In a longstanding exchange with the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil, five undergraduate students presented their research at the George H. Cook Honors Symposium on April 12. Prior to the visit of the USP students, Rutgers sent five of its undergraduate students to Brazil last October to participate in a similar forum, the […]
International
Rutgers Hosts 2013 Liberian Studies Association Conference
The state of affairs in the West African Republic of Liberia can be summed up by a mix of adage and metaphor, “It takes a village to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.” But the country, which faces a multitude of economic, social, technological and environmental woes even as it struggles to redevelop after back-to-back […]
Nutritional Sciences Professor Awarded Fellowship by Government of Brazil
Malcolm Watford, professor of Nutritional Sciences, was awarded a fellowship, Escola de Altos Estudos,Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoral de Nivel Superior, by the Federal Government of Brazil. The fellowship enabled Watford to teach the graduate course “Tissue-specific metabolism and metabolic regulation” from March 18-25 at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
BBC Program Features Rutgers Marine Science Experts
Philipp Neubauer, post doctoral associate, and Olaf Jensen, assistant professor in the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences were interviewed about their recently published paper, “Global Overfishing,” at the Rutgers iTV Studio on April 17 for the BBC’s Science in Action program. The program was aired in the United Kingdom on April 18 with repeats […]
Rutgers Documentary Garners Garden State Film Festival Award
Thailand Untapped: The Global Reach of Engineers Without Borders, a documentary featuring the experiences of three Rutgers engineering students who traveled to Thailand in 2010 with the hope of fixing a rural village’s failing water system, has won the 2013 Home Grown Documentary Short award from the Garden State Film Festival. The 37-minute film features […]
Where Will Your Next Class Be?
How about Boztepe, Turkey, as part of a new Rutgers international service-learning study abroad opportunity from May 16 through June 3? The deadline to sign up for “Empowering Turkish Women Farmers” is March 31. The town of Boztepe is about 25 kilometers from Antalya, which is located on the Mediterranean Sea and one of the […]
Students Place in Top 10 in Annual International Turf Bowl Competition
Three teams of undergraduate students, all members of the Rutgers Turf Club, competed in the 2013 Turf Bowl Competition at the International Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Conference and Trade Show in San Diego, CA, in February. The teams, which were comprised of four students each, placed 6th, 14th, and 44th out of 68 […]
Professor Sarah Ralston Receives Fulbright to Teach and Conduct Research in Brazil
Sarah Ralston, associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers, has been selected for a 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant. A member of the Animal Sciences faculty at Rutgers since 1989, Ralston plans to travel to Brazil next spring to offer a course in “Equine Nutrition” to veterinary and zootechnology students at the […]
SEBS Senior Awarded Gates Scholarship for Graduate Study at Cambridge
SEBS Biotechnology senior Devinn Lambert, along with fellow Rutgers senior Kelvin Mei, a SAS student majoring in physics, are among 39 students nationwide and one of two Rutgers students this year to earn prestigious scholarships funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in the United […]
French Aquatic Filmmaker Fabien Cousteau Speaks at Rutgers on Feb. 25
Fabien Cousteau, son of Jean-Michel Cousteau and grandson of explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is deeply engaged in environmental and ocean advocacy in the U.S. and around the world. His lecture titled “Documenting the Underwater World,” is a free public lecture that will be presented at Cook Campus Center. Read more about the event.
