March is National Nutrition Month and the Warren County Board of Chosen Freeholders has issued an official proclamation in support of its designation, while highlighting the recent Shaping NJ Healthy Community Grant awarded to the Warren County Communi…
Rutgers’ New Nursery Specialist Wins Grant Award From Horticultural Research Institute
The New England Nursery Association (NENA), in cooperation with the Horticultural Research Institute (HRI), announced that Associate Extension Specialist in Nursery Production and Management Raul Cabrera is the first recipient of the association’s Industry Growth Fund grant award. After a review of 60+ grant applications, NENA selected Cabrera’s research project, “Use of Alternative Irrigation Water […]
Two SEBS Faculty Receive Fulbright Scholar Grants
Two professors from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences have received Fulbright Scholar grants for research and teaching abroad next year at institutions in Brazil. Eric Lam in plant biology and pathology will continue his work on improving biofuel production by enhancing plant sources. Daniel Hoffman in nutritional sciences will lead seminars and teach […]
RCE Collaborates with Hillsborough Township and Watershed Association to Win $175K DEP Grant
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) continues to expand its efforts in urban extension by securing funding to work directly with municipalities and their residents to address important issues affecting New Jersey’s towns. In one such effort, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County has partnered with Hillsborough Township and Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association (SBMWA) to obtain a […]
NSF Grant Awarded to Rutgers to Support Research on the Sustainability of Fisheries
Most of us enjoy eating fish and plan to continue eating fish into the future. But which local fish will be available in New Jersey? How will summer flounder and hake populations on the northeast continental shelf change as our climate warms and fisheries practices adapt? We currently do not know the answer to these […]
CIT Awarded Subcontract to Support Ocean Research
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today a $50,000 subcontract with Rutgers University to provide site support for six high frequency (HF) radar systems along the Virginia-Maryland coast, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) project…Scott Glenn, Rutgers University Professor of Marine and Coastal Science, and Managing Director and Principal Investigator for MARACOOS, said, “We look forward to continuing to work with CIT and all our partners to build a system that greatly contributes to improving our management and use of this precious resource.”
Rutgers Researcher Malin Pinsky Awarded Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
Malin Pinsky, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for marine field work in the Philippines. Pinsky, who is also affiliated with the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is studying how […]
Doctoral Student Amanda Wenczel Awarded New Jersey Sea Grant Scholarship
Amanda Wenczel, a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Evolution working at the Haskin Lab, is the winner of the New Jersey Sea Grant (NJSG) Stew Tweed Scholarship Award for 2014. Stew Tweed was a student of Hal Haskin, for whom the Rutgers Haskin Lab is named, and later spent a productive career as a County […]
Early Career Scientist Wins $50,000 Sloan Foundation Fellowship
Malin Pinsky, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, was awarded a $50,000 Sloan Foundation fellowship. Pinsky is one of two Rutgers assistant professors and among 126 recipients of Sloan Foundation fellowships awarded to early career scientists and scholars who do research […]
Rutgers Family and Community Health Sciences Collaborates on Major USDA Grant
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) has again collaborated with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to secure a $324,151 Team Nutrition Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. The two-year grant renews the Grow Healthy New Jersey–Team Nutrition Initiative that began in 2010. Grant funds will be […]
