�鶹��ý���� News - Friday, Oct. 25, 2019

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‘Ospreys Give’ Raises More Than $350,000

�鶹��ý����’s second 24-hour Ospreys Give Campaign in October for the �鶹��ý���� Foundation to benefit student scholarships and programming.

Among the 677 gifts received was a significant new endowed scholarship fund from Pravin Khatiwala of Ventnor, CEO of PND Properties.

“The generosity of our �鶹��ý���� community members, alumni and supporters who contributed to this campaign is incredible,” said Daniel Nugent, �鶹��ý���� chief development officer and executive director of the Foundation.

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Women’s Leadership Panel Shares Successes, Failures

More women are getting leadership roles in government and business, but it takes a concerted effort by both women and men to achieve equity in the workplace, speakers at the told more than 100 women, and a few men, at the second �鶹��ý���� Women’s Leadership Council speaker series at �鶹��ý���� Atlantic City on Oct. 18.

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The Wake Up Project Supports Student Mental Health

Proceeds from The Wake Up Project’s Charity Wakeboard Competition and Food Truck Festival in July will help support suicide prevention and mental health awareness at �鶹��ý���� University.

The Wake Up Project founder, Vincent Giardino of Mays Landing, a 2018 graduate of �鶹��ý����, to representatives of the �鶹��ý���� Foundation and the campus chapter of Active Minds at a reception on Oct. 16.

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Mother's Group Founder Shares Stories of Loss in Mexico

Thousands of innocent people, most of them young men, have gone missing in Mexico, victims of drug cartels and violence.

Lucía de Los Ángeles Díaz Genao, co-founder of Colectivo Solecito de Veracruz, of how the kidnapping of her son, who is still missing, empowered her to form a group to raise awareness of the crisis.

“We are desperate for people to know what is going on,” Genao told students and community members at a series of talks at �鶹��ý����’s Galloway and Atlantic City campuses on Oct. 17-18 and as part of a panel on immigration, refugees and responses to state violence.

 

Catch a Movie Tonight at �鶹��ý���� Atlantic City 

"Fall Cinema in the City” is featuring Us at 8 p.m., tonight, in the �鶹��ý���� Atlantic City residential classrooms B119/120. Attendees are asked to bring their �鶹��ý���� IDs. 

SPOTLIGHT ON

�鶹��ý���� Students Compete at Chowderfest

Members of the EVENT-ive Club at �鶹��ý���� partnered with Ocean County College to participate in Chowderfest on Oct. 6 in Long Beach Island. Many club members are students in the new Event Management Area of Interest in the Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management program. Noel Criscione-Naylor, assistant professor of Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management Studies, is the club’s adviser. The students competed in the Chowder Cook-Off Classic portion of the weekend, and while they did not place, it provided a variety of valuable learning experiences. 

Leading up to the event, students worked for several weeks creating a handmade booth design and decor inspired by Alice in Wonderland's Carpenter and the Walrus story, to elevate the patrons’ overall experience. It was also the only fully accessible ADA compliant booth present.
The students served over 15,000 cups of chowder, engaged with locals and tourists, and of course had time for fun and games.

Several students worked the 12-hour event and other staff and students assisted in the preparation including, Aqueelah Muhmmad, Kathleen Drum, Colin Redmann, Riley McKenna, Breanna Betts, Alexis Villalta, Michael Raguso-Failla, Kayla Gutnikova, Philip Young, Lauren Towlen, Aniya Smith, faculty adviser Noel Criscione-Naylor, and HTMS Internship Coordinator Tara Marsh. 

“Our students produced a spectacular booth concept and focused on all the small details that made our participation stand out in a crowd. We had a small idea and were able to bring it to life way beyond what I imagined,” Criscione-Naylor said. “I have walked away from this event extremely proud of our accomplishments and look forward to our next endeavor that will further showcase our �鶹��ý���� distinction.”

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Picture �鶹��ý����: During the Ice Age

Easily overlooked evidence of a landscape shaped during the Ice Age becomes visible on a walk with a geomorphologist through �鶹��ý����'s Pinelands campus. 

Mark Demitroff, an adjunct instructor who studies the Ice Age and reconstructs what the Pine Barrens environment looked like over time, to show students in his class, "The Pine Barrens," that hints from the frozen past are hiding in plain sight.

There was a time when Galloway Township was within 100 miles of a massive continental ice sheet that ended at Exit 11 on the New Jersey Turnpike. Although the ice sheet never reached �鶹��ý����'s campus, the cold, dry and windy conditions still had an impact on our climate and geology. 

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Paint Away for PCAA, hosted by Sigma Delta Tau.

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