Mukund Karwe, professor of food engineering and chair of the Department of Food Science at Rutgers, was one of two keynote speakers at the First Kuwait International Conference on Life Sciences, held April 6-8 in Kuwait. Karwe’s talk on “New and emerging food processing methods,” addressed how the traditional method of heat processing to destroy […]
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Research Professor Michael Kennish is Lead Editor of Special Supplement to Journal “Estuaries and Coasts”
A special issue of the journal Estuaries and Coasts, published in March 2014 by the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, is a seminal work on coastal ecosystems in the U.S. In this issue, research professor Michael Kennish of the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, serves as the lead editor and a contributing author. […]
PortaScience team travels to Rwanda to educate dairy farmers on milk quality
Michael Gavin, president of PortaScience, Inc., recently returned from Rwanda where he participated in the educational segment of a program funded by a grant from Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation to commercialize a milk quality test for East A…
Changes in ocean circulation may dramatically accelerate global climate change
Professor of marine sciences Yair Rosenthal co-authored a paper reporting the research findings of an international team that investigated the effects of freshwater input from melting glaciers on the ocean’s thermohaline cycle and its potential impact on climate change. Read about the study at Rutgers Today.
Rutgers Fisheries Research in Mongolia the Subject of Student Film, “The Blue Pearl”
The Mongolian culture has an ingrained traditional respect for water and their cultural practices are aimed at maintaining water quality. The largest lake in Mongolia, known as the Blue Pearl, is sacred to Mongolians. The effects of climate change have had a negative impact on the livelihood of Mongolian herders, who have turned to this […]
New Study Abroad Opportunity for Rutgers Students to Help Turkish Women Farmers
Rutgers students can take advantage of a new, 3-credit study abroad program this summer in Antalya, Turkey. Empowering Turkish Women Farmers has been added to the growing list of summer International Service Learning programs through the Rutgers Center for Global Education. From May 16 to June 3 this year, students will live in the homes of […]
Mark Robson to Present Lecture on Sustainable Agricultural Development March 6
Mark Robson, dean of agricultural and urban programs and professor of plant biology and pathology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, will present the Bloustein School’s 2014 Ruth Ellen Steinman and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture, “Rutgers’ Global Reach and Sustainable Agricultural Development: Challenges and Opportunities,” on March 6. He will present research findings […]
Five Rutgers Students in Exchange Program with the University of Sao Paulo
Five Rutgers students traveled to Brazil to present research at the International Symposium of Undergraduate Research during the week of October 21. The students were awarded the opportunity to travel through the different campuses of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in an effort to bridge cultural and linguistic barriers through scientific exchange. This trip […]
FIC Awarded International Honor as Leading Incubator Business
In November 2013, the National Business Incubation Association has awarded the NBIA Soft Landings International Incubator designation to the Rutgers University Food Innovation Center, a business incubator serving New Jersey. Through its Soft Landings program, NBIA recognizes business incubation programs that are especially capable of helping nondomestic companies enter the incubator’s domestic market. The Rutgers University Food Innovation Center, […]
Alumni Story: Building Communities from the Ground Up – Michael S. Gould (GSNB ’76-Env. Science)
Not long after the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated the Sri Lanka coast the day after Christmas in 2004, Michael Gould, Ph.D. (GSNB 1976 – Environmental Science), a manager with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), began developing and then implementing a reconstruction project to help the Sri Lankan people restore their infrastructure, their lives […]
