We’ve all lived it, but few of us can remember it — being a baby, that is. Aimee Stahl, associate professor of psychology, has spent her career researching how infants and young children learn, and as this year’s winner of the Gitenstein-Hart Sabbatical Prize, she’ll delve further into a baby’s power of recall. “During my…
Academics & Research
Biology prof receives $1 million NSF/NIFA grant to study how plants respond to insect attacks
TCNJ Assistant Professor of Biology Melkamu Woldemariam, a plant biologist who specializes in molecular and chemical ecology, has been awarded a $1 million joint grant from the National Science Foundation and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support his research program and to engage undergraduate research collaborators in his work. Each year,…
Poets&Quants ranks TCNJ’s School of Business among the nation’s best for 2021
The College of New Jersey School of Business ranked 61st in Poets&Quants for Undergrads‘ fifth annual Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2021 rankings. The ranking is considered the most comprehensive assessment of undergraduate business programs. There were 93 schools ranked in the 2021 report. The rankings are based on a representative survey of over 6,100 alumni and school-reported data. Recent graduates…
Abby O’Connor named “Rising Star” in chemistry
Abby O’Connor, associate professor in the department of chemistry, has been named a 2021 Rising Star by the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemists Committee. O’Connor is one of only 10 women to earn the distinct honor, which recognizes exceptional early- to mid-career women chemists across all areas of chemistry on a national level. The award…
Word gets around: English professor Felicia Steele pinpoints how the pandemic has changed our vocabulary.
Most of us were blissfully unaware of social distancing or flattening the curve before last year; we hadn’t made a curbside pickup much less masked up. In 2020 however, all of those terms were part of a growing pandemic lexicon that even a Covidiot couldn’t ignore. Students in LNG 202: The Structure and History of the English Language recently submitted Covidiot to the American Dialect…
A million thanks: How TCNJ gratitude went viral on TikTok
It was a small gesture for a professor who made the most of a difficult semester teaching remotely. Logging in to his statistics class, Adam Shrager thinks he’s having technical difficulties when the usual Brady Bunch-style Zoom grid is blank. Then, nearly two-dozen students simultaneously appear in their video boxes — each holding a homemade…
Breathing Easier: How one student and her alumnus dad are taking the fight against COVID-19 to the air
Amid an online semester and a global pandemic, Olivia Cash ’21 did what any engineering major would do: she started problem-solving. Alongside her dad, Jim Cash ’85, and the support of some peers in TCNJ’s School of Engineering, Olivia is working on a novel way to combat the novel virus. Working as a product development…
TCNJ students collaborate with RWJ University Hospital on innovative music therapies for cancer patients
The College of New Jersey’s School of the Arts and Communication has recently partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital to expand upon the hospital’s existing Holistic Arts programs by designing innovative online music therapy experiences for cancer patients. This fall, nine TCNJ students are taking a course entitled “User-Centered Musical Design,” offered jointly…