By Casey Sky Noon, Office of Continuing Professional Education The New Jersey Turfgrass Association (NJTA) is proud to support the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science by providing funding for research endeavors, student scholarships, staff salaries, needed equipment, building/farm repairs, and much more. One way the non-profit organization raises money is the annual Golf Classic. Twenty-four […]
Senior Story: Joshua Daw (SEBS’19), A Great Eye for Detail
Joshua Daw, a Marine Biology major with a minor in Anthropology, is a unique combination of creative and meticulous, traits that are highly valued in painstaking data collection research projects like the one he’s worked on alongside his thesis advisor Daphne Munroe, associate professor at Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) in Bivalve, NJ. As Munroe […]
Rutgers Student Maxwell Melnick Completes First Year of Leadership Training in the Bioeconomy
At the conclusion of a four-day Spring Conference at North Carolina State University during which students gave their final presentations about current issues in the bioeconomy, Rutgers student Maxwell Melnick was recognized as a graduate of CABLE (the Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Education). Melnick is an undergraduate major in environmental sciences with a minor […]
A Little Clarity: Health Woes Draw an IT Professional Back to Historical Family Food Biz
Stories from the Rutgers Food Innovation Center Ghee, or clarified butter, has been sold in India for thousands of years. The Agarwal family has been selling it for 130 of those years out of a small shop in the northern Indian town of Hisar, and for the last 10 years, from a business based at […]
Impacts of Microplastics in the Urban Environment Conference
Rutgers New Brunswick hosts Impacts of Microplastics in the Urban Environment Conference Plastics pose serious adverse impacts to human and ecosystems due to their environmental persistence, their physical properties, and chemical makeup. Research scientists, entrepreneurs and business executives, government officials and students filled the Ludwig Global Learning Center on the Cook-Douglas Campus in late March […]
Out Here in the Fields: Viggiano and Leger Found Help for their Business ‘in the Thick of the Tomato Patch’
Stories from the Rutgers Food Innovation Center There were a few extra tomatoes. Well, 600 pounds extra. It was enough for Theresa Viggiano and Patrick Leger to experiment with his mother’s ketchup recipe and sell it at the honor-based farm stand at the end of their driveway in 2011. Viggiano was in grad school at […]
Rutgers Graduate Student Researchers Attend USDA Northeast Climate Hub GradCAP Workshop
Rutgers graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19. The workshop capped a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
From Concept to Creation, FIC is a ‘One-Stop Shop’
Stories from the Rutgers Food Innovation Center – This is the first of a monthly series on companies spun out of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center. Have you ever spotted Soupman products in your local grocery store? What about the plant-based Impossible Burger on the menu at any of 5,000 eateries from Michelin star restaurants […]
CABLE Student Delegate Maxwell Melnick Coordinates Event Promoting Low-Carbon Transportation Options
The “Consortium for Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership” (CABLE) is a 20-university partnership that aims to guide the next generation of bioeconomy leaders. Participating universities, which include Rutgers, select one student to become its student delegate whose role is to collaborate in small working groups with the other student delegates to research and present a specific industry […]
Rutgers Offers New Online Radon Measurement Training Required for National Certification
The Eastern Regional Radon Training Center (ERRTC), administered by Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education, is now offering the training program required for national radon measurement certification as a self-paced, online course. For the past 30 years, the center has provided classroom-based radon measurement and mitigation training on the Rutgers–New Brunswick campus. This limited training […]
