Lisa Auermuller, Amy Plantarich, Andrea Habeck – Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve
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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 […]
Announcement: Carl Leikhram is Senior Director of Rutgers Office of Marketing, Public Outreach and Communication
Announcement from Laura Lawson, executive dean, SEBS, and executive director, NJAES Dear SEBS and NJAES community, I am delighted to share exciting news about new marketing efforts to expand our engagement with students, to generate collaborative interest from stakeholders, and to effectively promote the success of our teaching and research across multimedia platforms. The SEBS/NJAES […]
Excellence Awards Given at Rutgers Cooperative Extension Annual Conference 2023
The Annual Conference brings more than 300 Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) faculty and staff together to network, engage in professional development, exchange ideas for programming and research collaboration, and share best practices for service excellence in the delivery of research-based educational programming. The two-day program was held virtually on December 14 and in person at […]
Offshore Wind Energy Symposium at Rutgers University
Peggy Brennan-Tonetta – Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Josh Kohut – Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Retired Faculty and Staff Return to Campus for Annual Luncheon
Dozens of retirees from SEBS and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, along with their guests, joined current deans, faculty, staff, and students in the Rectangle Room at Neilson Dining Hall on Thursday, December 8, 2022. Guests arrived to a warm welcome from SEBS student ambassadors and current staff, and immediately began reconnecting and taking […]








