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Rutgers Cooperative Extension presents a new online version of the popular Annie’s Project, offering New Jersey women farmers relevant and important farm risk management lessons to help them succeed. The six-week online training course, “Annie Goes Online: Risk Management On Your Kitchen Table,” will be held virtually on Zoom, one evening per week, on Jan. […]
Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Six SEBS Faculty Selected for 2022-23 Provost’s Teaching Fellows Program
Congratulations to the six faculty in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences who are among the 2022-23 Cohort of Provost’s Teaching Fellows announced by the Office of the Chancellor-Provost. The program was initiated in 2021 to support pedagogical innovation aimed at improving student learning outcomes. It includes full cohort sessions to share goals and […]
Cynthia Rosenzweig (CC’80, GSNB’83), NASA Climate Scientist, Wins World Food Prize
Cynthia Rosenzweig of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center receives $250,000 Cynthia Rosenzweig, a NASA climate scientist and Rutgers University alumna, has been named the 2022 World Food Prize Laureate for her work on the impact climate change has on food production worldwide. Rosenzweig won the $250,000 prize for her achievements as the founder of […]
From Immigrant, First Generation Student to Wall Street: Alum Luis Gasca (SEBS ’21)
Catching Up, Moving Ahead, and Giving Back At the age of seven, when Luis Gasca immigrated with his mother and sister to the U.S. from Colombia, he only spoke Spanish. Gasca was enrolled in an English-speaking school in his new hometown of Trenton, NJ, to acclimate to the new language and catch up with his […]
Rutgers Study Highlights Impact of “Hidden Costs” of White-Tailed Deer on New Jersey Farming
A new study unveiled by Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) estimated the financial costs of deer damage in 2019 at nearly $1.3 million among a sample group of 27 New Jersey farmers. Through interviews conducted between October 2020 and March 2021, the authors were able to determine […]
Celebration of Excellence: 2020 and 2021
On November 19, faculty, staff and students attended the 27th and 28th annual Celebration of Excellence for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station held at the Cook Student Center. After the pandemic put a pause on fully celebrating the 2020 awardees, it was important to include them […]
Annie’s Project New Jersey Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Important Workshop for NJ Farmers
Workshop offers important farm management lessons to help women succeed Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) is celebrating10 years of Annie’s Project New Jersey with a free, online workshop headlined by Bridget Behe, professor and extension specialist in marketing at Michigan State University. The training workshop, titled “Annie’s Project New Jersey 10 Years of Empowering New Jersey […]
International Floricultural Expert Robin Brumfield Teaches Women to Manage Business Risks
This article was first published in Lancaster Farming. When Robin Brumfield, extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Rutgers, joined her high school’s FFA club in 1969 as one of the chapter’s first girls, she had no idea that her passion for greenhouses and bedding plants would lead to a […]
Ag Scholar Nick Brennan (SEBS ‘21): Graduating with More than the Basics of Business
For Environmental and Business Economics major Nick Brennan, Fall 2020 is the last semester for this graduating senior. With a January graduation date, Brennan surmises that instead of his long-anticipated final walk out of his very last exam in December, it will instead be replaced by “the last Zoom call I leave, or the last tab I close.” Despite the different scenario that COVID-19 has imposed on many of the milestones in our lives, Brennan considers himself […]
2020 Excellence Award Winners
This year we are honoring the recipients of the 27th Excellence Awards for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station on our website. According to interim executive dean Laura Lawson, these signature awards acknowledge contributions that meet carefully-considered criteria, including creativity, original work and ideas, innovation, effectiveness, integrity, […]
