Rutgers University is partnering with New Jersey Department of Agriculture, the Pennsylvania State University, Farmer Direct Marketing Association, and other local stakeholders to lead a new project to expand value‐added marketing opportunities for small famers in the Mid‐Atlantic region of the U.S. Ramu Govindasamy, professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, is […]
USDA Awards $149,000 to Climate Change Adaptation Fellowship Program
Marjorie Kaplan – Rutgers Climate Institute; Dan Ward – Dept. of Plant Biology/RCE; Janice McDonnell – Dept. of 4-H/RCE; Richard Lathrop – Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
USDA Awards $149,000 to Climate Change Adaptation Fellowship Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NE-SARE) program has awarded $149,000 to the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture. The award will support a yearlong fellowship program, of which Rutgers is a part, for agricultural advisers and farmers working in vegetable and small fruit industries to adapt to […]
Distinguished Prof. Ilya Raskin and Team Awarded Grant for Research on Healthful Compounds in Plants
Each year, the Rutgers Global Health Institute awards Global Health Seed Grants to faculty conducting collaborative, interdisciplinary activities that will impact the health of communities at home and around the world. These grants help faculty pursue new ideas and to seed expanded research and funding. A recipient of a recent Global Health Seed Grant, Ilya […]
Rutgers-led Projects Among Those Awarded $16 Million in NOAA Sea Grant Funding to Advance U.S. Aquaculture
NOAA Sea Grant announced $16 million in federal funding awards to support 42 research projects and collaborative programs aimed at advancing sustainable aquaculture in the United States. Rutgers scientists are among those serving as principal investigators of three of the 42 projects. Rutgers scientists David Bushek, professor and director of Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) […]
Gut microbes interfere with Parkinson’s drug – but we could stop them
Maria Dominguez-Bello – IFNH
Farewell, fish-and-chips?
Malin Pinsky – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Olaf Jensen – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Haskin Lab Awarded NOAA Grants to Enhance Coastal Bivalve Aquaculture
Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) was awarded a $592,390 NOAA Sea Grant to enhance bivalve aquaculture, which is important to the socioeconomic wellbeing of coastal areas that are depressed by the decline of wild fisheries. Principal investigator for the three-year project, “Enhancing bivalve aquaculture through species improvement and diversification,” is Ximing Guo, professor and […]
Rutgers University and the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market Awarded Grant to Promote Fresh Produce
The New Brunswick Community Farmers Market (NBCFM) has been selected to receive a 2018 Farmers Market Promotion Program Grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), designed to increase sales of agricultural products by local farmers around the country. The market is a collaboration between Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension, Johnson […]
Opinion: NJ Shouldn’t Wait for Federal Funds Before Reducing Flood Damages
Daniel Van Abs – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences