The College of New Jersey announced today that, following a national search, Andrea L. Welker has been named dean of the School of Engineering, effective July 1, 2022. Welker comes to TCNJ from Villanova University, where she began her faculty career in 1999. In her current leadership role, which she has held for six years,…
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TCNJ Lyric Theatre to perform in the Big Apple
TCNJ Lyric Theatre is taking its show on the road. Students enrolled in the academic course will have the experience of a lifetime when they participate in masterclasses with two Broadway stars and perform in New York City this spring. TCNJ Lyric Theatre will perform “Live Out Loud: The Music of Andrew Lippa,” in New…
Sunita Gupta Kramer named dean of TCNJ School of Science
The College of New Jersey announced today that, following a national search, Sunita Gupta Kramer has been named dean of the School of Science, effective July 1, 2022. Kramer comes to TCNJ from Rutgers University where she served 12 years as faculty before taking on progressive leadership roles. She currently serves as the university’s inaugural…
Faculty-student research duo uncovers surprising ways to improve public health messaging
After two years of pandemic life, COVID fatigue is real. That goes for pandemic messaging, too, as people have grown weary of a barrage of statistics, shifting mandates, and guidance. But recently published research by a TCNJ professor may hold lessons for effective public health communications going forward. Spoiler alert: it could involve TikTok dance…
TCNJ community collects 1,200 pairs of socks for Rescue Mission of Trenton
TCNJ President Kathryn Foster joined Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson and representatives from Ewing Covenant Presbyterian Church at the Rescue Mission of Trenton on Friday, March 18 to cap off a very successful five-week sock drive. Sponsored by Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson, who represents the 15th legislative district in New Jersey, the “NJ Socks for Homeless” initiative collected…
TCNJ partners with Thomas Jefferson University to add doctor of pharmacy program
TCNJ announced today that starting in fall 2022, the college will offer a doctoral program in pharmacology in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Students in this new program will spend the first four years of the program at TCNJ pursuing a bachelor of science in biology or chemistry. Then, provided academic requirements are…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her craft at TCNJ
As a journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones says there’s an innate skepticism that comes with the job. “If your mother says she loves you, check it out,” she joked on stage to a packed Kendall Hall. Hannah-Jones, staff writer at New York Times Magazine and editor of The 1619 Project, has spent her career investigating racial inequality…