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By Casey Sky Noon, Office of Continuing Professional Education The New Jersey Turfgrass Association (NJTA) is proud to support the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science by providing funding for research endeavors, student scholarships, staff salaries, needed equipment, building/farm repairs, and much more. One way the non-profit organization raises money is the annual Golf Classic. Twenty-four […]
Plant Biology
Senior Story: Martha Elisabeth Black (SEBS’19), Inspired by Rutgers Master Gardener Program
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 […]
The Heat Is On: Students Compete in Iron Chef Neilson
An exciting student competition, Iron Chef Neilson, offered through Rutgers Dining Services and organized by the RU Healthy Dining Team, was held on March 27 at the Neilson Dining Hall. Students with a meal plan for the current semester were encouraged to compete and showcase their innovative dining hall creations to a panel of four […]
An Ag Field Day Favorite: Plant Sales
In the long history and evolution of Ag Field Day–beginning as an outreach event to New Jersey’s farmers in the early twentieth century; to one focused more on the George H. Cook campus community and college; and then expanding to a regional event attracting throngs of people from surrounding areas; to the inspiration for the […]
Plants in the City: Herbaria as Lenses into the Past to Better See Our Future
Amy Gage, Ameen Lotfi, and Lena Struwe contributed to this article. On the first warm and sunny spring Saturday this year, scientists, students, naturalists and herbaria enthusiasts alike gathered away from the sun in a Rutgers conference room for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: “Plants in the City” symposium on March 30. They set aside any weekend […]
Rutgers Graduate Student Researchers Attend USDA Northeast Climate Hub GradCAP Workshop
Rutgers graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19. The workshop capped a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
Andrea Gallavotti Wins Early-Career Award for Research on Maize Genetics
Andrea Gallavotti, associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, received the 2019 M. Rhoades Early-Career Maize Genetics Award from the Maize Genetics Executive Committee. The award was presented during the 61st Annual Maize Genetics Conference, held in St. Louis, Missouri, from March 14–17. The M. Rhoades Early-Career Award […]
Rutgers’ List of Campus Plants, Animals, Other Species May be First in World
More than 1,600 species spotted by Professor Lena Struwe and her team. American kestrel. Chinese mantis. Candleflame lichen. The highly diverse list of species spotted at Rutgers University may be unique globally. Indeed, more than 1,600 kinds of animals, insects, plants and other life forms have been reported so far at 24 Rutgers campuses and […]
Prof. James White Researches How Plants Harness Microbes to Get Nutrients
Rutgers-led study could lead to enhanced crop growth, fewer weeds and lower fertilizer and herbicide use A Rutgers-led team has discovered how plants harness microbes in soil to get nutrients, a process that could be exploited to boost crop growth, fight weeds and slash the use of polluting fertilizers and herbicides. In a process the team has […]
Bessey Teaching Award Goes to Professor Lena Struwe
Lena Struwe, Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, the Department of Plant Biology and director of the Chrysler Herbarium, was presented with the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award by the Botanical Society of America (BSA) at their annual meeting in July. This award recognizes outstanding contributions made to botanical instruction and […]
