Kasey Tararuj’s disability is a frequent theme in her drawings and paintings, prompting some to call her a modern-day Frida Kahlo.
TCNJ News Releases Archive 2014-2010
Running with the Coatman
Meet the king of the stunt runners: Dennis Marsella ’75, aka the Coatman. Since 1981, Marsella has completed more than 120 marathons in some of the most counterintuitive running garb imaginable. Yet underneath the showman is an intensely serious runner.
Teamwork for life
In between delivering babies and taking graduate nursing classes at the College, Kelly Mitchell ’09 serves as an assistant coach for the field hockey and lacrosse teams she once played on.
Adjunct and emeritus profs make toe-tapping music on their band’s latest CD
Ed Goldberg’s Odessa Klezmer Band, which features Robert Mehlman on clarinet, has been making audiences “hetsken zich” for more than two decades.
Education major volunteers in Kenya
Justine Brancato ’13 spent two weeks student teaching in Africa this summer on a volunteer mission she organized and raised funds for herself.
Internship confidential
History major Kevin O’Brien reveals what he can about working for the United States Secret Service.
Profiles in research: Amanda Norvell
A decade after the fruit fly’s genome was sequenced, biologist Amanda Norvell is zeroing in on the specific roles that certain genes play within a fly’s egg cells.
Profiles in research: Suriza van der Sandt
Math anxiety can be crippling, but it is also preventable, mathematician Suriza van der Sandt insists. For the past four years, she has focused both her research acumen and passion on stopping its spread.
Profiles in research: Diane Bates
Sociologist Diane Bates came of age when the links between development and the environment were becoming ever—and, in some cases, disturbingly—clearer. What engrosses her as a researcher is the way societies willfully ignore the limits imposed by their natural surroundings and then respond once they’ve tipped the balance.
“It changed my life”: Alumni reflect on their Peace Corps experiences
In celebration of the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary, alumni reflect on their experiences.