People are only now starting to recognize chef and restaurant consultant Carl Ruiz as that guy from TV, but in reality he’s been popping up on the Food Network for years. Continue Reading
Author Archives: Molly Petrilla
Channeling grief into action
Alumna finds purpose helping children with family members battling ALS. Continue Reading
Building a New Life in Armenia
If Suzy Daghlian’s new life were a children’s book like the ones she used to market, the lesson would be obvious: Sometimes the hardest challenges lead to the sweetest changes. Continue Reading
Diminished Men, Diminishing Returns
The experiences of inmates facing life without parole call for changes in US sentencing policies, says Prof. Margaret Leigey.
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Girls, rising
Alumna Kelsey Martin started a women’s empowerment group for an unlikely group: her 8-year-old students. Continue Reading
Nursing alumna is playing a key role in fixing the Veterans Health Administration
Three days before Donna Hart Gage ’81 was set to start her new job as the Veterans Health Administration’s chief nursing officer, she learned from the evening news that the man who hired her—former Under Secretary for Health Robert A. Petzel, MD—had been fired and that her new employer faced a mounting scandal. It was… Continue Reading
His first career: Hotelier in Macedonia. Beach included.
Less than a year after graduating from TCNJ with a degree in international business, Alexander Necovski ’11, a native New Jerseyan, found himself running a hotel in Macedonia. Continue Reading
How to handle an office bully
Got a coworker who repeatedly and intentionally intimidates, offends, or humiliates you? Pam Kravitz, associate professor of marketing, management, and interdisciplinary business, can help. Her research on workplace bullying was recently published in the International Journal of Business, Humanities, and Technology. Here are her tips for dealing with the problem. Continue Reading
In Language Development, Do Dads Matter More?
Researchers have spent decades puzzling out how children acquire language—how thoughts become words, what biology determines, how much environment matters. But until TCNJ professor Nadya Pancsofar teamed up with Lynne Vernon-Feagans of the University of North Carolina, few studies had examined fathers’ roles in the process. Continue Reading
10 Things You Need to Know About: Kanye West
He’s the self-proclaimed voice of a generation—the rapper who makes headlines with every tweet he posts, song he writes, and fur coat he dons. But for Sarah Blake (née Schoenholtz), a 2006 TCNJ graduate and 2013 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship, Kanye West is something more: an artistic muse. Continue Reading