Natural fibers from plants such as industrial hemp provide a renewable high-quality commodity that has the potential to enhance New Jersey agriculture and provide economic benefits for a wide variety of industries and small businesses in the state. Both established and emerging industries can benefit from industrial hemp by supplementing or entirely replacing petroleum-based products with those based on natural fibers while sequestering significant quantities of carbon from the atmosphere (Cherney (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SEBS - Plant Biology and Pathology
Plants
Cities contain novel, specialized environments that give rise to unique selection pressures on urban plant populations. Very little research has been performed on plant evolutionary ecology in urban landscapes, but it is clear that certain plants species are successful and some cannot survive in urban conditions. However, it is not well known if plants are successful in urban areas due to preadaptation, plasticity, or rapid evolution. Assessing how urbanization selects for particular plant morphological, (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SEBS - Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Ecology, Evolution , Plants , Urban Design and Planning, (...)
This project investigates the environmental fluctuations documented in fossils and sediments of Lake Turkana, Kenya over the past four million years. Reconstructing a record of biotic and sedimentary responses to climate change, volcanism and landscape evolution is a prerequisite to understanding environmental factors as driving forces in development of the savanna biome and human ancestors in the ancient record. Students will investigate sediment samples from modern and ancient lake systems to (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS - Anthropology
Ecology, Environment
• Emmy Hennings, Poems and Short Prose [Translation and annotations for an English edition]
• Rahel Sanzara, The Skilled Hand [Translation and annotations for the English edition of a German novella]
German reading knowledge required.
In this project you will participate in the preparation of a two editions featuring two unknown modernist women writers, with the aim to produce tow annotated editions of their work in English. The first writer is Expressionist and Dadaist writer Emmy Hennings (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & (...)
Germanics, Language , Literature, Research abroad (...)
The New Jersey Folk Festival is a project of the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University New Brunswick. The festival highlights cultures and communities of New Jersey and gives students a hands-on internship
experience in producing public arts and humanities programs.
Each year we research artists and community members who will participate in our programs. Students conduct oral history interviews and archival research leading to the development of festival performances, programs, (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - American Studies
American Ethnic Studies, American Indian Studies, (...)
