Rutgers and Emory University scientists have discovered a surprising link between mold and Parkinson’s disease: organic compounds which are given off by these organisms may be a possible cause for this devastating condition. While the causes of Parkins…
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Rutgers Machine Shop is Back in Business
Tucked away in a secluded spot off College Farm Road on the George H. Cook Campus, the Rutgers Machine Shop, which is administered by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, has been a fixture on campus for over 60 years. After a hiatus of about a year, the shop is again up and running, serving […]
Old Items Find New Homes: East Brunswick Freecycling Event Oct. 27
The Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission (The Friends) will hold its fall Freecycling event on Sunday, Oct. 27 at the East Brunswick High School. Freecycling is a way for residents to pass items they no longer need onto others who could use them. Freecycle is a network of people in the U.S. and […]
Mayor Booker Presents Proclamation to Rutgers TEEM Gateway
On October 1, Newark Mayor Cory Booker presented a Proclamation to honor Rutgers T.E.E.M. Gateway as “one of the city’s great organizations” for its work building productive futures for the at-risk youth of Newark and beyond. Proudly receiving the acknowledgment was Kenneth M. Karamichael, director of T.E.E.M. Gateway, a division of the Office of Continuing […]
Rutgers Students Dig-In To Healthy Dining Options
Beer, pizza, and Ramen noodles were once considered staples of the college diet. But all that is changing. Schools have started to update their menus and curriculum in an effort to help students make healthier choices, CBS 2′s Christine Sloan rep…
Rutgers IMCS Among Partners in New Urban Ecosystem Institute
A consortium administratively headed by the City University of New York, and including Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, will guide a new Science and Resilience Institute that will manage 10,000 acres of federal and city-owned parks in and around Jamaica Bay, NY. The Rutgers participants include professors Steven Handel, Richard Lutz, Joanna Burger, Robert […]
Rutgers Dining Services Switching to Cage-Free Eggs
Following a three-year campaign and a petition drive that collected over 3,000 signatures, the Rutgers University dining program will no longer purchase eggs from hens raised in battery cage confinement systems, Rutgers United for the Welfare of Animal…
Second Annual National Moth Week July 20-28
National Moth Week 2013, July 20-28, will kick off in East Brunswick, N.J., where it was founded last year and quickly went global, engaging citizen scientists around the world in observing and documenting moths in their backyards, parks and communities. As of July 9, all 50 US states will be participating in National Moth Week, […]
SEBS Staff Venture into the Garden
It was a bright, sunny first day of summer when Bruce Crawford, director of the Rutgers Gardens, took 12 SEBS staff members on a guided tour of the gardens as part of a SEBS Staff Community Initiative activity. Much like Dr. Seuss’ character, the Lorax, who “speaks for the trees,” Crawford speaks for the Rutgers […]
SEBS Staff Rewind Time as Book Club Discusses Schatz-Waksman Controversy
It was 1943 when Albert Schatz, a doctoral student in Selman Waksman’s Lab at Rutgers College of Agriculture, discovered the soil micro-organism that produced the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. As the notoriety around this new “wonder drug” streptomycin grew, Schatz’s initial recognition as co-discoverer disappeared into the background, as all eyes and much of […]
