Today, the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge hosted its third biennial awards ceremony to recognize select higher education institutions, educators, and students for their extraordinary work in student voter engagement during the 2020 presidential election. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and most students learning virtually, the honorees ensured students across the country could cast their ballots. …
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Student video game designers take their show on the road
There’s no such thing as “too many games” for a group of interactive multimedia students who were recently featured as indie video game developers at Philadelphia’s Too Many Games convention. The group, which bills itself as “In The Snow Studios,” turned a semester-long class project into their first foray into the video games industry. Their…
TCNJ announces new partnership with the Peace Corps
Peace Corps volunteers who have completed their service abroad can now apply for graduate study in nursing at The College of New Jersey, thanks to a new partnership with the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program offered through the Peace Corps. The Coverdell Fellows program is a graduate school program for returned Peace Corps Volunteers in…
TCNJ partners with Thomas Jefferson University to add 4+3 doctoral physical therapy program
TCNJ announced today that starting with the fall 2022 incoming first-year class, the college will offer a doctoral program in physical therapy in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Students in this new program can earn both a bachelor’s of science or bachelor of arts and a doctor of physical therapy degree in seven…
Filmmakers Keith and Kenny Lucas ’07 share their thoughts on philosophy, Black art, and being identical twins
Keith and Kenny Lucas ’07 wore identical black round-framed glasses and green jackets over black hoodies tossed atop black baseball caps. At times they spoke as one, one brother seamlessly picking up the other’s thoughts without missing a beat. Fortunately for the audience, the brothers sat cross-legged in their chairs on the Kendall Hall…
TCNJ ensembles to perform world premiere of composition based on Claudia Rankine poem, Oct. 29–30
The College of New Jersey’s Wind Ensemble and Choirs will perform together for the first time since March 2020, as they present the world premiere of Philadelphia-based composer Rollo Dilworth‘s “Weather” during two evening performances on Oct. 29-30 in the Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall. TCNJ’s Department of Music and the college’s Artivism…
Faigenbaum named Fellow of The National Academy of Kinesiology
Avery Faigenbaum, professor of health and exercise science at TCNJ, was recently named a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology. Faigenbaum, who has been at TCNJ since 2004, was one of 12 U.S. scholars to earn this distinction. Honorees span the wide diversity of the kinesiology disciplines from bench/lab scientists to social scientists. “The…
Student-faculty research team gets published for exploring COVID-19 news coverage
While many college students may have experienced some pandemic fatigue and tired of the constant news reports about the number of cases and how to stay safe, six TCNJ students worked together to study and dissect the coverage, and came out of lockdown with a new title for their resumes: co-authors. Miranda Crowley, Suchir Govindarajan,…
Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle named first Latina from TCNJ to win Fulbright award
The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has announced that TCNJ English Professor Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Canada for research on social justice advocacy and academic career narratives. Ortiz-Vilarelle is the first Latina and first faculty member from TCNJ’s English department to be awarded…