HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, May 11 (TNSres) -- Centenary University issued the following news release: * * * Opportunity to design and conduct undergraduate research steers Byram Township resident toward a career in the sciences. * * * For as long as she can remember, Nicolle Fekete has been drawn to science. Yet growing up, the Byram Township resident wasn't aware that Centenary University--northwestern New Jersey's only four-year university--offers outstanding bachelor's degrees in the scien  more

HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, May 13 (TNSper) -- Centenary University issued the following news release on May 12, 2023: Growing up, Brianna Soule always loved horses. But she never had the opportunity to ride or work directly with them. That changed when she enrolled at Centenary University four years ago. Today, the Bushkill, Pa., native who now resides in Budd Lake, is poised to graduate from Centenary in May with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Health: Equine Pre-Vet and plans to attend Midwest  more

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, May 12 (TNSres) -- Seton Hall University issued the following news: Diplomacy students from Seton Hall attended the UNA-USA Global Engagement Summit, where they joined hundreds of young leaders, diplomats, and experts from around the world to explore pressing global issues and collaborate on solutions while honing their skills and gaining real-world experience in international affairs. UNA-USA's Global Engagement Summit (GES) was held on February 17, 2023, at the Unit  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 11 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 10, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) has reached a settlement resolving DCR's complaint against the Pine Valley Golf Club (Club), located in Camden County, over allegations that the historically male-dominated Club has engaged in a pattern of unlawful gender-based discrimination. Under the settlement announced to  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 10 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 9, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that former New York City Police Department ("NYPD") Chief of Strategic Initiatives Isa M. Abbassi has officially started as Officer in Charge of the Paterson Police Department. Abbassi was appointed to the role by Attorney General Platkin when his office superseded the Paterson Police Department in March, taking over  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 13 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 12, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced the winners of the 2023 Excellence in Policing Awards, highlighting the outstanding service displayed by law enforcement agencies, officers, and professionals across the state. The Excellence in Policing Awards, created in 2019, were designed to encourage and reinforce New Jersey's commitment to strengthening the re  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 9 (TNSres) -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 8, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today joined the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution to discuss a recent Brookings study on New Jersey's ARRIVE Together program, which concluded that the program led to fewer uses of force, arrests and racial disparities in policing outcomes, and more people getting mental health treatment. Attorney General Platkin  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 9 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, Colonel Patrick J. Callahan Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police (NJSP), Director Pearl Minato of the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and Major Frederick P. Fife, Interim Officer in Charge of the Paterson Police Department (PPD) today announced collaborative law enforcement efforts that led to the arrest of three individuals in connect  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 10 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced charges against a Montclair State University (MSU) student who was arrested at his residence on the school's campus in Essex County, NJ, for allegedly possessing and creating Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Material (CSAEM) involving children he contacted online. The arrest is the result of an investigation led by the Division o  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 12 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the Bureau of Securities (the "Bureau") issued a Cease and Desist Order to stop an investment scheme purportedly powered by artificial intelligence and endorsed by Elon Musk. The website for TruthGPT Coin has since been taken down. The Bureau issued the enforcement action in coordination with seve  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 9 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Murphy today signed bipartisan legislation (S653/A343) to crack down on acts of sexual extortion, which have been on the rise as the digital age creates new avenues for bad actors. Specifically, the new law criminalizes the act of coercing another person to engage in sexual contact or provide explicit images or videos under threat, either of disclosing an explicit sexual image or video  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 9 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 8, 2023: In response to increased attacks on health care workers in recent years, Governor Phil Murphy today signed the 'Health Care Heroes Violence Prevention Act' to make it a criminal offense to intentionally threaten health care professionals or volunteers in an effort to intimidate them or interfere with their work. The act also establishes additional penalties against individuals who ass  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 9 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law: S-142/A-4341 (Diegnan, Pou/Freiman, Moriarty, Mosquera) - Modernizes business filing statutes to include entity conversion and domestication S-435/A-392 (Smith, Greenstein/Danielsen) - Authorizes certain local authorities to distribute live recordings of certain public hearings in lieu of transcript requirement S-660/A-2438 (Oroho, Gopal/Wirths  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 12 -- The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on May 11, 2023: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection today launched an interactive dashboard that provides regularly updated information to help local governments and the public track the progress of funding for much-needed drinking water and clean water infrastructure projects that are important to the health and economic vitality of the Garden State. "New J  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 12 (TNSres) -- Princeton University issued the following news: * * * A new Princeton-led collaboration to drive economic and technological advancements in photonics - the branch of science that includes lasers, optical fibers and cutting-edge light-based innovations - has been awarded a development grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. * * * The grant will lay the groundwork for a multistate collabor  more

GLASSBORO, New Jersey, May 12 (TNSfund) -- Rowan University issued the following news: A new Princeton University-led collaboration to drive economic and technological advancements in photonics--the branch of science that includes lasers, optical fibers and cutting-edge light-based innovations--has been awarded a development grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. The grant will lay the groundwork for a multistate collaboration ca  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 11 (TNSres) -- Princeton University issued the following news: * * * Princeton undergraduates Victoria Graf, Amelie Lemay, Arya Maheshwari and Reha Mathur have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, an annual award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. The four are among the 413 scholarship recipients selected across the United States. * * * One- and two-year Goldwater Scholarships cover tuition, fe  more

LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey, May 10 (TNSawa)(TNSjou) -- Rider University issued the following news release: Senior history and secondary education double major Zoe Nalepa has been awarded the Arlene Gardner Distinguished Scholar Award by the New Jersey Council for the Social Studies (NJCSS), a professional organization for K-12 teachers and college professors. The annual award is presented to a student who demonstrates "outstanding achievement and exemplary contribution" to the field of social st  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 10 (TNSfund) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Researchers are involved in a study on youth populations that is backed by a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health * * * Rutgers has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a four-year study to explore the legal and ethical barriers to conducting HIV research with youth populations in central, east, west and southern Africa. The goal of r  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 10 (TNStalk)(TNSjou) -- Rutgers University issued the following Q&A on May 9, 2023, with Walter Zahorodny, director of the New Jersey Autism Study at the Medical School: * * * A new study by the Centers for Disease Control of children with profound autism, the most severe form of the condition, found that cases are increasing, and those most likely to be diagnosed are poor, female and non-white. Walter Zahorodny, director of the New Jersey Autism Study at the Ru  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 12 (TNStalk) -- Rutgers University issued the following Q&A on May 11, 2023, with Martin Blaser, director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine: * * * The public health emergency expires today, but COVID-19 remains. How will we protect ourselves from it going forward? Rutgers Today asked Martin Blaser, Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome, professor of medicine and pathology & laboratory medicine and director of the Center for Advanced Biot  more

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, May 11 (TNSfund) -- Seton Hall University issued the following news: On May 4, Seton Hall welcomed Congressman Bill Pascrell to its Interprofessional Health Sciences campus where he met with University students, faculty and administrators. The visit was an opportunity for Pascrell to tour the campus' simulation labs, for which he secured $1.14 million in federal funding. During his visit, Pascrell was thanked for his advocacy on behalf of the university and its student  more

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, May 11 (TNSpar) -- Seton Hall University issued the following news on May 11, 2023: On Thursday the Perils and Possibilities of Diversity Initiative in Education (PPDIE), a partnership between the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) at Rutgers, and the Educational Studies Department at Seton Hall, co-sponsored an event on Difficult Dialogues. Students and guests from Rutgers and Seton Hall joined the session in classrooms (which joined the event as  more

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, May 9 (TNSpro) -- Seton Hall University issued the following news: Seton Hall offers a master's program in School Counseling that prepares school students to become counselors who maximize the potential of all students. Offered both on campus and online, the program allows students to develop skills as competent school counselors and effective consultants, collaborators, advocates and leaders in an ever-changing global society. This program currently meets the credent  more

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, May 10 (TNSper) -- Seton Hall University issued the following news: Brian B. Shulman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, FASAHP, FNAP, who has elevated the School of Health and Medical Sciences as dean since 2007, is retiring from the University. A member of our community for 25 years, Dean Shulman initiated the school's interprofessional education and collaborative practice strategy. He served as the academic lead for Seton Hall's efforts to establish the Interprofessional  more

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, May 11 (TNSper) -- Seton Hall University issued the following news: The Sister Rose Thering Fund for Education in Jewish-Christian Studies (SRTF) has welcomed four new members to its Board of Trustees: Roger B. Jacobs, Esq., Heather Mecka, Robin Sanders and Ruth Ross. "We look forward to working with each trustee, who brings a renewed vitality to our mission and enhances the opportunity for our vision to become a reality," said Anthony Sciglitano, Ph.D., executive dir  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 13 (TNSgov) -- Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news: Addressing more than 250 SPIA alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends on the rooftop deck at 1333 New Hampshire Avenue, NW - the School's new home in Washington, D.C. - a bipartisan group of speakers lauded the SPIA in D.C. initiative at its May 10 launch as an important and worthy effort to repair what many see as a broken government. U.S. Rep. Derek Kil  more

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, May 11 (TNSpro) -- Stockton University issued the following news: Beginning in the fall of 2023, Stockton University will become the first public institution in New Jersey and one of a handful of schools in the country to offer an undergraduate degree in esports. The Bachelor of Science in Esports Management degree through the university's School of Business will offer a distinctive program that includes business fundamentals, professional work experience, a hands-on inte  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 13 (TNSfund) -- Thomas Edison State University issued the following news release: Thomas Edison State University (TESU) has been awarded $2,761,271 as part of the Nursing Expansion Grant Program by the U.S. Department of Labor. The program is designed to support public-private partnerships that expand and diversify the nursing workforce, with a particular focus on developing professional pathways for frontline healthcare professionals to advance in their careers. TESU   more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 10 -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: Wiley's (NYSE: WLY) emerging talent and reskill training partner, Wiley Edge, will now offer trainees on its alumni graduate program a path to ISACA certification, giving them the best possible start in their cyber security careers. Protecting organizations against hacking and other major threats is a crucial aspect of any business and that is where cyber security comes in. Yet despite a global shortage of 3.  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 10 (TNSbook) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Rahul Rana published a book that helped launch his career long before graduation * * * By Margaret McHugh Rahul Rana began getting texts from friends last summer about his larger-than-life face on a New Jersey Turnpike billboard advertising Rutgers Business School. Rana, a member of the Class of 2023, drove toward Newark Liberty International Airport to see for himself. "I was mind-blown! It d  more