Nutrition and Physical Activity for the Childbearing Years is a 3-part series from pre-conception through baby’s first year. Michelle Brill, FCHS Educator of Mercer County takes you through the latest research-based recommendations for optimal health and wellness at this special time in a woman’s life cycle. Drawing upon the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025, and Cornell […]
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Wolfram Hoefer Receives Prestigious International Landscape Architecture Teaching Award
Wolfram Hoefer, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, was recognized with the 2021 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). This competitive international award was presented on March 19 at the annual conference of CELA, the premier international organization for educators in landscape architecture. Hoefer, who […]
FCHS Works with Multiple Partners to Distribute Donated Yogurt to Jersey Neighbors in Need
Rutgers Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) provides nutrition, health, and wellness education for a variety of audiences of any socioeconomic status. With SNAP-Ed grant funding from the New Jersey Department of Health, FCHS SNAP-Ed staff also seek to help improve healthy food access for limited resource populations, by identifying strategies to address […]
Developing a Restoration and Adaptation Plan for New Jersey’s Coast
A team led by Rutgers University is working with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to develop a Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Plan (CERAP) for New Jersey’s coastal marshes, estuaries and back-bays. The CERAP project team, which was awarded a $150,000 grant from NJDEP, includes the Rutgers University Center for Remote Sensing […]
Rutgers OCPE’s Online Course Enables Student to Start a Career in Public Health
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Despite the seemingly never-ending challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Breanna Livingstone participated in the online offering of the Rutgers Environment and Public Health (EPH) Program in the summer of 2020, completed the required 200-hour health department internship, and passed the New Jersey Registered and Environmental Health […]
Considerations for Soil in Raised Beds
By Stephanie Murphy, Ph.D., Director of the Rutgers Soil Testing Laboratory Interest in gardening grew prolifically during 2020 as the pandemic forced people to spend more time at home. Working in a garden provides a productive outdoor activity that is usually socially distanced from others. Inexperienced gardeners were wise if they reached out to Rutgers […]
Snowdrops: The Start of the Garden Symphony
by Bruce Crawford, Program Leader in Home and Public Horticulture Every autumn, gardeners visit their favorite garden center and are confronted by rack upon rack of rather unappealing appearing “bulbs.” Occasionally, a gardener will take a leap of faith and buy a few of the dry, papery brown objects in the hopes that flowers, similar […]
James Murphy Appointed to Ralph Geiger Chair by Rutgers University Board of Governors
On Feb. 23, the Rutgers University Board of Governors appointed extension specialist James A. Murphy, who is widely recognized as one of the nation’s top scientists in turfgrass management, to the Ralph Geiger Chair in Turfgrass Science. His term began July 1, 2020. Murphy is renowned for developing environmentally sound management practices, recently leading a national […]
Rutgers “Earth Day Every Day!” Spring 2021 series Begins March 8
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s “Earth Day Every Day” educational webinar series is back for Spring 2021. Open to the public, these free sessions focus on steps everyone can take to protect the environment. We can all do our part to take actions that make our homes more sustainable, from starting a native plant garden, to protecting […]
International Floricultural Expert Robin Brumfield Teaches Women to Manage Business Risks
This article was first published in Lancaster Farming. When Robin Brumfield, extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Rutgers, joined her high school’s FFA club in 1969 as one of the chapter’s first girls, she had no idea that her passion for greenhouses and bedding plants would lead to a […]
