Middlesex College displays new logo and look, looks forward to exciting future
Middlesex College displays new logo and look, looks forward to exciting future
Middlesex College in Edison, formerly known as Middlesex County College, toasted its new name, new logo, and rebranding initiative by raising a new flag.
Although the name change went into effect on Jan. 1, Middlesex College hosted the flag raising ceremony on May 13 to celebrate the initiative on a morning whose beautiful spring weather reflected the optimism in the college’s future in spite of a pandemic-challenged year.
Shanice Pearson, whose photo adorns one of the banners that traverse the campus, spoke at the flag raising and said she is thrilled with the name change to Middlesex College and is particularly happy that her diploma will sport the new term.
MSU Broad Art Museum presents world premiere musical performances in Songs From the Deep virtual event
Jenny Kendler: The Long Goodbye installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography.
EAST LANSING, MI
.- Artists Jenny Kendler and Andrew Bearnot join forces with musicians and composers Lyn Goeringer (Assistant Professor, MSU College of Music) and David Rothenberg (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Music, New Jersey Institute of Technology) for the virtual event Songs From the Deep on Friday, May 14 from 78:30pm. The event, which will take place on zoom, explores communication between humans and other species through music, and features two world premiere performances of new compositions from Goeringer and Rothenberg.
At least 13 NJ colleges, universities requiring COVID-19 vaccines
More than a dozen in-state colleges have now added COVID-19 to their list of required vaccinations for students returning to campus this fall, as The College of New Jersey announced its updated policy on Friday.
TCNJ also has started talks with the unions representing faculty and staff, with the intent of requiring vaccines of full-time, part-time and temporary workers on-campus, TCNJ President Kathryn Foster said in an online message. Students with valid medical reasons precluding vaccination, as well as those with established and sincerely held religious beliefs that preclude receipt of a vaccination, may request an exemption from the vaccine requirement, Foster also said, similar to the process announced by most other colleges adding the COVID-19 vaccine as a requirement.
They’re back! What drove the surprising rebound for these 2 mega-industries
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 09, 2021
Debbie Hart, president and CEO of BioNJ at her office in Trenton. Friday, April 30, 2021Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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For all the harm the coronavirus has done to New Jersey’s economy – the hundreds of thousands of residents still out of work and an estimated 30% of small businesses shuttered the pandemic also triggered explosive growth in a pair of critical technology industries.
New Jersey biotech and global pharmaceutical companies poured billions of dollars into research and development, most of it in the laboratories of pharmaceutical giants near Princeton. Separately, a sharp increase in internet usage by Wall Street, health care networks and homebound workers fueled construction of telecommunications data centers in northern New Jersey to house the switches and servers that power our digital lives.
Here are the N.J. colleges requiring students to be vaccinated
Updated May 09, 2021;
With the three COVID-19 vaccines now readily available for anyone over the age of 16, many universities in New Jersey are requiring their students to be vaccinated before the start of the 2021-22 school year.
Everyone in New Jersey age 16 and older became eligible for a vaccine on April 19 and many sites across the state are now accepting walk-ins for those who wish to get one, prompting several university officials to mandate vaccinations for students who live on campus or attend in-person classes.
The following universities have announced that they will require students who live on campus to be vaccinated: