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Chad Bruner, Chairman of the Board of Trustees (far right), President, Dr. Ali Houshmand (next), Dean of the School of Earth and Environment, Dr. Kenneth Lacovara (next), Dean of Science and Mathematics, Dr. Vojislava Pophristic (far left) get ready to cut the ribbon at Discovery Hall. - Multimedia Editor / Alex Rossen

Ribbon Cutting Symbolizes Official Opening of Discovery Hall

Natalie Arch September 15, 2021

Discovery Hall hosted their ribbon cutting on Sept. 14, at 10 a.m. The 1st floor flooded with attendees excited to witness the official opening of The university’s $46.7 million dollar building.  When...

Dr. Kristyn Voegele and a student prepare to plaster jacket a Triceratops frill. Voegele is a professor of geology in Rowan's School of Earth and Environment. - Photo courtesy of Dr. Kristyn Voegele

Dinos and Ice Hockey: The Paleontologist Whose Childhood Dream Came True

Kalie VanDewater April 20, 2021

Dr. Kristyn Voegele, an assistant professor of geology at Rowan University, resides in a temporary office space in engineers’ Rowan Hall. A promotional handout for the geology department is just above...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. - Photo via NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

Rowan’s Dr. Harold Connolly Leads Asteroid Sample Science on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission

Chloe Senatore October 28, 2020

This past Wednesday, Rowan University's geology department chair Dr. Harold Connolly invited his students and fellow faculty members to participate in a watch event for the successful asteroid sample...

Volunteers excavate fossils during the Edelman Fossil Park's 8th Annual Community Dig Day in Sept., 2019. These volunteers were looking for fossilized clams, oysters, teeth, burrows, bones and other remnants of past life. - Editor-in-Chief / Tara Lonsdorf

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park

Tara Lonsdorf February 25, 2020

Can you find dinosaurs in the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park at Rowan University? Why is the sand green? How old are the fossils in there? How do you gain access to digging for fossils in there? And...

An illustrated model of what the finished Discovery Hall will look like - though for now it is currently under construction. - Image courtesy of Rowan University Facilities

Lonsdorf: Here’s how Discovery Hall will benefit you, personally

Tara Lonsdorf January 28, 2020

In my three years of studying geology at Rowan, I have never once had the opportunity to have a space that was ours. The department is fragmented, to say the least. Offices are spread out among Engineering...

- Image courtesy of SciTechEuropa

Lonsdorf: Dismantling the myth of the Empowered Woman in STEM

Tara Lonsdorf November 20, 2019

When you’re a woman in a field dominated by men, there are expectations all around. Sure, it may be 2019, but there are still sexist men who expect you to fail. There are a lot of people who think of...

Dr. Harold Connolly, Chair of the Geology Department, is currently Mission Sample Scientist on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. - Multimedia Editor/Christian Browne

Dr. Harold Connolly explores meteors and deep time with NASA

Tara Lonsdorf September 15, 2019

"There's no procrastination in space. You have to make a decision." That's what Dr. Harold Connolly Jr., Geology Department Chair for Rowan University's School of Earth and Environment, wants students...

Dr. Andrea Stevens Goddard, a professor of geology, has won several awards for her work in her field. Staff Writer/Peter Planamente

Digging up the life of a sedimentologist

Peter Planamente April 30, 2019

Traveling may be intriguing to some, or it might be a nuisance to those who travel for work. For Dr. Andrea Stevens Goddard, while she is not teaching geology, life consists of traveling to different...

Rowan students and professors travel to Wilmington Delaware on Friday to collect a fossil donation from Joan Wolf.
Arts & Entertainment Editor / Tara Londsorf.

John and Joan Wolf Teaching Collection gives second life to donated fossils

Tara Lonsdorf February 27, 2019

Graptolites with astounding preservation, chunks of petrified wood and hunks of dark shale with the carbonized imprints of fern leaves sit in pallets in Joan Wolf’s Wilmington, Delaware basement. They...

Board of Trustees approves amendment to boost economic development at Technology Park

Gianna Hill April 20, 2016

A resolution, approving an amendment to the operations agreement and operating policies between Rowan University and the South Jersey Technology Park (SJTP), was approved Wednesday by the Rowan Board of...

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