Meet Martha Elisabeth Black, a working mother who turned her passion for horticulture fanned by her volunteering as a Rutgers Master Gardener for Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County into a career in horticultural therapy. A G.H. Cook Scholar, Black was inducted in the Matthew Leydt Society and Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society. The Leydt Society […]
SEBS Class of 2019: Erin O’Neill, Spirit of Rutgers
Erin O’Neill is a self-described ‘introvert,’ yet in 2018 she won the Spirit of Rutgers Award—an award that recognizes an individual that represents the values, traditions, and mission of Rutgers through their outstanding engagement, enthusiasm, spirit, and commitment to the campus community. Erin has participated in the RU Dance Marathon every year—this year as a […]
SEBS Class of 2019: Dorothy Lee, Natural Born Leader
Dorothy Lee is an outstanding student with a tremendous sense of social and societal responsibility, especially in the areas of social and environmental sustainability. Recognizing that food waste is one of the most important contributors to food insecurity and to the emission of greenhouse gases, thus climate warming, Dorothy founded the Compost Club, which has been […]
SEBS Class of 2019: Ernest Bell Memorial Scholarship Winner, Geoffrey Leonberg
By Leena Roy, SEBS ’19 Each year, a Rutgers senior majoring in Animal Science, with an equine emphasis, is awarded the Ernest Bell Memorial Scholarship by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s Equine Advisory Board. This year, Dr. Karyn Malinowski and Dr. Kenneth McKeever had the honor of selecting Geoffrey Leonberg for this scholarship. Unlike […]
SEBS Class of 2019: Joshua Daw, 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 […]
Climate Change Is a Major Concern for SEBS Senior
Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the ocean’s critical role in absorbing […]
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 […]
Global Warming Hits Sea Creatures Hardest
Marine life more sensitive to warming, less able to escape from heat, Rutgers-led study find Global warming has caused twice as many ocean-dwelling species as land-dwelling species to disappear from their habitats, a unique Rutgers-led study found. The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities that rely on fish and shellfish for […]
Students Immerse into Global Health Coursework in “Water and Society”
In a global health education course “Water and Society,” Daniel Van Abs, associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology, introduces students to fundamentals of water resources issues worldwide and how they affect the development, design, evolution, and sustainability of societies and economic viability. Students look at case examples where conflicts over water allocations, drought […]
