Highlights from NJSGC’s 2024 Annual Affiliate Meeting

By Cassandra Schroeder on May 9, 2024

Bergen County High School Students Traveled to View the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8th

A group of high school students from Bergen County traveled to the path of totality of the eclipse on April 8th, 2024, as part of a program developed by our colleagues at Illinois Space Grant Consortium. In addition to observing the total eclipse, the New Jersey students were interviewed by college students from New York State.

Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse!

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, United States, and Canada.

This past month six undergraduates sponsored by The New Jersey Space Grant Consortium achieved their Level 1 rocketry certification from the National Association of Rocketry and Tripoli Rocketry Association. In an extraordinary feat of dedication and passion, the following students, Alex Bryan-Jones, Chris Castro, John Kellaher, Keith Kondapi, Ethan Oliva, and Ravi Patel have successfully achieved their certification following a successful flight and recovery of their own personally built high-power rockets.

NJSGC Sponsored RISE Students Paola Martis and Isabel Morales Win 2023 ABRCMS Award

_{By Cassandra Schroeder on February 9, 2024}

Rulaiha Taylor Completes her Doctoral Studies

Rulaiha Taylor, a toxicology graduate student at Rutgers University whom was supported by a NJSGC Bridge Fellowship in 2018-2019 on her first year in graduate school, successfully completed her doctoral studies and will be defending her dissertation on December 18, 2023. Congratulations Rulaiha!

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Thesis Entitled: Effects of Individual Bile Acids and Exposure to Environmental Chemicals on Fatty Liver Disease Development in Mice

NJSGC Director attended the annual meeting of New Jersey planetarians

Haim Baruh attended the Annual Meeting of New Jersey Planetariums on Thursday, Nov. 30, at the New Jersey State Museum Planetarium in Trenton, New Jersey. Planetarium directors from across the state met to discuss their experiences, challenges, new ideas, and how to work together to increase public and student participation in planetarium activities. 

AIAA Rutgers Rocket Propulsion Lab successfully launched their Excalibur II rocket on November 4th, 2023 at Upstate Research Rocketry Group (urrg.us) Tripoli launch field. The Excalibur II went up reaching an apogee of 1720ft. The rocket experienced a perfect dual deploy separation with both the drogue and main coming out beautifully. Due to the rocket unexpectedly landing in a tree, the launch to 11,000ft was scrapped. However after the determined efforts of the team the entire rocket was successfully recovered from the tree with no damage.

Twenty STEM-interested high school students joined Rutgers scientists Hugh Roarty, Rick Lathrop, Kendall Eldridge and Lucas Marxen in examining the effectiveness of prescribed fire to attain increase the biodiversity in the meadows and woodlands of the Rutgers Ecological Preserve and Natural Teaching Area, a 400-acre tract on the Livingston Campus of Rutgers University.