Nurses are assuming an ever-larger role in health care, but an impending faculty shortage threatens the sector’s ability to educate the growing number of nurses needed to meet the demands. Here is a look at the role TCNJ faculty, alumni, and students are playing in solving the problem.

Through years of high-tech, statistical analysis and some old-fashioned library legwork, a team of TCNJ researchers has solved a Civil War–era mystery.

Haunted by the ghost of her grandfather, who vanished over 70 years ago, Professor Marimar Huguet-Jerez is on a quest to solve a personal history mystery.

Through the Bridge to Employment program, TCNJ’s Bonner Center is helping local high-schoolers achieve their dreams.

Assistant professor of psychology Tamra Bireta studies the intricacies of memory, laying the groundwork for techniques that will help maximize people’s ability to remember as they age. “There seems to be a stereotype of aging that all memory gets worse, and that doesn’t seem true,” says Bireta.

As horrific as it was, the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January didn’t shock Maggie Benoit ’99, an assistant professor of physics at TCNJ whose research focuses on earthquake seismology, plate tectonics, and environmental geophysics.

Participants in the Student Investment Fund class, an independent study course offered through the School of Business, are learning how to construct and manage a well-diversified financial portfolio. But unlike the stock market games many of us played as grade-school children, the money these students are working with is real, and the decisions they make can mean the difference between making, or losing, thousands of dollars.

Can one college really be the perfect fit for every one of its students? Our student writers set out to discover just that.

Anthony Flynn traded Lions pinstripes for Yankees pinstripes after graduating in 2001. This season will be his 10th with the Bronx Bombers, and his second as the team’s assistant director of video and advance scouting.

For one emerita professor, quilting helps tie together a lifetime of thoughts, ideas, work, love, and loss.

A transformative learning experience abroad inspires a group of students to make changes in their own lives.

Students in Lincoln Konkle’s “Springsteen’s Lyrics as Literature” course are examining the timeless, universal themes—such as growing up, love, death, political power, religious faith, and doubt—that are a part of the Boss’s songwriting.

TCNJ is leading the way in improving the lives of people with with a wide range of developmental disabilities—from autism spectrum disorder, to Down syndrome, to cerebral palsy—and in preparing teachers to work with these populations.

Throughout his diverse career as a diplomat for the United Nations, a law professor, and a practicing lawyer, Yassin El-Ayouty ’53 has never lost the connection to his teaching roots.

Thanks to the new Self-Designed Majors Program, students at TCNJ can define themselves by creating their own course of study.

Our alumni and those in the know about higher education get why TCNJ is so special, but some in the general public don’t fully understand how outstanding TCNJ and its graduates are. So, let’s do something about that!

A cloudy morning turned into a beautiful, sunny day as 1,314 undergraduate and 348 graduate students received their degrees.

Super Mario Brothers, Sonic, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger: We have all grown to love these video games and their characters, some more than others. To some TCNJ students though, the question isn’t how do you beat the game, it’s how do you create the game?

Yassin El-Ayouty ’53, PhD, drew on 50 years of experience as a diplomat for the United Nations, a law professor, and an attorney specializing in transnational law when speaking of the “calamitous” effects of his adoptive country’s foreign policy choices following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Lions’ alumni, students, and staff were in attendance to witness the inauguration of the nation’s first African-American president. Several were kind enough to share their recollections from that historic day.

Throughout his career, from his early photographs of poor black farmers in the American south to his later African-inspired prints, Professor Emeritus Wendell Brooks has explored his own location within the African diaspora and the experience of black America. Read more about Brooks’ fascinating journey.

An innovative program being offered through TCNJ’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program takes women’s studies back to elementary school.

As a teenager heading off to college more than two decades ago, Ellen Deibert ’85 could not have predicted that she would one day be on the leading edge of any medical field, much less be counted a specialist in the complexities of brain trauma.

In August, U.S. Representative Chris Smith ’75 risked his own safety to save two children trapped in the war-torn Republic of Georgia. It wasn’t the first time Congressman Smith has put himself in harm’s way to aid a constituent.

Two TCNJ alumni have played key roles in this fall’s presidential election. Tricia Mueller ’99 is serving as New Jersey state director for Barack Obama’s campaign, and Mike DelBene ’01 served as an alternate delegate at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN, in September. Get to know more about these two Lions.

TCNJ’s athletics program has been a Division III powerhouse for decades, thanks to the talented student-athletes who have made up its teams. Read more about the athletes’ and teams’ many successes, and find out what’s up with that “43″ painted on the Lions’ Stadium turf.

If you’re curious as to what some of your fellow alumni are doing, just turn on the TV. TCNJ Magazine tracked down more than one dozen alumni working in television to learn how they got where they are and what the future holds.

Thomas Edison once said, “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.” Those who stand still in flattery of their being begin a gradual slide toward mediocrity.

TCNJ has taken heed of Edison’s words, and rather than rest upon its laurels has incorporated both meticulous planning and boundless vision into a curriculum that whets the intellectual appetites of its students and faculty members. Each of the College ’s seven schools offers innovative classes that make for a tempting academic menu.

MacDella Cooper ‘01 is brightening the future for Liberian children. Read about her tumultuous childhood and her triumphant struggle.

The effects of global warming could devastate New Jersey, but it is not too late to save our state-and planet. Find out what TCNJ is doing to fight the problem.

The outside works of several English department faculty members are gaining national attention. The lessons these professors learn as practicing writers are having a profound impact upon the classroom experiences of TCNJ students.