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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 |
Monmouth
University Receives $2.5 Million Grant From Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) has awarded Monmouth University and two other New
Jersey private colleges a four-year, $2.5 million grant to
train future nurse faculty members. The grant is part of
RWJF’s $22 million, five-year “New Jersey Nursing Initiative,” which
will increase the number of nurse faculty available to educate
the next generation of nurses in the state. |
Fairleigh
Dickinson University Receives $2.5 Million Grant from
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) has awarded Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) and
two other New Jersey private colleges a four-year, $2.5 million
grant to train future nursing faculty members. |
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 |
Bergen
Community College Professor Earns International Recognition
English Professor Dorothy
Altman Wins NISOD Excellence Award - With nearly 400 full-time
members who earn honors from many organizations each year,
the teaching faculty at Bergen Community College is regarded
as one of the most decorated and accomplished in the community
college sector. |
Governor
Announces New Four Year Medical School in Camden - Rowan/
Cooper Partnership
On Thursday, June 25, Governor
Corzine signed an executive order that calls upon Rowan to
develop a new four-year allopathic medical school in partnership
with Cooper University Hospital in Camden... [Governor's
press release} |
Stockton
Provost Dr. David Carr Wins Prestigious William M. Plater
Award for Leadership in Civic Engagement
Stockton Provost and Executive
Vice President Dr. David Carr won national recognition this
year for The William M. Plater Award for Leadership in Civic
Engagement, which recognizes exceptional chief academic officers
in higher education. |
Ramapo
College Professor Awarded a National Institutes of Health
Grant
Christian G. Reich, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of behavioral neuroscience at Ramapo
College of New Jersey, was awarded an $187,500 research grant
by the National Institutes of Health. The three-year grant
will continue the research Reich, who lives in West Milford,
New Jersey, began while associated with the University of
Maryland School of Medicine. |
New
Jersey City University Receives New Jersey Smart Workplaces
Award
Issued by the State of New
Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT),
New Jersey Smart Workplaces Awards recognize New Jersey enterprises
that help reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality
by voluntarily creating significant and innovative alternative
commuting programs. |
TCNJ
Named #10 on The Princeton Review’s 2009 Top 10 “Best
Value” Public College List Presented by The Princeton
Review and USA Today
The College of New Jersey
is the nation's #10 ”Best Value” public college for 2009,
according to The Princeton Review, one of America's most
widely-known education services companies. The Princeton
Review has teamed with USA TODAY, the nation's most widely-read
newspaper, to present The Princeton Review’s ”Best Value” Colleges
list for 2009. |
Sixty-two
UMDNJ Physicians Named New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors“
New York magazine's annual
edition of the Best Doctors in New York City and the surrounding
counties includes 62 physicians who are faculty members of
either the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in Newark or the
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick. |
UMDNJ-School
of Nursing Receives $2.3 Million Grant from Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
has awarded a $2.3 million grant to the Foundation of UMDNJ for the University
of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Nursing to help avert a severe
nursing shortage in the state. |
NJIT
Mathematicians Named First Fellows of Math Society
Two professors of mathematics
at NJIT will number among the first Fellows named by the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Gregory |
Rutgers
College of Nursing Receives $3 Million Grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) has awarded the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey a four-year, $3 million grant
to prepare future nurse faculty members. |
RVCC
First Community College in Nation to Sign Environmental
Stewardship Agreement with EPA
Raritan Valley Community College
(RVCC) in North Branch is the first community college in
the nation to sign an environmental stewardship agreement
with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). |
TCNJ
Garners Stimulus Funding to Increase Service to the Community
The College of New Jersey
has received a $256,000 grant from the Corporation for National
and Community Service to fund 29 AmeriCorps positions at
various higher education institutions and non-profit organizations
in central New Jersey. |
Rowan
Team Engineers a Design Victory
Hover-bike races, virtual-reality
missions, and comic robots helped four New Jersey college
students win the prestigious Walt Disney ImagiNations design
competition yesterday in California. The Rowan University-sponsored
team took best-in-show for its concept of a 28th-century
indoor theme park, 'Disney Spaceport,' beating out a motion-simulator
3D thrill ride by North Carolina State University and an
action-adventure dragon quest by California State University,
Fullerton. |
Middlesex
County College Preparing Students for Green Energy Economy
The NJ Sierra Club joined
Middlesex County College representatives on May 28 to highlight
the College’s new Green Building program, an important step
in preparing the county’s workers for the new, green energy
economy. |
Monmouth
University Awarded NJBIZ Green Leadership Award For Energy
Conservation
“Monmouth University is proud
to be a leader in energy conservation and will continue to
implement programs to create a green environment for our
students and employees, as well as the community,” said President
Paul G. Gaffney II. |
Bloomfield
College Offers Free Education to Veterans through the
Yellow Ribbon Program
Bloomfield College has partnered
with the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program (Yellow
Ribbon Program), a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational
Assistance Act of 2008. |
Princeton
Researchers to Lead Major Pentagon-funded Initiatives
The U.S. Department of Defense
has selected Princeton engineers to lead two new multi-institutional
research initiatives, one aimed at transforming wireless
telecommunications networks and the other at inventing materials
that adapt themselves to changing loads and environments. |
Ramapo
College Receives Grant to Expand Services for Veterans
Ramapo College of New Jersey
received a $100,000 Success for Veterans Award Grant from
the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Wal-Mart
Foundation. Grants were given to 20 institutions across the
United States that operate model programs advancing access
and success in higher education for veterans and their families. |
Entrepreneur
Magazine Ranks Rutgers–Camden MBA Among Nation’s Best
in Global Management
According to a survey published
in the April 2009 edition of Entrepreneur magazine, the master
of business administration (MBA) program at the Rutgers School
of Business–Camden is one of the nation’s best when it comes
to preparing students to succeed in global management |
Saint
Peter's College Honors Veterans With No-Cost Education
Through the Yellow Ribbon Program
Under the Post-9/11 GI Bill,
the Yellow Ribbon program allows the College to cover tuition
expenses for military veterans attending Saint Peter's. |
Saint
Peter's College Offers Summer Tuition Discount to Undergraduate
Students
Current and visiting undergraduate
students taking one course at Saint Peter’s College this
summer will receive the second course half off. |
Two
New Jersey Colleges Reduce Summer Tuition
Two New Jersey state universities
are cutting tuition for summer school as students and their
families struggle with money. |
Altered
Gene Can Increase Risk of Schizophrenia
Rutgers resesearchers have
identified a specific DNA change that provides a potential
mechanism that may be a point of entry for drug therapy. |
Rutgers
Selected to Co-Lead Homeland Security Research Center
The six-year grant, worth
up to $30 million, has been awarded to Rutgers- and Purdue-led
partnerships to conduct research in information technologies
to protect the nation. |
Four
Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
Four Princeton scientists
have been selected to receive 2009 Sloan Research Fellowships,
highly competitive grants given to outstanding scholars who
are conducting research at the frontiers of their fields. |
Rutgers
Researchers Progress Toward AIDS Vaccine
Professors Eddy and Gail Ferstandig
Arnold Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned
a corner in their search for a vaccine against HIV – the
virus responsible for AIDS. |
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