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10 The College of New Jersey Magazine P R A I R I E B R A G B O A R D 15 things that make us smile ... 6 On a high note The music department celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. More than 100 alumni performed in special concerts to mark the milestone during Alumni Weekend this spring. 7 WHAT DO TCNJ AND ALEX TREBEK HAVE IN COMMON? 1 Top booking The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik reviewed English professor Michael Robertson's book The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy, calling it "instructive and touching." 297,520 Number of hours student employees logged in campus jobs in 2017–18. 2 3 Ready for prime time Directors Tyler Law '19 and Kevin Walsh '19 won National Best Comedy award for their short film Milkman at the 2018 Campus Movie Fest in Atlanta, Georgia. The duo are milking it for all it's worth — their film is available on Amazon Prime. A student showcase to commemorate 100 years. Law, left, and Walsh 5 We're crushing it TCNJ ranks as the top public college in the nation among institutions with 5,000-10,000 students in Money's 2018–19 "Best Colleges for Your Money." TCNJ alumni earn more doctoral degrees than alumni from other New Jersey institutions on a per capita basis with the exception of Princeton, says the National Science Foundation. CAMPUS MOVIE FEST TERMINUS 4 How bizarre The Sarnoff Collection in Roscoe L. West Hall is now listed on atlasobscura.com, the guide to unusual places all over the world. The Sarnoff family donated the collection of microchips, vacuum tubes, and other artifacts related to communications and electronics in 2010. Both appeared on Jeopardy! in May.

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