The College of New Jersey was awarded a $40,000 grant from The Presser Foundation to replace the instrument storage facilities in the Music Building. The current lockers will be upgraded to industry-standard storage solutions that will provide enhanced security for student instruments. As an added benefit of the project, some of the existing storage cabinets…
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TCNJ begins work with Master Teacher Fellows on NSF grant for STEM educators
The College of New Jersey recently began working with its first cohort of Sustainable and Innovative STEM Master Teacher Fellow on the execution of a National Science Foundation grant to increase levels of teacher engagement in K–5 STEM education in New Jersey. Funding for this six-year, $2.9 million initiative was awarded to TCNJ researchers in…
TCNJ student papers “Provide Renewed Hope for our Discipline and our World” at national health communication conference
TCNJ student papers “provide renewed hope for our health communication discipline and our world” according to Anne Nicotera, professor and organizer of the national biannual D.C. Health Communication Conference hosted by George Mason University May 1–3, 2025, in Herndon, Virginia. “To see this caliber of work produced by undergraduate students is rare and exceedingly gratifying,”…
Mechanical engineering seniors want to take their capstone project out of this world — literally.
Robotic arms, 3D printers, wind turbines. These are the types of dynamic products senior engineering students typically pour their time into designing for their year-long group capstone projects, which are meant to demonstrate their mastery of the concepts they’ve learned over the course of their four-year degree program. But this year, one TCNJ team wanted…
TCNJ partners with American Museum of Natural History to offer graduate courses
The College of New Jersey has partnered with New York City’s American Museum of Natural History to offer online graduate classes through the museum’s Seminars on Science series. The courses, which are designed to deepen students’ understanding of scientific content and enhance knowledge of the process of scientific inquiry, are asynchronous, providing flexibility for the…
Adam Cunard ’25 is championing combat robotics as a hands-on tool for tomorrow’s engineers
The first time Adam Cunard ’25 participated in a combat robotics competition with a few machines he’d cobbled together from Home Depot, he was randomly matched against himself. He enlisted his younger brother to help pilot and ended up losing to a robot of his own design. “My brother technically won the first robot fight…
Qadim Ghani named vice president and chief financial officer
TCNJ President Michael Bernstein announced today the appointment of Qadim Ghani as vice president and chief financial officer, effective June 16, 2025. Ghani currently serves as vice president of finance at Montgomery County Community College, where he works with the president and Board of Trustees on all matters related to the institution’s fiscal health. He…
Donor support turns a bio computer lab into a collaboration hub
When IT data revealed that the computers in a second-floor lab in the Biology Building were rarely used, the biology department looked to students for inspiration on how to repurpose the space. “Students want spaces to be together: more whiteboards, more places to collaborate,” Wendy Clement, department chair, says. “And we were also running out…