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ASBMB-Today features article on a Bio alum
We’re proud to share this article recently published in “ASBMB-Today,” a newsletter of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which features Isabel Distefano, a Biology major and 2017 graduate of TCNJ. Isabel (left) is now working in the Pritzker DNA Lab at the Field Museum in Chicago, and loves her job. The article… Continue Reading
Biology Comings and Goings…
As the summer ends and a new academic year is about to begin, it’s a time of change here in the TCNJ Biology Department. We welcome Wendy Clement, PhD, as our new department chair, who will serve a term of three years “at the helm” (administratively, at least) for the Biology Department. But at the… Continue Reading
Check out this story soon to be in TCNJ Magazine!
So proud of our amazing faculty researchers! https://science.tcnj.edu/2022/08/15/corn-labs/ Continue Reading
TCNJ 7-Yr Program One of “Most Flexible”
The College recently posted an article citing a review of five 7-Yr accelerated medical programs which ran in Forbes. TCNJ’s was touted as being “most flexible.” Read the article here: TCNJ’s 7-Year Medical Program is one of five featured in Forbes for being “most flexible” We know our amazing seven-year students are interested in many… Continue Reading
The Science Behind HOUSE
Who says watching television is not educational? First-year students investigate the science behind HOUSE Among the famous House-isms, as the pearls of cynical wisdom from the mouth of Dr. Gregory House, M.D., have come to be known, is the reoccurring assertion that, “everybody lies.” Here at TCNJ, it is no lie though that a very… Continue Reading
The Natural History of the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador
Charles Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos Islands inspired the masterpiece of scientific thinking known as the theory of evolution by natural selection. Every biology student learns about it in the classroom but few have the opportunity to follow in Darwin’s footsteps and explore the islands firsthand. Yet come May, a group of students enrolled in… Continue Reading
Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) Biological Honor Society
Often referred to as “Tri-Beta”, Beta Beta Beta serves as the national biological honor society and acts as both an academic and service organization for students who are passionate about the biological sciences. TCNJ’s chapter of the organization allows School of Science students and even non-science majors to join a community that celebrates and promotes… Continue Reading
Amanda Norvell
Developmental Biologist and Fruit Fly Enthusiast For someone who had never handled flies before her post-doctoral position at Princeton University, Amanda Norvell is surprisingly comfortable keeping thousands in the laboratory here at TCNJ. “I will be totally honest and say I had never touched a fly before I got to the Princeton lab,” the associate… Continue Reading
Janet Morrison
TCNJ’s Plant Person Janet Morrison has a thing for plants. There are several in her office, she spends most of her day talking about them, and when she is not in the classroom, she is outdoors working with them. As the resident plant ecologist here at The College of New Jersey, Morrison has even devoted… Continue Reading