Announcement from Brian Schilling, director, Rutgers Cooperative Extension I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Karen Plumley as the Acting Director of the Office of Continuing Professional Education. Karen has a long history at Rutgers University. For the past several years, she has served very capably within Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Office of the […]
Rutgers Home Gardeners School @Home Offers Engaging Lectures for Gardeners of all Interests and Skill Levels
The 46th annual Rutgers Home Gardeners School @Home gets underway as a virtual conference over Zoom on Sat., Feb. 26, 2022, from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. The conference, “Gardening For Everyone,” is made up of 15 individual workshop sessions that cover a wide array of horticultural topics. On the day of the event, attendees […]
Mark Robson to Deliver Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award Lecture on October 19
Mark Robson, an internationally recognized scholar in environmental risk assessment and toxicology and a dedicated student mentor who first came to Rutgers as an undergraduate nearly 50 years ago, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award. The Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology at […]
Opening Doors with Certified Medical Coder Certification through Rutgers OCPE
A single mom of two children under the age 13 with a full-time job working as a Payment Analyst for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Amanda Martinez doesn’t have time to spare. Rutgers online CPC® Professional Medical Coding Exam Prep Course through the Office of Continuing Professional Education was a stroke of luck because it […]
Rutgers OCPE’s Online Course Enables Student to Start a Career in Public Health
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Despite the seemingly never-ending challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Breanna Livingstone participated in the online offering of the Rutgers Environment and Public Health (EPH) Program in the summer of 2020, completed the required 200-hour health department internship, and passed the New Jersey Registered and Environmental Health […]
Stories from Extension: Rutgers Turf Alum Goes From Living in his Car to Working at the Illustrious Sebonack Golf Club
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the state’s largest institution of higher education and its land-grant institution. Beyond the campus-based academics, there is a component of Rutgers that is solely dedicated to serving the needs of New Jersey residents through research and outreach. Known as the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), and […]
Scarlet Knights Compete in the 2020 GCSAA Turf Bowl
2-Year Certificate Students Represent Rutgers at the Golf Industry Show–for the First Time Ever! Wearing matching polo shirts, seven students from Rutgers University represented the Scarlet Knights at the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) annual Turf Bowl event in Orlando, Florida on January 30. The GCSAA Collegiate Turf Bowl is an academic tournament […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension 2020 Annual Conference Highlights Telling Extension’s Stories
On January 13, Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) faculty and staff from around the state gathered on the Cook Campus in New Brunswick for the 2020 Annual Conference. The meeting started off with ice breaker exercises – a warm-up familiar to participants in 4-H – led by Sharon Kinsey, 4-H agent II, Cooperative Extension of Camden […]
Rutgers RWJMS and the NJDOH Present the 2019 Medical Cannabis Symposium
By Casey Noon The 2019 Medical Cannabis Symposium will explore current evidence-based science as it relates to medical cannabis and implications for clinical research, regulation, and medical practice. Physicians, scientists, pharmacists, nurses, and industry professionals are invited to attend and participate. Experts from Rutgers University, Temple University, Harvard Medical School, University of Washington, and Columbia University […]
Generation Ag: Rutgers in Big Push to Train Youth of Greece for Agricultural Careers
Editor’s Note: A grant of $27.5 million by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) was awarded to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences to develop a comprehensive, interdisciplinary project to create job opportunities for youth in the agriculture and food sector in Greece alongside the Agricultural University of Athens and the American Farm School. The […]
