Curiosity. Knowledge. Purpose.

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‘I Wanted to Give Back’

Born out of his lifelong commitment to education as a scholar and a teacher, and his desire to connect with students at his alma mater through the Honors College community, Richard A. Melanson (RC '66), renowned scholar and author, established the Richard A. Melanson Endowed Scholarship for academically gifted, first-generation college students who face financial hardships. 


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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

Honors College alumnus Andrew Krapivin ('24, SAS/HC), a Goldwater Scholar as a junior and the first Churchill Scholar at Rutgers in a decade who now attends the University of Cambridge, has continued to build on his research involving data storage. His curiosity and knowledge led to his invention of a new kind of hash table, challenging longstanding ideas.


Allison on Busch Stadium

This Engineering Student Is an NFL Flag Football Champion

Allison Gandlin, a sophomore Honors College student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, sees flag football much like her engineering coursework: It’s about solving problems...[she] certainly knows how to solve problems on the field. In February, she was named one of two NFL Flag Football Players of the Year...and was honored during the 13th annual NFL Honors in Las Vegas on February 8.