Faculty from TCNJ’s School of Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science presented white lab coats to 61 sophomore nursing students during the school’s fourth annual White Coat Ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 24. A rite of passage that formally welcomes students into the nursing profession, the White Coat Ceremony is a long-standing tradition in health-related fields. It…
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Business team wins big at first-ever AT&T National Sales Competition
A team of six TCNJ business students took home the proverbial gold at AT&Ts first-ever National Sales Competition at AT&T Corporate Headquarters in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 18–20, 2018. The TCNJ team beat out 30 schools from across the country for a prize pot that included scholarship money, job and internship opportunities, and a $10,000 sponsorship…
$375,000 grant will help TCNJ combat mental illness in local communities
TCNJ received a grant of $375,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to create a local Youth Mental Health First Aid project in collaboration with a variety of community partners in Trenton and Ewing. The project will raise awareness and provide training and referral education across a number of constituencies to build the capacity of adults working with area youth to appropriately…
Could you escape the epidemic?
Inside a simple white tent propped up outside the Science Complex, four students garbed in aprons and medical masks pored through pamphlets, drawers, and chests to find a Spanish flu antidote and save a patient who lay on a slim cot. The patient, played by public health major Alana Adams ’20, needed the vaccine, but…
How a mentored research project launched a new relationship between TCNJ and a preeminent historic site in Trenton
As Francesca Paldino ’19 probed the history of the William Trent House as part of TCNJ’s Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience, her research made clear that the “country estate” of Trenton’s founder had, in fact, been a slave plantation. Craig Hollander, associate professor of history and Paldino’s faculty mentor says her findings are illustrative of the…
Clues from a student’s research at one New Jersey cemetery puts the famed 1918 pandemic into a local context
As part of an assignment for his First Year Seminar focused on the history of disease, Akash Patel ’21 photographed headstones at an historic cemetery in New Brunswick for a campus display on the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic. There he met Eleanor Malloy, president of the Elmwood Cemetery Association, and the rest…
TCNJ has the right formula for producing grads who earn PhDs in chemistry
TCNJ’s chemistry department ranks among the top institutions in the U.S. for PhD productivity according to new data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Chemical Society (ACS). When doctoral completion data for chemistry graduates are benchmarked on a per capita basis in comparison to chemistry graduates from all colleges and universities, TCNJ…