As the United States rapidly grows more diverse, the care provided by nurses of color becomes particularly valuable. “People of color often seek medical care with providers who are of the same race or ethnic background,” says nursing professor Yolanda Nelson ’02. But the number of black nurses remains low at most health care facilities,…
Author Archives: Emily W. Dodd
Disability Support Services: New name, same mission
TCNJ’s Disabilities Support Services has been rebranded as the Accessibility Resource Center to more closely align with the services offered by the department. The team assists over 800 members of the campus community in a variety of ways including academic and classroom accommodations, dietary modifications, and housing/workplace accommodations. Meghan Sellet, director of ARC, is hoping…
Criminology researchers explain why it’s harder for women police recruits to pass fitness tests in New Jersey
How many pushups does it take to become a police officer? That’s a harder question than it seems, as some TCNJ criminology students discovered when they started asking last spring, and the answers they found were newsworthy enough to land on the front page of USA Today. They learned there’s no one answer, and it…
Olivia Biluck studies big game and small cells on her path to being an animal doc
It was on a childhood fishing trip with her dad when, without hesitation, she picked up a snake with her bare hands, that Olivia Biluck first showed signs of having what it takes to be a vet. “The snake bit me, and I just said, ‘Look, Dad, a snake!’” says Biluck, a senior biology major.…
English prof Jess Row riffs on the modern troubles of an old truism and his new book on race, fiction, and the American imagination.
In 2012, writer and producer Lena Dunham faced harsh criticism for the all-white cast of HBO’s hit series, Girls. When asked about her decision in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Dunham said it was an accident; she wrote about people she knew, and only later realized it was a show about four white women.…