The College of New Jersey is one of only 145 universities and colleges around the world to be honored by the Exercise is Medicine program for creating a culture of wellness on its campus. The college earned a silver-level designation for engaging students, faculty, and staff in education initiatives and exercise as part of the…
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Meet the winners of the 2024 Mayo Business Plan Competition
Golden Connections, an AI-powered health and wellness digital platform designed to help with the needs of senior citizens and their caregivers, won the first-place prize of $30,000 in the 2024 Mayo Business Plan Competition. Lauren Cunningham ’24, Emma Route ’25, and Sangam Shivaprasad ’24 developed the digital platform to serve as a bridge between adult…
James Felton III reappointed to board of national DEI organization
James Felton III, vice president for inclusive excellence at The College of New Jersey, has been reappointed to the board of directors of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education for a three-year term. Felton sees this as a pivotal moment for continuing NADOHE’s efforts, as many DEI college programs and professionals are…
Natasha Agrawal receives Fulbright U.S. Distinguished Teaching Award to Nepal
Natasha Agrawal MEd ’10 was selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Short Term Program. This summer, she will travel to Nepal and spend six weeks training teachers in the small town of Dhangadhi. Agrawal teaches English as a Second Language at Robbins Elementary School in Trenton and is also an instructor in TCNJ’s Department…
PLAY BALL! History professor Craig Hollander teaches history through the prism of America’s pastime.
The arrival of spring means longer days, blooming flowers, and of course, the start of the Major League Baseball season. TCNJ history professor Craig Hollander’s “Baseball in American History” course uses the game as a lens to examine American history and societal trends with regard to the labor movement, urbanization, immigration, gender equality, and civil rights.…
Four takeaways from Women’s History Month guest speaker X González
Six years ago, X González was a high school senior and survivor of the mass shooting that took the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. With “an iconic shaved head” and known as Emma at the time, they became the face of the fight for gun control —…
Student programmers compete for top prizes in 24-hour TCNJ hackathon
Participants in TCNJ’s Hackathon 2024 recently pulled the ultimate all-nighter. But have no fear — no real hacking occurred. Rather, students from local high schools and colleges used the time to collaborate on conceptualizing, programming, and building a software or hardware project in just 24 hours. More than 140 entrants gathered in the Brower Student Center for the…
The National Academies of Practice in Nursing honors two members of nursing faculty
Tracy Perron and Yolanda Nelson, two faculty members in The College of New Jersey’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences, were recently named Distinguished Fellows of the National Academies of Practice in Nursing. NAP, a non-profit organization founded in 1981, is an alliance of healthcare professionals from multiple fields who collaborate to transform health and…