The Board of Managers (BOM), an advisory group to the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), is made up of representatives from New Jersey’s county boards of agriculture. The Board also serves as advocate for the experiment station and provides input to NJAES’ directors on matters concerning the state’s agricultural enterprise. In addition to […]
Landscape Architecture
2018 SEBS Convocation Remarks by Executive Dean Bob Goodman
Good morning! I extend my congratulations and warmest best wishes to our graduates. I also want to express my thanks to friends and family who have supported your student scholars through their careers and life-building experiences here at Rutgers New Brunswick and its School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. All of you have reached a […]
2018 George H. Cook Scholars Granted their Honors Cords
On April 13, 55 George H. Cook Scholars, along with five students from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented their senior thesis in the Cook Student Center. The scholars program is directed by Malcolm Watford, professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, while Janice Geiger serves as the administrative assistant. In order to be […]
Faculty for a Sustainable Future
When alumni look back on their college days, what comes to mind? Almost always, it is a professor—or two or three—who inspired, challenged, encouraged, and generally helped students to succeed. Today’s new faculty at the School fill that role and go well beyond. Well focused in their scholarly fields, our school’s new faculty members are […]
The 7th Annual GIS Awareness Event Brings Together Students, Faculty and Professionals With a Love of Maps
The field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which essentially involves viewing and analyzing the data in maps, was the focus of the Rutgers-style celebration of national #GIS Day on November 15. An evening that was ‘all about maps,’ the 7th GIS Awareness Event at Rutgers included lightning talks–less than 10 minutes–with speakers representing a variety […]
Campus Living Lab Evolves with Installation of Kitchen Garden and Shade Trees at IFNH
The Dudley Road entrance of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) on the Rutgers Cook Campus has been a hive of activity this semester as sixteen Byrne Seminar students planted a kitchen herb garden for Chef Ian Keith of Harvest, the healthy eating venue at IFNH. This is part of an on-going process […]
Grad Student Johnny Quispe Selected for “Rising TIDES” Conference Mentoring Program by CERF
Johnny Quispe was among a group of 11 underrepresented (URM) minority students who were selected for a “Rising TIDES” award by the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF). Quispe is a candidate for a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution in the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies. The Rising TIDES “Toward an Inclusive, Diverse, and Enriched […]
TRACING THE PALIMPSEST: Before Livingston Campus was Camp Kilmer
By Samuel Ludescher (SAS’18). Driving along Cedar Lane where it meets Road 1 and the southern border of Rutgers’ Livingston Campus, there is a series of one-story buildings that sit next to the pronounced curve in the road. These buildings currently serve as warehouses and administrative offices for the university. However, their original purpose was […]
Kathleen John-Alder and Team Selected for the 2017 Professional Award of Excellence by the ASLA
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has given their 2017 Professional Award of Excellence in Research to a multi-national team of researchers, including team leaders Kathleen John-Alder, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Janike Kampevold Larsen from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial […]
PARK(ing) Day: Bringing ‘Open Space’ to a Parking Spot Near You
On September 15, the Rutgers Landscape Architecture Club hosted its annual PARK(ing) Day event on Seminary Place at Rutgers College Ave Campus. By 7:30am, two parallel parking spaces had been transformed into a green space filled with a mixture of lush, woody and herbaceous plants. Wooden pallets were repurposed into benches and walls were placed […]