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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 |
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} |
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