The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Annual Conference was held as a virtual meeting, January 12 – 14, 2021. The presentation of Excellence Awards was made on the 14th, presented by Rachel Lyons, chair, Department of 4-H Youth Development. Wilbur M. Runk Award Recipient: Graham “Geb” Bastian Mentor: Debra Palmer-Keenan, Associate Extension Specialist, Nutritional Sciences The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is an Extension program […]
Bingru Huang Creates and Serves as Editor-in-Chief of New Journal, “Grass Research”
Bingru Huang, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Biology, was invited by the publisher, Maximum Academic Press, to create a new journal called Grass Research and serve as its editor-in-chief. The inaugural issue was published in January 2021 and included an editorial by Huang titled, “Grass Research for a Productive, Healthy and Sustainable Society.” […]
Two SEBS Faculty Among Earth Leadership Program’s North American 2021 Fellows
Pamela McElwee, associate professor, Department of Human Ecology, and Malin Pinsky, associate professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, are among the 2021 cohort of leading sustainability scientists selected as Fellows by the Earth Leadership Program (ELP), the global successor to the renowned Leopold Leadership Program, in partnership with Future Earth. McElwee and Pinsky […]
Changlu Wang and Urban Entomology Lab Win 2020 Governor’s Excellence Award
Changlu Wang, extension specialist in entomology, and his Urban Entomology Lab, is a winner of the 2020 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award in the Healthy and Sustainable Communities category, for their work in urban pest management. Wang and lab colleagues, who have collaborated with communities in more than 20 cities in New Jersey to conduct research, […]
Department of Environmental Sciences Wins Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award
Rutgers Department of Environmental Sciences (DES) was named winner of the 2020 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award, in the Environmental Education (Educator Led) category, at a virtual ceremony held on Dec 14. This award category recognizes “an educator, student, group of students, or class that has planned and implemented a project or program with measurable, positive […]
Rutgers graduate students receive awards at 2020 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting
The American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America hosted thousands of scientists, professionals, educators, and students from around the world at their virtual Annual Meeting. This year’s International Annual Meeting, “Translating Visionary Science to Practice,” previously to be held on November 8-11, 2020, in Phoenix, Arizona, was offered virtually November 9-13, 2020. […]
Students win Prestigious Awards at the Virtual Entomology Society of America’s National Meeting
At the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), held November 11 to 25, several Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences entomology students won awards in the student paper competition for the President’s Prize. Each year during the ESA Annual Meeting, students are offered the opportunity to present their research. The President’s Prize is granted for graduate and undergraduate students for their 10-minute oral presentations, posters, and infographics. This year’s annual […]
Weed and Disease Control Guide Wins ‘Excellence in Extension’ Award
Matthew Elmore, assistant extension specialist in weed science in the Department of Plant Biology, helped to develop the publication, Weed, Insect and Disease Control for Turfgrass Producers, which won the Excellence in Extension Award from the American Society of Agronomy (ASA). Recognized in the long publications category by the ASA, the first edition of this […]
2020 Excellence Award Winners
This year we are honoring the recipients of the 27th Excellence Awards for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station on our website. According to interim executive dean Laura Lawson, these signature awards acknowledge contributions that meet carefully-considered criteria, including creativity, original work and ideas, innovation, effectiveness, integrity, […]
Prof. Elisabeth Sikes Named the Prestigious 2020 Cesar Emiliani Lecturer by the AGU
Elisabeth Sikes, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the 2020 recipient of the AGU’s Cesare Emiliani Lecture, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of paleoceanography. The annual lecture honors the life and work of the renowned paleoceanographer, Cesare Emiliani, considered to be the founder of the fields of paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. […]
