The College of New Jersey has been awarded a $935,000 National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant to enhance the college’s nationally recognized engagement of undergraduate student research. The funds from the grant will be used to purchase and upgrade equipment in the Electronic Laboratory for Science and Analysis (ELSA) High Performance Computing cluster, a…
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TCNJ public health professor earns EPA grant to make water safer
There are few things more important to our daily lives than clean water. The challenges of climate change, pollution, and contamination of water supplies are threatening safe drinking water around the globe. TCNJ School of Nursing and Health Sciences faculty member Alexis Mraz and her colleague Jade Mitchell, a Michigan State University professor and environmental engineer, were awarded a…
TCNJ innovation and business partnership efforts to get boost through new NSF grant
As part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program, The College of New Jersey has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant to strengthen innovation and encourage partnerships with industry, nonprofits and governmental entities. The college will partner with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in this work. “TCNJ produces…
Join author and faculty member Cassandra Jackson for a reading from her newly released memoir, Oct. 4
Author and TCNJ English professor Cassandra Jackson will read from her latest book, The Wreck: A Daughter’s Memoir of Becoming a Mother, on Wednesday, October 4 from 6:30–8 p.m. in TCNJ’s Mayo Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public. The Wreck is both an investigation into a family’s history and a…
Physics department energized by grant to continue nanoparticle research
TCNJ physics professor Angie Capece has been awarded a $728,715 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the formation and growth of nanoparticles. Capece, along with a team of TCNJ students, will investigate potential ways to create silver nanoparticles using a bench-top plasma source, which is more environmentally sustainable than using conventional chemicals.…
TCNJ School of Nursing and Health Sciences gets shot in the arm thanks to $33 million grant from Office of the Secretary of Higher Education
The College of New Jersey has been awarded a $33 million capital facilities grant by the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education of New Jersey as part of the joint solicitation of four revolving Capital Facilities Bond programs. The awarded funds will be used for the college’s “Educating New Jersey’s Next Generation Health Workforce” plan, which will reimagine and…
TCNJ faculty-led program featured on national Ghana news program
A TCNJ study abroad program recently received television news coverage on GBC — Ghana Broadcasting Company — for their work with a special needs school in the country’s capital. TCNJ in Ghana is an interdisciplinary faculty-led program in partnership with the Haven School for Special Education in Accra, the capital of Ghana on the Atlantic coast…
Kinesiology professor Avery Faigenbaum earns honor from American College of Sports Medicine
Avery Faigenbaum, a professor in The College of New Jersey’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, has won the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2022 Best Paper of the Year award for the second time in three years. This year’s winning article explores the intersections between physical and mental health, as well as the impact of COVID-19…