Author Archives: Emily W. Dodd
TCNJ cultivates a bumper crop of winning New Jersey educators
Earlier this month, the New Jersey Department of Education announced its 2022–2023 County Teachers of the Year and it was no surprise that six of the 21 county teachers are TCNJ alumni. Each teacher was nominated as Teacher of the Year in their individual school before moving on to county-wide competition. Next, they’ll find out…
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How Camila Guayasamin’s summer internship offered national leadership experience with local support
Camila Guayasamin ’24 may have stayed close-to-home for her summer internship, but she still gained national perspectives along the way. As one of five Bonner Scholars selected for the National Summer Intern program at the Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation in Princeton, Guayasamin worked alongside fellow scholars from Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio.…
Leeann Thornton named president-elect of the American Society of Plant Biologists
Leeann Thornton, professor of biology at TCNJ, has been named president-elect of the American Society of Plant Biologists. She will begin her term on October 1, 2022. “It’s a tremendous honor to be selected to represent this society because my identity as a plant biologist has always been a huge part of my career,” Thornton…
How this TCNJ summer study abroad course satisfies the hunger for history
What could be better than a study abroad program in Italy? How about one with a focus on food? Thirty TCNJ students traveled to Italia for three weeks this summer for the Center for Global Engagement’s popular faculty-led offering: Gendered History of Food: La Cucina Della Nonna (grandmother’s kitchen). The class, first offered in 2012, studies…
Meet TCNJ’s 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship winners
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program is one of the most competitive sources of support for students in STEM fields. The vast majority of recipients are first- and second-year graduate students, but three TCNJ seniors made the list in this past spring when the NSF announced its 2022 awardees: Madison Bland Major: electrical…
TCNJ awarded IDEAS grant to enhance public health engagement in India
TCNJ has been selected as one of just 44 institutions across the country to receive funding support from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students Program. TCNJ’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences will use these funds to help their faculty and students conduct an in-depth comparison between the U.S. and Indian approaches to health care. “The goal of this project is to equip TCNJ professors and students with information about how…
Knicole Colón ’07 shines among NASA stars in James Webb Space Telescope image reveal
Physics alumna Knicole Colón ’07 was among NASA’s go-to experts to explain the significance of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope earlier this month. Specifically, the images showed the travel patterns of an exoplanet 1,000 light years away. “There are billions of stars, that means there are billions of planets,” said…