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
Author Archives: Tracey Regan
Solving math anxiety
Math anxiety can be crippling, attacking people at every age and stage of life. But it is also preventable, says Professor Suriza van der Sandt, who has focused both her research acumen and passion on stopping its spread. She begins at the head of the class. Continue Reading
Fixing the “leaky pipeline”
The scarcity of women at full professorship in STEM disciplines is a national issue, but a new program on campus is positioning TCNJ’s female faculty members for advancement. Continue Reading
EOF alumnus is helping to lead reform in New Jersey’s K–12 public schools
As president of the New Jersey State Board of Education, Arcelio Aponte ’85 is at the center of a lively and sometimes contentious debate over the future of the state’s public schools. Continue Reading
Covering the events that shape our world
At 29 years old, Sean O’Grady ’04, a double major in business administration and communications studies at TCNJ, is already a veteran journalist, with an entrepreneur’s instincts for new story angles. Continue Reading
Student project shines a spotlight on homelessness in the region
A team of TCNJ students, working closely with local community service organizations, has created an issue-focused newspaper that closely examines the circumstances around homelessness, while giving voice to the diverse population of residents in local shelters and on the streets. Continue Reading
Alums’ passion for travel and and sense of global connectedness inspires their children to create foreign study award
Mario ’50 and Doris ’48 Laurenti passed their love of international travel, and their interest in the connections it revealed, down to their children. In turn, their children created the Doris and Mario Laurenti Fund, which helps TCNJ students pursue academic research and other approved study in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. Continue Reading
Alumna, art education students introduce grade-schoolers to new campus art exhibit
Trustee and retired teacher Rosie Hymerling ’67 helped Professor Lisa LaJevic’s students teach local elementary school children about the contemporary Inuit art now on display in TCNJ Art Gallery. Continue Reading
A nursing conundrum
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. Continue Reading
Nursing alumna’s research will assist at-risk Latina immigrants
Tiffany Dovydaitis ’04, who is in the fourth year of a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania, has begun to stake out new ground in her research, which focuses on the shadowy, often turbulent world of undocumented Latina immigrants. Continue Reading