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DAFRE Chair James Oehmke and SEBS Director of Wellness Patty Oehmke tour the Colorado State University SPUR facilities in Denver.
National Institute of Health Course in Chicago
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Professor Oehmke answers questions at the National Institute of Health Course on The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, held in Rosemont, IL July 21-25, 2025. Prof. Oehmke’s presentation was based on his innovative research showing that child undernutrition statistically behaves as if it is a contagious disease, likely because of socio-economic ‘transmission’ vectors that enable […]
DAFRE’s Presence at the 2025 Rutgers Active Learning Symposium
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Dr. Basanta Chaudhuri, Dr. Yanhong Jin (panelist), Dr. Sonal Pandey, and Dr. Isaac Vellangany attended the 2025 Rutgers Active Learning Symposium (RALS) to learn about and share pedagogic practices in teaching. As one of 13 Co-Intelligence Exploration Teaching Fellows of 2024-2025 at Rutgers, Dr. Jin’s fellow project, “GenAI-Infused Class Activities: Using ChatGPT as a Tool to […]
New Jersey is getting warmer. For gardeners, farmers and nurseries, that means change
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Daniel Munoz, NorthJersey.com Bruce Crawford has managed gardens for more than 20 years — 18 of them at Rutgers University, where he oversaw its 160-acre garden with more than 60 designed acres of beds, tree and shrub collection, lawns and paths. The guy knows plants. Some specimens seen more often in colder climates — like […]
New Tariffs and Their Impact on the U.S. Food Industry: A Closer Look at Produce and Wine in New Jersey
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April 2, 2025 by Office of Public Outreach and Communication Ramu Govindasamy in 2017 inspecting production trial plots during a marketing training session for smallholder farmers in Zambia. Courtesy of Ramu Govindasamy. By Ramu Govindasamy, professor and extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Prof. Ramu Govindasamy. The recent announcement of sweeping new […]
Your next drink could cost you: What tariffs mean for New Jersey wine stores and consumers
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Your next drink could cost a whole lot more. The Trump administration announced unilateral tariffs on imports from almost every country and additional taxes on those from about 60. Matt Cortina, NorthJersey.com Published April 7, 2025 topher Barnes runs a small wine shop, Grape Collective, in Montclair. He also runs a small online magazine of the […]
Micronesia’s Pohnpei State Endorses Landmark Food Security Policy Developed in Collaboration with SEBS Science Team
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Original Story: March 31, 2025 by Office of Public Outreach and Communication Rutgers scientists Dena Seidel (second from left), Ramu Govindasamy (second from right) and James Simon (at right) are pictured with Governor Stevenson Joseph (third from right) and Pohnpei officials for the release of the Pohnpei State Food Security Policy in February 2025. The expansive Pacific […]
In This Class, the Professor Taps Undergrads to Conduct Research
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In “Food, Nutrition, and Health,” Yanhong Jin encourages students to develop studies and gather data. Some have had their work published. Author: Mike Lucas, mike.lucas@rutgers.edu Original Story: In This Class, the Professor Taps Undergrads to Conduct Research | Rutgers University Rutgers University-New Brunswick undergraduate students in Yanhong Jin’s elective class, “Food, Nutrition, and Health,” find […]
Festschrift Seminar honoring Dr. Carl Pray
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Innovative Agricultural Technologies and the Private Sector for a Hunger – Free World Date of Seminar: August 1, 2024 Location: New Delhi, India A conference was organized to honor DAFRE’s Dr. Carl Pray by Chandra Nuthalapati and Prabhu Pingali from Cornell University. It was a truly international conference with scholars representing most of the regions […]
