Fourteen members of our community who have passed away will be honored at the 2014 Rutgers Rising remembrance event, starting at 5 p.m. on Monday, September 22, 2014, at the Cook Campus Center. This gathering is one of the most significant occasions of the academic year.

Individuals being honored are Miriam Brush, Nutrition/Home Economics; Brevoort Conover, RCE Department Chair in 4-H Youth Development; Roy DeBoer, Landscape Architecture; Richard Emmons, Office of Continuing Professional Education; Arthur Edwards, Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources; Melvin Finstein, Environmental Sciences; Stephen Hart, RCE Extension Specialist in Weed Science; W. Bradford Johnson, RCE Extension Specialist in Vegetable Crops; Joel Kaplovsky, Environmental Sciences; Charles Lang, RCE Department Chair in 4-H Youth Development; John Meade, RCE Extension Specialist in Weed Science; Peter Rona, Marine and Coastal Sciences/Earth and Planetary Sciences; Eugene Varney, Plant Biology and Pathology; and Miriam Ward, RCE of Camden County, Extension Home Economist.

Further details appear on the Discovery website. The event is open to the public; advance registration is requested.

Earlier this year, the Discovery Newsletter issued a challenge to alumni: tell us your stories, and we will post them as part of our celebration of 150 years of contributions by the School and Experiment Station as a land-grant institution. Stories and news items continue to come in, and we now have an Index that lists the class years and names of all who are mentioned in the Newsroom. Look for a name you might know; click on it, and it will link to any references to that person posted in the Newsroom.

And if you have a note or a story to tell - about yourself or an alum that you know - please email it to Diana Orban Brown at orban@aesop.rutgers.edu.

In an important milestone of a multi-year research program, Rutgers scientists and

Recovering RU 29 off the coast of Brazil.

engineers have recovered the underwater glider RU 29 off the coast of Ubatuba, Brazil, completing a South Atlantic crossing that began in early 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa.  

The accomplishment was part of the "Challenger Glider Mission" undertaken by the Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (COOL) of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers' School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Undergraduate students served as the main pilots of the unmanned glider, giving directions via satellite to RU 29 every few hours as it surfaced.

The Challenger Glider Mission aims to simultaneously pilot 16 ocean-faring robots around the world's ocean basins while stimulating public interest in ocean science and helping to educate the general population about our changing planet. COOL is seeking donors to help purchase additional gliders for this mission and also will partner with other academic and governmental institutions to access volunteer gliders. Learn more about the mission at the Marine and Coastal Sciences website.

This is the question to be explored at a lecture and book-signing by author George Marshall on September 23, 2014, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center.

Marshall is founder of the Oxford-based Climate Outreach and Information Network and one of the leading European experts in climate change communications. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is strongly suggested.

September 1, 2014 - Induction Ceremony for first-year SEBS students, 9:30 a.m., Nicholas Music Center

September 2, 2014 - Fall Semester begins. Welcome to new and returning students!

September 6, 2014 - Rutgers vs. Howard University at High Point Solutions Stadium

September 13, 2014 - First B1G football vs. Penn State at High Point Solutions Stadium

September 22, 2014 - Rutgers Rising, Cook Campus Center (see story above)

September 23, 2014 - "Are Our Brains Wired to Ignore Climate Change?" (see story
above)
      
Through September 28, 2014 - 4-H and County Fairs (see schedule)

October 4, 2014 - "The Third Season," fall planting seminar, Rutgers Gardens