The Council for Advancement and Support of Education announced today the new Charles A. Wright Opportunity and Inclusion Leadership Award as part of its 2020 District II Achievement Awards program. Named in recognition of TCNJ’s associate vice president for development and alumni engagement — known to all on campus as Chuck — the award acknowledges…
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TCNJ honors longtime STEM donor John Martinson
A highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot, John Martinson trained intensely to become an astronaut — but he was too tall to rocket into space. Instead, he founded Edison Partners in 1968 and fostered technological advances as a venture capitalist. Martinson channeled his passion for science and technology into his charitable work with the Martinson…
How simple outdoor seating is transforming the trip across our campus, one accessible rest stop at a time
The new benches on campus — 32 of them — are more than just picturesque study spots. They’re part of a universal design. Positioned at approximately 200-foot intervals along three key pathways of campus — the art walk, the main campus walk, and the residence walk — their purpose is two-fold: to identify paths leading to…
Senior Chance Gayles awarded 2019 Gilman Scholarship
Interactive multimedia major Chance Gayles ’20 was awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The $4,500 award will support his study of Japanese language and culture at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan in fall 2019. In addition to his interactive multimedia major, Gayles has a minor in Japanese. He’s been studying Japanese at…
Math prof Robert Cunningham receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
TCNJ mathematics professor Robert Cunningham has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award that will support his sabbatical to help integrate research-based teaching strategies into the curriculum of schools in the Caribbean. A veteran high school mathematics teacher, Cunningham’s 10 years of classroom experience inspired him to think critically about the secondary mathematics curriculum and how…
Namal Seneviratne ’19 selected for Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
Namal Seneviratne ’19 was selected as a 2019 Phi Kappa Phi Fellow. Seneviratne, who will be attending the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the fall, earned one of only 50 $8,500 awards from the honor society. Each year, TCNJ’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi selects one candidate to compete for the society-wide graduate fellowship.…
How TCNJ equipped Breana Stringer for an unexpected internship at the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness
When Breana Stringer ’21 came to TCNJ, she was sure she wanted to be an FBI agent. Stringer, a criminology major and Arabic minor, developed a passion for criminology at an early age watching her mother work as a probation officer. “Watching her love what she did made me love what she did, too,” she…