With over 250 participants in attendance in 2018, the 6th Annual Rutgers Human Performance Conference to be held on March 30, 2019 is projected to be the largest yet. Hosted by the Center for Health and Human Performance at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health and presented in conjunction with the International […]
The Connection Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Rutgers visiting scientist Jennifer Francis was the first to identify the consequences of shrinking Arctic sea ice If the world of climate science did not know about Jennifer A. Francis before March 29, 2012, it certainly knew about her afterward. On that day, the New York Times published a front-page story under the headline “Weather […]
Kids Cook Monday Campaign Comes to Culture of Health Academy at IFNH
Kid’s Cook Monday, Tuesday, and every day of the week! The Monday Campaigns came to the Culture of Health Academy at the Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health to film a promotional video highlighting the collaboration among the Monday Campaigns, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) and the Center for Childhood Nutrition Research. Research has […]
National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation Announces Rutgers Grad Student Brittany Bozzini as Women’s Scholarship Recipient
The National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation announced that Brittany Bozzini has been named a recipient of the NSCA’s Women’s Scholarship for 2018. Bozzini was selected by the NSCA Foundation Scholarship Committee after a thorough evaluation process of all applicants. This $1,500 scholarship is designed to support women, ages 17 and older, to enter the […]
Little Chefs Help Make Fruit Soup to Celebrate Winter Solstice
Preschoolers at the Rutgers Psychology Child Development Center at the Culture of Health Academy at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) made a sweet and savory fruit soup to celebrate the beginning of winter solstice. IFNH Harvest Chef Ian Keith led the children’s cooking lesson preparing a soup of Granny Smith […]
NJ Climate Change Alliance Wins Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award
New Jersey Climate Change Alliance, formerly New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (NJADAPT), was among 11 winners honored for various areas of environmental stewardship, from protecting water quality to improving access to electric vehicle charging stations and preserving natural resources, at the 19th Annual Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards in Trenton on December 10. The alliance, which […]
Strengthening Healthy Community Connections in New Brunswick: Farmers Market Pops up at Lincoln Annex School
The schoolyard at the Lincoln Annex School on Somerset Street in New Brunswick was abuzz on a chilly day in October. The clackety clack of a prize wheel and delighted cries of children claiming their apples and mini pumpkins gave the aura of a carnival, however this festivity was actually a health and wellness-based farmers […]
Rutgers Climate Scientist Studies Sea-Level Change Dating Back to the Age of the Dinosaurs
The Rutgers Climate Institute comprises more than 100 distinguished researchers representing 17 schools and programs in the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. As observers of the natural world, they have been among the first to sound alarms about the potentially catastrophic impact of the earth’s changing climate – from rising sea levels and […]
Rutgers EOAS Projects Wet and Dry Weather Extremes with Global Warming
Rutgers-led study examines role of stationary low- and high-pressure systems Global warming is projected to spawn more extreme wet and dry weather around the world, according to a Rutgers-led study. Those extremes include more frequent dry spells in the northwestern, central and southern United States and in Mexico, and more frequent heavy rainfall events in […]
Earth in Balance
Accelerating changes in the climate are a growing concern. Scientists at the Rutgers Climate Institute are evaluating the peril on many fronts. Jennifer Francis was 22 years old when she and her future husband embarked on a five-year sailing voyage around the world that forever altered her life. Francis had always nurtured an abiding interest in the […]
