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Get All the News
At Your Fingertips
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Within the next few days, we are launching a new "connection" for alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends called, simply, the Newsroom.
It is a gateway for all and for the communities we serve to connect to our research; to our faculty, staff,
and student achievements; to the multitude of events we host; and to the work we do locally, nationally, and internationally.
The Newsroom will be a one-stop source for news, stories, and information about the School and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, as well as a front door to news about Rutgers University.
For now, keep checking the School's homepage for the Spotlight that will take you to the first edition of the Newsroom. Then bookmark the spot and plan to return frequently. In the meantime, if you would like to read about the efforts of our community in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, please visit this special webpage. |
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Mark Your
Calendar
December 11, 2012 - Obesity Prevention in NJ Conference: "Important Next Steps," East Brunswick Hilton
December 12, 2012 - Symposium Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Waksman Nobel Prize, Douglass Campus Center
February 4, 2013 - Bill McKibben, "Why Climate Change Matters and What You Can Do About It," Rutgers Student Center
February 25, 2013 - Filmmaker and explorer Fabien Cousteau, Multipurpose Room, Cook Campus Center
April 27, 2013 - Ag Field Day @ Rutgers Day
May 16 to 19, 2013 - Rutgers Alumni Reunion Weekend
These are just a few of the exciting events planned for the months ahead. Please keep checking the Discovery Initiative website for updates and further details. |
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Contact:
Office of Community Engagement
848-932-2000
discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu
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Great Food and Fun on the Menu
for 2012 Retired Faculty Luncheon
More than 80 retired faculty and guests are planning to attend this year's Retired Faculty Luncheon at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. This annual event is a highlight of the fall semester -- full of reunion chatter, a bountiful buffet, and the ever-popular poinsettia favors for all. The event gets under way at 11:30 a.m. at the University Inn and Conference Center. On the agenda is an update from Executive Dean Bob Goodman and an announcement of the planned Rutgers-New Brunswick Retired Faculty and Staff Center. Look for more information about the Center in the weeks ahead on the Discovery Initiative website at www.discovery.rutgers.edu. |
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Global Event Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Of the Selman A. Waksman Nobel Prize
On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, the School's Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology will host an international gathering of scholars, businesspeople, students, alumni and friends for an all-day symposium celebrating the 60th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to our own Professor Selman A. Waksman. The title of the symposium, which runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Campus Center, is Antibiotics - Soil's Microbial Miracles. It recognizes the role of soil microbes in the development of the wonder drug streptomycin and how the discovery stimulated the uncovering of a variety of blockbuster antibiotics that changed the approach to the treatment of the world's diseases.
Space is limited and registration is required. Please visit the department's registration page. |
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School Mourns Passing of C. Reed Funk
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George Hammell Cook Emeritus Professor C. Reed Funk passed away the morning of Thursday, October 4, 2012, after a brief battle with pneumonia. Reed Funk was world renowned in the area of turfgrass breeding during his career that began here in 1961. More recently he turned his attention to breeding nutritious tree crops that can grow on marginal land. An account of his remarkable work has been written by Bruce Clarke, chair of the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology. You can read more here. |
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Have a Good Story to Tell
About an Alum -- Or Yourself?
Starting in 2013, the Discovery Initiative newsletter will feature a story about an alumnus or alumna, a faculty or staff member (current or retired), a student, or a friend of the School who has made a difference in this world. If you have a suggestion for a person to profile, please email it to discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu. |
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This newsletter is brought to you by the Office of Community Engagement, a unit of the Office of the Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. New events are posted frequently on our Discovery Initiative website at www.discovery.rutgers.edu.
Diana M. Orban Brown, Director |
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