Natasha Agrawal MEd ’10 was selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Short Term Program. This summer, she will travel to Nepal and spend six weeks training teachers in the small town of Dhangadhi. Agrawal teaches English as a Second Language at Robbins Elementary School in Trenton and is also an instructor in TCNJ’s Department…
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PLAY BALL! History professor Craig Hollander teaches history through the prism of America’s pastime.
The arrival of spring means longer days, blooming flowers, and of course, the start of the Major League Baseball season. TCNJ history professor Craig Hollander’s “Baseball in American History” course uses the game as a lens to examine American history and societal trends with regard to the labor movement, urbanization, immigration, gender equality, and civil rights.…
Four takeaways from Women’s History Month guest speaker X González
Six years ago, X González was a high school senior and survivor of the mass shooting that took the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. With “an iconic shaved head” and known as Emma at the time, they became the face of the fight for gun control —…
Student programmers compete for top prizes in 24-hour TCNJ hackathon
Participants in TCNJ’s Hackathon 2024 recently pulled the ultimate all-nighter. But have no fear — no real hacking occurred. Rather, students from local high schools and colleges used the time to collaborate on conceptualizing, programming, and building a software or hardware project in just 24 hours. More than 140 entrants gathered in the Brower Student Center for the…
The National Academies of Practice in Nursing honors two members of nursing faculty
Tracy Perron and Yolanda Nelson, two faculty members in The College of New Jersey’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences, were recently named Distinguished Fellows of the National Academies of Practice in Nursing. NAP, a non-profit organization founded in 1981, is an alliance of healthcare professionals from multiple fields who collaborate to transform health and…
Week of Giving draws big support for TCNJ
For the ninth consecutive year, the TCNJ community came together to show their support of the college, but with a new spin. What was traditionally celebrated as the Day of Giving was expanded in 2024 to create five full days of Lions love that raised over $440,000 for scholarships and programs at TCNJ. Throughout the…
Active Annie and Lively Laura provide movement motivation in new children’s book
Anne Farrell and Laura Bruno, two faculty members in TCNJ’s School of Nursing and Health Sciences, have published a new children’s book entitled Move and Learn: Let’s Jump. The book, which is the first in a series, is an extension of the pair’s ongoing educational efforts to emphasize the importance of physical activity for elementary…