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.
Author Archives: Emily W. Dodd
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…
Mary Williams and Chinasa Tyler were selected for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program – Addictions Counselors (NBCC MFT-AC) for 2015-2016. This fellowship supports graduate counseling students who are committed to supporting youth from underserved groups. Both students have been working with individuals and families in Greater Trenton area.
Mary Williams and Chinasa Tyler were selected for the National Board for Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program – Addictions Counselors (NBCC MFT-AC) for 2015-2016. This fellowship supports graduate counseling students who are committed to supporting youth from underserved groups. Both students have been working with individuals and families in Greater Trenton area.
28 students share credit in professor’s newly published book
Communication studies professor John Pollock has a new book out this month—and 28 TCNJ students share credit in its creation. Pollock says he has long encouraged his students to publish their research. He packed his 2007 book, Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change, with their case studies, but for Journalism and Human…
“White Privilege in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit,” an essay by Erin Shannon ’16, won first prize at the Sigman Tau Delta Conference in its category of Critical Southwest, Latino/Latina, Native American Literature.
“White Privilege in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit,” an essay by Erin Shannon ’16, won first prize at the Sigman Tau Delta Conference in its category of Critical Southwest, Latino/Latina, Native American Literature.
Caitlin Wiesner ’15 received the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium’s Emerging Scholar Award for her paper, “She Should Be Able to Pick the Man She Gets Raped By: Historicizing the Construction of Black Female Sexuality in the Joan Little Trial.”
Caitlin Wiesner ’15 received the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium’s Emerging Scholar Award for her paper, “She Should Be Able to Pick the Man She Gets Raped By: Historicizing the Construction of Black Female Sexuality in the Joan Little Trial.”