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School of Science
WelcomeThe School of Science provides a high quality and challenging education for undergraduate students, offering studies in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. Our programs emphasize the excitement of scientific discovery and the importance of science to society. State-of-the-Art Facilities
Small Class Size
Deep Student Engagement
Undergraduate Research
Student Accomplishments
Exemplary Faculty
Alumni
Degree Programs
Student Profile
School of Science Globetrotters Australia, Kenya, Germany, New Zealand, Italy, England, Jordan, Argentina and Chile are just a small sampling of the international locations School of Science globetrotters have called home. Read Full Story
Emmanuel “Manny” Martinez Alcaraz ‘12 Martinez says he is inspired by the example of Paul Farmer and others who approach public health not only from a medical perspective, but also from a sociological one. In search of this balance, Martinez splits his time between research in the chemistry lab and anthropological fieldwork in the Trenton area. Read Full Story
Jennifer Urban '12 A senior Chemistry and Math double major, Urban says she flirted with the idea of attending culinary school until she fell in love with mathematics and chemistry her junior year of high school. Read Full Story
Elizabeth "Biz" Egan ’12 You have probably seen her around the Science Complex – headphones on her ears, running sneakers dangling from her backpack and a big smile on her face. Friends joke that Elizabeth "Biz" Egan lives in the Mathematics Department, and based on the amount of time she spends there, it’s not far from the truth. Read Full Story
Siobhan Sabino Siobhan Sabino is a jack of all trades — writer, photographer, Harry Potter aficionada, web designer, French linguist, and history buff. But it was love at first Google the day her family home hooked into the Internet, thus commencing her love affair with computers. Read Full Story Faculty Profile
Dr. Maggie Benoit Like most every child, Maggie Benoit had her eyes set on the stars, dreaming of one day becoming an astronaut. But instead of becoming a rocket scientist, she is now a rock scientist – or more specifically, a solid earth geophysicist. Read Full Story
Dr. Cynthia Curtis Cynthia Curtis had numbers in her blood. With a grandmother and mother who both studied mathematics, it is no surprise that this professor was drawn to the field. “I never thought to question whether mathematics was something a woman could do,” explained Curtis, who says she was inspired by their example. Read Full Story
Dr. Benny Chan Not many professors stumble upon entirely new compounds in the course of their research but for Dr. Benny Chan, these “serendipitous discoveries,” as he likes to call them, are just part of being a materials chemist. Read Full Story
Dr. Janet Morrison 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 her career to them. Read Full Story
Dr. Amanda Norvell 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. Read Full Story Alumni Profile
Bill Cahill ’05, MEd ’09 As Alumni Association president, a position he will hold for the next two years, Cahill hopes to foster more of this shared celebration of the College through programming and events that bring alumni of all ages together.
Dr. Ellen Deibert '85 As a teenager heading off to college more than two decades ago, Ellen Deibert ’85 could not have predicted that she would one day be on the leading edge of any medical field, much less be counted a specialist in the complexities of brain trauma.
Photo courtesy of Sue Ciotti As part of her MD/PhD coursework at Yale University, Katherine Uyhazi ’05 is doing research work at the Yale Stem Cell Center under the direction of Dr. Haifan Lin. In February, Uyhazi returned to TCNJ to give a talk, “MDs, PhDs, and Stem Cells: Everything You Wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask,” as part of the Young Alumni Lecture Series. Read Full Story
The buried anode thin-film battery technology developed in part by Edwin Tracy ’68 was named one of the world’s best new inventions by "R&D Magazine." Every year, the R&D 100 Awards—nicknamed the “Oscars of Invention”—showcase the best new technologies from around the world. Most researchers go their entire career without even being nominated. Edwin Tracy (formerly Trzeciak, Class of 1968) just won his second, putting him in elite company and positioning him at the forefront of his field of renewable-energy research. Read Full Story
Bill Hausdoerffer ‘36 The year was 1954. At that time I was a fairly young professor of mathematics at the New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton. I also served as the dean of men, and I frequently assisted President Roscoe L. West in hosting visitors to the College. So it was no surprise to me when President West approached me with a visitor from India, Dr. Mani, president of a teachers college. Dr. West said to me, “Dr. Mani is anxious to meet Dr. Einstein over in Princeton. Would you like to take him?” To the disappointment of both men, I said, “I don’t think it is a good idea to take up Einstein’s valuable time with a casual visit, nor do I think that we could get an appointment.” Dr. West seemed to accept my answer, but later in the day he returned to me full of enthusiasm. “Bill, my secretary was able to make an appointment for you and Dr. Mani to visit Dr. Einstein on Saturday morning. How about taking him?” This time I couldn’t say, “No!” Read Full Story Course Profile
People and Places in the East African Rift is an interdisciplinary course taught by a physicist and a historian. The course is organized around one fundamental question: what is the relationship between physical landscapes and the human societies that inhabit them? The main goals are for students to understand how unique geological and environmental features came to exist, to analyze how these features affected the various human societies that came to inhabit the regions, and how these landscape features and different societies both evolved through time.
FSP 141 - 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 first-year students have the opportunity to watch the popular television drama and learn about the science and medicine depicted in the series but also to engage discussion on its broader sociological themes.
BIO 365/ HON 365/ IDS 365 - 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 The Natural History of the Galapagos Islandsand Ecuador will be doing just that.
CSC 470 - Conducting Robots. Conducting Robots is research-based, multidisciplinary course taught by four faculty members from Computer Science, Interactive Multimedia, Mechanical Engineering, and Music. The course allows students from each discipline to construct artificial systems capable of conducting an orchestra and visualizing feedback. In essence, the students create a robotic “maestro” that mimics the arm movements and facial expressions of a human conductor at work. The course was originally created with the support of a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
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The School of Science provides students with state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation. Our laboratories and other spaces are designed to allow intensive interaction between students and faculty in an undergraduate-focused scholarly environment.
Science students enjoy small classes and close interaction with faculty members both in and out of the classroom. Our professors teach all lecture and lab courses; the School of Science has no graduate students. Most classes have only 24 students, and some elective classes are as small as 10 students.
Students quickly become members of the School of Science community by participating in seminars, engaging in social activities with faculty, and by joining one or more student organization. A broad range of undergraduate research, study abroad, field-based, and internship experiences are also available.
Many opportunities exist for students to conduct undergraduate research. Students engage in their own projects on a broad spectrum of topics, and they present the results of their research investigations at conferences and author and co-author published papers with their faculty mentors.
Upon graduation, approximately 35% of Science graduates have entered health professional schools, 35% have entered graduate schools, and 30% have entered the work force directly. Approximately 84% of those students who have applied to medical school have been accepted.
Science faculty members are active teacher-scholars who work collaboratively with students on undergraduate research and independent study projects. Our faculty members have studied and trained at some of the best institutions within the U.S. and abroad.
Science alumni are accomplished and engaged in their chosen fields. Dr. Joseph Ecker was recently elected into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors an American scientist can achieve.
