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Bloomfield
College Receives $2.4 Million Federal Grant for Nursing
and other programs
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr.
(D-NJ-08) announced a federal grant of more than $2.4 million
to Bloomfield College through the U.S. Department of Education’s
Predominately Black Institutions and Schools (PBI) program. |
RVCC
RECEIVES $4.6 MILLION GRANT FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Raritan Valley Community College
(RVCC) has received a $4.6 million federal grant from the
U.S. Department of Labor to work in partnership with local
businesses to train workers in new career paths. |
Saint
Peter’s College Awarded $2.8 Million Federal Grant
Saint Peter’s
College, a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution
(HSI), today announced
that it has been awarded a Title V federal grant for up to
$2,860,143 under the HSI Program, which provides grants to
assist HSIs with their efforts to expand and enhance academic
offerings, program quality and institutional stability for
Hispanic students, in addition to improving the attainment
of Hispanic students. |
Two
Seniors Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Princeton seniors Justine Drennan and Sukrit
Silas have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships, which give outstanding
students from outside the United Kingdom an opportunity to pursue postgraduate
study at the University of Cambridge. |
Bloomfield
College announces the 2011 Honorary Degree Recipients
Bloomfield College has announced
that four prominent New Jersey residents will receive honorary
doctoral degrees at the 137th Commencement exercises to be
held on May 26, 2011. |
LSAMP
spells Success
The Garden State LSAMP program
at Bloomfield College is proving to be a resounding success. |
Kidia
wins Rhodes Scholarship in Zimbabwe
Princeton senior Khameer Kidia,
a French major from Harare, Zimbabwe, has been selected as
one of Zimbabwe's Rhodes Scholars. |
FDU
Featured in The Princeton Review's 'THE BEST 300 BUSINESS
SCHOOLS: 2011 EDITION'
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s
Silberman College of Business is an outstanding business
school, according to The Princeton Review. The education
services company features the school in the new 2011 edition
of its book, “The Best 300 Business Schools” |
FDU
President J. Michael Adams Named to United Nations University
Governing Council
Fairleigh Dickinson University
President J. Michael Adams has been named to the governing
council of United Nations University (UNU), a Tokyo-based
international system of research and training institutes. |
Frances
M. McLaughlin Division of Nursing gets an excellent prognosis
The Frances M. McLaughlin
Division of Nursing at Bloomfield College received word from
the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) that
it has it has been granted a full, ten-year accreditation
with no concerns or recommendations. |
Princeton
Distinguished Visitor Vargas Llosa wins Nobel in literature
Acclaimed Peruvian novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa, who is spending this semester as the
2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton University's Program
in Latin American Studies, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel
Prize in literature. He also is a visiting lecturer in Princeton's
Program in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the
Arts. |
SCCC
Receives $1.6M Grant for Healthcare Programs
Sussex County Community College
(SCCC) is part of the Northern New Jersey Health Professions
Pathways Program that recently received a 5-year, $24M grant
from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration
for Children and Families. The grant will strengthen and
expand healthcare industry occupational training in the Northern
NJ region through workforce readiness and basic skills preparation,
supportive services, and occupational skill development,
leading to certification and employment in the healthcare
field for TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
recipients and other low-income participants. |
Bloomfield
College awarded third PBI grant for $250,000
Bloomfield College was notified
through the offices of Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) that it has been selected to receive
$250,000 in grant funding under the Predominantly Black Institutions
Program (PBI). |
Bloomfield
College receives National Science Foundation Grant
Bloomfield College was awarded
a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
Professor Keith Guzik submitted the proposal titled Registering
Security: Investigating the Operation of and Reaction to
the Public Vehicle Registry in Mexico. |
RVCC
Makes Top 10 List in Book on Higher Education
Raritan Valley Community College
(RVCC) in Branchburg is rated among the Top Ten colleges
and universities in the country, according to a new book
by authors Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. |
Rider's
Corman Teaches New Zealanders as a 2010 Erskine Fellow
As a 2010 Erskine Fellow,
Dr. Hope Corman, professor of Economics at Rider University,
taught a special topics health-economics course to a post-graduate
honors class this summer at Canterbury University in Christchurch,
New Zealand. |
American
Chemical Society Names Rider's John Sheats 2010 Fellow
Dr. John E. Sheats, professor
emeritus from the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and
Physics at Rider University, was recently honored for his
contributions to chemistry and the American Chemical Society
(ACS) as a 2010 ACS Fellow. |
Forbes
ranks TCNJ best NJ public college
The College of New Jersey
is the best public school in the state, according to Forbes,
