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Rutgers Plays Strategic Role at the 2025 Middlesex County Business Summit
Originally Published on: October 27, 2025 by Office of Public Outreach and Communication Rutgers President William F. Tate IV addresses the Middlesex Business Summit 2025. President Tate stressed the importance of University-Business collaboration to make New Jersey a to biomedical hub. The Middlesex Business Summit 2025 attracted…
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Annual Meeting of the Center of Excellence for Global Food Security and Defense
Prof. James F Oehmke and Dr. Felecia M Nave, President and CEO of the 1890 Universities Foundation, at the Annual Meeting of the Center of Excellence for Global Food Security and Defense (CEGFSD). The CEGFSD leverages the collective capacity of all nineteen 1890 land-grant universities…
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River Valley Community Grains
Prof. James F Oehmke met with Ruthie Peretti, owner of Marksboro Mills in Warren County and Larry Mahmarian, co-founder and co-owner of River Valley Community Grains, to visit their operations and discuss the future of regenerative food systems in New Jersey. 10/17/2025.
Northern New Jersey Joint Agricultural Development Forum
Prof. James F Oehmke, Chair of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at Rutgers University, discusses the opportunities for New Jersey agriculture as part of a panel at the Northern New Jersey Joint Agricultural Development Forum. The forum was held at Sussex Community College and co-sponsored by…
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New Jersey Food Waste Summit
Prof. Serpil Guran presents to the New Jersey Food Waste Summit on October 15, 2025 at Rutgers Cook Campus. Prof. Guran highlighted some of the innovative processes that Rutgers is using to address the problem of food waste.
Plug and Play Tech Center Event
Nolan Lewin (center), Executive Director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, and Rutgers Alumnus Sho Islam (right), Director of the Office of Business Engagement for Middlesex County, appear on a panel at the Plug and Play Tech Center event for the Food and Beverage Industry.
AAEA Welcomes the Establishment of the Dr. Carl Pray Appreciation Club
At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), held July 27-29 in Denver, scholars, colleagues, and friends came together to celebrate the establishment of the Dr. Carl Pray Appreciation Club, celebrating the outstanding scholarly contributions, mentorship, and international leadership of…
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Colorado State University
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
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…
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DAFRE’s Presence at the 2025 Rutgers Active Learning Symposium
Dr. Isaac Vellangany, Dr. Yanhong Jin (panelist), Dr. Sonal Pandey, and Dr. Basanta Chaudhuri. 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…
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New Jersey is getting warmer. For gardeners, farmers and nurseries, that means change
Daniel Munoz, NorthJersey.com https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/home-garden/2025/04/29/new-jersey-gardening-how-to-deal-with-rising-temperatures/83122105007/?tbref=hp 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…
New Tariffs and Their Impact on the U.S. Food Industry: A Closer Look at Produce and Wine in New Jersey
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…
Your next drink could cost you: What tariffs mean for New Jersey wine stores and consumers
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…
Micronesia’s Pohnpei State Endorses Landmark Food Security Policy Developed in Collaboration with SEBS Science Team
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…
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