School of Education Dean Jeff Passe was sworn in as a member of the Ewing Environmental Commission on May 19 by the chair of the Town Council.
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Alana Huszar strikes Gold(water) with graph theory
Alana Huszar once dreamed of becoming a puppeteer or a voice actress, until she got her first taste of advanced math in a high school calculus class. That’s the moment Alana fell in love with mathematics — and she hasn’t looked back. The 20-year-old junior from Bridgewater, New Jersey, has won a Goldwater Scholarship, the…
She’s got spirit, how ‘bout you?
After graduation, Hayley Graves ’15 hopes to land a design agency job that allows her to make use of her talents as an illustrator. And her abilities are considerable. The senior won first place in TCNJ’s Spirit Mark Competition, in which the college challenged art students to draw a cartoon version of Roscoe, the college’s…
Last call at The Rat: Iconic campus hotspot to close after 39 years
Cheers echoed throughout the Brower Student Center atrium during Alumni Reunion 2015 as Lions from years past raised their glasses and celebrated the end of an era. “To the Rat!” they clinked, recounting memories of long hours spent at the beloved campus watering hole that will soon close forever. “We had the best times here,”…
Philosophy Professor Melinda A. Roberts has been appointed in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2015-16. She will work on a book, Modal Ethics and Moral Value, intended to explore how facts about one person in one seemingly irrelevant outcome can bear on and alter the moral characteristics of other outcomes.
Philosophy Professor Melinda A. Roberts has been appointed in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2015-16. She will work on a book, Modal Ethics and Moral Value, intended to explore how facts about one person in one seemingly irrelevant outcome can bear on and alter the moral characteristics of other outcomes.
TCNJ campus lawn strewn with 1,100 backpacks in suicide awareness display
—The Times of Trenton
TCNJ football players go all out for bone marrow registration drive
—The Times of Trenton
New campaign launches to fund major TCNJ priorities
On Saturday, April 25, approximately 1,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gathered on a sunny and crisp Quimby’s Prairie to be a part of college history. The moment came at 4 p.m., when TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein took center stage for the big reveal—the special announcement that the college was undertaking a major initiative…
Senior history and poli sci major Rebecca Flores was the only New Jersey student selected to represent the state’s undergraduate research at CUR’s Posters on the Hill event on April 23.
Senior history and poli sci major Rebecca Flores was the only New Jersey student selected to represent the state’s undergraduate research at CUR’s Posters on the Hill event on April 23.
Cooperman College Scholars pledges support for nearly two dozen Essex County teens
After months of preparation, TCNJ will welcome its first group of Cooperman College Scholars to campus this summer. For nearly two dozen students, all rising high school seniors from Essex County, New Jersey, it will be a first taste of the TCNJ experience—but thanks to the new Cooperman program, surely not the last. Launched this…