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In this continuing series, the bi-annual magazine of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, profiles recent graduates who have launched successful careers and are making an impact on society. The editors posed a series of questions about how their Rutgers experience influenced their lives. Here is one such profile that appears in the Fall […]
Plant Biology
Three ways Rutgers experts are using drones for real-world research
Mosquito control: When Greg Williams, Department of Entomology, first started using drones to control mosquito populations, the focus was on larger machines that could spray pesticides over large swaths of land. Today, the approach has evolved to focus on smaller drones. They’re cheaper, easier to fly, and can be used for much more than spraying. […]
Rutgers Turf Student Conor Geisel Flies with Super Bowl LII Champion, Philadelphia Eagles
By Casey Sky Noon, Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education (OCPE) Rutgers Two-Year Turf Management Certificate Student Conor Geisel Talks About His Summer Internship with the 2018 Super Bowl Champions Winners of Super Bowl LII, the Philadelphia Eagles played hot while their grounds crew kept their home playing field warm. To be exact, the turf […]
Musser Foundation Presents Award of Excellence to Graduate Student Patrick Burgess
Patrick Burgess has been chosen to receive the Musser International Turfgrass Foundation Award of Excellence for 2018. The annual award is presented to an outstanding doctoral candidate of turfgrass science who has made significant and innovative contributions to turfgrass science research. This year’s award winner also receives a $35,000 cash award. The awards committee indicated […]
Lena Struwe’s Personal Bioblitz Connects People with Nature
‘Count one, count them all’ – anyone with a Rutgers connection can photograph wild species in citizen science project. When Lena Struwe was hiking in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve in Costa Rica three years ago, she spotted a yellowish harvestman, a spider-type animal, on a hiking trail rail and took a photo with […]
Grad Student Blake-Mahmud Discovers Male Maple Species Can Sometimes Become Female
Striped maples wait to last minute before choosing their sex A few years ago, Rutgers researcher Jennifer Blake-Mahmud was working on a botany project in Virginia when colleagues pointed out a striped maple, a common tree in the understory of mountain forests from Nova Scotia to Georgia. “They told me, ‘We think it switches sex […]
Hazelnut Job
The global shortage of hazelnuts—a cause of despair for Nutella lovers—is on the verge of change. The commercial cultivation of hazelnuts can begin to expand to regions like New Jersey and the Northeast with the release of disease resistant hazelnut trees from the Rutgers NJAES breeding program overseen by plant biologist Tom Molnar. Read more […]
Professor Lena Struwe Launches Botany Depot – a Global Botanical Education Resource
Lena Struwe, professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources and the Department of Plant Biology, has launched a new website called Botany Depot. It is a global website for creative ideas and materials for teaching botany in the 21st century for all ages, situations and levels. “I wanted to build an inspirational […]
Turfgrass Faculty Ralph Engel (1915-1995) Named to Inaugural Class to be Inducted into NJ State Golf Association Hall of Fame
The New Jersey State Golf Association has announced the formation of its Hall of Fame, with the inaugural class boasting the names of famous players and non-players who have made a unique and lasting impact on the game of golf. Among the individuals honored is the late Ralph Engel, who initiated the two-year Rutgers Winter […]
Examining the Raw Milk Movement
Cambridge University Press recently published a review of the raw milk movement by Joseph Heckman, professor of soil science in the Department of Plant Biology, in Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. The article, “Securing Fresh Food from Fertile Soil, Challenges to the Organic and Raw Milk Movements,” is the result of a seminar series that […]
