Academics & Research
Distinguished Clare Boothe Luce Professorship awarded to TCNJ physics department
TCNJ’s physics department was named one of only two institutions in the country to earn a 2019 Clare Boothe Luce Professorship grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. This award will provide five years of funding for a new tenure-track woman faculty member in the physics department. A national search will take place during the 2020-2021…
Civil engineering students and their professor apply big data to understand New Jersey’s bumper-to-bumper lifestyle.
On a 100-degree day in late July, civil engineering professor Tom Brennan and three students in his research lab made it snow. No, indoor precipitation was not in the forecast: the snow storm was a computer simulation of an actual one that blew in pretty much out of nowhere on the afternoon of November 15,…
Criminology researchers explain why it’s harder for women police recruits to pass fitness tests in New Jersey
How many pushups does it take to become a police officer? That’s a harder question than it seems, as some TCNJ criminology students discovered when they started asking last spring, and the answers they found were newsworthy enough to land on the front page of USA Today. They learned there’s no one answer, and it…
English prof Jess Row riffs on the modern troubles of an old truism and his new book on race, fiction, and the American imagination.
In 2012, writer and producer Lena Dunham faced harsh criticism for the all-white cast of HBO’s hit series, Girls. When asked about her decision in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Dunham said it was an accident; she wrote about people she knew, and only later realized it was a show about four white women.…