and it’s only getting better: TCNJ climbed to #285 on the
business magazine’s annual list of 500 top colleges and universities,
making a notable improvement on its 2009 ranking (#310). |
TCNJ
receives top rank in 2011 U.S. News survey
TCNJ found a place near the
top of the list of Best Regional Universities category for
the northern region of the country. |
Rutgers
Welcomes Record 117 Presidential Scholars
This year’s Presidential Scholars
come from 70 New Jersey communities and represent the state's
most accomplished high school graduates. |
National
Science Foundation Awards Rutgers-led Research Team $7.5
Million to Develop Mobile Internet
A group from nine universities
will design a “clean-slate” network to connect billions of
mobile communications and computing devices reliably and
securely. |
Rutgers–Camden
Professor Receives Fulbright Fellowship
Rajiv Gandhi, an associate
professor of computer science at Rutgers University–Camden,
has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to teach
in India. |
Gregor
Named Searle Scholar
Thomas Gregor, an assistant
professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative
Genomics at Princeton, has been named a 2010 Searle Scholar
for his innovative research |
Princeton
Awarded $27 million in Recovery Act Funding
As part of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Princeton University has received
$27 million in research funding from the Air Force Office
of Scientific Research, the U.S. Department of Energy, the
National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. |
Bloomfield
College signs agreement with Korea’s Seokang University
Bloomfield College continues
to expand it global mission with the signing of an international
exchange and cooperative agreement with South Korea’s Seokang
University |
Over
500 Come Out for Caldwell College 5K RUN WALK FOR AUTISM
More than 500 people came
out on Sunday morning April 11 for the Caldwell College 5
K Run-Walk for autism. Community leaders, students, faculty,
staff, serious runners, and kids of all ages gathered to
run or walk through beautiful Essex Fells to benefit the
soon to be constructed Caldwell College Center for Autism
and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). |
Caldwell
College Offering Three Year Bachelor's Degree Programs
in Business and Psychology
Beginning in fall 2010, Caldwell
College will offer three year degree programs that will allow
students to complete a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration
or Psychology in an accelerated period of time. |
Over
200 Volunteer at Caldwell Service Day
Caldwell College held its
first annual “Caldwell Service Day” on Friday April 30 when
more than 200 students, faculty and staff went out into the
community to volunteer at 20 different non-profits, community
agencies and local government organizations. |
Caldwell
College Graduation Ceremony 2010
Caldwell College president
Nancy H. Blattner, Ph.D., awarded degrees Sunday, May 16
to 400 students which included 285 undergraduates and 115
graduate students. |
Bloomfield
College to confer honorary degrees to Harris, Oates,
and Pascrell
Bloomfield College President
Richard Levao has announced that investment banker Carla
Harris, author and professor Joyce Carol Oates, and U.S.
Representative Bill Pascrell will receive honorary degrees
at the 137th commencement exercises on May 27, 2010. |
Rider
Graduates Largest-Ever Class at Commencement 2010
The sun seemed to smile upon
the futures of Rider University’s newest graduates at its
145th Commencement exercises on May 13 and 14, as well as
at Westminster Choir College of Rider Univerity's 81st Commencement
activities on May 15. In all, 1,570 degrees were conferred
over three days, marking the largest-ever graduating class
from the University. |
Rider
Announces Four Honorary Degree Recipients for Commencement
2010
During its 145th Commencement
ceremonies on its Lawrenceville campus, Rider University
will proudly bestow honorary degrees upon David L. Cohen,
executive vice president of Comcast Corporation, and Dr.
Thomas Wilfrid, executive director of the Charlotte W. Newcombe
Foundation. Conductor David Robertson and Dr. Albert McNeil,
professor emeritus of Music at the University of California
at Davis, will receive honorary degrees at from the Westminster
Choir College of Rider University in Princeton. |
Bloomfield
College announces honorary degree recipients
President Richard Levao has
announced the Carla Harris, Joyce Carol Oates, and Rep. Bill
Pascrell will receive honorary degrees at the 137th commencement
exercises on May 27, 2010. |
Rider's
Rebovich Institute Hosts Former Assembly Speaker Joe
Roberts
Recently retired Assembly
Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr. discussed Garden State politics
of the past and present on April 14 as part of the Rebovich
Institute for New Jersey Politics Governing New Jersey series
at Rider University. The event marked Roberts' first major
public talk since leaving office in January. |
Rider
Sophomore Earns Prestigious Fraud Examiners Scholarship
For the second year in a row,
a Rider University student has been awarded the Philadelphia
Area Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners'
Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship. Timothy McMillan,
a sophomore Accounting major, was honored as the 2010 recipient
at the chapter’s breakfast meeting on April 20. |
TCNJ
sophomore receives Goldwater Scholarship
Jennifer Urban, sophomore
chemistry and math double major of Cinnaminson, is one of
seven New Jersey college students and to receive the prestigious
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. |
TCNJ
and Rutgers forge new path for business graduates
In order to expedite and enhance
