This year the volunteer student organization Rutgers Recreation Team REC will host the 22nd annual Special Friends Day on Mar. 30 at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center, from noon to 4:30 p.m. Approximately 100 children with developmental disabilities who were specially invited to the annual event, will participate in a fun-filled day of games, sports, swimming, arts […]
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Rutgers Gardens Offers Children Opportunities to Grow this Summer
Rutgers Gardens offers spring and summer ventures for children to explore and discover the garden environment. Family Garden Club involves monthly Saturday morning workshops that are a great opportunity for children to learn the skills to grow their own vegetables and to develop a connection with nature and an appreciation of healthy foods. Workshop dates […]
Rutgers Program Helps SEBS Student Transition from Foster Care System to College Life
Transitions for Youth, a program funded in part by the Rutgers School of Social Work and private donors, supports students like Amanda as they shift from foster care to college. Amanda is a SEBS student with a double major in Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources and Biochemistry. Watch the video below to learn more about […]
Environmentalist Lester R. Brown, originally from Stow Creek, shares personal history in new book
He’s been called “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” and “one of the great pioneer environmentalists,” of our time, yet on the phone, during a candid conversation with Lester R. Brown, talk shifts from the day’s weather – a nor’easter just swept through the area bringing snow and ice – taking walks to live longer, to ancestry.com…Today, as founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, Brown is the author of 51 books, which have in turn been translated into 638 different languages, a feat Brown said is “just amazing for someone who didn’t aspire to be a writer…” At first, armed with agricultural degrees from Rutgers University, he became a successful tomato farmer, where he began getting closer to nature to try to better understand things.
Support Group Shows Grandparents They Are Not Alone
According to a 2010 U.S. Census, 6.2 percent of all children in New Jersey lived in grandparent headed households and the number of children being raised by their grandparents continues to rise. Whatever the reason and situation, grandparents raising t…
Support Group Shows Grandparents They Are Not Alone
According to a 2010 U.S. Census, 6.2 percent of all children in New Jersey lived in grandparent headed households and the number of children being raised by their grandparents continues to rise. Whatever the reason and situation, grandparents raising t…
Climate Scientist Jennifer Francis Discusses Global Warming and the Polar Vortex
The recent weather outlook reveals unusual warmth in Alaska, drought in California, and cold in other parts of the U.S. The conditions that are causing these extremes are explained by Jennifer Francis of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, who describes how warm polar temperatures produce changes in the polar vortex to cause extreme […]
SEBS Animal Science Undergraduates Look Forward to Playing at Super Bowl XLVIII
By Dorothy “Dory” Knipple ’17 (Animal Science) Editor’s Note: Dory is first-year student majoring in Animal Science. She works as an office assistant in the Department of Animal Sciences through the Federal Work Study Program. The Rutgers Marching Scarlet Knights were chosen to represent New Jersey as a part of the New York– New Jersey […]
Super Bowl Weather Watcher: A New Rutgers Website Analyzes the Possibilities
The State Climatologist’s office at Rutgers has created what might be the ultimate Super Bowl weather website dashboard: BigGameWeather.com. The site is being billed as the “one-stop-shop” for critical weather and climate information relating to the Big Game. Read more about it at Rutgers Today.
Weather Forecast for the Super Bowl? Check with the NJ State Climatologist
New Jersey State Climatologist Dave Robinson was interviewed on Super Bowl weather prospects for the February 2 game that will be held at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. This will be the first ever outdoor, cold weather Super Bowl. The interview aired on The Other Pre-Game Show on CBS Sports Network on December […]
