TCNJ News

TCNJ Communication studies students have triumphed recently at international, national, and state levels.

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.

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.

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 turns out the Nintendo “Wiimote” can be used for more than just playing “Super Mario Brothers.” A team of TCNJ researchers is helping physics teachers use the handheld controllers to conduct classroom experiments.

In his 40 years at the College, Katz, an internationally recognized expert in the satellite and microwave communications industries with his own company, has mentored nearly 2,000 students. Many have worked in his lab, presented papers with him at conferences, and gone on to graduate school and positions in industry or started their own businesses.

Freshly off of her induction into both Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies, the good news and recognition kept rolling in for TCNJ senior Esther Tetruashvily last week as she received word that she was selected for a Fulbright award.

A study conducted by a TCNJ economics professor shows that a child’s involvement with religion has a “positive association” with his or her physical and mental well-being.

A new book, co-written by TCNJ Professor John Ruscio, examines why lie detectors don’t work, opposites don’t really attract, and much more!

Mary Goldschmidt, director of the Writing Program at TCNJ, was recently  selected as one of 40 scholars nationwide to participate in a  three-year multi-institutional study of writing, sponsored by the Center  for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University. The  institute, “Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer,”  seeks to advance higher [...]