Joe Gradone has been recognized for his ability to make science accessible and relevant to diverse audiences New Jersey native Joe Gradone grew up less than 40 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, but his fascination with oceanography first surged while studying geology as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado. “It took me going to a […]
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Rutgers SEBS Collaborates with Bergen Community College to Strengthen Food and Agriculture Workforce Pipeline
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) has partnered with Bergen Community College (BCC) as part of a five-year, $4.5 million grant, New Jersey NextGen for Sustainable Farming, awarded to BCC by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Supported by funding under USDA-NIFA’s NextGen program, SEBS provides a residential Experiential Learning Program […]
Angelina Shanley: A Marine Conservationist in the Making
On the outside, Angelina Shanley is a transfer student from upstate New York with a seeing eye dog. In her heart, though, she’s an environmental conservationist – more specifically, an ocean and marine life conservationist. Shanley was studying environmental science at Siena College, outside Albany, when, like many first-year students, she decided to change majors. […]
Rutgers Students Share STEM Learning through Science-in-Action Storytelling at Environmental Conference
Rutgers science storytellers and their science-in-action videos took a road trip to share their work as featured guests of the Environmental Storytelling Series in Syracuse, NY, on September 26-27. This series was organized jointly by the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s (SUNY ESF) Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications Program and […]
Rutgers Awarded $250,000 USDA NIFA Grant to Prepare Students for Vet School
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues to make strides to diversify the agricultural workforce, and the Rutgers Department of Animal Sciences continues to answer the call. Just over a year after being awarded funding through the NextGen grant for the Animal Science Discovery Program, Aparna Zama, undergraduate program director, has secured a five-year $250,000 […]
Nutritional Sciences Department Unveils New Teaching Kitchen
The Department of Nutritional Sciences unveiled a new teaching kitchen on September 11 as part of a state-of-the-art culinary foods lab that is designed to support exciting new courses and serving more undergraduates. A novel bread ribbon-cutting for the new teaching kitchen drew students and faculty to the second-floor culinary foods lab in Davison Hall […]
Pizza, Pasta-Making Videos Make Rutgers Student a Social Media Star
Family recipes, specialty pies and 2.3 million followers With videos that feature deft in-the-air pizza dough twists and charming patter with family members, all at her parents’ New Jersey restaurant and home, Rutgers University-New Brunswick sophomore Julia Molinari has emerged this year as a social media sensation with several video series, including Let’s Make a Pizza that […]
Ishir Hazarika SEBS’28: Local Champion for Environmental Consciousness
Across the university, Rutgers welcomed more than 14,400 first-year and transfer students this fall, according to preliminary figures. This year’s Class of 2028 comes from the largest applicant pool in the university’s history. Members of the incoming class, selected from among the largest applicant pool in the university’s history, have already made a difference in their […]
Karishma Subramanian SEBS ’28 Begins Her Journey Into Occupational Therapy
Karishma Subramanian, a first-year student at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is excited to begin her first semester on the George H. Cook campus and see her dream of one day becoming an occupational therapist. “I was inspired by my mom who has been an occupational therapist for almost 25 years. I […]
Rutgers 4-H STEM Ambassadors Embark on Enriching Pre-College Experience
Since its inception in 2009, the Rutgers 4-H STEM Ambassadors program has engaged more than 550 high school students from New Jersey’s urban communities in year-round experiences designed to promote STEM identity and college readiness among those underrepresented in science and engineering. The program trained its 16th cohort of students drawn from cities such as […]
