Biology Professor Janet Morrison’s six-year study will measure the effects of invasive species on the region’s forests.
Academics & Research
Confronting the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Skills Gap
Article co-authored by Waheeda Lillevik, assistant professor of management, marketing & interdisciplinary business
The American: Monday, January 28, 2013
Center for Autism at TCNJ opens on campus
TCNJ’s new center provides innovative services and continuing education programs for teachers, counselors, and family members of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Creating a National Model for High School STEM Education
Proposed changes to New Jersey’s science education standards could soon make technology and engineering required subject matter for high school students. An initiative underway at TCNJ is helping to ensure the state’s teachers are ready.
By modeling tumor progression, math prof’s equations shed light on cancer growth and treatments
Mathematical and computational biologist Jana Gevertz devises equations that mimic tumor progression. Her work is helping in the fight against glioblastoma, a complex and deadly form of brain cancer that poses a persistent challenge to researchers and clinicians.
Death goes digital
As our lives become increasingly dominated by our login information, some scholars have started to question what happens to all those digital accounts when we’re no longer around to manage them. TCNJ researchers have devised a way to address the issue.
Students monitor outer-space storms and volcanoes for NASA
Using special telescopes they built themselves, budding astrophysicists Joe Benigno ’14 and Joanna Papadopoulos ’13 have been monitoring activity on the sun and Jupiter’s moon, Io, for NASA.
All tech is “dust in the wind”
Business professor has students trade texting for telegraphy during a lesson on innovation.
Tax the rich? Faculty examine the pros and cons of the Buffett Rule.
Is the Buffett Rule the best way to reduce economic inequality in the United States? We asked a group of faculty experts to weigh in on tax fairness, income equality, and the economic, political, and philosophical implications such a tax code change might have.
Communication studies students win at international, national, and state levels
TCNJ Communication studies students have triumphed recently at international, national, and state levels.