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…
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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, […]
Undergraduates From Brazil Present Research at George H. Cook Honors Symposium
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 […]
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 […]
