U.S. News & World Report released its 2023 Best Colleges rankings today and The College of New Jersey again received high marks. TCNJ ranked fifth overall and remains first among public colleges in the “Best Regional Universities—North” category. TCNJ has held the top spot in its region among public colleges every year since 1991. The…
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How Camila Guayasamin’s summer internship offered national leadership experience with local support
Camila Guayasamin ’24 may have stayed close-to-home for her summer internship, but she still gained national perspectives along the way. As one of five Bonner Scholars selected for the National Summer Intern program at the Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation in Princeton, Guayasamin worked alongside fellow scholars from Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio.…
Leeann Thornton named president-elect of the American Society of Plant Biologists
Leeann Thornton, professor of biology at TCNJ, has been named president-elect of the American Society of Plant Biologists. She will begin her term on October 1, 2022. “It’s a tremendous honor to be selected to represent this society because my identity as a plant biologist has always been a huge part of my career,” Thornton…
How this TCNJ summer study abroad course satisfies the hunger for history
What could be better than a study abroad program in Italy? How about one with a focus on food? Thirty TCNJ students traveled to Italia for three weeks this summer for the Center for Global Engagement’s popular faculty-led offering: Gendered History of Food: La Cucina Della Nonna (grandmother’s kitchen). The class, first offered in 2012, studies…
TCNJ awarded IDEAS grant to enhance public health engagement in India
TCNJ has been selected as one of just 44 institutions across the country to receive funding support from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students Program. TCNJ’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences will use these funds to help their faculty and students conduct an in-depth comparison between the U.S. and Indian approaches to health care. “The goal of this project is to equip TCNJ professors and students with information about how…
Knicole Colón ’07 shines among NASA stars in James Webb Space Telescope image reveal
Physics alumna Knicole Colón ’07 was among NASA’s go-to experts to explain the significance of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope earlier this month. Specifically, the images showed the travel patterns of an exoplanet 1,000 light years away. “There are billions of stars, that means there are billions of planets,” said…
Department of World Languages and Cultures receives Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant for project in Taiwan
The Department of World Languages and Cultures at TCNJ received a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program grant to support a group project in Taiwan. The grant will allow TCNJ and its P–12 partner schools in New Jersey to enhance the study of Mandarin and Taiwanese cultural studies. The purpose of the program is to provide…
TCNJ’s 7-Year Medical Program is one of five featured in Forbes for being “most flexible”
TCNJ’s 7-Year Medical Program is among the country’s “most flexible,” according to an article published by Forbes on June 23. It was one of five featured in the piece. “High school students interested in applying to medical school might think that their only path to medicine is by attending an undergraduate school, declaring a STEM…
Abby O’Connor honored with ACS E. Emmet Reid Award
TCNJ chemistry professor Abby O’Connor has been honored with the E. Emmet Reid Award in Chemistry Teaching at Small Colleges in the American Chemical Society’s Middle Atlantic Region. The award, which was presented during the recent ACS regional meeting held on TCNJ’s campus, recognizes an ACS Middle Atlantic Region faculty member who encourages and stimulates…