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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...

President Courtney Lemasney, Events Chair Hayley Shuster and Service Chair Allison West of Rowan's Society of Women Engineers discuss the importance of supporting females in the engineering industry. - Multimedia Editor / Alex Rossen

Club Spotlight: The Society of Women Engineers

Alex Rossen March 23, 2021

Editor's Note: This article has been corrected to account for a quote misattribution. President Courtney Lemasney, Events Chair Hayley Shuster and Service Chair Allison West are just a few of the student...

"Opticks" is a stainless steel and alumnium sculpture created by Beth Nybeck using the handwritten notes from Rowan engineering students as reference. It is meant to convey a student's head being filled with mathematical knowledge. - Photo from Rowan University Public Art Libraries.

Lonsdorf: STEM Majors, Consider Joining Student Publications

Tara Lonsdorf February 10, 2021

One of the most unique parts of my Rowan experience has been spending four years on The Whit - with three years as a full editor and one as an editor-in-chief - while never formally studying journalism....

"Opticks" is a stainless steel and alumnium sculpture created by Beth Nybeck using the handwritten notes from Rowan engineering students as reference. It is meant to convey a student's head being filled with mathematical knowledge. - Photo from Rowan University Public Art Libraries.

Lonsdorf: How my female brain learned to love math

Tara Lonsdorf February 29, 2020

Here's my darkest secret as a science major: I took algebra one in seventh grade, and did so poorly that I then repeated it in eighth grade. I've cried over math. I've had panic attacks over math. I've...

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...

- Image courtesy of SciTechEuropa

Lonsdorf: Dismantling the myth of the Empowered Woman in STEM

Tara Lonsdorf November 21, 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...

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:...

Crowley (left) and Howell (right) are bringing the environmental humanities program to Rowan. - Photos from School of Humanities and Social Sciences staff directory and Rowan Blog, respectively.

Dr. Jordan Howell and Dr. Dustin Crowley cultivate the environmental humanities at Rowan

Tara Lonsdorf October 7, 2019

Rowan University's growing STEM program has long been advertised as a testament to the university's commitment to solving global environmental problems — with humanities programs seeming to lag behind...

The entrance to Edelmen Planetarium within Science Hall- File photo / Lindsey D’Ambrosio

Editorial: Is STEM really more difficult than the humanities or social sciences?

The Whit Staff September 19, 2019

We've all heard the claim that students studying science, technology, engineering or math fields (STEM) are either smarter or harder workers. There's this idea that a STEM degree is more important...

Westby Hall is in urgent need of improvement. - Arts & Entertainment Editor / Tara Lonsdorf

Lonsdorf: Our art majors deserve better

Tara Lonsdorf January 30, 2019

The School of Earth and Environment is so new that we don't have our own assigned building yet. As a geology major, all of my major classes have been crammed into the nearest available space without asbestos...

The  Edelman Planetarium in Science Hall. - Editor-in-Chief /Miguel Matinez.

Edelman Planetarium hosts a viewing of the InSight lander on Mars

John Reilly November 28, 2018

The Edelman Planetarium celebrated the landing of the InSight lander on Mars at a Monday streaming of NASA's live broadcast of the landing. The event was free and open to the public. The Planetarium typically...

-Graphics Editor/Amanda Palma

Whit News Minute 11-28-2018

The Whit Staff November 28, 2018

Alura Agnes brings you the latest Rowan news for Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. For questions/comments about this story, email news@thewhitonline.com or tweet @TheWhitOnline.

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