Not all career paths are obvious right from childhood, but in the case of Mark Robson, it’s pretty much a straight line. Start with happy years growing up on a family farm in Jacobstown. Continue with studies at Rutgers University and degrees in agricu…
International
Mark Robson Wins International Leadership Award
Rutgers Professor and Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs Mark Robson (CC’77; GSNB’79, ’88; SPH’95) recently received the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Commission on International Initiatives (CII) annual meeting in Park City, Utah. The award recognizes Robson’s career of outstanding contributions to further international education […]
Farming must be seen as a business – U.S. specialist
Rutgers University Professor, Dr Robin Brumfield said Guyanese farmers must begin applying entrepreneurial techniques and view their production enterprises as businesses. Brumfield, a specialist in farm financial management and greenhouse production, w…
Female shadehouse farmers doing ‘cost of production’ training
Female shadehouse farmers will be the beneficiaries of "cost of production" training which will enable them to calculate costs, returns and profitability and plan for niche marketing. Dr. Robin Brumfield, a Professor of Rutgers University in th…
Thawing the Mysteries of the Arctic
When most people think of the Arctic tundra, they think of a vast frozen land with few signs of life. But when Max Häggblom, professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, thinks of the tundra, he imagines a secret world, unseen by the naked eye, teeming with possibilities.
SEBS Graduate Student Wins Prestigious Borlaug Fellowship for Global Food Security
David Byrnes, a graduate student in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is the recipient of a U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security for 2013-2014. This program is funded by the United States Agency for International Development to study and manage the global landscapes in […]
Letting Go of Our Nukes
President Barack Obama recently called on Russia to join the United States in negotiating a mutual reduction in strategic nuclear warheads that would leave each country with slightly more than 1,000. The number would be up to one-third less than what b…
It Takes a Village
Peter Piot got his first dose of global public-health work in Zaire more than 35 years ago, at the bedside of the world’s earliest Ebola patients. The scene was gruesome: patients oozed thick, dark blood from every opening and died atop the rusty sprin…
Conservation hell Vietnam pulls plug on park’s UNESCO recognition
In what was apparently a face-saving move, Vietnam opted to withdraw its nomination of a major national park for UNESCO heritage status two days ahead of an annual session that opened June 16 in Cambodia. But even if Vietnam had gone ahead with nominat…
Rutgers Professor Returns to South America to Train Small-Scale Shadehouse Farmers
One year ago, Rutgers specialist in farm management Robin Brumfield found herself enjoying the cooling spray of the brackish brown water as she sped along in a 15-seater speedboat on the Essequibo River. The “Mighty Essequibo” as it’s called, is the third largest river on the continent of South America and the largest in Guyana, […]
