One of the many devastating challenges of COVID-19 has been the increased demand on food banks across the nation, paired with many families’ inability to donate like they historically would. This combination encouraged Somerset County 4-H Piano & Music Club to use their experience as community leaders to aid the Somerset Food Bank, and in […]
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2020 SEBS Virtual Convocation Remarks by Executive Dean Robert M. Goodman
My heartfelt congratulations to each of you in the Class of 2020! You are the 152nd graduating class from our school—the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Also, I extend my sincere hopes that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. If there ever was evidence that the world needs a flood […]
2020 SEBS Virtual Convocation Remarks by Dean of Academic Programs Laura Lawson
Thank you, Jeremy Posluszny, Class Representative, for speaking so warmly on behalf of your fellow classmates. I extend my congratulations and best wishes to the more than 723 graduates who make up the SEBS Class of 2020. I offer a special “thank you” to the parents for your sacrifice, and to extended family and friends for your support of these accomplished men and women who persevered through […]
2020 SEBS Virtual Convocation Remarks by Class Representative Jeremy Posluszny
BEYOND THE SYLLABUS Welcome, graduates, faculty, staff, family, and friends. I’m Jeremy Posluszny, an environmental and business economics major here at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. I am honored to address you today at our historic S.E.B.S. Convocation Ceremony. Though we may not be able to celebrate in person with each other, the screens and masks between us do […]
NJHKI Steps Up During Lockdown, Assisting GBCS With Food Deliveries
For the past few years, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) has partnered with Greater Brunswick Charter School (GBCS) in New Brunswick to provide nutrition education, culinary literacy, and physical activity programs and activities to its students. This has included biweekly field trips for kindergarten and seventh graders to attend the New Jersey Institute for […]
William “Bill” Roberts, inventor of the air-inflated greenhouse covering system that revolutionized agriculture worldwide, passes away
William “Bill” Roberts, who had a distinguished 41-year career as an extension specialist in bioresource engineering at Rutgers, passed away on May 21, 2020. He was 88 years old. Roberts was among a small number of Extension faculty that achieved the level of Distinguished Professor, the highest professorial ranking at Rutgers. He developed the first […]
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Funds Rutgers Culture of Health School Program
The Rutgers University Foundation, along with New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) and Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s (RCE) Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS), has received a grant in the amount of $100,000 from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. The donation, made through The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, will be […]
Senior Story: Zaire Sanders (SEBS’20), a First-Generation College Graduate, Discovers Resiliency and Success
Zaire Sanders, SEBS Class of 2020 and Exercise Science major, plans to become a doctor. That’s been his dream. He’s always understood he’d need to put in additional years of intense study following his graduation from Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) before he could complete medical school and don that coveted white […]
Crazy Frog Hoppers 4-H Club Inspires Essential Workers
Pledging one’s hands to larger service is a core tenet of all 4-H members across the county. When COVID-19 started pushing essential workers harder than ever before, the Somerset County Crazy Frog Hoppers Double Dutch 4-H Club knew they had to find a way to not only help, but motivate and show appreciation for the […]
