Now in its 21st year, the annual “Celebration of Excellence Awards” honors the individuals and teams who have advanced the mission and vision of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES). This year’s event was a luncheon held on April 24 at the Neilson Dining Hall on […]
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Five Cook Alumni Honored for Careers, Service
The George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Awards and the Dennis M. Fenton Distinguished Graduate Alumni Awards for 2014 have been bestowed on five graduates – three with undergraduate degrees and two with doctoral degrees – by the Cook Community Alumni Association. The winners are Gary Brackett (Cook ’03), Hank Ebert (Cook ’79), George Hamilton (GSNB […]
Rutgers Personnel by Day, Moth-ers by Night: Gearing up for Third Annual National Moth Week
As National Moth Week gains in popularity as it enters its third year, its Rutgers roots deepen further. The founders of National Moth Week are all tied to Rutgers: naturalist David Moskowitz is completing a Ph.D. in Entomology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Liti Haramaty is a marine sciences researcher at Rutgers […]
Rutgers NJAES IPM Program Helps NJ Farmers Reduce Environmental Impact
New Jersey farmers, whether organic or conventional growers, have been introduced to alternative ways to control pests other than chemical pesticides. Rutgers Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program for fruits and vegetables gives farmers the tools they need to keep pests under control, without solely relying on pesticides. View our Rutgers IPM image gallery below and […]
Swarmageddon’s fury: Cicadas invade N.J., pop culture
Swarmageddon has arrived. Those red-eyed critters known as cicadas have cropped up all over the Garden State, and while their once-every-17-years emergence has entomologists giddy, unsuspecting New Jerseyans such as Andrea Moore say they’re under siege…
Insect bites: Cooking with cicadas, New Jersey’s newest crop
Much as foodies in New Jersey look forward to the first ramps of spring or the arrival of blueberries in midsummer, Thais enjoy predaceous diving beetles in June and a feast of mole crickets and water beetles in December. Come March, it’s open season o…
Cicada invasion slowed by rain, cold
It seems even cicadas don’t like going out in the rain. The anticipated emergence of billions of 17-year cicadas this spring – already in full throttle from the Carolinas to Central Jersey – has been suppressed so far in North Jersey, as wet and much c…
Experts: Don’t Be Afraid Of Cicadas
Now that the much-discussed 17-year cicadas have begun their emergence, many have wondered how the insects should be dealt with. As WCBS 880’s Levon Putney reported, the cicadas will be on the sides of houses and buildings, and on trees. The periodical…
Cicadas Return To New Jersey After 17 Years Just In Time For Memorial Day
Oh, the marvels of Mother Nature – each creature doing as its DNA instructs, at its own pace. Mosquitoes live for days. Cicadas, on the other hand… "This is a oddity of nature that we only get to see once every 17 years," Rutgers University e…
The Song of the Cicada
If you live in a suburb or a rural area, from Albany down through North Carolina, you may notice any day now that dozens of holes, maybe half an inch across, have mysteriously appeared in the ground around trees and shrubs…The chirp of a single Magic…
