Research

In “Food, Nutrition, and Health,” Yanhong Jin encourages students to develop studies and gather data. Some have had their work published. 

For the past decade, José Ramírez-Garofalo, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources in the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has tramped through swamps and meadows in the tri-state metropolitan area looking for signs of environmental change, including signs of new species, insect and otherwise.

Ferrero Hazelnut Company (Ferrero HCo), a division of global sweet-packaged food company the Ferrero Group, today expanded its investment in U.S.-grown hazelnuts with a research grant of $180,000 to Oregon State University and a grant of $160,000 to Rutgers University.

In a groundbreaking study published in Cell titled, “A Core Microbiome Signature as an Indicator of Health,” researchers at Rutgers University, alongside their international collaborators, have introduced a novel method for identifying the Core Microbiome—the crucial set of gut microbes commonly found in humans and essential for health.

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