Lisa Grega, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is helping two New Jersey towns study the feasibility of installing wind turbines that could provide the municipalities with a virtually limitless source of clean, affordable energy.

From May 17–21, CNN will be airing a series of reports examining children’s attitudes toward race. Tabitha Dell’Angelo, an assistant professor of early childhood and elementary education at TCNJ, served as a consultant on the project.

In 2004, TCNJ Foundation received a bequest from Mildred M. Dahne ’32, which earmarked $217,000 to annually recognize faculty excellence. This year’s winner, the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, was recognized for its accomplishments in the areas of excellence in teaching, academic excellence, and student involvement.

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.

Associate professor of chemistry Stephanie Sen’s research could lead to an environmentally safer method of controlling moths—pests that cause major agricultural damage and deforestation.

A high-powered team of principal investigators will use its recent National Science Foundation award, one of several granted the College this year, to establish a program for the advancement of women in academics.

John C. Pollock, professor of communication studies, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the spring 2010 academic semester.

Concerned with chronic shortages in the availability of transplant organs, particularly kidneys, one TCNJ professor has assembled a point-by-point argument advocating a legal market in human organs as an alternative to the altruistic system.

Professor Avery Faigenbaum, one of the nation’s leading pediatric exercise scientists, says that children as young as 7 can reap the benefits of a properly prescribed and supervised strength-training program.