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Heer Bhathawala and Eve Nevelos present their poster on benefit-cost analysis of PFAS removal at the New Jersey Water Environment Association’s Lagrosa Conference and Exhibition in Atlantic City on May 13, 2026.

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Heer Bhathawala and Eve Nevelos present their poster on benefit-cost analysis of PFAS removal at the New Jersey Water Environment Association’s Lagrosa Conference and Exhibition in Atlantic City on May 13, 2026.

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Dr. Yanhong Jin has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in Economics (https://fulbrightscholars.org/us-scholar-awards) to conduct research and teaching in the Department of Economics and Legal Studies at the University of Naples Parthenope in Spring 2027.

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Ashley Rodriguez, a junior majoring in Political Science, in the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), was selected as a Gardner Fellow of 2025-2026. As part of this year-long program, she has been conducting research on the interaction among migration, economics, and labor markets under the guidance of Dr. Yanhong Jin (https://sites.rutgers.edu/yanhong-jin/) in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE). On May 5, 2026, Ashley presented […]

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Prof. and Chair James Oehmke presents at the Resurrecting the Beef Industry in New Jersey Forum at Sussex County Community College on May 29.

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Audri Riana, Naren Karthikeyan, Eve Nevelos, Marian Hollenbeck, Sadhana Vasanthakumar, Nikhil Srinivas, and Ziyong Qu (left to right) The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Rutgers University recently hosted its inaugural Undergraduate Research Showcase, featuring student projects addressing key challenges in agriculture, sustainability, and global economic development. Student teams presented research spanning topics from […]

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April 9, 2026 by Office of Public Outreach and Communication In middle of students from left to right Students with the Executive Marketing Director David Troupos, Vice President and Community Manager Melvin Rodriguez, Branch Manager Andrea Rodriguez, Vice President and Community Development Manager Seyi Ola, JP Morgan Chase & Co. team following their community resources and career […]

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Original Article by: Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterPublished on: March 25, 2026Publication: Childhood Obesity Undercuts The American Dream For Some, Study Says Children who are obese are far less likely to climb the economic ladder as adults, compared to kids who have a normal weight, researchers recently reported in the Journal of Population Economics. In essence, kids’ excess […]

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Original Article by: Kitta MacPhersonPublished on: March 18, 2026Publication: Childhood Obesity Makes It Harder to Climb the Economic Ladder, Study Finds | Rutgers University A rising health problem could deny the chance to achieve the American dream Childhood obesity may be quietly undermining one of the central promises of American life. A study by a […]

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W. Arthur Lewis was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. Prof. Lewis was known for his two sector model of economic development, published in 1954. In this model labor migrated from a less organized and less productive sector (agriculture, petty trade, busking) to […]
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January 22 – 23, 2026 in Atlantic City, New Jersey photographed by Lori Nardoza / Office of Public Outreach and Communication Prof. James Oehmke, DAFRE (l to r); Prof. Patty Oehmke, FCHS; and Executive Dean Laura Lawson, SEBS attended the New Jersey Agricultural Convention on January 22 and 23, 2026. Prof. James Oehmke, DAFRE and Prof. Patty […]