Author Archives: Emily W. Dodd
President Foster discusses goal of aligning budget, capital investment, and programming choices with strategic priorities
At Tuesday’s meeting of TCNJ’s Board of Trustees, President Kathryn Foster reviewed her first 108 days in office. Harkening back to the four questions she presented at her first board meeting in July, she emphasized that the overarching aim of her first year as president is to clarify our priorities and align the relevant pieces — our…
Could you escape the epidemic?
Inside a simple white tent propped up outside the Science Complex, four students garbed in aprons and medical masks pored through pamphlets, drawers, and chests to find a Spanish flu antidote and save a patient who lay on a slim cot. The patient, played by public health major Alana Adams ’20, needed the vaccine, but…
$7,400 scholarship helps support student’s recovery with education
Eric Van Eck ’18 met a lot of professors since he first enrolled at TCNJ in 2006. “Mostly for bad reasons,” he said, “like being in the principal’s office. But Van Eck had a very good reason to be in Trenton Hall 123 in late September: he was receiving a $7,400 scholarship from TCNJ Lion’s…
How a mentored research project launched a new relationship between TCNJ and a preeminent historic site in Trenton
As Francesca Paldino ’19 probed the history of the William Trent House as part of TCNJ’s Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience, her research made clear that the “country estate” of Trenton’s founder had, in fact, been a slave plantation. Craig Hollander, associate professor of history and Paldino’s faculty mentor says her findings are illustrative of the…
60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan takes the hot seat and answers pressing questions from the TCNJ community
As an award-winning journalist and correspondent for 60 Minutes, Lara Logan has reported from some of the world’s most hostile places. She’s been on the frontline with Navy Seals in Afghanistan, in Baghdad during a U.S. military invasion, and in a row boat off the shores of Alaska to witness a whale hunt. And on…
Clues from a student’s research at one New Jersey cemetery puts the famed 1918 pandemic into a local context
As part of an assignment for his First Year Seminar focused on the history of disease, Akash Patel ’21 photographed headstones at an historic cemetery in New Brunswick for a campus display on the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic. There he met Eleanor Malloy, president of the Elmwood Cemetery Association, and the rest…