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Rutgers fish surveys show effects of climate change
2013-09-22 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: On a dark night in the middle of a wide marsh near Tuckerton, N.J., a team of Rutgers University researchers lowered a net over the railing of an old wooden bridge. Then they turned off their flashlights and waited. Below, in Little Sheepshead Creek, the incoming tide was washing hundreds of tiny fish larvae into the net. By now - 24 years after these weekly surveys began - Rutgers ichthyologist Ken Able is seeing the unmistakable effects of warming oceans and climate change. Especially...
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Rutgers follow-up study shows Sandy's psychological effects
2013-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: Hurricanes can flood homes, tear down boardwalks, make beaches disappear. They might also shape people's beliefs about climate change and their attitudes toward "green" policies, suggests new research from a Rutgers psychology professor. In a pair of studies by Laurie A. Rudman, a psychology professor at the New Brunswick campus, students were asked their opinions of climate change and asked whether they would vote for a fictional "green" politician over one who opposed policies such as raising...
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Senate majority leader questions Barchi's interests outside Rutgers
2013-07-24 00:33:50| Biotech - Topix.net
State Sen. Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg on Tuesday wrote an open letter to the Rutgers Board of Governors, questioning what she considers "inadequate explanations" of school President Robert L. Barchi's lucrative outside deals with private companies conducting business with the university and the "seemingly-apathetic attitude" toward potential ... (more)
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Rutgers president formalizes recusal instructions
2013-07-21 02:15:39| Biotech - Topix.net
Rutgers University President Robert Barchi has sent his senior staff a memo instructing them to keep him out of the university's business dealings with two corporations that pay him to sit on their advisory boards.
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Rutgers prez advises firms that work with school
2013-07-15 16:02:46| Biotech - Topix.net
Rutgers University's president sits on advisory boards of two companies that do business with New Jersey's flagship school, a practice that some business ethicists find troubling.
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