Announcement from Rachel Lyons, chair of the Department of 4-H Youth Development. Please welcome Melissa Bright to her new role as County 4-H Agent in Somerset County, effective May 1, 2023. Melissa has served as a site director for the YMCA of Hunterdon and Bucks Counties leading a school age childcare program since 2018. For […]
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Earth Day, Every Day Spring 2023 Webinar Kicks Off New Series
Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Earth Day, Every Day and Marine Extension Program Seminar Series present the educational webinar, “All the Small Things with Big Environmental Impacts,” beginning April 17. Open to the public, the free webinar will be conducted online via Zoom every third and fourth Monday evenings in April through June starting at 6:30 p.m. […]
Announcement: Abigail Kesely Named the State 4-H Senior Program Coordinator
Announcement from Rachel Lyons, chair of the Department of 4-H Youth Development. Please welcome Abigail Kesely to her new role as the State 4-H Senior Program Coordinator in the State 4-H Office effective April 17, 2023. Abigail comes with a wealth of 4-H experience – for more than 17 years she has been a part […]
NJHKI Delivers Nutrition Curriculum at National Foraging Youth Resilience Summit in Colorado
In March, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) partnered with Forging Youth Resilience (FYR) to deliver nutrition curriculum for FYR’s national network of 24 clubs at the FYR Local Club Summit in Denver, CO. FYR is a nonprofit organization with the mission to empower young people to build physical and mental strength by supplying […]
Rising Waters on Our Coasts
Lisa Auermuller, Amy Plantarich, Andrea Habeck – Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve
Rising Waters on Our Coasts and What It Means for Public Access?
New Jersey law ensures the public’s right to access coastal shorelines and waters. To help people know where to access tidal waterways and get information about the amenities at each location, the state has an online map that shows over 3,900 public access points. However, the impacts of climate change are likely to affect public […]
Rutgers NJHKI, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ and the Horizon Foundation for NJ Come Together to Volunteer at the Community Food Bank
Rutgers New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) is centered on the goal of making New Jersey kids the healthiest in the country and therefore focuses on health equity and community partnerships. The Horizon Foundation has supported NJHKI’s Culture of Health School Program for three years, providing funding to implement nutrition and physical literacy education to […]
Post-Doc Kimberly Wiersielis Wins Prestigious National Institutes of Health Career Development Award
Kimberly Wiersielis, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Animal Sciences, is the recipient of an NIH Pathway to Independence Award that supports outstanding postdoctoral researchers in completing needed mentored training and transition in a timely manner to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. Also known as the K99/R00, the award is considered a career transition […]
Meet the People of Rutgers: Alex Sawatzky, Feeding Rutgers
The Basics Title: Student farm manager and part-time instructor in agriculture and food systems Unit: Rutgers Gardens, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences How Long Have You Worked at Rutgers: 4 years What I do I work with Rutgers students to grow and distribute nutrient-dense veggies to our local communities. I manage the summer internship program and […]
4-H Youth Camp Comes to Rutgers Gardens for Summer 2023
New day-camp option offered throughout the month of July Since 1951, New Jersey youths have gathered in Stokes State Forest in Sussex County, the northernmost county in the Garden State, for the classic overnight summer camp experience of the New Jersey 4-H Camp. The yearly ritual of campers returning summer after summer, some eventually going […]
