Kean graduate Halkias named teacher of the year

By Gail Fredricks | Published April 7, 2017 Nicole Halkias, a graduate of Kean University, wanted to be a graduate for many year and recognized for teacher of the year in Cranford. Halkias is now a fifth grade teacher and has been recognized as Teacher of the Year at Brookside Place School in Cranford. An anonymous nomination came from a […]

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Who knew Kean had a center for cybersecurity?

By Rafaela Teixeira | Published April 7, 2017 The Center for Cybersecurity is about three things: academic courses, a laboratory under development and working with the state to teach young minds about cybersecurity awareness. The center started on January 4th, 2016 and began with a request by Kean University’s President Dawood Farahi to further grow the Center for Cybersecurity. Originally, […]

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Autism research takes off at Kean

By Johanna Edladous| Published April 6, 2017 Autism is a developmental disorder that affects 1 in 68 children in the United States, but 1 in 41 in New Jersey. According to Autism New Jersey, a nonprofit organization, New Jersey has the highest rate of children with autism nationwide. Dr. John C. Burke is an assistant professor and the applied behavioral […]

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Benisch Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2017

By Craig Epstein| Published April 6, 2017 On Thursday, April 20, 2017, seven new members will be inducted into the Benisch Athletic Hall of Fame as the Class of 2017. Inductees include Melissa Beyruti, Pascal Clerigo, Johanna Hedler, Ebony Jackson, Melissa Nunez, Perry Schatzow and Jay Sgaramella. They will be among 124 other members of the Kean University Benisch Athletic […]

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Player of the week: Morgan Graham

By Gregory Patuto | Published April 6, 2017 Sophomore Morgan Graham of the women’s lacrosse team has been named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week for the week of February 27 to March 6 after a monster game in their season opener. The Cougars opened on March 4, 2017, with a 20-4 win over SUNY Old Westbury. […]

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Men’s volleyball undefeated in the Skyline

By Sara Ridgway | Published April 6, 2017 The men’s volleyball team opened Skyline Conference play undefeated, picking up four wins over the course of their first two tri-matches. The Cougars picked up their first two conference wins on March 19, 2017 against Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University to begin battling for their sixth straight conference title. Kean swept both teams […]

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Kean baseball takes on California

  By Brittany Pavlichko | Published April 6, 2017 While spring break was a time to relax and unwind, it was the opposite for Kean University’s baseball team as they traveled to California to play tough teams. In California, the Cougars lost two of their six games stating it was a challenge competing against good teams. They played against University of […]

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Kean Students React to ‘Get Out’ Film

By Kiara Mays | Published April 4, 2017 Since its release on Feb. 24, critically acclaimed film “Get Out” continues to dominate at the box office. Having grossed over $147 million domestically and a rare 99% favorable review on Rotten Tomatoes, students at Kean University voiced their thoughts on the Jordan Peele (of Key and Peele), written and directed, thriller/comedy […]

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24-hour hackathon comes to K34n tomorrow

By Rebecca Panico | Published March 31, 2017 Tech-savvy students will come together in the North Avenue Academic Building tomorrow to build apps and hardware for a 24-hour hackathon. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a funded group at Kean, will host the third annual event known as HackKean. The event kicks off on Saturday at 11 a.m. and will […]

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