Rutgers University Equine Science Center has partnered with New Jersey Assemblyman Ronald Dancer to bring awareness to equestrian safety, announcing the inaugural “New Jersey Equestrian Safety Week” to be held from Sunday, June 5 to Saturday, June 11, 2022. Riding is considered one of the most dangerous sports in the United States because injuries are […]
RU COOL Awarded $2.5 Million Funding for New Jersey Offshore Wind Studies
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 […]
SEBS Faculty Win Rutgers Global Grants
SEBS faculty, representing a broad range of majors and programs at the school, were awarded 2022 Rutgers Global Grants, annual seed grants open to all Rutgers faculty, including tenured, tenure-track, clinical, and non-tenure track faculty. These grants help to support a strong core of SEBS faculty who are dedicated to international research and collaborations. […]
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 […]
Jessica Ware (GSNB’08-Entomology): The Insect Curator
Alumni Profile As a freshman at the University of British Columbia, Jessica Ware envisioned a career as a marine biologist. But in an invertebrate zoology class, she was stunned to learn there are more species of insects than any other animal on the planet. About a million insect species have been identified but several million […]
Xenia Morin Selected as 2022 “Dr. Barbara Munson Goff Teacher of the Year” by Alpha Zeta
Xenia Morin, associate teaching professor in the Department of Plant Biology and undergraduate program director of Agriculture and Food Systems, was named the 2022 Teacher of the Year by the Rutgers Chapter of the Fraternity of Alpha Zeta, the national honor and service fraternity for agriculture and environmental studies. Her teaching style embraces active learning […]
Belle Huang: Master of Microbial Biology and the Balance Beam
Belle Huang ends her Rutgers career with a bachelor of science degree in biology, a master’s degree from the School of Graduate Studies in the Microbial Biology Graduate Program administered by SEBS and four NCAA tournament appearances in gymnastics. See Huang in action in the video.
Jeremy Lewan (SEBS’22), Al Roker’s Former Intern, Makes His Mark in Meteorology and Modeling
Just before Al Roker gives the daily weather forecast on NBC’s Today, he gets a 4:30 a.m. briefing on the latest record-breaking temperatures, hurricanes or snowstorms from his weather producers on the show. Last summer, one of the voices giving him those weather updates via FaceTime belonged to Jeremy Lewan, a meteorology major at Rutgers graduating […]
President Holloway Joins Rutgers Forestry Club for 150th Anniversary Arbor Day Celebration
Arriving fresh from a meeting across town, still formally dressed in suit and tie, Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway addressed the attendees and participated in a tree planting on George H. Cook campus to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day. Holloway expressed the importance of the activity not only to the community, but to […]
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. […]











