The Environmental and Energy Study Institute invited RCEI Affiliate Aziz Ezzat, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering to participate in a congressional briefing on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the climate and energy space that took place in a packed room of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. September 25, 2025. The briefing included congressional staff, …
RCEI, in collaboration with Rutgers Department of Human Ecology, hosted a September 29, 2025 forum at which Rutgers experts discussed recent U.S. government-led efforts to repeal greenhouse gas regulations in the United States and the scientific community’s rapid responses to these efforts. The forum featured RCEI affiliates William Hallman, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Ecology, Robert Kopp, Distinguished Professor …
An article from The New Indian highlights how James Shope, RCEI Affiliate and Assistant Extension Specialist in Climate Services at Rutgers University, presented New Jersey’s innovative approach to climate education at the NYC Green School Conference. The piece focuses on a statewide, multi-university program that brings together four institutions to provide region-specific climate education. This initiative, supported by the “Expanding …
“My biggest takeaway was that your Rutgers experience is what you make of it.” This comment from Meishka Mitchell, a new lecturer in the Department of Human Ecology, came after attending the SEBS Early Career Faculty Retreat in late August. In this event coordinated by the SEBS Office of Research and hosted at Rutgers Gardens, more than 50 early-career SEBS …
The original article, “Tagging Fluke,” is reprinted, with permission, by On The Water magazine. Paul Ziajski, owner of Great Bay Outfitters, is the primary author of this article. Chase Wunder, the Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellow at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers, contributed to this article. Hundreds of customers …
The Rutgers Immersive Learning through Science Storytelling Lab in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences supports students from a wide variety of majors to partner with Rutgers researchers in the co-creation of compelling video narratives that communicate science as journeys of discovery for peer and public audiences. The lab’s innovative pedagogical model was recently recognized by the New Jersey State Senate …
The inaugural Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) Research Fellowship cohort convened at Rutgers University’s University Inn and Conference Center to kick off their journey, welcomed by Susan Renoe, Executive Director of ARIS and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Development & Strategic Partnerships, University of Missouri, and RCEI affiliate Janice McDonnell, ARIS co-Principal Investigator and Associate Dean of …
RCEI affiliates Robert Kopp, Pamela McElwee and Kevon Rhiney will be among hundreds of the world’s leading experts working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment A United Nations-affiliated science panel has named three Rutgers scientists as lead authors on a report that will serve as the next worldwide assessment of climate change. Rutgers University-New Brunswick faculty members Robert Kopp, Pamela …
More than 85 scientists from the United States and nations around the world have authored a 450 page compendium reviewing a July 2025 United States Department of Energy (DOE) Climate Working Group report that has also been featured in the recent United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding that climate change poses a danger to human health…
Rutgers Health professors receive two grants to study health and environmental risks. Backed by funding from a federal agency and a nonprofit safety science organization, Rutgers Health researchers are taking a closer look at the recent Los Angeles wildfires and their impact on public health and the environment. The Environmental Health Nanoscience and Advanced Materials Center (NAMC) at the Rutgers Environmental …
