Rutgers Seeks Environmental Stewards

Rutgers University offers 25 undergraduate majors through its School of Environmental and Biological Sciences alone, ranging from partially to fully green in outlook. It has a center that looks at the role of biotechnology in agriculture and the environment, another that explores quantitative modeling of environmental systems and an institute that looks at changing energy policy and technology.

But what if you don't have time for a four-year degree? Rutgers is now recruiting students for an environmental stewardship program that combines classroom learning with service learning. The Rutgers Environmental Stewards program aims to give ordinary New Jerseyans the science background they need to become involved with environmental issues in the state. Students will spend 60 hours in a classroom or field study, and then another 60 hours volunteering on an environmental project.

Classes will be held at four locations around the state. For more information, or contact the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station by clicking here.

Canon's Big Fat Green Scholarships

What would $78,000 do for your graduate education? That is how much Canon U.S.A. just awarded to each of eight doctoral candidates in the fields of conservation, environmental science and park management.

A decade ago, the U.S. arm of the Japanese imaging company established the Canon National Parks Science Scholars program to conduct research on conservation and sustainability in national parks in the Americas. According to Canon, the scholars picked for the program have done research in more than 85 national parks and published more than 340 scientific papers.

Five of this year's scholars hail from four U.S. colleges and universities--the University of Montana, Rutgers University, Cornell University, Oregon State University--and the others study at University of Alberta and McMaster University in Canada, and the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivida, Chile.

For more about the Canon National Parks Science Scholars program, check out Canon's Web site.