Congrats to Alyvia Miller who has graduated in 2014 from TCNJ with a bachelor’s degree in music, a bachelor’s degree in International Studies for Economics/Trade, and a minor in Chinese as a member of the honors program, was awarded a full ride scholarship to study for her MBA in international business at the Shanghai University… Continue Reading
Alison Hassman, TCNJ and WLC’s alumna (Spanish), is taking one more step in her successful theater/stage managing career. She is now directly involved in Los monólogos de la vagina, a Spanish version of Eve Ensler’s piece. The show will open on May 18 at the Westside Theater in Manhattan (the same off-Broadway stage where the… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Joseph Pezzulo who was accepted into the most prestigious Masters Program of International Relations at Beijing University with full China’s Government scholarship. Joseph’s primary focus will be on Sino-US relations. Joseph has a self-designed double major in Chinese language and Culture and History. Continue Reading
The first official act in our last Spanish Section meeting was the presentation of the inaugural Excellence Awards to two students of the Spanish minor. Professors Kentengian and Figueroa, having taught two classes to each, presented the awards respectively to Priya Gupta and Katrina Notarmaso Continue Reading
Congratulations to Tyler Liberty who was accepted in the”Teach for America” program. He’ll be teaching in Arizona in the fall. Tyler is graduating with a self-designed double major in Chinese Language and Culture and English. Below is Tyler’s testimonial.
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Congratulations to the World Languages and Cultures Department for receiving the Excellence in Collaborative Programming Award for Trip Around the World. The event was held by Residential and Housing on November 14, 2013. Continue Reading
Dr. Rifkin (WLC/Russian) and Dr. Marino (History) won a 3-year grant from the US Department of Education to internationalize the history secondary education program with an emphasis on Russia. The grant provides funding for a small group of students of Russian language at TCNJ to travel to Vladimir, Russia, a city of about 400,000 approximately 4 hours’ drive east of Moscow, for an alternative spring break experience during which time they volunteer in a K-12 school. The students who participated in this year’s trip were Kyriaki Christodoulou (3rd year Russian), Lia Lumauig (1st year Russian), Joanna Peluso (3rd year Russian), Michael Schiumo (3rd year Russian), Skyeler Sudia (1st year Russian), and Kathryn Wertheimer (1st year Russian). Continue Reading
Congratulations to Irina Walsh, an instructor of Russian who has just received a PhD in Second Language Acquisition.
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Here is a link to an article about six TCNJ students who traveled to Russia on a grant-funded service-learning trip last month. Continue Reading
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