Funding will support collaboration by Rutgers, The Nature Conservancy and Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute. The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) has received a $1.2 million Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant to continue the development of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal (portal.midatlanticocean.org), a free, state-of-the-art mapping and information site focused on ocean areas […]
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Rutgers Gardens celebrates Centennial with ambitious growth plan
Rutgers Gardens, an oasis that draws thousands for classes, weddings and walks in the woods, is about to receive a rare honor and is on the cusp of a major facelift as it celebrates its centennial… “There is a huge demand for public space, public gardens, nature, greenery,” said Bruce Crawford, director since 2005, in a news release. “I know that we could easily get to a quarter million visitors in 20, 30 years, if things go like we think they’re going, so we have to plan for that.”
Alumni Story: Jessie Davis (SEBS’16) – Taking the Leap
Jessie Davis challenged fellow members of the Class of 2016 at the school convocation this past spring. Standing at the lectern on the VIP platform, she said, “Today we stand at the edge of the cliff. The cliff called yesterday. However, there is only one sign at the edge of the cliff: JUMP!” Taking the […]
Rutgers Gardens Farmers Market – A Fresh Place to Spend Summer Fridays
By Tim Gleeson, summer intern in the Office of Communications and Marketing On a Friday afternoon in the typical summer months, producers from around New Jersey emerge to showcase their products at the Rutgers Gardens Farmers Market, which actually has an expanded season starting in May and extending into November. Established in 2008, the market […]
Rutgers Gardens Celebrates Centennial With Ambitious Growth Plan
Rutgers Gardens, a treasured oasis that draws thousands for classes, weddings and walks in the woods, will be designated a Horticultural Landmark by the American Society for Horticulture Science, joining the prestigious ranks of the New York Botanical Garden, the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., and Monticello in Virginia. Managers of the gardens […]
Join the Master Tree Stewards this Fall
Enrollment is now open for Union County’s Master Tree Stewards program. Members of this all-volunteer organization spend the fall season on guided nature walks to learn about the critical role that trees play in our environment, and each spring they fa…
New York City’s Chief Zika Hunter, Dr. Jennifer Rakeman (CC’94)
When the Zika virus emerged in the U.S. this year, Dr. Rakeman faced different demands than she did with the Ebola crisis in 2014. She had to quickly train staff to probe for signs of a little-understood virus that lurks for only a short time in urine samples and even more briefly in blood. Public […]
Using Gardens to Improve Community Health and Manage Stormwater Runoff
The Shiloh Community Garden in downtown New Brunswick has been the focal point of a unique health project that seeks to foster positive physical, emotional, and social health outcomes for an underserved city population: uninsured clients of Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen. These clients, who receive free primary care through the Promise Clinic, a volunteer clinic […]
It’s Peak Mosquito Time on the Atlantic Coast: Will Zika Follow?
Now that Florida has become ground zero for locally-transmitted Zika virus in the United States, researchers are scrambling to quantify the risk to other regions of the country… After running their model in Philadelphia, for example, the scientists predicted that in 14 percent of scenarios, more than 100 people would become infected if Zika was introduced by a traveler returning with the disease. In more than half of the runs of that model, at least one new person was infected. The model also showed that the risk of serious outbreaks rose as the mosquito season lengthened, a concern that would increase should the weather remain hot and sticky later into the year. Such results don’t surprise Dina Fonseca, an entomologist at Rutgers University, who studies the habits of mosquitoes. “Right now we’re entering the most dangerous time in terms of density of Aedes albopictus,” she said, referring to the Asian tiger mosquito. “In July is when they start to go crazy, at least here in New Jersey, but they peak in August.”
Urban High School Students Dive Deep into Science at Rutgers University
Annual 4-H Summer Science Program was held July 11-15 on the Cook Campus Over sixty high school students from Elizabeth, Newark, New Brunswick, Passaic, Paterson, Trenton, Rahway and Atlantic City participated in hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities alongside Rutgers faculty at the 8th annual 4-H Summer Science Program on the Rutgers-New Brunswick […]
