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Kean University School of Computer Science Executive Director Patricia Morreale, Ph.D., has joined the ranks of Nobel laureates and science pioneers as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Kean's first AAAS fellow, Morreale received the prestigious national honor for achievements in advancing science.

Julia Nevárez, Ph.D., assistant professor and sociology program coordinator, is the author of a new book, Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption After Hurricane Sandy. She talks about looking beyond efforts to rebuild infrastructure and exploring ways to rebuild communities.

Kean University adjunct professor Irisa Leverette helps her students learn algebra, encourages them to do homework, and reduces “math anxiety” by rapping in the classroom.

Kean University offers students many ways to get valuable international academic experience, through study abroad programs at our own English-speaking campus in China and dozens of other locations around the world. Watch and hear from our students directly about how these programs changed their lives.

It’s like putting scholarships, academic initiatives and building upgrades all in one gift-wrapped box. On Giving Tuesday — the global day of charitable giving on November 27 — Kean University supporters can help fund all of those things by making an online donation to the Kean University Foundation.

The season of giving has taken hold at Kean University, with Kean students, staff and faculty lending their hands and hearts to help improve the lives of others.

Graduates from Kean's athletic training program are gaining on-the-field experience with professional, college and local sports teams. Says one student currently working with an NFL team, "My office is a football field."

Criminal justice professionals got a small sense of just how difficult it can be to rebuild your life after getting out of a prison during the recent Re-Thinking Re-Entry simulation event held at Kean.

The young students in Keirah Tompkins preschool class at the Kean Child Care and Development Center recently got a lesson in community policing, courtesy of a runaway hamster named Teddy.