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Rutgers University-New Brunswick Honors College is one of 10 partners worldwide selected by Johnson & Johnson to help increase the number of undergraduate women majoring in the fields of science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design (STEM2D).

Samantha Eng’s call to pursue a career in medicine and help heal physical and emotional pain grew out of her experience in preschool accompanying her mother for medical treatment in her quest to have another child.

In the doctor’s office, Eng observed many medical procedures, including injections, blood draws, and scans. "Instead of looking away during these procedures, I stared, fascinated. The staff were kind and explained what was happening with each test."

But there was something else about the experience that shaped the way Eng thinks about medicine.

Arielle Marie Gamboa fell hard for biomedical engineering while doing a research project on prosthetics during her freshman year in high school. 

During her senior year at the International School of Chouifat in Dubai, a representative from Rutgers came to talk about the university and its soon-to-open Rutgers Honors College in New Brunswick. 

Gamboa was hooked. 

Peristera Vikatos

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in English from the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick

On how Rutgers has impacted her life:

Rutgers-New Brunswick junior Amanda Henning comes from a small town in Tennessee that instilled in her a big sense of community. But the Honors College student also spent part of her childhood in the suburbs of Chicago, where she said the inequities of America’s education system were glaring.

For more than two months this summer down south, Anish Suresh, an Honors College student at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, derived an equation in quantum gravity “that encapsulates information about the expansion of the universe.”

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Rutgers President Robert Barchi today hosted the dedication of the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Honors College. The new facility, located on the university’s historic College Avenue Campus, is home to more than 500 high-achieving students. 

For two weeks this spring, Kyra Bostic served as a delegate participating in talks to develop a landmark international agreement to protect the oceans, which play a crucial role in absorbing carbon emissions – a key driver of climate change.