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Featured Faculty: Sandra Jones

We congratulate Sandra Jones on her recent publication, Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement:  Privileged Morality, Race Realities (2009, Lexington Books). Sandra J. Jones, Ph.D, LCSW is an Assistant Professor of Sociology …

Featured Faculty: Maria Rosado

Dr. Maria Rosado, professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Geography/Anthropology department, was recently named as one of the "South Jersey Superwomen" by South Jersey Magazine (vol. 6, issue, 7).  Dr. Rosado was bestowed this …

Featured Faculty: Dr. Q. Edward Wang

Q. Edward Wang, Professor of History at Rowan, has been awarded membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for Spring 2010. He is the first one in the history of Rowan University/Glassboro State College to receive this prestigious …

Project BOAST Helps Recovering Women Re-enter Society

It isn't yet famous like the world-renowned Skinner Box but a new program designed to change behaviors of addicted women is providing Rowan psychology students an unusual, first-hand experience. Dubbed Project BOAST (Behavioral Office-Based …

MA in Applied Behavior Analysis - public health to public safety

Autism rates in New Jersey are among the highest in the nation but a new masters degree at Rowan is designed to help address the issue - and provide vast employment opportunities.The Master of Arts in Applied Behavior Analysis, new for Fall 2009, is …

Mapping the Campus (and Beyond) in Layers

Faculty and students in Rowan University's small but industrious geography department are using Geographic Information Systems – a state-of-the-art process that combines mapping technology with data – to identify crime patterns, urban …

Lots to SEA during tall ship sailing semester

There's wind in your hair, a crisp briny spray on your tongue and warm golden sun on your face. Next port of call: Bermuda, Barbados, possibly Tahiti.Sound like the best spring break ever?Think again.This isn't spring break at all but a full …

Step forward, look back in Science Hall

If Science Hall was named for a film, an obvious choice might be Back to the Future.That's because Science Hall is the only structure in South Jersey -- perhaps the entire state -- where one can peer into the past and delve into the future. On the …

Vacation Learning: No summer bummer

For the third straight summer, Rowan geography professor Denyse Lemaire led students around the globe in 2007 for instruction way too big for the classroom.Some landed on the beachhead at Normandy, France, and scaled the rocky cliffs for a Memorial …

LAS grad: From State Police Superintendent to State Senate

There's a drumbeat of stiff black shoes at the Gloucester County Police Academy as 30-odd raw recruits move through daily drills. The recruits huff and puff in silence, grunt on command and make precision turns. Again. And again. And again. Drills …

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