Mark Nigrini was recently quoted in Canada’s Globe and Mail as an expert in the study of Benford’s Law on the distribution of first digits in lists of numbers. Nigrini’s new book, Forensic Analytics and Forensic Investigation, due to be published in March, includes a detailed section on Benford.
TCNJ News Releases Archive 2014-2010
TCNJ earns top ranking for NJ public colleges on Kiplinger’s 2011 “best value” list
The College of New Jersey is ranked at #21 on the list of the country’s 100 top value public colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine.
Former Ewing Township mayor and TCNJ vice president Al Bridges dies
The Times of Trenton reported that Al Bridges, the former mayor of Ewing Township and a longtime vice president for government and community affairs at The College of New Jersey, died on Jan. 1.
TCNJ’s Mike Kuczala in The Record: Kids in motion learn better
Students learn more when they move around, rather than sit still, Mike Kuczala, an adjunct professor at TCNJ, told The Record of Bergen County. Kuczala is challenging the sedentary culture of classrooms as co-author of a new book, “The Kinesthetic Classroom, Teaching and Learning Through Movement.”
TCNJ’s Tim Clydesdale in Newsweek: The Legacy of High School Cliques
Tim Clydesdale, a sociology professor at The College of New Jersey, talks to Newsweek about the search for identity that continues well beyond high school into “emerging adulthood.”
TCNJ softball plays Santa for local family
One great gift the holiday season provides is awareness. When head coach Sally Miller and The College of New Jersey softball team learned about a local family that had fallen on hard times, they decided to unite and make a difference.
TCNJ students head to universities in Africa, Asia, Europe and Central America backed by foreign study awards
Backed by generous scholarships, internationally minded students from The College of New Jersey will travel to far-flung corners of the globe next semester to pursue academic programs at foreign universities, to improve their fluency in an array of languages, and to work on individualized research projects.
TCNJ to showcase student research on Dec. 8
About 80 students at The College of New Jersey will present scholarly work on a wide range of topics, ranging from Cuban literature, to the Isma’ili religious experience, to American prison reform movements, at the School of Culture and Society’s Celebration of Student Achievement on Dec. 8.
TCNJ Orchestra makes its New York City debut
The College of New Jersey Orchestra will make its New York City debut on Thursday, Dec. 9, performing seminal, musically linked works by Czech and German composers at the Bohemian National Hall at the Czech Center in Manhattan. Conductor Michel Galante will lead the 43-member orchestra’s performance of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s celebrated Symphony No. 9 in E minor, known as the “New World Symphony,” followed by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, or “Pastoral.”
How Chambersburg’s changes inspired professor
The Times of Trenton spotlighted Rachel Adler, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology, and her study of Chambersburg’s changing ethnic identity.