The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) recently announced the award of funding for studies to provide enhanced scientific information on the impacts of offshore wind energy development off New Jersey’s coastline as well as the state’s entry into a regional offshore-wind science collaborative. The development […]
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Prof. Dan Van Abs Awarded State Grant to Update NJ Water Supply Plan
Dan Van Abs, professor of professional practice in the Department of Human Ecology, has been awarded a grant of approximately $200,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to help update the New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan. A former project manager for the 1996 Statewide Water Supply Plan during his previous tenure […]
RCE Food Waste Team Awarded State Grant for Program to Curb Food Waste in K-12 Schools
Rutgers University has been awarded $335,261 for “NJ Leaves No Bite Behind,” a two-year, state-funded project focused on educational interventions to reduce food waste in schools. Rutgers will pilot this first-of-its-kind environmental education curriculum for K-12 in two schools in Ocean and Passaic counties to assess an interdisciplinary, experiential program focused on sustainable food habits […]
Rutgers Oyster History Preserved!
After longtime Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) associate Walt Canzonier passed away in June 2021, a box containing historic data was returned to the lab. Canzonier had designed and overseen much of the construction of the current lab in Bivalve, NJ, according to professor David Bushek, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and director […]
Alvaro Toledo Among Faculty Awarded Rutgers Global Seed Grant for Projects Addressing Health Inequities
Alvaro Toledo, assistant professor in the Department of Entomology, is the recipient of a Global Health Seed Grant awarded by the Rutgers Global Health Institute. The project, “Ectoparasites and Diseases of Poverty in Low-Income Urban Communities,” is funded by Rutgers Global, the institute’s partner in awarding seed grants, for implementation during the 2022–2023 academic year. […]
Julia Van Etten’s Work with Science and Art Blossoms into Origins of Life Research
Rutgers doctoral student Julia Van Etten, whose @Couch_Microscopy Instagram page garnered more than 25,000 followers by showcasing microorganisms as art, has been working with NASA on research into how red algae can help explain the origins of life on Earth. In this film, Van Etten, a graduate student in the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program, speaks about her work […]
2022 Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Conference: Annual Conference Expands Its Reach
Former Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference incorporates Kinesiology & Applied Physiology graduate program into annual event The Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (GRIB) Conference is an annual research conference planned and executed by a collaborative team of graduate students from multiple life science graduate programs centered on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Cook/Douglass […]
Bee Diversity is Important for Maintaining Healthy Ecosystems and Life on Earth
Rutgers scientists assessing the level of diversity among bee species necessary for sustaining populations of wild plants have concluded that ecosystems rely on many bee species to flourish, not just a few dominant ones. The report, published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supports the fundamental idea that biodiversity is key to sustaining […]
Bee Diversity is important for maintaining healthy ecosystems and life on Earth
Dylan Simpson – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
New Jersey’s Temperatures Rise by 4 Degrees Fahrenheit, Twice the Global Average Since 1900
Heavy rainfall, flooding, increasing heat waves and heat-related illness are likely to become more common in New Jersey by 2100, according to a report by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist and the University of Delaware. State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021 is an annual overview for state […]
