The Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science hosted its 35th Annual Turfgrass Symposium on March 19, bringing together faculty, staff, students, researchers and industry leaders for a day of collaboration, innovation and knowledge exchange. Held at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, the symposium highlighted the breadth of turfgrass research underway across the university while reinforcing Rutgers’ leadership in advancing sustainable turf systems. RCEI …
RCEI intern Edith Zhao, a student in the Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Program, has received the Alpha Zeta Student of the Year Award for her graduating class, Class of 2028! With this award, she is being recognized as a student leader who has contributed greatly to the SEBS, Rutgers, and greater New Brunswick community. Check out the news feature at the Environmental Science …
Written by RCEI affiliate Pamela McElwee, a professor in the Department of Human Ecology, this article, published in Science, is a call to action for US scientists, organizations, and citizens to not let the gaping hole in climate science left by the Trump administration go unnoticed or untreated. Due to the administration pulling the United States out of 60 global …
Penguins waddling across Antarctic ice might seem far removed from a classroom in New Jersey, but a new study shows that these charismatic birds can be a powerful hook for teaching young people about climate change — and inspiring them to see themselves as future scientists. The study was led by researchers at Rutgers University, including Janice McDonnell, RCEI Affiliate, Associate Dean …
As the inaugural Rutgers-New Brunswick Laureate, Sue Huang is collaborating with designers and a software engineer for her “Bodies of Flora” project RCEI affiliate Sue Huang is using speculative and critical design to bring long-dead plant species in New Jersey back to life in the collective human consciousness. Her latest work is a collaborative effort founded in both science and …
Plants are remarkably good at adjusting how they capture sunlight and produce food through photosynthesis. A new computer model helps scientists better understand these adjustments by looking at what happens at different heights within a plant canopy, from the sun-drenched leaves at the top to the shaded leaves near the ground. RCEI Affiliate Chi Chen, assistant professor in the Department …
At a reception hosted at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. on March 4, Professor and RCEI affiliate Siobain Duffy and her international research team were recognized with the Pioneering UK–US Breakthroughs (PUB) Award, a distinction honoring seven collaborative teams whose work is addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges. Presented by His Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States, …
Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study published in Science, a Rutgers-led team of scientists found that healthy and diseased digestive systems behave …
New research finds that news stories about who is most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change can have very different effects — depending on whether they focus on race or income. Climate change doesn’t harm everyone equally. Flooding, heat waves, and other extreme weather events tend to hit lower-income communities and communities of color the hardest. But when news stories highlight those differences, do they actually help people understand …
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor and RCEI affiliate Qizhong (George) Guo, a leader in water resources engineering, is the director of the School of Engineering’s Urban and Coastal Water Systems Laboratory. Since 2018 the lab, according to Guo, has integrated and expanded on earlier laboratory and research activities he developed at Rutgers—including the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and the …
