Rowan University is one of the only academic institutions in the Northeast region of the United States that has the facilities to conduct state-of-the-art accelerated pavement testing. The Center for Research...
Photography is a passion that has followed Tim Hawk since he started working for his high school yearbook. Making use of aperture, shutter speed, and focus, Hawk works to make sure that every shot he takes...
A pair of worn hands glide along a thin black plane of paper. One finger digs underneath an edge and folds over itself revealing red on the opposite side of the sheet. It happens again, but this time from...
It was a typical work day in the office when George Anastasia received a collect call from prison asking if he would accept.
Anastasia said he always accepts these calls and this time, it was Sergio Battaglia...
There’s a nondescript box lying on the ground. A magician, clambering to his audience to find the strongest among them, claims that it is impossible to lift. Another man steps up, apparently the strongest...
He hands out dollar bills to students who give clever answers in class. Many consider him the “O.G.” of the radio, television, and film department. He has been called "the bomb dot com.”
One student...
Second Lieutenant Joseph McGee was the first person in the first group of paratroopers to jump from the C141 aircraft.
After three weeks of airborne training, it was McGee’s first time leaping out of...
Phil Anastasia’s childhood dream was to be a teacher and a coach. He achieved the former by becoming a professor at his alma mater, Rowan University, but he found a different path to the sidelines of...
Dr. Sanford Tweedie, the current department chair of Writing Arts for Rowan University, will become the next interim dean for the College of Communication and Creative Arts on July 1.
Tweedie has taught...
On 3/24/16 the following error was corrected in this story: Patricia "PJ" was shot, not killed by a stray bullet.
As a child, Jonathan Olshefski loved hearing and telling stories. Olshefski and his two...
Keith Johnson has two favorite planets — it’s a tie between Jupiter and Saturn. He likes how colorful and photogenic they are and that they each have multiple moons. Currently, he is also fond of Kepler-186f...
He's been a professor and a music theory coordinator, but now Dr. Robert Rawlins can add published author to his résumé.
Up until December 2015, Rawlins — a professor at Rowan University's Department...