Rutgers University
EQUINE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
From Our Stable To Yours
Fall 2022
Inside the Issue:
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Dr. Karyn Malinowski Receives 2021 HHYF STY Award
Rutgers Equine Science Center Launches National Survey
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From The Lab: Osteocalcin
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Welcome To Dr. Taylor Ross
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o learn more about the current information, education, and research needs of the U.S. equine community, the Rutgers Equine Science Center just launched a U.S.-wide online survey. Needs assessment surveys, like this present one, provide valuable insights into topics of interest and importance to the equine industry, and they shed light on the demographics of the equine community. While this information is commonly used to create new equine research and extension programs, it
is also critical for existing extension programs, like the ones that the Rutgers Equine Science Center provides. Through regular conversations with the equine community, for example through surveys like this present one, the Rutgers Equine Science Center ensures to stay upto date with the communities’ most pressing needs, and to provide the most useful and relevant resources for members of the equine industry. To date, the Rutgers Equine Science Center has already conducted two needs assessment surveys, one in Continued on pg. 4