Author and activist Darnell Moore visited TCNJ for Community Learning Day on September 4 to discuss his memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. The book was chosen as the summer reading for TCNJ’s class of 2023 and reflects the college’s intellectual theme for the academic year: “#ClimateMatters:…
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TCNJ Engineering’s diversity efforts recognized with national award
The College of New Jersey’s School of Engineering has been named one of the inaugural recipients of an award from the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) Diversity Recognition Program. The honor is given to colleges and universities for establishing an institutional infrastructure to improve diversity and inclusion in engineering education. It is the first…
TCNJ and Sussex County Community College enter articulation agreement
TCNJ and Sussex County Community College have entered into an articulation agreement that will enable honors program students with an associate’s degree from Sussex to complete a BA or BS degree at TCNJ. The agreement was formally signed at an event on TCNJ’s campus on Wednesday, September 4. “We understand that for many reasons, including…
Bio students bet their tracking of an endangered snake in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens will aid in conservation
There’s the heat, swampy bogs, and bites from mosquitos, chiggers, and ticks. And snakes. Lots of snakes. All the elements for a great summer, right? The answer is a resounding yes for two biology majors tracking corn snakes in the middle of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. “I’m usually covered in bug bites and scratches,” says…
Senior Chance Gayles awarded 2019 Gilman Scholarship
Interactive multimedia major Chance Gayles ’20 was awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The $4,500 award will support his study of Japanese language and culture at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan in fall 2019. In addition to his interactive multimedia major, Gayles has a minor in Japanese. He’s been studying Japanese at…
Math prof Robert Cunningham receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
TCNJ mathematics professor Robert Cunningham has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award that will support his sabbatical to help integrate research-based teaching strategies into the curriculum of schools in the Caribbean. A veteran high school mathematics teacher, Cunningham’s 10 years of classroom experience inspired him to think critically about the secondary mathematics curriculum and how…
Namal Seneviratne ’19 selected for Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
Namal Seneviratne ’19 was selected as a 2019 Phi Kappa Phi Fellow. Seneviratne, who will be attending the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the fall, earned one of only 50 $8,500 awards from the honor society. Each year, TCNJ’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi selects one candidate to compete for the society-wide graduate fellowship.…