As the summer approaches, Amechelle Leander, a senior double major getting a BA in Biology and a BS in Public Health at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), is gearing up for a transformative summer internship experience. Amechelle has been accepted into an internship program with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),…
On behalf of the School of Science, it is with great pleasure that we extend our heartfelt congratulations to Team Golden Connections for their first-place win at the thirteenth annual Mayo Business Plan Competition Finals, held on March 27, 2024. The Mayo Business Plan Competition, established and generously funded by Professor Herbert B. Mayo, offers…
Congratulations to TCNJ School of Science students Vinisha Patel, Kassidy Farnum, Joe Petrecca, and their faculty advisor, Dr. Monisha Pulimood, on being accepted into the University Innovation Fellows program through Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the Stanford d.School. This program is designed to empower student leaders by equipping them with…
Earlier this semester, members of TCNJ’s SACNAS Chapter represented The College at the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country, The National Diversity in STEM Conference hosted by SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) in Portland, Oregon. TCNJ SACNAS executive board members, Ileana Gonzalez, Sophy Vuong, Belmarie…
Throughout the academic year, The TCNJ School of Science proudly hosts students from the Berlin Institute of Technology (BIT) as part of the Experiential Learning Berlin-America Program (ELBA) in partnership with The College of New Jersey. The ELBA Program offers visiting bachelor and master degree students grants to conduct research in an intercultural setting, aiming…
It is no secret that The College of New Jersey’s School of Science hosts an impressive array of state-of-the-art facilities encouraged for use by students, but did you know about the School’s very own, student and faculty-operated planetarium and astronomical observatory? Located in the Physics and Math Building (Science Complex) in room P-115, the Paul…
n the spring of 2000, Dr. Viraj Mane walked through TCNJ’s Science Complex for the last time as a student, reminiscing about the profound impact The College had on his academic, professional, and personal development throughout his time as a TCNJ undergraduate student.
On October 24, 2023 Dr. Mane returned to the TCNJ School of Science; this time to engage students, faculty, and staff members in a fascinating discussion about his role as co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Lactiga. In a sit down interview, Dr. Mane shared his reflections about his time at TCNJ, in addition to how the College’s unique ability to foster meaningful and collaborative connections between students and professors created a lasting impact on his career.
This past summer, senior Biology Major, Sophy Vuong (right) was granted the opportunity to participate in a 12-week, Research and Development internship program at Eli Lilly and Company in San Diego, California. Working in Eli Lilly’s immunology department, participating actively in primary cell culture research, Sophy noted that her experiences at TCNJ prepared her for…
This past summer, Iknoor (Noor) Kaur Grewal, a junior American Chemical Society (ACS) Certified Chemistry Major, and Skyler Keyek, a sophomore Physics major, were both able to apply their skills and knowledge developed within TCNJ’s School of Science in attending the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Bootcamp at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (NERSC) in Berkeley, California.
The five-day-long boot camp is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students a side-by-side, collaborative research experience where they have the opportunity to gain hands-on experiences utilizing HPC, specifically to better understand energy justice initiatives. This immersive program allows students to work on energy justice projects of their interest in a group setting while learning the fundamentals of HPC, including parallel computing, job scheduling, and data analysis techniques.
TCNJ physics majors Dean Klunk, Louis Miller, Michael Pedowitz, and Michael Polania as well as biology majors Ashley Fernandez and Skylar D’angiolillo presented their research undertaken with Dr. Lauranne Lanz and Dr. Mariah MacDonald at the recent American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Seattle. Dean Klunk, Louis Miller, post-baccalaureate researcher Isabella Carlton, and Dr. Lanz…
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