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Financial Resource Management Specialist Barbara O’Neill Gives Tips on the Best Credit Cards
For a closer look at the cream of the credit-card crop, including what the best offers tell us about the economy and why abstainers from plastic may want to reconsider their stance, WalletHub posed questions to a panel of leading personal finance experts… professor Barbara O’Neill, extension specialist in Financial Resource Management and others gave […]
Rutgers Gardens Receives Prestigious National Horticultural Landmark Award
Rutgers Gardens was presented with a Horticultural Landmark Award by the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) on April 4 at the Log Cabin on the grounds of the Gardens. The ASHS president John Dole and ASHS Executive Director Michael Neff presented a brass commemorative plaque to dean Bob Goodman, chairman of the Rutgers Gardens […]
The Center for Human Health and Performance, an Rx for Life
Did you join a gym at the beginning of the year or start a diet? How is that working out? The scale hasn’t moved that much, your clothes seem to fit about the same and you really aren’t feeling that much more energetic. Why? You’re there three to five times a week. You’re on that […]
SEBS Launches Inaugural Science Café: An Informal Exchange of Thoughts between Faculty and Students
The inaugural Science Café at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) was launched spring semester, 2017. Sponsored by SEBS Academic Programs, Cook Campus Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, and the Department of Human Ecology, the cafés are held the first Tuesday of the month during the semester. A global phenomena, Science Cafés are events […]
SEBS Staff Gain Insight into Why Diets Fail
On January 20, Michelle Arent, director of training and conditioning at Rutgers Center for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH), gave a presentation to SEBS staff members on “Why Diets Fail.” The talk was an activity of the “SEBS Staff Scene,” which offers administrative staff […]
Learn how Professor Emeritus Bonnie McCay’s lifelong research on fisheries may help us better manage “The Commons”
By Samuel Ludescher (SAS’18). To understand what “the commons” is and the importance of maintaining it, first recognize the commons as a general term describing any system where the resources are used and perhaps owned jointly, in common, rather than separately and in private. The term was popularized by Garett Hardin’s 1968 article, “Tragedy of […]
Rutgers CHHP Appointed as Lifetime Member of the US Army’s 3-314th Field Artillery Thunder Battalion
When U.S. Army trainers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst wanted to optimize their workout program for training their soldiers, they turned to the Rutgers Center for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH). Their initial visit to the Center, located on the Rutgers G.H. Cook Campus […]
Jack Rabin (CC’78) NJAES Associate Director for Farm Programs Retires
Jack Rabin’s retirement celebration took place Friday, December 9, 2016 at the Cook Student Center and capped a nearly 34-year career. Rutgers faculty & staff, New Jersey farmers & politicians, and friends of Jack Rabin’s came from near and far to wish him well. The celebration began with talks and presentations and ended with food […]
Rutgers Snyder Farm Harvest Feeds Hungry Residents and Makes a Hit in Rutgers Dining Halls
The Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm in Pittstown, NJ, hosts numerous agricultural research trials by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) faculty on the farm’s 390 acres in Hunterdon County. The farm trials span an array of fruit, vegetable, herbs, and hops research that includes breeding, variety trials, insect and disease control, and cultural […]
