Category Archives: Academics & Research

Confronting the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Skills Gap

Confronting the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Skills Gap

Article co-authored by Waheeda Lillevik, assistant professor of management, marketing & interdisciplinary business
The American: Monday, January 28, 2013Continue Reading

Center for Autism at TCNJ opens on campus

Center for Autism at TCNJ opens on campus

TCNJ’s new center provides innovative services and continuing education programs for teachers, counselors, and family members of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Continue Reading

Creating a National Model for High School STEM Education

Creating a National Model for High School STEM Education

Proposed changes to New Jersey’s science education standards could soon make technology and 
engineering required subject matter for high school students. An initiative underway at TCNJ is helping to ensure the state’s teachers are ready. Continue Reading

By modeling tumor progression, math prof’s equations shed light on cancer growth and treatments

By modeling tumor progression, math prof’s equations shed light on cancer growth and treatments

Mathematical and computational biologist Jana Gevertz devises equations that mimic tumor progression. Her work is helping in the fight against glioblastoma, a complex and deadly form of brain cancer that poses a persistent challenge to researchers and clinicians. Continue Reading

Death goes digital

As our lives become increasingly dominated by our login information, some scholars have started to question what happens to all those digital accounts when we’re no longer around to manage them. TCNJ researchers have devised a way to address the issue.Continue Reading

Students monitor outer-space storms and volcanoes for NASA

Using special telescopes they built themselves, budding astrophysicists Joe Benigno ’14 and Joanna Papadopoulos ’13 have been monitoring activity on the sun and Jupiter’s moon, Io, for NASA. Continue Reading

All tech is “dust in the wind”

Business professor has students trade texting for telegraphy during a lesson on innovation. Continue Reading

Tax the rich? Faculty examine the pros and cons of the Buffett Rule.

Tax the rich? Faculty examine the pros and cons of the Buffett Rule.

Is the Buffett Rule the best way to reduce economic inequality in the United States? We asked a group of faculty experts to weigh in on tax fairness, income equality, and the economic, political, and philosophical implications such a tax code change might have.Continue Reading

Communication studies students win at international, national, and state levels

Communication studies students win at international, national, and state levels

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

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.Continue Reading

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