In last year’s Mayo Business Plan Competition, the Solar Divide team had a great idea, but they didn’t have the business acumen to back it up—and it cost them. They didn’t advance beyond the first round. This year, like a phoenix rising, team members Nic Freschi and his business partner Cody Combs breathed new life…
Author Archives: Emily W. Dodd
Jess Row receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Jess Row, associate professor of English, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Often characterized as a “midcareer” award, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The fellowship allows for uninterrupted time for recipients to…
TCNJ School of Business remains #1 in NJ, according to Businessweek
The College of New Jersey’s School of Business jumped 28 places to #35 in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2016 ranking of the top 100 undergraduate business programs in the nation. TCNJ has the number one undergraduate B-school in New Jersey, according to the publication’s survey of Best Undergraduate Business Schools. The ranking is based on a number of…
A School of Nursing team in Haiti helped pull a toddler back from sure death
Severely malnourished, flaccid, and crying weakly, the 15-month-old was barely responsive when his mother carried him into the Port-au-Prince clinic’s triage section where Kelly Williamson met them. Williamson ’16 immediately sensed the urgency of the child’s condition, and ushered the boy and his mother to Sharon Byrne for further evaluation. “As soon as they walked…
TCNJ Foundation approves new mission statement
The College of New Jersey Foundation recently reaffirmed its support of the college by approving a revised mission statement that underscores the significance of philanthropic support to the institution. “The Foundation Board wanted to reassert its commitment to ensuring TCNJ has the philanthropic support necessary to be an exemplar of public higher education,” says John…
How being a twin helped launch Andrew Goldfarb into grad school at Harvard
When Andrew Goldfarb was 14, he and his brother Zach wondered whether they were, in fact, identical twins. As newborns, the boys looked alike, and there seemed to be no need to perform genetic testing to determine whether they were among the one-third of twins who have identical DNA. “When I look at our infant…
Oscar nom’s advice to aspiring TCNJ filmmakers? Patience.
Damien Chazelle, writer/director of the Academy Award-winning film “Whiplash,” visited TCNJ on March 28 to conduct a master class for communication studies students interested in pursuing careers in the film industry. Not unfamiliar with TCNJ—his mom, Celia, teaches in the history department—Chazelle spent time researching the college’s academic dismissal policy, which he later used in…
Money Magazine: TCNJ “most likely to pay off financially”
According to a new report by Money magazine, TCNJ is one of 20 public colleges nationwide—and one of only two in the state—that are “most likely to pay off financially.” Money scoured through PayScale.com’s just-released return-on-investment data to determine the public colleges and universities where students not only go on to earn high salaries, but…