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Plant Biology
Alumnus Jay Kelly: A Home-Grown Plant Savior
Inspired by SEBS Professors By Leslie Garisto Pfaff Jay Kelly’s earliest memories are of playing in the woods near his home in Middletown, New Jersey; he says he can’t remember a time when he wasn’t enchanted by nature. Today, his natural playground is much larger, encompassing the coasts and forests of New Jersey and beyond. […]
Bingru Huang Creates and Serves as Editor-in-Chief of New Journal, “Grass Research”
Bingru Huang, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Biology, was invited by the publisher, Maximum Academic Press, to create a new journal called Grass Research and serve as its editor-in-chief. The inaugural issue was published in January 2021 and included an editorial by Huang titled, “Grass Research for a Productive, Healthy and Sustainable Society.” […]
Black History Month: Albert Ayeni – Journey from Nigeria to the U.S.
February marks the start of Black History Month, among the most widely recognized heritage months in the cultural calendar of the U.S. It serves as a time in which the contributions of African Americans are celebrated and moreso in recent times, the continued struggle for racial justice in America is highlighted. To celebrate Black History Month in 2021, […]
Announcement: Leadership Changes at Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science
Announcement by Laura J. Lawson, Interim Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that James (Jim) Murphy, extension specialist in turfgrass management, and Stacy Bonos, professor of turfgrass breeding, have been named director and […]
Research and Teaching in the Glass-room
Whether covered in glass or polyethylene, the most diverse spaces on the George H. Cook campus are the greenhouses–with one making agricultural history and revolutionizing the industry. The prominence of greenhouses on the George H. Cook campus reflects the orientation of the school toward the natural sciences. However, not transparent is the impressive number and […]
Homegrown Faculty Reflect on Their Roots
Whether they returned to the school or never left, these faculty members are among a number who are also alumni. Reprinted from Explorations, Fall 2019 SEBS faculty hold degrees from universities across the nation and around the globe, but there are also a number of homegrown faculty who received their degrees when the school was […]
Rutgers graduate students receive awards at 2020 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting
The American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America hosted thousands of scientists, professionals, educators, and students from around the world at their virtual Annual Meeting. This year’s International Annual Meeting, “Translating Visionary Science to Practice,” previously to be held on November 8-11, 2020, in Phoenix, Arizona, was offered virtually November 9-13, 2020. […]
Weed and Disease Control Guide Wins ‘Excellence in Extension’ Award
Matthew Elmore, assistant extension specialist in weed science in the Department of Plant Biology, helped to develop the publication, Weed, Insect and Disease Control for Turfgrass Producers, which won the Excellence in Extension Award from the American Society of Agronomy (ASA). Recognized in the long publications category by the ASA, the first edition of this […]
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, […]
