Photos from a recent alumni gathering in Naples, Florida.

Professor Allen Katz, Paul Andrews ’84, Thomas Krol ’02, William Parkhill ’03, Matthew 
Robinson ’02, and Craig M. Wentzel ’76 discussed their paths to success and the lessons they learned along the way during a “Pursuit of Entrepreneurship” panel discussion.

The Music, Mind, and Invention Workshop, held March 30 and 31, drew leading scientists, video game 
designers, mathematicians, musicians, and authors to campus to discuss and demonstrate the creative possibilities that have emerged at the intersection of music and computers.

The proposal of three freshmen to build a website where users create a customized “online magazine” won top prize in the first Mayo Business Plan Competition, a contest designed to challenge TCNJ 
students to not only dream up the
next big business idea but also blueprint a course of action for bringing that idea to life.

Using special telescopes they built themselves, budding astrophysicists Joe Benigno ’14 and Joanna Papadopoulos ’13 have been monitoring activity on the sun and Jupiter’s moon, Io, for NASA.

Chelsea Tompkins ’13 was named the first Alyssa Ruggieri ’09 Scholar. The award honors Ruggieri, a 2009 marketing graduate who tragically died in March 2010, and allows a junior or senior business student to work with a marketing professor on a research project.

Mathematical and computational biologist Jana Gevertz devises equations that mimic tumor progression. Her work is helping in the fight against glioblastoma, a complex and deadly form of brain cancer that poses a persistent challenge to researchers and clinicians.

Professor Andrew Carver had his students trade texting for telegraphy during a lesson on innovation.

As our lives become increasingly dominated by our login information, some scholars have started to question what happens to all those digital accounts when we’re no longer around to manage them. TCNJ researchers have devised a way to address the issue.