Jenna Leopold and Katherine Heitmann receive department awards for the best Senior Seminar students of 2012-2013 for their outstanding work. Continue Reading
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Jenna Leopold named a recipient of HSS DAELA Award
Jenna majored in Spanish and minored in Communications Disorders. She is a member of the Sigma Delta Pi (the National Hispanic Honors Society) and serves as a peer mentor for the Spanish major. Jenna has been a teacher’s assistant and substitute teacher in the Spanish immersion preschool classroom at the Spanish Workshop for Children in… Continue Reading
Graduating Senior receiving Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from Chinese American Cultural Association
Graduating senior Tara Pretty is receiving this award from the Chinese American Cultural Association, CACA. Tara has been teaching a Chinese class every Saturday in the past year at Edison Chinese School and been doing a tremendous job. Edison Chinese school nominated her to this Chinese American Association in New Jersey. It has a long… Continue Reading
Maryan Escarfullett: “Learning Chinese Has Transformed Me”
The past year I’ve been living and studying for a master degree in International Studies at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. But, my motivation and my decision to live in China went back to my time at TCNJ. At TCNJ, enrolled as a freshman in Dr. Mi’s Chinese 101 class I… Continue Reading
Alumni Letter: Erin Hardy
It was over a year ago that I began the adventure of a lifetime; an adventure that became the life I’d always dreamt of having. After graduation I interviewed at several schools, but was unsuccessful in finding a job as a high school Italian teacher. One day while searching for an Italian Master’s program I… Continue Reading
Japanese Program Recent Successes
Accepted to the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/JET/about_JET.html). They will be joining four other TCNJ alumni in teaching English in Japan: Stephanie Cuono Ashlee Dixon Elissa Wu 2013 Japanese National Honor Society (http://www.aatj.org/studentactivities/jnhs/JNHS-CC.html) TCNJ Chapter inductees: Stephanie Cuono Ashlee Dixon Angeline Taylor Elissa Wu Continue Reading
Alumni Update: Corina Mavrodin
Corina is currently completing her PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) in London, UK. After completing a year abroad in Seville and graduating TCNJ in 2002, Corina worked with NGOs (Frankfurt, Germany) the United Nations (New York) and the Romanian Senate (Bucharest), where she was foreign affairs counselor to the President of the… Continue Reading
A note from Jeremy Frusco, minor in Italian
My name is Jeremy Frusco. I am a graduate student in musicology at the University of Florida with an interest in Italian social songs and la Resistenza who is looking for opportunities to conduct archival research throughout Italy this summer. My primary archive of interest is the Istituto Ernesto de Martino in Sesto Fiorentino. Founded… Continue Reading
Mary Jane Dempsey Wins Undergraduate Achievement Award
Mary Jane Dempsey, a senior at The College of New Jersey, is a double-major in History and International Studies with a minor in Italian, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While studying abroad in Bologna, Italy at the Spring Hill College Italy Center she conducted research in order to understand what laws have been… Continue Reading
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