News Archive

Topic: Campus Outreach

Michael Graves College Students are 'Thinking Creatively'

The annual Thinking Creatively conference gives design and architecture students at Kean the chance to learn from leaders in their fields and work with them on real-world projects. This year the students took a hands-on approach to creative work for the Elizabeth, N.J. postal service.

Two students pose in the Elizabeth River during their river clean up.

Earth Week Educates and Inspires Students

Kean students passionate about protecting the environment shared their message on campus with a series of Earth Week events, including a cleanup of the Elizabeth River and an Earth Day Fair.

A group of Kean Psy.D. students developed school safety plans.

Psy.D. Students Address School Safety with Local Officials

Students in the Combined School and Clinical Psychology program who are studying school violence and related issues recently presented their findings to the mayor and police chief of Scotch Plains. They researched a wide range of school safety issues, including infectious diseases, mental health, substance abuse, bullying and overuse of technology.

Kean graduate students provided sensory activities for children

Students Help Make Theatre Sensory Friendly for All

The sound level in Wilkins Theater was lowered, the house lights were cut in half, and a team of Kean graduate students provided sensory friendly sand play, crafts, games and a crawl-through tunnel during a recent performance of the children’s show Pinkalicious: The Musical

Kean Cougars Climb Higher Through Internships

Kean University students are starting their careers early with a wide variety of internships. Find out how some of our students landed great jobs after graduation through connections they made during their internships.

The front cover of the Kean scholarly journal, KeanQuest

KeanQuest Makes Its Debut

Kean students now have a homegrown peer-reviewed journal, "KeanQuest," in which to share and publish their scholarly research and articles. The first issue features articles authored by four groups of students and their faculty mentors.

Patricia Morreale, executive director of Kean's School of Computer Science

Q&A: Creating a More Diverse Future for Computer Science

Patricia Morreale, Ph.D., executive director of the Kean University School of Computer Science and a fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), talks about the benefits of racial and gender diversity in computing.