Summer was hot with research at TCNJ. Throughout June and July, 92 students and 45 faculty members worked on 53 projects as part of TCNJ’s Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience, known as MUSE. The eight-week experience gives students the opportunity to conduct research or engage in creative activity in collaboration with TCNJ faculty members in all…
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NJ DEP Commissioner LaTourette visits TCNJ to highlight Youth Inclusion Initiative
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette recently visited The College of New Jersey to meet students participating in his department’s Youth Inclusion Initiative. The program connects young adults from inner cities throughout the state to work in the TCNJ Campus Garden, receive educational training from the DEP, and assist TCNJ’s Bonner scholars…
TCNJ President Michael Bernstein signs letter calling for more NSF funding for NJ
TCNJ President Michael Bernstein was one of 20 presidents and chancellors of New Jersey colleges and universities to sign a letter to the New Jersey Congressional Delegation requesting they support and advocate for robust funding for the National Science Foundation in 2025. The letter states, in part, that “NSF is the cornerstone of America’s scientific…
TCNJ nursing students continue to achieve perfect pass rate on national licensure exam
Nursing students at The College of New Jersey continue to pass the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s NCLEX exam at an exceptional rate. Sixteen TCNJ nursing students who took the exam between April 1 and June 30, 2024 achieved a 100% pass rate. The national average is 94.61% among first-time U.S.-educated candidates. TCNJ…
TCNJ hosts ASL Fun Day for students who use sign language
Last month, The College of New Jersey’s School of Education gathered over 100 members of the hearing and deaf communities including local high school students and members of the college’s Deaf Hearing Connection student group, for the first-ever ASL Fun Day. The event featured various activities, including a deaf business fair, scavenger hunt, a challenge…
Baker plans to strengthen student skills in data literacy and artificial intelligence as fourth Pelson chair
Given the ever-increasing pace of technological transformations in our data-driven society, TCNJ chemistry professor Joseph Baker intends to engage and educate the campus community in the areas of data literacy, computation, and artificial intelligence as the fourth recipient of the Barbara Meyers Pelson ’59 Chair in Faculty-Student Engagement. “Students need to be able to successfully navigate this…
Communication studies professor receives inaugural award to capture and share AAPI voices and stories
Yifeng Hu, associate professor of communication studies, is the inaugural recipient of the ASIANetwork-Mellon Foundation Award for AAPI Voices and Stories: Community-based Digital Storytelling. The award provides $500,000 in funding over three years and will support oral history and community conservation projects designed to capture and preserve the experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander…
An interdisciplinary sustainability initiative is taking root at TCNJ
A campuswide sustainability initiative that took root last semester is blooming this spring as a number of projects — like the planting of a wildflower meadow — are underway and more are planned as part of Campus as a Living Lab. The initiative, known colloquially as CaLL, is designed to foster collaboration across disciplines and…
Three TCNJ seniors earn recognition from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program is one of the most competitive sources of support for students in STEM fields, with the vast majority of recipients being first- and second-year graduate students. This year, three TCNJ seniors earned recognition on the sought-after list of honorees. Biomedical engineering major Allen Hong and sociology major…
TCNJ students “far and away” national undergraduate leaders in health communication conference presentations
According to the world-renowned organizer of the nation’s most prestigious health communication conference, Professor Nancy Harrington, TCNJ students are far and away the nation’s leaders in undergraduate paper presentations. She offered this opinion when three TCNJ undergraduates (two majoring in communication studies, another in public health) and one master of public health graduate student presented…