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First Climate Teach-In of 2025: Exploring the “How” of Sustainability Transformations
Department of Biology
On the evening of January 27, the School of Science welcomed guest speaker Dr. Robin Leichenko, Distinguished Professor and Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Rutgers University, for the first Climate Teach-In of 2025. Dr. Leichenko spoke to the three spheres of sustainability: the practical, personal, and political dimensions of sustainable transformation. Her research…
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CSSE students earn Upsilon Pi Epsilon Scholarships
Department of Biology, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
CSSE students Omar Ahmed and Andrew Catapano recently received the 2024 Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Scholarship Award. Omar is a senior Computer Science student actively involved on campus, serving as a Peer Mentor for the School of Science, a Mathematics Tutor, and a PAL for Chemistry and Biology courses. Andrew is a graduate computer science…
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Climate Crisis Teach-in 2025: Exploring the “How” of Sustainability Transformations
Department of Biology
Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, 6:30 p.m. | Pollak Theatre Addressing the climate crisis and related challenges provides many opportunities for promoting sustainability transformations. Yet significant questions remain about what such transformations might entail, how to support them, and how to sustain and scale these efforts. This talk explores the practical, political, and personal dimensions of…
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Global Sustainability Minor
Department of Biology
Monmouth University offers a minor focused on the interdisciplinary problems that impact and challenge future human and non-human prospects into the future. This area of study is rooted in both ancient traditions (like Indigenous perspectives) and new and developing science that shed light on urgent questions of our time. This minor provides a directed focus on…
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The Final Climate Teach-In of 2024 – Climate Crisis: Town Hall
Department of Biology
The Climate Crisis: Town Hall was a successful event with a strong turnout of nearly fifty attendees. To begin the event, student representatives from the College Democrats and College Republicans delivered presentations on climate policies promoted by each party. The College Republicans focused their presentation on down ballot races and specific topics pertinent to New…
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16th Annual Summer Research Program Symposium
Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Department of Mathematics
Faculty and student discussing poster.
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John Tiedemann Retires
Department of Biology
John Tiedemann, Assistant Dean of the School of Science and Director of the Marine and Environmental Biology Program, retired at the end of August. John contributed to the Monmouth University School of Science community as a teacher and scholar for 26 years, entering Monmouth University’s School of Science, Technology and Engineering dean’s office in 1999.…
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Graduation Spring 2024
Department of Biology, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
We are delighted to celebrate the graduation of eighty- eight undergraduates and 11 masters students on May 16th. Biology led with thirty-six, Chemistry with fifteen, Mathematics with twelve and Computer Science and Software Engineering graduated seventeen and eight respectively. Six students earned M.S. degrees in C.S. and two in S.E. We also graduated three students…
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School of Science celebrates the retirements of five full-time faculty
Department of Biology, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
As the spring semester comes to an end, we take the time to acknowledge the contributions and commitment of our colleagues who are retiring. They will all be dearly missed and we wish them the best. Their names are presented in order of years of service to the university. Dennis Rhoads joined Monmouth University as…
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Monmouth University Team wins Department of Education Grant for Climate Education
Department of Biology
The Monmouth University Climate Education Collaborative (MUCEC) was developed by Drs. Michelle Schpakow (Education), Catherine Duckett (Science), and Peter Jacques (Political Science) in collaboration with Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute, New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, and Monmouth Conservation Foundation. With a competitive grant of over $311,000 from the NJ DOE our goal is to build…