The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics hosted its annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE®) this year from October 26-29. Four Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) students, who are members of both the Student Ambassadors from the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) and the Rutgers Dining […]
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IFNH Student Ambassadors present poster at conference
Peggy Policastro, Jessica Carr, Tiffany Chen, Dana Ikeda, Kiera Nealon – IFNH
Hunger should never haunt a child’s life
David Krol – IFNH New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative
N.J. weather: Here’s how cold it got across the state, thanks to the brutal arctic blast
Steve Decker – Meteorology Undergraduate Program at Rutgers
City Apartments or Jungle Huts: What Chemicals and Microbes Lurk Inside?
Scientists find more industrial chemicals, fungi in urbanized homes What are the differences between life in a walled urban apartment versus in a jungle hut that’s open to nature? Researchers at Rutgers and other universities found city homes to be rife with industrial chemicals, cleaning agents and fungi that love warm, dark surfaces, while jungle […]
How should billionaires spend their money to fight climate change? I asked 9 experts.
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Science
How Philly muralist Jimmy Glossblack went from tagging trains to selling art to Comcast and Google
Jimmy McMenamin – SEBS
First Annual IFNH Research Day Features Cutting Edge Research on Diverse Initiatives in Health and Nutrition
The New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health (IFNH) hosted its first annual IFNH Research Day on November 1. While the IFNH centers have hosted independent conferences, symposiums and summits on state-of-the-art initiatives in their fields, this is the first time all the units have come together to present jointly. This effort underscores the […]
IFNH research day features cutting edge research
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello – New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health
Red Algae Thrive Despite Ancestor’s Massive Loss of Genes
Study may spawn ways to genetically alter and control red seaweeds You’d think that losing 25 percent of your genes would be a big problem for survival. But not for red algae, including the seaweed used to wrap sushi. An ancestor of red algae lost about a quarter of its genes roughly one billion years […]
