What about starting off the 2013 gardening and vegetable growing season the right way with a visit to one of the many Rutgers Master Gardener plant sales all across the state this month? By planting your own vegetable garden, you’ll be reducing your fo…
Horsing Around: Rutgers Equine Science Center Unveils New Computer Game for Youth
Recognizing the growing need to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education, the Equine Science Center at Rutgers University recently launched “Exercising HorsePower”, a new computer game based on equine exercise physiology laboratory practices. The game is available from the Center’s youth web portal.
The Size of a Gumball, or Bigger Than Jumbo
Most mornings outside the gates of Tier Haus Farms here, several cars drive up to investigate the contents of an ordinary-looking cooler. Inside are eggs, freshly collected from beyond the gates by Carolyn Gerdes, an owner of the hilly, 70-acre propert…
The IR-4 Project: Celebrating 50 Years at Rutgers
The IR-4 Project, a federal-state agricultural research collaboration headquartered at Rutgers, celebrated a milestone by hosting its 50th anniversary reception at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center in New Brunswick, NJ, on April 16. The IR-4 Project was established by the USDA and the State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors in 1963 to provide state-of-the-art […]
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 […]
Reading, Writing and Radicchio
New Jersey Students Learn How to “Grow Healthy” For every parent who has lamented the blue slushies served in the lunchroom or watched in horror as Chef Jamie Oliver revealed the synthetic ingredients of school lunches in his Food Revolution TV series, take heart. Something fresh, local, and healthy is coming to New Jersey schools. […]
Project PORTS: Making a Difference
Kids Help Restore Shellfish Habitat If there was a community service award for the creatures in our bays and estuaries, there would be no more deserving recipient than the oyster. They may be small but these bottom-dwelling feeders can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. As they pump water through their gills, […]
USDA Grant Awarded For Rutgers Center to Continue “Farm to School” Project
Source: New Jersey Department of Agriculture New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced the state has received a $62,713 U.S. Department of Agriculture Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program grant to continue work with Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) – South on a project to bring Made with Jersey Fresh items to schools throughout the […]
Jersey Fresh uses Vineland middle schoolers as taste-testers for lunch options
To test out their new potential lunch room choices, the Rutgers Food Innovation Center and state Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher went to the harshest critics. They went to ask middle school students. Twenty-five middle schoolers from Landis Int…
FIC-South Director Michael duBois Recognized as IFT Fellow
Michael duBois, director of the Food Innovation Center (FIC) – South was selected as a 2013 Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). A singular honor bestowed on only a small percentage of IFT members by their peers each year, this designation recognizes duBois for his scholarly advancement and service to the food science […]
