There was an odd sight on campus last week. Some guessed it looked like a train, and other students walked by perplexed. A cattle car was parked outside of the Ocean First Bank Center, an exact replica of the very same ones used to transport Jews and other targeted groups in World War II during […]
Just last month before we all returned to campus for the start of the fall semester, President Patrick F. Leahy, Robin Mama, Ph.D., and Patrick Murray, were named to ROI Influencers: Higher Education lists for 2022. Every year, ROI-NJ releases lists of presidents, deans and directors who have a substantial influence on higher education. Back […]
Despite living my first semester on campus, I have been commuting to campus for the past three and half years. My commute usually takes around 30 minutes from home. In my senior year, I have learned how to include myself within the campus community. Especially as a STEM based major, with early morning labs, managing […]
Whether you are an incoming student or a seasoned Monmouth alumni, there is always more todiscover on our beautiful campus. A lot of history goes along with most of thebuildings as you walk through campus, each worth visiting and exploring. From the Great Hall to the Leonie Guggenheim Memorial Library, there is so much to […]
Graduate students were invited to volunteer at Monmouth’s Virginia A. Cory Community Garden, located just off campus on Beechwood Avenue, on April 9. The “Grad Students Give Back” event was hosted by the Office of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Advisory Board, with the help of the School of Social Work. Marie Weimer, Intern of […]
John Henning, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Education, plans to retire at the end this year.Henning has been a part of the Monmouth community since 2015. Prior to his time at Monmouth, Henning was a professor at Ohio University and an Assistant Dean of Education at the University of Northern Iowa. He also has […]
Have you ever attended a football or basketball game on campus? Or have you seen the other great 20 sports teams compete at home? Well if you have, Rich Carragher, Associate Athletic Director For Event Management, and Patrick Pagano, Associate Athletic Director for Facilities and Operations, are the two individuals who share an important role […]
I recently went through something that a lot of people my age have experienced: a breakup with someone I never even officially dated. It is a cycle: you meet, you spend hours together every week, you form a connection, you meet their friends, you two are acting like you are in a relationship, and then […]
Performed in the late 1960’s, Lygia Pape’s Divisor, or Divider, aimed to allow the viewer to interact with art in a new way. Divisor itself was meant to work as a multi-sensory art piece and create a direct relationship between the artwork and the viewer. Pape was able to transform the observer into the participant […]
Looking back on the beginning of this semester, the last thing I thought I’d be doing is working in a virtual, remote internship in Guatemala. Not in the urban parts, booming with industry, but in the rural communities trapped by poverty. This semester, I interned for A Better Life Guatemala (ABLG) with the hopes of […]