Effective July 1, 2023, Deanna Shoemaker, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication and Performance Studies, will succeed Aaron Furgason, Ph.D., Associate Professor for the Department of Communication, as chair of the department. Shoemaker will be the first woman chair of the department since its founding. She said, “As I step into the Communication chair position in […]
Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão and translator Alexis (pron. Alexie) Levitin came to The Great Hall for a bilingual poetry reading in Portuguese and English on Wednesday, March 29. Co-hosted by the Department of English, Intercultural Center, Institute for Global Understanding, and Department of World Languages as part of the Climate Crisis Teach-In series, the event […]
Monmouth University’s Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) Department and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) club co-hosted their annual HawkHack, also referred to as the High School Programming Competition, on Friday, Feb. 24. In preparation for the competition, CSSE and IEEE reached out to local high schools that offer AP Computer Science courses […]
Monmouth University issued a shelter in place advisory following a report of a possible armed individual on campus late on Wednesday, March 22. After nearly four hours of lockdown and investigation by both campus and local law enforcement, it was revealed that the suspected firearm was actually a curling iron. The University announced the presence […]
The academic calendar will change starting in spring of 2024, with a start date of Tuesday, Jan. 30 and end date of Monday, May 6, according to the University’s WebAdvisor. These changes were made by the University’s administration without notice or collaboration from the Faculty Council or the Faculty Association of Monmouth University (FAMCO). The […]
ArtNOW hosted a visiting artist talk featuring feminist theatre and performance studies scholar Tessa Carr on Monday, March 20. Carr is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Auburn University and in her tenth year as Artistic Director of Mosaic Theatre Company (MTC), a year-round ensemble whose purpose is to “foster dialogue and create a more […]
The Class of 2023 is gearing up for Senior Week, a week filled with activities and events graduating seniors can attend for free or at a discounted rate. Tickets for Senior Week, which runs from Tuesday, May 2 to Monday, May 8, are on sale until Friday, April 14, or until they sell out. The […]
Florida’s House Bill 999, introduced on Feb. 21 by Republican Representative Alex Andrade, aims to ban funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at Florida institutions and remove any major or minor relating to Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, and Intersectionality, as Forbes reported. According to NBC News, many students at Florida public universities have […]
Monmouth University women’s basketball had their most successful season in over a decade, winning the CAA tournament in their very first season in the conference and earning the chance to compete for a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Lady Hawks began their crusade with a last-second defeat of Stony Brook on Saturday, March 4, […]
Rekha Datta, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Freed Endowed Chair in Social Sciences, and Lenien Jamir, junior international student-athlete studying political science and sociology, co-authored a paper and presented their research at the Interdisciplinary International Conference held at Adamas University in Kolkata India, from Jan. 2 to 3. Their paper, “Confluence and Anomaly of […]