Each summer, TCNJ supports a robust, 8-week, residential research program named MUSE (Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience), in which approximately 100 undergraduates engage in full-time, faculty-mentored research, scholarship, or creative activity. The summer MUSE program provides a cohesive set of coordinated activities and experiences designed to: (1) nurture student capacities to conduct original research in a…
Biology professor Kathryn T. (KT) Elliott was recently profiled by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) about her experience organizing a themed session at the Society’s 2018 Annual Conference. Professor Elliott co-organized a six-paper session on science communication. In addition to leading the session, Dr. Elliott presented a paper on TCNJ’s award-winning “Tasting the Tree…
The School of Science is pleased to welcome eight new faculty members for the 2018-2019 academic year. Brief biographical sketches are listed below. Timur Akhunov (Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics) is a mathematician focusing on nonlinear waves. He discovered that educators in general, and mathematicians more specifically, are nice people during his…
Laurence (Larry) Bissett, a sophomore mathematics education major, has been awarded the Prospective 7-12 Secondary Teacher Course Work Scholarship presented by the Mathematics Education Trust of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The $10,000 scholarship, which is named in recognition of the outstanding contributions to mathematics education made by professors Frank Demana…
About the Series 100 years ago, a deadly strain of the flu devastated the world killing more people than World War I and World War II combined. The global impacts of this modern plague reached into every facet of our society. Join us in a series of events at TCNJ marking 100 years since this…
Fall 2017 School of Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2017 TCNJ-Novo Nordisk Lecture Series – Fall 2017 Biology Colloquium Series – Fall 2017 Chemistry Colloquium Series – Fall 2017 Computer Science Colloquium Series – Fall 2017 Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series – Fall 2017 …
Two TCNJ Chemistry faculty members have been awarded national-level grants to support their research programs and to engage undergraduate research collaborators in their work. Dr. Joseph Baker received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the structure and dynamics of bacterial type IV pilus protein filaments, and Dr. Abby O’Connor was awarded…
The National Science Foundation’s Campus Cyberinfrastructure program has awarded TCNJ a $500,000 competitive grant for a collaborative project led by the Division of Information Technology and the School of Science. This grant will fund strategic enhancements to TCNJ’s network infrastructure to enable and expand the innovative and diverse scientific research occurring at the College. Specifically,…
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