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9 Prairie SPRING 2024 ILLUSTRATIONS KATHRYN RATHKE; PHOTO GEOFFREY RICCIO riccioproductions.com 6. They were here Some influential names visited campus this spring: Impractical Joker Joe Gatto, Senate candi- date Andy Kim, gun control activist X González, and "She Blinded Me with Science" musician Thomas Dolby. 7. High honors The publication, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, named Winnifred Brown-Glaude, professor of African American studies and sociology, to its 40 Outstanding Women in Higher Education list. 5. He says … "The Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition is the first group at TCNJ to bring together faculty and staff to support AAPI culture and heritage. We're excited to contri- bute to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the community." — Political science prof Hyun-Binn Cho, who co-chairs AAAPIC alongside communication studies prof Yifeng Hu and history prof Satya Shikha Chakraborty. #1 Nick Sacco '25 claimed victory in the 165-pound NCAA wrestling championship in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in March. $130,211 Amount TCNJam, a dance-a-thon fundraiser for the B+ Foundation, raised this year. It set an event record. 74% Percentage of 2023 admissions cycle applicants from TCNJ who successfully matriculated to medical school programs. The national average is 45%. 8. Full out on Fulbrights The U.S. Department of State recognized TCNJ as a top producer of Fulbright scholars, the government's flagship academic exchange program. Students selected this year for English Teaching Assistantships include: Jennifer Choi '18, MAT '19 in South Korea, Maeve Franklin '23 in Taiwan, and Serina Montero '23 in Spain. 9. Sure. Fine. Whatever. Filmmaker Carly Reichert Blake '05 is taking the buzz for her X Fan Retrospective, a documentary of the iconic show, The X-Files, in stride. A red-carpet screening event for the doc was held in New York City in May and included a discussion with legendary showrunner Chris Carter. "It has been surreal," says Blake. 10. Blue and gold in the Bluegrass state TCNJ students are "far and away, the leaders in under- graduate participation" at the prestigious Kentucky Health Communication Conference, according to its organizer, Nancy Harrington. It is the nation's oldest and most revered health communication conference, at which presenters are largely graduate students.

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