Welcome to the first edition of WP News , replacing efocus with an updated design highlighting the latest happenings at William Paterson University. 
The 90,000-square-foot Skyline Hall provides numerous open spaces with natural light, as well as community areas that include a modern oversized kitchen, social lounges with televisions and gaming areas, group and private study areas, a meeting room, and a classroom.
William Paterson welcomes alumni, students, their families, faculty, staff and the community to campus for Homecoming 2019 with pre-game tailgating, carnival festivities, football, and women’s soccer on Saturday, October 5, 2019. 
William Paterson has just launched a revamped version of its Master of Education in Curriculum and Learning program, now offering an innovative concentration in “STEAM,” which adds the arts to K-8 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) instruction.
Consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables is a feature of diets consistently associated with a lower risk of cancer — yet that is what is missing from the diets of low-income populations in New Jersey. Sociology professor Jennifer Di Noia is hoping to change that.
Twenty-five WP nursing students who graduated in January 2019 earned a 100 percent pass rate on the 2019 National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX), exceeding the 2019 year-to-date national average of 89.5 percent.
For the second year in a row, Akram Kwaik, owner of Manhattan Bagel in Wayne, held a fundraiser and donated a major portion of his proceeds to William Paterson University.
The Center for Chinese Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the exhibition Lines Crossing: Contemporary Chinese Printmaking, on view in the University Galleries in the Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts now through October 18, 2019.
Nicholas Hirshon, assistant professor of communication, received the 2019 David L. Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Languages and Cultures Professor Madhuri Mukherjee will spend two years teaching English in Madagascar.