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Bloomfield
College Receives European Union Grant for Distance Learning
Centers
Bloomfield College, partnering
with universities in major cities in Romania and Austria,
has developed a three-stage program to address the challenge
of distance learning through the development, implementation,
and maintenance of an e-learning platform. |
Stockton
to Host Re-Employment Conference [pdf]
The Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey in collaboration with Atlantic Cape Community
College and the Atlantic Cape Workforce Investment Board
will host a conference on January 14 designed to help community
members displaced by the economy to re-enter the workforce. |
Three
Awarded Rhodes Scholarships; One Selected for Mitchell
Award
Princeton senior Stephen Hammer
and two 2008 graduates, Scott Moore and Timothy Nunan, have
been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the
University of Oxford. |
Hudson
County Community College Student Support Services Program
Receives $408,900 Grant
Hudson County Community College
President Dr. Glen Gabert announced that the College has
received notification from the United States Department of
Education that the College was awarded $408,900 — an unprecedented
5.25% increase — in funding for its TRIO programs. |
Stockton
Cuts Undergraduate Tuition for Summer Sessions by 10
Percent [pdf]
In response to what the government
has acknowledged as a recession in the U.S. economy, The
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey has taken action to
help keep the cost of a college education within reach of
more students and their families. |
Princeton's
Gallo, Sanborn Named Fulbright Scholars
Princeton faculty members
Rubén Gallo and Keith Sanborn have received Fulbright Scholar
grants to conduct research abroad this year. |
Princeton
University Historian Peter Brown Selected to Share $1
Million Kluge Prize
Peter Brown, Princeton's Philip
and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, has been named a
co-winner of the 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement
in the Study of Humanity. |
Rutgers
Receives $10 Million from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
to Establish Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health
Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, has received a four-year, $10 million grant
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the
Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, on its George H.
Cook Campus. |
Hudson
County Community College Foundation Receives $12,000
Verizon Foundation Grant
Vice President for Development
Joseph Sansone announced today that the College Foundation
is receiving a $12,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation.
The college Is One of Just 39 Organizations to Be Awarded
a ‘Check Into Literacy’ Grant |
Middlesex
County College Announces New Honors Program
Middlesex County College has
developed a new Honors Program for high-achieving students
that will consist of Honors sections of current courses,
newly created courses, and seminars. |
Rutgers
Researchers Identify New Antibiotic Target and New Antibiotic
Mechanism
The findings may lead to new
broad-spectrum antibacterial agents effective against bacterial
pathogens resistant to current antibiotics and could lead
the way to new treatments for tuberculosis. |
NIH
Awards Rutgers Cell and DNA Repository $57.8 Million
The funds from the National
Institutes of Health will support investigations into the
genetics of mental disorders, metabolic and digestive disease. |
TCNJ
receives $10k grant from PSE&G to serve Trenton’s youth
in school and sports
The College of New Jersey
has been awarded a $10,000 grant from PSE&G to launch a program
to aid Trenton’s at-risk youth. Twelve scholars from TCNJ’s
Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement will work
with 15 middle and high school students in Trenton. |
Hudson
County Community College Conference Center Earns Prestigious
Certification
Hudson County Community College’s
Conference Center was recently awarded certification by the
International Association of Conference Centres -- one of
only 11 conference centers in New Jersey to such certification. |
Princeton's
Paul Krugman Wins Nobel in Economics
Princeton economist Paul Krugman,
acclaimed in his field for insights into international trade
patterns that overturned longheld theories about the global
economy before he rose to popular distinction as a media
columnist and commentator, has been awarded the 2008 Nobel
Prize in economics. |
Bloomfield
College Receives PBI Grant from U.S. Department of Education
Bloomfield College was awarded
a $600,000 grant from the Predominately Black Institutions
federal program to enhance science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics programs. |
Stockton
Chosen for New National Initiative on Protecting America’s
Fiscal Future [pdf]
The Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey is one of nine institutions chosen to participate
in a new initiative of the American Association of State
Colleges and Universities (AASCU). Given that the next generation
of adults will labor under the nation’s current and growing
debt accumulation, the initiative, entitled America’s Future:
Protecting the Fiscal Health of Our Democracy will consider
what college students can do to educate themselves and their
communities about the need for bipartisan solutions to the
nation’s mounting debt. |
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