Johnny’s career development began at Rutgers, with a for-credit internship through his Environmental Policy Institutions and Behavior (EPIB) major with the Edison Wetlands Association, a local New Jersey nonprofit organization focused on the“advocacy and the holistic remediation of superfund sites.” When connecting outreach, policy, and the technical side of remediation in this internship, he realized […]
Dr. Harris recently received a Rutgers Global Engagement Grant to build a new study abroad program on Scottish Sustainability! It will be a three-week course led by Professor Harris and launch in the Summer of 2025. He will travel to Scotland in June this summer to meet potential academic and community partners and assess travel, […]
Over the past two years, two Human Ecology professors have spent a lot of time inside meeting rooms in exotic destinations translating their unique expert knowledge into policy. Dr. Pamela McElwee is one of three co-chairs leading the IPBES assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health – coined the ‘Nexus Assessment’. Dr. Cymie […]
Dr. Cara Cuite, Associate Extension Specialist/Professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is usually very busy teaching Research Methods in Human Ecology or researching student food insecurity. But this past December Dr. Cuite was busy attending, not one, but two award ceremonies recognizing the achievements of her teaching, service and research. Dr. Cuite won the […]
Dr. Victoria Ramenzoni, part of The Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub at Rutgers, was selected by NSF and the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation to serve as NSF-KADF Ocean Decade Champions.
Professors Pamela McElwee and Rachael Shwom of the Department of Human Ecology have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to plan a Center on Sustainability and Governance in the Anthropocene.
A social scientist and a graphic designer join forces with Hudson County Community College to create art, gather food stories and engage northeastern New Jerseyans. Two Rutgers faculty members – a health psychologist who studies food insecurity and a design professor whose work engages marginalized communities in self-advocacy – teamed up with staff and students […]
The Edmund W. Stiles Award for Environmental Leadership was presented to Daniel J. Van Abs, Ph.D., FAICP/PP, professor of professional practice for water, society, and the environment at Rutgers University. The annual award recognizes a community leader who demonstrates outstanding leadership, dedication, and passion in advancing the cause of environmental protection and stewardship. The award […]
Vanessa Thomas, Environmental Policy Institutions and Behavior Major, was recently awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the Rutgers Aresty Research Center in the amount of $500.00 to help fund her study on student energy security. She will use the funding to purchase recruitment materials, such as flyers and handouts, and most importantly, to appropriately compensate […]
Quoting from the Newsroom website: “Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, was among six new co-chairs named today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to lead work on two major new multi-year international scientific assessments.”
