Ag Field day has gone to the (4-H) dogs for 25 years! For over 25 years, the State 4-H Dog Show has provided New Jersey 4-H dog project members a state level event to test their dog’s skills and meet fellow dog project enthusiasts. The event started as part of 4-H Action Day and eventually […]
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Plants in the City: Herbaria as Lenses into the Past to Better See Our Future
Amy Gage, Ameen Lotfi, and Lena Struwe contributed to this article. On the first warm and sunny spring Saturday this year, scientists, students, naturalists and herbaria enthusiasts alike gathered away from the sun in a Rutgers conference room for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: “Plants in the City” symposium on March 30. They set aside any weekend […]
2019 NEFS Graduate Student Conference
The 2019 Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference took place on April 2nd at the Cook Campus Center. This year the group welcomed ninety-three attendees including twenty-five poster presenters. This annual conference is the result of collaborations between the Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences, Food Science, and Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student Organizations. The […]
Rutgers Graduate Student Researchers Attend USDA Northeast Climate Hub GradCAP Workshop
Rutgers graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19. The workshop capped a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
Breakfast After the Bell in New Brunswick
Authors: Cara L. Cuite, Jennifer Shukaitis, Gina Pope McKeon, Genesis Arteta “Breakfast After the Bell” (BATB) is the practice of serving breakfast to students after the first school bell of the school day rings. A major benefit of this approach is that students who do not arrive early enough to eat breakfast in the cafeteria […]
Student Farm a welcome part of Rutgers Gardens
Student Farm; Rutgers Gardens
WeMake 4-H Club President Receives Prestigious STEM Civic Leadership Award
The New Jersey STEM Pathways Network and the Research & Development Council of New Jersey celebrated NJ STEM Month in March with a STEM Fair at the State House in Trenton. Several STEM organizations from across the state had the opportunity to meet with legislators and staff. WeMake 4-H of Middlesex County was among the invited […]
NJAES Board of Managers Hosts Livestock Summit for Residents and Small Farms
By Brittany Smith, Ag & Food Systems major, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Class of 2022 Over the past several years, New Jersey has had an increase in the number of backyard and small farm livestock owners. Along with the rise in residents raising animals such as chickens, sheep and goats, is the […]
From Instagram to Rutgers lab, the art of microscopy
Julia Van Etten; Debashish Bhattacharya – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
CABLE Student Delegate Maxwell Melnick Coordinates Event Promoting Low-Carbon Transportation Options
The “Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership” (CABLE) is a 20-university partnership that aims to guide the next generation of bioeconomy leaders. Participating universities, which include Rutgers, select one student to become its student delegate whose role is to collaborate in small working groups with the other student delegates to research and present a specific industry […]
