{"id":8860,"date":"2014-05-20T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:09:35","slug":"accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8860","title":{"rendered":"Accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_5082.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5082\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_5082.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_5082-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swimmers Joseph Dunn, Philip Hawley (above, front row, left to right), Stephen Gibson, Brett Pedersen and Stephen Tarnowski (back row, left to right)<a href=\"http:\/\/news.pages.tcnj.edu\/2014\/03\/31\/believing-in-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\"> captured the 200-free relay and 400-free relay national titles at the NCAA Division III national championships in March<\/a>. The relay-team titles are the first in the swimming program\u2019s history for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The communication studies department <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pages.tcnj.edu\/2013\/12\/12\/tcnj-communication-studies-department-named-best-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">received the National Communication Association\u2019s 2013 Rex Mix Program of Excellence Award<\/a>, which recognizes the best undergraduate communications studies program in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Rifkin, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, <a href=\"http:\/\/hss.pages.tcnj.edu\/2014\/02\/01\/full-citation-for-dean-rifkins-2014-actr-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">received the American Council of Teachers of Russian\u2019s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>History Professor Qin Shao\u2019s book, <em>Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity<\/em>, received the Academic Excellence Award of the Chinese Historians in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Softball Head Coach Sally Miller <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pages.tcnj.edu\/2014\/04\/18\/coach-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\">captured her 500th career victory<\/a> on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Junior computer engineering major <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pages.tcnj.edu\/2014\/02\/24\/tcnj-junior-takes-top-hackathon-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Rottinger took home the top prize at HackTCNJ <\/a>in February, beating out 104 other student programmers from across the region in a competition that challenged entrants to turn their ideas into a workable app inside 24 hours. Rottinger\u2019s creation allows viewers of twitch.tv, a live-streaming video game broadcasting network, to watch more than one channel at a time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo (c) Double Exposure Photography<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimmers Joseph Dunn, Philip Hawley (above, front row, left to right), Stephen Gibson, Brett Pedersen and Stephen Tarnowski (back row, left to right) captured the 200-free relay and 400-free relay national titles at the NCAA Division III national championships in March. The relay-team titles are the first in the swimming program\u2019s history for the Lions. 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