public accounting education in New Jersey, TCNJ's School
of Business and Rutgers Business School have entered into
an agreement to ease undergraduates’ transition to master’s
training. |
TCNJ
unveils new Center for Future Educators
A new era in future teacher
recruitment has begun with the establishment of the Center
for Future Educators at TCNJ. The Center’s mission is to
reach out to and support New Jersey high school and middle
school students who are considering careers in teaching. |
Princeton
Review & U.S. Green Building Council feature TCNJ in
their “Guide to 286 Green Colleges”
Just in time for the 40th
anniversary of Earth Day, The Princeton Review names TCNJ
as one of the country’s most environmentally responsible
colleges. |
Rider’s
Model U.N. Named Outstanding Delegation
Representing Venezuela, Rider
University’s Model United Nations Team received the prestigious
Outstanding Delegation award, the highest distinction a team
can obtain, at the conclusion of the National Model United
Nations Conference, held from March 28 through April 1, inside
the U.N. headquarters in New York City. |
Rider
Forensic Accounting Students Participate in IRS Adrian
Project
Rider University was selected
as the New Jersey representative to participate in the Internal
Revenue Service’s Adrian Project, an interactive learning
experience developed by the Criminal Investigation Division,
where 20 Rider students worked alongside IRS special agents
to crack a white collar crime using forensic accounting techniques. |
Rider
Takes the LEED in Sustainability With West Village Residences
Rider University announced
that its new West Village Residence Halls have officially
been awarded LEED® Silver certification, as established by
the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green
Building Certification Institute (GBCI). |
A
Sweet Problem: Princeton Researchers Find that High-fructose
Corn Syrup Prompts Considerably More Weight Gain
A Princeton University research
team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when
it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose
corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with
access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake
was the same. |
Bloomfield
College to Receive $100,000 Walmart Minority Student
Success Award
Bloomfield College has been
selected by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
to receive a Walmart Minority Student Success Award. The
$100,000 grant will help build on Bloomfield College’s demonstrated
successes in enrolling, retaining, and graduating first-generation
college students. |
TCNJ
named to The Princeton Review’s “Top 50 Undergraduate
Game Design Programs” Presented by The Princeton Review
and GamePro
The College of New Jersey
is one of the 50 best undergraduate institutions in the U.S.
and Canada to study game design, according to The Princeton
Review, one of America’s most widely known education services
and test preparation companies. |
BusinessWeek
survey ranks TCNJ Business as a top program for undergrads
TCNJ’s School of Business
placed #65 out of 111 schools that qualified for inclusion
on the 2010 BusinessWeek Survey of Best Undergraduate Business
Schools. |
Secret
Admirers Shower TCNJ Science Programs with Gifts
Two anonymous donors have
committed more than half a million dollars to show their
support of the Chemistry and Biology programs at the College. |
Clinical
Trial Sciences Master's Degree Program at UMDNJ Accepting
Applications
The School of Health Related
Professions at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey (UMDNJ) is currently accepting applications for
its master’s degree program in Clinical Trial Sciences, which
offers advanced education on the complexities of clinical
trial design and execution. |
Caldwell
College Launches First Ph.D. In ABA in NJ
Caldwell College launched
the first Ph.D. program in New Jersey for Applied Behavior
Analysis (ABA), a well developed scientific discipline that
is best known for its proven ability to greatly help children
with autism spectrum disorder. |
Princeton
Scientists Find Way to Catalog All That Goes Wrong in
a Cancer Cell
A team of Princeton University
scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways
a particular cancerous cell has “gone wrong,” giving researchers
a powerful tool that eventually could make possible new,
more targeted therapies for patients. |
Bloomfield
College Unveils New Masters Degree
Bloomfield College announces
a new Master of Science degree in accounting, the first post
graduate degree program in its history. |
Bloomfield
College Receives a $1.5 Million Gift
After seven years of offering
scholarships to students at Bloomfield College, the Bestfoods
Educational Foundation made its final grant of $1.5 million,
the largest single gift ever received by the college, to
establish the Bestfoods Educational Foundation Endowed Scholarship. |
Middlesex
County College Foundation Receives $1 Million Gift from
Willard T.C. Johnson Foundation
The Middlesex County College
Foundation has received a $1 million gift from the Willard
T.C. Johnson Foundation. The gift is structured in two parts:
an outright gift of $500,000 as well as a challenge grant
of $500,000. |
Princeton
Senior Henry Barmeier Wins Rhodes Scholarship
Princeton senior Henry Barmeier
has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study
at the University of Oxford. |
Saint
Peter’s College Offers M.B.A. in Health Care Administration
This graduate program will
prepare students for new and innovative leadership opportunities
in the health care industry. |
Caldwell
College and Mountainside Hospital Partner to Create BSN
Program
Caldwell College and Mountainside
Hospital announced a partnership agreement to create a Bachelor
