Megan King, who is pursuing a master’s degree in the School of Graduate Studies in the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program, has received the 2022 Vicki A. Funk Graduate Research Grant from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Torrey Botanical Club’s research grant. The Vicki A. Funk Graduate Research Grant is part of an international competition and […]
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 […]
Senior Story: Ryan Schmidt (SEBS’22), Ecology is Music to His Ears
Ryan Schmidt (SEBS’22) graduates this May from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources and a minor in Music. He initially was enrolled as a Music Education major in the Mason Gross School of the Arts with the intent to become a high school music […]
2022 Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Conference: Annual Conference Expands Its Reach
Former Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference incorporates Kinesiology & Applied Physiology graduate program into annual event The Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary Biosciences (GRIB) Conference is an annual research conference planned and executed by a collaborative team of graduate students from multiple life science graduate programs centered on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Cook/Douglass […]
New Jersey’s Temperatures Rise by 4 Degrees Fahrenheit, Twice the Global Average Since 1900
Heavy rainfall, flooding, increasing heat waves and heat-related illness are likely to become more common in New Jersey by 2100, according to a report by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist and the University of Delaware. State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021 is an annual overview for state […]
Join Rutgers Forestry Club for 150th Arbor Day Anniversary Campus Event April 29
Join the Rutgers University Forestry Club as it commemorates the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day in the U.S. with a symbolic planting and forestry education event on April 29 at 2 p.m., on the George H. Cook Campus. This event, the club’s first Arbor Day celebration, will be held outside of Waller Hall, located at […]
Lead Author Myla Aronson Receives Sustainability Science Award from Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world’s largest community of professional ecologists, recently selected a research paper whose lead author is Myla Aronson, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, as the winner of its Sustainability Science Award. The award recognizes the authors of the scholarly work that “makes the […]
Hutcheson Memorial Forest Volunteers Plant Native Trees in Forest Canopy Restoration Effort
Volunteer Days during the month of April at Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center (HMFC), located off Amwell Road in Somerset County, had a successful start with 20 volunteers from Rutgers, nearby community colleges and local residents. Volunteers planted more than 130 native trees in nine canopy gaps located throughout the enclosed old-growth forest known as Mettler’s […]
Rutgers Gardens Celebrates Fifth Anniversary Since Landmark Horticultural Site Designation
Five years ago, Rutgers Gardens received the prestigious designation as a Horticultural Landmark by the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), raising its profile as a leading public garden in New Jersey and the region. With the presentation of the coveted brass commemorative plaque on April 4, 2017, Rutgers Gardens joined an elite group of horticultural […]
Rutgers Culture of Health School Program Launches in-Person Component in Edison School District
The Rutgers Culture of Health School Program (RCHSP), which was established with a $100,000 grant from the The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, was launched in the Edison Township Public Schools in February this year. A community outreach initiative under the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, RCHSP fosters and promotes lifestyles centered around […]