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Baja car is test driven around the muddy track. - Managing Editor / Abigail Twiford

Muddy Motorsports Day drives on despite weather

Abigail Twiford April 17, 2024

The wind howled, pushing against the cars on the road, blowing through the trees and pushing anything that wasn’t tied down and even people around as it made the day feel significantly colder than the...

The IDEAL Star Award recognizes those who excel in creating a more welcoming and open environment for students to participate in through inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and learning. -Photo courtesy of Dr. Farrell.

Dr. Stephanie Farrell Recognized For Advocacy Work

Miriana Beja December 1, 2021

Rowan Professor and Chair of Experimental Engineering, Dr. Stephanie Farrell, has been presented with the 2020 IDEAL Star Award for her work surrounding LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Training in Conference Programming.  She...

Members of Rowan's College of Engineering’s Sustainable Facilities Center inaugurate new facility - Editor-in-Chief/Miguel Martinez

Sustainable Facilities Lab officially opens with ribbon cutting ceremony

Dmitri Torpey November 20, 2019

On Tuesday, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held in the atrium of Rowan Hall to celebrate the establishment of Rowan’s Sustainable Facilities Laboratory. Housed in the Rowan College of Engineering’s...

Junior mechanical engineering major Andrew Galloway makes adjustments to his team's trebuchet, while teammate freshman mechanical engineering major Anthony Romano assists. The Pumpkin Chunkin' event took place on Saturday, Oct. 26 at the South Jersey Tech Park. - Editor-in-Chief / Tara Lonsdorf

Mechanical engineering students launch STEM education with annual Pumpkin Chunkin’

Tara Lonsdorf October 29, 2019

For the members of Rowan's chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), October means that it's time to start assembling trebuchets for one of the club's biggest events of the year:...

Participants of the fourth annual Rowan Blast Off rocketry competition at the South Jersey Technology Park. Staff Writer /  Kailey Bertelson.

Rowan hosts fourth annual rocketry competition

At the South Jersey Technology Park, students from middle school to college level came together to launch rockets at the fourth annual Rowan Blast Off on Saturday. Totaling 176 participants from schools...

Darby Riley posing outside of the Engineering Hall. -Staff Writer/Steven Solkela

PROFile: Darby Riley, an engineering trailblazer

Steven Solkela April 10, 2019

What does it take for you to get motivated? Competition? Money? Free Food? Perhaps existential boredom? There are some seven billion people on this planet, all with their own unique skills and...

Rowan Rumors: If your roommate dies, do you really get a 4.0?

Taylor Henry November 29, 2016

Have you heard that rumor where if your roommate dies you get a 4.0 GPA? Or that if you get hit by a car at school, the college will cover your tuition? So have most of us. But do you believe these legends? All colleges...

CREATEs Facility officially opens at South Jersey Tech Park

Justin Decker September 14, 2016

The Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems (CREATEs) officially opened on Wednesday in the South Jersey Technology Park after a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended...

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