Five Rutgers students participated in the Green Teams summer internship program of the PSEG Institute of Sustainability Studies at Montclair State University. Among the five Rutgers students were two SEBS undergraduates, Denia Cai Shi, Department of Plant Biology, and Dustin Wang, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. The ten-week interdisciplinary paid internship program hired […]
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National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation Announces Rutgers Grad Student David Sanders as 2017 Scholarship Recipient
The National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation announced that David Sanders has been named a recipient of the NSCA’s Challenge Scholarship for 2017. Sanders was selected by the NSCA Foundation Scholarship Committee after a thorough evaluation process of all applicants. This program awards $1,500 to NSCA members seeking either an undergraduate or graduate degree in […]
Project PORTS: Ten Years in the Bag
Funny thing about oysters; once attached, you may be stuck on them for life! The excited fourth graders at D’Ippolito School in Vineland, New Jersey, raced across the school grounds to a small area beside the ball field where the surf clam shells were haphazardly stacked in a pile. Eagerly greeted by Rutgers University Haskin […]
If it’s Summer 4-H is Bringing Science to Urban High School Students
Annual 4-H Summer Science Program was held July 10-14 on the Cook Campus More than 60 urban high school students from seven New Jersey Counties participated in hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities for a week alongside Rutgers faculty at the 9th annual 4-H Summer Science Program on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. The […]
Middle Schoolers Develop Leadership and Community Service Skills at the 4-H Youth Leadership Institute at Rutgers University
4-H members representing eight counties took part in the New Jersey 4-H goLEAD Youth Leadership Institute held in June at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. goLEAD (generation-on Leadership, Education, and Development) is an innovative approach to equip middle and high school aged youth with invaluable 21st century skills that will allow them to change themselves […]
Rutgers Energy Institute Contest Proposals Help Reduce Energy Use on Campus
The Rutgers Energy Institute (REI) annually challenges Rutgers undergraduates to develop innovative and implementable plans for reducing energy consumption on the New Brunswick campus with its Energy Innovation Contest. The contest, now in its 10th year, represents the REI’s longstanding commitment to education and outreach. REI associate director, Kevin Lyons, from Rutgers Business School Department […]
Lifelong classmates excel in Friendship 101
Josh Kancylarz and Eric Fuzer – School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers Atmospheric Science Graduate Program Turns 10 Years Old
Faculty, students and alumni of the Rutgers Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science (GPAS) marked the 10th anniversary of the program’s establishment with an afternoon symposium held during the Spring semester at the Cook Student Center. The event featured a keynote address by Arlene Fiore, professor and accomplished atmospheric chemist from Columbia University, as well as […]
RU a Storm Chaser?
Where are you when funnel clouds appear? Most people head inside and to the basement. Not Steve Decker’s fearless and inquisitive storm-chasing meteorological students! Steve Decker, associate teaching professor in the Meteorology Undergraduate Program in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led his students on a two-week field trip to the Midwest as part of the […]
Ticks and Gardening: What’s the Risk?
By James L. Occi, graduate student, and Dina M. Fonseca, professor, Department of Entomology Reprinted from Gardener News, August 2016 How likely is it that you will get Lyme disease while gardening? Assuming you are a New Jersey gardener, a state in the U.S. epicenter of Lyme disease, it turns out it depends on how […]
