More than a hundred thousand people flooded the state university’s three campuses on a near-perfect spring Saturday for the annual Rutgers Day festival featuring a day of food, music, games and a slew of exhibits… Over at the Cook College campus, a crowd watched in the Rutgers Equestrian Science Center as a former harness racing horse had her strength tested… Some got to test their taste buds with the new pepper unveiled Saturday by Rutgers plant researchers, the “pumpkin habanero,” which is hotter than any jalapeno.
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The Evolution of Ag Field Day to Rutgers Day
Rutgers President McCormick was inspired by the festive nature of Maryland Day when he founded Rutgers Day in 2009. But, he built it around a pre-existing annual tradition that has been celebrated on George H. Cook Campus for about a century: Ag Field Day. The history of Ag Field day began as a showcase of […]
Learn belly dancing, create a mini-earthquake. Do it all at Rutgers Day 2017
Rutgers Day is Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all three of Rutgers University’s campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden… Learn more about animals and insects though events such as the Farm Animal Showcase, cockroach races an…
IFNH Partners with Mason Gross to Get Middle School Students Moving with Black Grace Dance Troupe
Dance can improve health through increased physical activity. This may seem like a simple concept, but it is not always obvious. That connection was driven home this month when Rutgers brought a contemporary dance company, Black Grace, to the Greater New Brunswick Charter School. Through a joint program of the Center for Childhood Nutrition Education […]
Harvest Café at IFNH Provides First Job Opportunity for Adult with Autism through Rutgers Center
Craig Lillard, 23, of Princeton, New Jersey, is the first adult in the Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services (RCAAS). The Center plans to offer adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) a one-of-a-kind support program that makes an independent and fulfilling life possible. Part of that includes job placement. And that’s where we met Craig, […]
Financial Resource Management Specialist Barbara O’Neill Gives Tips on the Best Credit Cards
For a closer look at the cream of the credit-card crop, including what the best offers tell us about the economy and why abstainers from plastic may want to reconsider their stance, WalletHub posed questions to a panel of leading personal finance experts… professor Barbara O’Neill, extension specialist in Financial Resource Management and others gave […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Participates in Lake Shoreline Restoration at Middlesex County Park
By Michele Bakacs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Manalapan Lake in Middlesex County’s Thompson Park received an ecological makeover this past fall when 600 feet of bare shoreline were planted with native plants. This shoreline buffer was established to prevent soil from […]
Rutgers Gardens Receives Prestigious National Horticultural Landmark Award
Rutgers Gardens was presented with a Horticultural Landmark Award by the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) on April 4 at the Log Cabin on the grounds of the Gardens. The ASHS president John Dole and ASHS Executive Director Michael Neff presented a brass commemorative plaque to dean Bob Goodman, chairman of the Rutgers Gardens […]
Using GIS Mapping and Spatial Thinking to Promote Health in the Urban Landscape
With funding from the New Jersey Healthy Community Network, the 3rd Annual Geohealth Workshop, led by David Tulloch, associate director for program development and GIS applications program leader at the Rutgers Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA), is scheduled to get underway at Rutgers this summer. The annual workshop, which […]
Rutgers Gardens Gets National Award
Bob Lyons – Rutgers Gardens
