemic: Meet Rutgers Essential Workers – Cook Campus Farm
Essential workers at Rutgers have kept the university running and served others who remained on campus while most of the community has been working remotely since March. They have maintained the buildings and grounds; kept faculty, staff and students connected online; served the hungry and provided other services. Rutgers Today spent some time talking to the workers about how the […]
Randolph: Morris County 4-Her’s Take Home Awards In Virtual Fair
Kelly Dziak – 4-H
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Unveils Online Family Meals Resources to Mark National Family Meals Month™
The Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS), a community-based nutrition, health promotion and family wellness outreach component of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, has launched a webpage dedicated to providing resources on family meals to coincide with National Family Meals Month™ which is observed each September. Research over the last decade has suggested that family meals play an important role […]
Rutgers “Earth Day Every Day!” Fall Virtual Series Begins September 14
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) webinar series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day is back this fall but with a new name: “Earth Day Every Day!” Formerly “Earth Day at Home,” which debuted in the Spring to mark the 50th anniversary of global environmental action, is once again open to the public with a series […]
National Moth Week Continues to Spread its Wings: 2020 Event Drew Record Numbers
Despite worldwide restrictions and lockdowns preventing participation in many summertime activities, the ninth annual National Moth Week – held in July 2020 – broke several records and attracted hundreds of new “moth-ers.” With mothing one of the safest, most enriching activities that families and individuals could do in their own backyards during the pandemic, National […]
How To Treat Trees After Tropical Storm
Deborah Fuentes – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
How Collections-based Undergraduate Research Adapted to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Rutgers Chrysler Herbarium collections manager, Megan R. King, presents a talk on ‘How Collections-based Undergraduate Research Adapted to the Covid-19 Pandemic’. This 15 minute presentation was delivered at the national Botany 2020 conference, held virtually between July 27 and July 31, 2020. The presentation goes over the size and contents of the herbarium collection, its […]
NJHKI Food Literacy Camp goes virtual
New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative, IFNH
NJHKI Food Literacy Camp Goes Virtual and 3rd-5th Graders Get Cooking
If family meals for today’s busy families could be summed up in a word, it might be “convenience.” How fast the food gets from the freezer to the microwave to the table shapes the awareness children have of what they eat. On the other hand, “food literacy” is a life skill that reveals the elements […]