of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program |
Caldwell
College Inaugurates New President
Caldwell College Holds Inauguration
Ceremonies for Nancy H. Blattner, Ph.D., Caldwell College's
8th President |
TCNJ
receives National Science Foundation funds for advancement
of women in science
A high-powered team of principal
investigators will use its recent National Science Foundation
award, one of several granted the College this year, to establish
a program for the advancement of women in academics. |
Student
engagement at TCNJ is top notch, according to national
survey
A national survey released
today shows that a variety of colleges and universities have
shown steady improvement in the quality of undergraduate
education, and The College of New Jersey is no exception. |
NCI
Awards $15.2 Million to Create Princeton Physical Sciences-Oncology
Center
Princeton University physical
scientists will partner with researchers at four other institutions
to explore the driving forces behind the evolution of cancer
under a five-year, $15.2 million award from the National
Cancer Institute. |
RVCC
Awarded $1.7 Million Career Education Grant
Raritan Valley Community College
(RVCC) in Branchburg has been awarded a $1.7 million federal
grant to support development and training of career pathways
for students and educators in seven different occupational
clusters. |
Princeton
awarded more than $17 million in Recovery Act funding
As part of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Princeton University has received
more than $17 million in research funding from the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research, the National Institutes of
Health and the National Science Foundation. |
Princeton
Team Learns Why Some Drugs Pack Such a Punch
By studying the intricate
mechanisms at work in protein production, a Princeton-led
team has discovered why certain kinds of antibiotics are
so effective. In doing so, they also have discovered how
one protein protects against cell death, shedding light on
a natural cancer-fighting process. |
Stockton
Establishes Veteran Advisory Board
The Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey has established a Veteran Advisory Board to
work in conjunction with the newly established Office of
Veteran Affairs. The panel is comprised of prominent leaders
in education, business, workforce development and veteran
and military affairs. |
Edison
State Serving a Growing Market
Thomas Edison State College,
located in Trenton, is a pioneer of adult education and one
of the first to offer online courses, a practice that has
gone mainstream. |
Federal
Funds Awarded to Stockton-Hammonton
The Town requested the special
appropriation as the first step in the funding of the Stockton-Hammonton
Project, a plan that will expand higher education in the
region by establishing a center and/or campus of The Richard
Stockton College in Downtown Hammonton, a busy transportation
hub in the heart of Southern New Jersey. |
Hudson
County Community College Associate Dean Kris Krishnan
Selected as AIR-NCES Fellow
The Associate Dean for Institutional
Research & Planning at Hudson County Community College, Sathasivam
(Kris) Krishnan, has been selected as a Fellow for the 2009
Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) |
Bloomfield
College Students Benefit from Astronaut’s Legacy
Bloomfield College was notified by Rep. Bill
Pascrell (D-NJ-08)that it is the recipient of the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate
Achievement Program grant to help 25 low-income students work towards doctoral
degrees. |
Princeton's
Shaevitz Named as Pew Scholar
Joshua Shaevitz, an assistant
professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative
Genomics at Princeton, has been named a Pew Scholar for demonstrating
excellence and innovation in his research. |
White
House Recognizes Three Rutgers Professors as Outstanding
Early Career Researchers
Three Rutgers University professors
have been recognized by the White House as outstanding early
career researchers, the highest honor that a beginning scientist
or engineer can receive in the United States. |
Drew
Student Takes Home Anthropology Research Prize
Erica Varlese was recently
awarded the John Omohundro Undergraduate Research Award at
the 49th annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological
Association (NEAA). Varlese, a Drew University student, took
home the prize for “Birth Junkies: Labor Support and Resistance
in American Birth,” an academic paper based on her honors
thesis. |
Noted
Princeton Husband-and-Wife Team Wins Kyoto Prize
Princeton University's Peter
and Rosemary Grant, whose legendary explorations on the bleak
Galapagos island of Daphne Major over nearly four decades
have produced an array of dazzling insights into evolutionary
theory, have been named recipients of the Kyoto Prize. |
Saint
Peter's College Awarded Fellowship to Advance Green Building
on Campus
Saint Peter’s College announced
that it has been awarded a 2009 Kresge Fellowship Award.
A total of 15 fellowships were presented by Second Nature,
a national nonprofit organization focused on sustainability
in higher education, to advance campus green building at
under-resourced institutions. Funding for these fellowships
was provided by the Kresge Foundation, as part of a grant
to Second Nature’s Advancing Green Building in Higher Education
initiative. |
Princeton's
Blinder Named Fellow of American Academy of Political
and Social Science
Princeton faculty member Alan
Blinder has been inducted into the American Academy of Political
and Social Science as the 2009 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow |
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