Richard Kamber, professor of philosophy and coordinator of the online philosophy laboratory at The College of New Jersey, will participate in a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy at the University of Utah. The institute is designed to enable a small number of faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States to work closely with leaders in the experimental philosophy movement.

A $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will allow Associate Professor of English Kim Pearson and colleagues from Villanova University to design new ways to bridge together college-level courses in computer science and the humanities.

TCNJ librarians swept up all of the honors granted this year by the Research Committee of the joint Association for College and Research Librarians (ACRL) and the New Jersey Library Association’s (NJLA) College & University Research Section.

In 2008, TCNJ’s Department of Psychology was awarded the Mildred Dahne Award for Faculty Excellence. The department has decided to designated its $8,000 prize to the Laurie Ann Mandara Scholarship Endowment Fund for psychology, said Pete Manetas, TCNJ’s vice president for development.

In his new and insightful book, When Boys Become Parents, Mark S. Kiselica, professor of counselor education, draws on his many years of counseling teenage fathers to offer a compassionate look at the difficult life circumstances and the complicated hardships these young men experience. He dispels many of the myths surrounding teenage fatherhood and shows that, contrary to popular belief, these young men are often emotionally and physically involved in relationships with their partner and their child.

“I’ve always had a drive to make what I teach meaningful outside of the classroom,” says Cynthia Paces, associate professor of history. Find out how students in her What Happened to Yugoslavia? course helped make a difference in the lives of Bosnian orphans.

For the past several months, patients and staff at Hunterdon Medical Center have been treated to private concerts courtesy of André Tarantiles, harpist and adjunct professor of music at TCNJ.

TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein was one of the 76 college and university presidents and chancellors from across the country asked to serve on the nation’s first Higher Education Cabinet, formed as part of a joint effort by “The New York Times” and “The Chronicle of Higher Education.”

College-aged women have a greater desire for products advertised by thin models, despite the fact that these ads make the women feel self-conscious about their own appearance, according to a study conducted by Karen Becker-Olsen, assistant professor in the School of Business, and Jeremy Kees, a colleague from Villanova University.