The AKC Humane Fund, Inc. announced the 2022 recipients of the Sir John D. Spurling Scholarship, celebrating the human-canine bond. Each year, the AKC Humane Fund awards five full-time students enrolled in courses of study that contribute to the well-being of dogs and the advancement of responsible pet ownership. Desire Walker (SEBS’24) is one of […]
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National Transfer Student Week: Christania Fraenkel (SEBS’24) – An Activist in the Making
Christania Fraenkel transferred from Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) with an associate’s degree and will graduate from SEBS in 2024. Originally a physics major, Christania quickly switched to environmental science and biology and has never looked back. Born and raised in New Jersey, she was attracted to Rutgers for the generous financial aid, and specifically […]
New Faces on Campus: Naya White, A Student with Many Passions
Naya White (SEBS’26) was born and raised in New Jersey. She has a lot of connections to Rutgers and a limitless passion for her family, science, the human mind…and dance! Her father, her uncle and a family friend are all Rutgers alumni, but Naya explains that she was never influenced by those connections and chose […]
Living Shoreline Combats Coastal Erosion Caused by Sea Level Rise
Rutgers Scientists and high school volunteers from Camden are using nature to mitigate the effects of coastal erosion in Southern New Jersey. Together they built a living shoreline near the New Jersey Aquaculture Innovation Center in Cape May that uses marsh grasses and recycled oyster and clam shells. The shells, incorporated into modified concrete blocks called Oyster […]
JC NERR Plays a Key Role in New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium
Task One: Complete Last December, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR,) along with multiple other NJ partners and institutions, were awarded a grant to fund the implementation of the newly-established New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium. In addition to the JC NERR, partners include Monmouth University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockton University, […]
NJAES Awarded USDA Grant to Research Nickel Plant Nutrition and Soil Fertility
Nickel is one of the 18 chemical elements classified as essential for plant growth, development and reproduction. However, crops require nickel in only very small amounts. Until recently there has been very little research and extension focus on nickel soil fertility and plant nutrition. In February 2022, Joseph Heckman, extension specialist in soil fertility, postdoc […]
New Faces on Campus: Leah Kapps, First-generation Student on a Quest for Great Things
Leah Kapps, first-year student at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), grew up in Kearny, New Jersey. She’s a first-generation student, who is excited about earning a degree from Rutgers and making her family proud. A middle child, with two brothers, Leah lost her father when she was 10 years old. She feels […]
Charlie Kontos Memorial Scholarship for Environmental Activism Awarded to High School Senior
The Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award is named for Charlie Kontos, who passed away in 2010 and was, at the time, enrolled as a doctoral student in the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program administered by the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Before his premature passing at age 33, Kontos had already made a significant contribution […]
Understanding the Impact of Marine Viruses on the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle and Role in Climate Change
To address one of the most pressing issues impacting human civilization, pioneering work by EOAS faculty members Kay Bidle, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and Kimberlee Thamatrakoln, is for the first time, changing the ways scientists understand the impact marine viruses have on phytoplankton, the ocean’s role in the carbon cycle […]
SEBS Researchers Receive NSF Funding to Explore Social and Ecological Factors of Pathogen Occurrence in Amphibian Pet Trade
Professor Julie Lockwood, Department of Ecology Evolution and Natural Resources, and Ryan Almeida, School of Graduate Studies, will work with collaborators across four universities to characterize the trade of pet amphibians within the United States, including the range of amphibian species sold as pets and which species are the most common and cheapest to purchase. […]
