From “New Jersey’s highest recognition of innovation”, two research teams at Rutgers have been bestowed Research & Development Council of New Jersey Edison Patent Awards honoring their brilliant technological work, including their own respective startups. One of these research teams included Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and RCEI affiliate Richard Riman, serving as the advisor to PhD student Daniel …
An article from Asbury Park Press highlights a new Rutgers University Climate Change Resource Center report warning that New Jersey’s climate is becoming increasingly extreme, with hotter summers, heavier rainfall, and worsening flooding. The report shows that New Jersey is warming at twice the global average rate, with 2024 recorded as the second hottest year in the state’s history. These …
An article from E&E News by Politico details a new Department of Energy (DOE) report commissioned by Energy Secretary Chris Wright that seeks to cast established climate science as an open debate. The 141-page report, authored by a small group of long-time climate skeptics, selectively uses evidence and disputed claims to question the scientific basis for climate regulations such as …
The North American Agrivoltaics Awards (NAAA) program announced on August 5 that Rutgers’ work in agrivoltaics had won its “Solar Farm of 2025” award. For the past several years, a project at Rutgers University, the Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program (RAP), has been focused on “agrivoltaics,” also known as “dual-use” solar, and is showing that a farm’s energy needs and expenses can …
New Jersey, not typically known for seismic activity, has recently experienced a noticeable uptick in earthquakes — including two tremors in Bergen County, one registering magnitude 3.0 and another at 2.7. RCEI affiliate Alexander Gates, working alongside a former student, discovered that perhaps lesser known fault lines are the cause of these earthquakes. RCEI affiliate Gates stated in this article …
As the Trump administration abruptly puts an end to a myriad of labs, climate change reports and initiatives, jobs, and funding, a gaping hole is left in their place. In an effort to at least temporarily make up for that need, numerous non-profit organizations and academic groups have formed a “greenhouse gas coalition” for the continued monitoring and research of …
Why is climate change talked about so much but yet so little? When will people start to take this issue seriously? What is being done to reduce the effect of climate change? What small things can we do every day to prevent the increase of climate change? These are the questions New Jersey youth were asking at the Climate Teen Summit …
RCEI affiliate Kay Bidle, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS), has been selected for the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society’s ARIS inaugural 2025 Research Fellowship. Created to support notable researchers who are equally invested in their research and its impacts, the ARIS Research Fellowship focuses on how researchers can increase their capacity to frame their research as …
In early June, RCEI affiliate Dario Pompili, a professor in the School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, and two of his team members, doctoral candidates Zhile Li and Songjun Huang, went to Bonn, Germany to compete as one of 12 finalist teams in the 2025 T Challenge. Sponsored by Deutsche …
The effects of climate change recently displayed themselves very clearly in New York, as a heatwave struck the Northeast with record breaking temperatures that were only observed to that level many decades ago. Central Park, 99 degrees, reported its highest June 24th temperature in recorded history, and as the scorching heat grew and maintained due to the “heat dome” phenomenon, …
