Speed over to your closest toy aisle and look for the Kei Swap — a new Hot Wheels car with ties to TCNJ. Designed by Matt Gabe ’05, lead packaging designer at Hot Wheels, the car is a throwback to the ’90s and was created from nearly start to finish by Gabe. A lifelong appreciator…
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A banner year for Bonners: Now in its 20th year, the TCNJ Bonner Program has a lot to celebrate.
When TCNJ’s Bonner Community Scholars Program launched in 2004, it started with just 12 Bonner scholars — students who commit to 300 hours of community service annually in exchange for need-based scholarships. Now, with close to 100 participants each year, the TCNJ program is one of the largest and most successful in a nationwide network…
Math prof dives into mapping the movements of sea creatures with new NSF grant
As a kid, Nick Battista wasn’t much of a swimmer. Growing up outside of Buffalo, New York, he loved going to the aquarium and admiring his grandmother’s fish tanks, but on trips to the beach, a fear of sharks kept him from venturing into the water. That changed during the last year of his PhD in mathematics…
Take their word for it: Students in a TCNJ linguistics course have their fingers on the pulse of linguistic innovation.
Students in a 200-level linguistics course have “locked in” on this year’s submissions for the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, with a slang-heavy list of entries that have been amplified and boosted by social media. “Lock in,” meaning to focus, was on the list that was considered when the society chose a winner…
Celebrating a leader among Lions
At over 80,000 alumni strong and a #1 ranking on the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2025 list, TCNJ/TSC alums have a lot to crow about, and the college’s long history of success has undoubtedly resulted from the cumulative efforts of many innovative leaders. However, one in particular has left indelible marks on…
The start of a proud new TCNJ tradition
Members of the campus community started a new tradition in advance of finals week this semester, and it involves getting up close and personal with a lion — our bronze lion, to be exact. On the last day of classes this semester, students gathered around the bronze lion for hot cocoa, lion-shaped cookies, and a…
New internship program opens doors for first-gen students to lead in conservation
The College of New Jersey will partner with Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space and the Outdoor Equity Alliance to launch a new internship program aimed at diversifying the land stewardship workforce. A $49,990 Watershed Restoration and Community Engagement Program grant, awarded by New Jersey Audubon through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, will fund…
Criminology professor honored with ASC Praxis Award
Jennifer Ortiz, associate professor of criminology, was recently honored by the American Society of Criminology for her tireless work supporting and advocating for formerly incarcerated individuals. She received the 2024 Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Praxis Award at a ceremony on November 14, 2024, at the ASC Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. …
White Coat Ceremony marks the start of clinical training for TCNJ nursing students
Close to 100 nursing students, most in their sophomore year, filed into Kendall Hall on November 14, each wearing a white scrub shirt and blue scrub pants and with a white lab coat draped across their forearm. They were there to celebrate a rite of passage, the White Coat Ceremony, which marks their transition into…
TCNJ earns grant from DEP for waste audit
The College of New Jersey has received $42,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Recycling Enhancement Act Grant to perform a campus waste and recycle audit. The project, which will be driven by students engaged in fieldwork, will provide campus leaders with reliable baseline data on the college’s current waste management practices. “The…