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11 Prairie FALL 2023 Notable places 6. Funding Forcina's future TCNJ's School of Nursing and Health Sciences received a $33 million grant from NJ's Office of the Secretary of Higher Education to renovate Forcina Hall. "Our plan is driven by the deep integration of high-impact experiences proven to positively affect graduation and employment placement rates for our students," says Dean Carole Kenner. 7. Play the lottery with these #s Class of 2027: 1,573 students, from 15 countries, 19 states, and all 21 NJ counties. 8. Learn by heart TCNJ education faculty raised $1,500 and packed more than 100 backpacks to distribute to students in the Trenton area at the start of the 2023–24 school year. 9. Friends in high places Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson '94 and State Senator Shirley Turner '64 sponsored bills to provide $400K to the Locust Hill African Cemetery and Museum, a Trenton-based preservation project led by Algernon Ward '87. "I owe Ed Gittens '85, chief of staff of Legislative District 15, at least two drinks for his successful administrative work on this," says Ward. 10. Metaphorically speaking As co-editor of COVID Commu- nication: Exploring Pandemic Discourse, communication studies professor John Pollock shows how the careful choice of metaphors can enable more community-oriented approaches to disease response. PHOTOS ANTHONY DePRIMO; COPENHAGENIZE DESIGN CO.; ILLUSTRATION KATHRYN RATHKE 5. He says … "This college was, and continues to be, a game changer in my life, and my hope is that I can continue to pay it forward." — James Allen '76 on being named to TCNJ's Board of Trustees. Five other alumni also joined the board: Kevin Drennan '02, Sumit Mukherjee '01, Priscilla Nunez '18, James Schulz '93, and Madeline Urbish '11. Ile-Ife Nigerian town where Fulbright Scholar and engineering prof Ambrose Adegbege will research a type of AI that could improve Africa's power grid. Greece Men's basketball toured the country and played three of its professional teams in preparation for the upcoming season. Copenhagen Civil engineering prof Tom Brennan two-wheeled his way through the cycle capital of the world and presented a case study of how to make Ewing, NJ's Route 31 more bike accessible at the Copenhagenize Master Class for bicycle urbanism. Kyushu TCNJ diving coach Eric Blevins placed 4th in the world in both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards at the 2023 Aquatics Masters Championships in Japan.