Stockton News - July 24, 2025
WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
Partnership Creates Paths to Chiropractic, Nutrition Degrees
A new partnership between Stockton and Northeast College of Health Sciences in New York will provide opportunities for Stockton students interested in pursuing a career as a chiropractor or in nutrition science.
The agreement offers multiple ways for Stockton students to save time and money by completing a health-related bachelor's degree at Stockton and then enrolling in Northeast’s Doctor of Chiropractic or Master of Science in Applied Clinical Nutrition programs.
“This partnership with Northeast College of Health Sciences exemplifies Stockton University’s commitment to providing our students with innovative, affordable pathways to rewarding careers in health care,” said Michael Palladino, Stockton’s provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. “By streamlining the journey to a Doctor of Chiropractic and a Master’s in Applied Clinical Nutrition, we are empowering our students to achieve their academic and professional goals more efficiently, while maintaining the highest standards of excellence.”
Alliance Chapel Renovation Project Nearing Completion
Since Stockton created the Alliance Heritage Center in 2019, it has collected about 1,000 historical photos, memoirs, letters and memorabilia about the first successful Jewish agricultural community in the United States.
Soon, the story of the Salem County colony just on the other side of the Maurice River from Vineland will have a newly renovated place to call home.
“We have the Alliance Heritage Center Digital Museum and documents in Stockton’s Special Collections, but we just really wanted to have this physical interpretation of public history,” said Patty Chappine, a Stockton adjunct professor and Rudnick Fellow studying the history of the colony.
Thanks to a $100,000 Mellon Foundation grant the center received in 2023, Chappine spent this summer, along with the center’s director Tom Kinsella, a Stockton distinguished professor of Literature, volunteers from the Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University and a group of student interns renovating the Alliance Chapel in the Norma section of Pittsgrove Township.
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY ATLANTIC CITY
High School Students Roll the Dice on New Business Ventures
Sahil Gandhi was confident his new product Farmful—a subscription box that would connect small farms with a broad range of customers—was ready to roll out.
In fact, Gandhi had run 18 financial scenarios throughout the week. But Ghandi is no ordinary chief financial officer. The 15-year-old rising junior at Robbinsville High School was one of 19 future business leaders during the weeklong Summer Entrepreneurship and Business Academy hosted by Stockton’s School of Business July 13-19 in Atlantic City.
This year’s theme was Monopoly, and each student was assigned to one of five teams named after a Monopoly token. Teams created partnerships to develop a new business venture and create a business plan they would present to a panel of judges on the final day.
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FRAME-WORTHY
Stockton, AAUW Celebrate 10 Years of Inspiring Girls
Qori Ramos, an eighth-grader from Paterson Arts & Sciences Charter School, couldn’t think of a better way to spend her birthday than in a university lab exploring the physics behind circuit boards.
Ramos was one of over 40 eighth-grade girls who participated in Tech Trek, a collaboration between Stockton and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) that selects female students from across New Jersey for a week of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities on Stockton's campus.
In one of the program’s workshops, Ramos and a lab of her peers explored the foundations of circuitry and soldering with Joseph Trout, professor of Physics at Stockton.
"I've always been interested in robotics and engineering and stuff. This camp is giving me the chance to use equipment that I've never used before and giving me the confidence to do it because we have top-level professors here teaching us,” Ramos said.
This year’s camp included classes on quantum computing, artificial intelligence and biotechnology; tours of both the Atlantic City campus and Sustainability Farm and nature surrounding the Galloway campus; and workshops on leadership development, FBI forensics and more.
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WHAT'S TRENDING @ #STOCKTONU
Instagram: Ms. August, a northern diamondback terrapin who was rescued last August, was released in Ocean City, N.J. yesterday.
Facebook: We can’t wait! The new Library Learning Commons will triple the number of study rooms and offer new digital resources, virtual reality technology, podcast equipment, a data wall and much more.
InstaFred: 🦈 Shark Week? Please. Ever seen a chain pickerel up close?
FROM THE SIDELINES
Kass Voted to CSC Academic All-America Second Team
Stockton junior Kayla Kasswas voted to the NCAA Division III Academic All-America Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team by the College Sports Communicators (CSC). Kass, who competes in cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field, is an education major with a 3.97 grade point average.
Kass became Stockton's 21st Academic All-American overall and seventh in women's track & field/cross country. Her selection marked six straight years and nine of the last 10 with at least one Academic All-American for Stockton. The Academic All-America Teams are selected by college athletic communications professionals.
Kass collected numerous accolades and set new records during the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons. She earned her third and fourth career All-American honors in the 800m run by finishing sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships and seventh at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kass also set three individual school records and ran legs on four record-setting relays.
UPCOMING EVENTS
👩💻Professional Development Opportunities
🖼️Art Exhibits hosted by the Noyes Museum of Art
Now - July 30: Children’s Summer Playhouse
Now - Aug. 1: Art Exhibit: The Dean’s Showcase
Aug. 1-3: Black Alumni Reunion Weekend
🎡 Aug. 3:Stockton Day at Morey's Piers
Aug. 14: Garden State Film Festival: Best of the Fest
Aug. 15-16: Dinner Theatre Showcase
