Jana Gevertz was drawn to medicine, but she didn’t want to be a doctor. “I was a math major, but wanted to do something that could have a direct societal impact,” she says. Then it happened. As an undergrad at Rutgers University, her father was diagnosed with stage IV lymphoma. “That sealed the deal for…
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U.S. News and World Report: TCNJ remains top public college in the north
U.S. News and World Report today ranked The College of New Jersey third (and first among public colleges) in its annual listing of the “Best Regional Universities—North.” It is one of a number of recent surveys to rate TCNJ highly. Money recently looked at public colleges where students graduate fastest. Recognizing that the longer it…
Move-in day for the Class of 2019
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Campus Town, open for business
The charm of oversized scissors and a big red bow proved more powerful than the summer heat today as crowds of faculty, staff, students, Ewing community members and VIPs gathered at 100 Campus Town Drive. Acting Governor Kim Guadagno and Ewing Mayor Bert Steinmann joined TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein for the obligatory ribbon cutting…
TCNJ mourns the loss of ‘Father Journalism’ Bob Cole
The world lost some of its gumption this week. Dr. Robert Carlton Cole, professor emeritus of English and creator of the college’s journalism major, died on August 4, 2015. He had been battling Parkinson’s disease. Cole arrived in the fall of 1973, just as the Watergate scandal was unfolding. “Watergate was feeding the students,” Cole…
Barnes & Noble opens at TCNJ’s Campus Town
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Laurel Leonard has been named assistant dean of the School of Science.
Laurel Leonard has been named assistant dean of the School of Science.
New server cluster will give college serious computing power
The story behind TCNJ’s latest technological advance begins in 2012 with a meeting—about internships. Peter J. DePasquale, associate professor of computer science, had students from southern New Jersey. He thought Linode, the Galloway, New Jersey-based cloud computing giant, could use their help. Chief operations officer Thomas Asaro liked what he heard. Then, Asaro went off-topic.…