For the first episode of The Verge Podcast, Noah Janowski had the opportunity to sit down with Monmouth’s 10th president, Patrick Leahy.
Month: December 2019
From “First to Fight” to Hawk in Flight: A student-veteran experience
Tom Murray is a member of the Monmouth community who highlights the unique experience of a nontypical student. Murray is a military veteran, so his experience is vastly different from most other students at Monmouth. While most first and second year students typically come straight from high school, Murray graduated almost ten years ago. And […]
Mid-Major Athletics at Monmouth University
With the ever-changing NCAA, Monmouth works to keep the balance of Mid Major Athletics. Jennifer McGovern is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Monmouth. According to the Monmouth University website, she is also a wealth of knowledge about how “sport both reflects and challenges social inequalities, such as social […]
A Monmouth Student's Story of Trials and Successes
Feyzanur Demirci, or Feyza, as she likes to be called, was recently accepted into an accelerated Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Monmouth University. A huge accomplishment for anybody, it holds even more weight for Feyza. “I was trying, like, 100 times more than an average student, because I knew what it took for […]
The Climate Crisis: A Spiritual Perspective
Science-loving folks and religious folks must work together in order to address the climate crisis. In realizing climate change as an existential threat to humankind, we must make a devoted effort to use the strengths of both to guide us in the right direction. While scientists are concerned with the changes that need to happen […]
Q&A With Monmouth's New Provost
On August 1st of this year, Monmouth University welcomed its own Rekha Datta, Ph.D. as the new Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Dr. Datta has been a professor in the political science department at Monmouth since 1994, and she is also the founder of the Institute for Global Understanding at Monmouth University. […]
Rebirth at Monmouth
This past semester, our staff developed the following mission statement to guide our projects going forward: The Verge serves as a platform for MU students to engage with comprehensive multimedia content. We have also made some structural changes to the organization. Firstly, The Verge will be testing out a new format in which all content […]