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Attention all
'Foodies'
Join alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the Department of Food Science at its biennial "ReConnect with Rutgers Food Science" weekend on April 27 and 28, 2012. The gala on Friday, April 27, will feature lots of networking, a gourmet dinner, entertainment, games and reminiscences. The featured speaker will be Maricel Presilla, a chef and culinary historian specializing in the foods of Latin America and Spain, with a special emphasis on cacao. Go to the Discovery website for additional information and a link to registration. |
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Mark Your
Calendar
April 25, 2012 - Celebration of Excellence Awards and Reception
April 27, 2012 - ReConnect with Rutgers Food Science
April 28, 2012 - Ag Field Day @ Rutgers Day
May 12, 2012 -
Rutgers Rising Remembrance Service
Alumni Reunion Dean's Tour & Reception
CCAA Reunion Gathering and Candelight Walk
May 13, 2012 - University Commencement
May 14, 2012 - School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Convocation |
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Contact:
Office of Community Engagement
848-932-2000
discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu
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April is packed with news and events on the G.H. Cook Campus. To help bring them to life more vividly, we have gone to a new format, beginning with this issue of the Discovery Initiative newsletter from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. We hope you like the new look; please let us know your thoughts by emailing discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu. And, as always, visit www.discovery.rutgers.edu to learn more about our programs and to register for events. |
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Join Us at the 'Celebration of Excellence' on April 25
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G.H. Cook Scholars also are honored. Here is last year's class photo. |
Join Executive Dean Bob Goodman as the School and Experiment Station honor faculty, staff and students at this year's "Celebration of Excellence" awards event, starting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. This year's honorees include Mark Robson, Craig Phelps, Donn Derr, Debashish Bhattacharya, Jim Murphy, Randy Gaugler, Peter Anderson, Barbara Fitzgerald, the team that created "Farm Management Training for Women," and the 2012 Class of G.H. Cook Scholars. For more information on the awards and to register to attend the ceremony, which will be followed by a reception and light supper, please click here. |
Professor Ehrenfeld Urges Increased Self-Reliance for Students, Educators
To an overflow audience at the spring Executive Dean's Distinguished Lecture on "Reinventing the University for the 21st Century," David Ehrenfeld of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources proposed a return to life skills education -- in addition to traditional learning -- as a means of preparing students for a new world that will be created by the end of cheap energy and evolving global climate change. He posited that land-grant institutions like Rutgers are ideally positioned to lead the way to greater self reliance by offering certain practical courses designed "to give us understanding and control over our lives and the feeling of being able to take care of ourselves."
His lecture was featured on Page One of the Daily Targum. To read its take on the professor's talk, link to the article here. |
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Be sure to come to
Ag Field Day @ Rutgers Day
April 28, 2012 - Rain or Shine
We look forward to seeing you at this annual highlight of the academic year -- Ag Field Day @ Rutgers Day. Activities start at 10 a.m. and go on until 4 p.m. The annual plant sale, animal handling competitions, demonstrations, lots of food (including homemade ice cream!) and fun make this an ideal family day. Be sure to stop by the Dean's Tent at the corner of Dudley and College Farm roads to chat with your favorite deans and, perhaps, win some prizes. |
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