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HC Students from SoE Team Win Rice 360° Global Health Design Competition

Winning Team Photo - The students pictured from left to right are: Kyle Mani, Joseph Nguyen, Megan Maniar, and Kyle Lee

Their design of a cancer-diagnosing smartphone app able to classify breast tissue as benign or malignant with 96% accuracy captured first place for Rutgers’ Team Patho-ML in the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health student design competition. 

Now in its 11th year, the prestigious international competition,  drew a record number of semifinalists from 23 universities in six countries.

Rutgers Award-Winning Invention Aims to Reinvent Drug Delivery

Honors College alumni and current students, including (top left) Akshay Kamath, Joseph Bajor, Clairisse Whang, Alyssa Krisinski, (bottom left) Juliet Petillo, Yash Dave, and Harrison Zhang, make up the social venture Nutrivide.
An interdisciplinary team of Rutgers Honors College alumni and students has become one of the first from the Honors College Innovation Lab to bring their social innovation to the public sphere. To-date, the team has been awarded a patent and won more than $90,000 in seed money, including $63,500 this spring as part of the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge. Read more about Nutrivide, a fellow Honors College team called Sulis and their success, and the sustained support that makes it possible for these students to pursue their work.

Cross-Cultural Competency course

Cross-Cultural Competency Course - ME, YOU, and WE
The Cross-Cultural Competency course (CCC) was born out of student advocacy with a goal of advancing understanding of and engagement with the pursuit of equity, inclusion, and belonging throughout Rutgers and the wider community. The class is a discussion-based interdisciplinary examination aimed at promoting inclusive excellence.

Honors College Forum Showcase Honors Four Teams!

Forum Feature - Fall 2021
This past fall, our students once again demonstrated Curiosity,  Knowledge,  and Purpose as they collaborated in small interdisciplinary teams to identify and address global issues impacting local communities. Congratulations to all of the teams who presented before a panel of judges from business and academia and to our featured Fall 2021 Forum Showcase honorees!  

HC Alum Sabrina Lima Pursues Her Career with Clear Purpose

Photo of Sabrina Lima, HC Alumni - photo courtesy of Meredith Nierman, GBH News
Sabrina Lima is part of a small group of Black students pursuing careers as physicians, though that number is increasing as schools work to remove barriers to attending medical school. Now at Tufts, Sabrina sees herself continuing her family legacy of service with her mind set on serving first-generation immigrant families in Newark, near her hometown in New Jersey.

Lessons on the Road to Peace - Reflection on Our 2021 Visit with John Noltner

Photo of Gavin - What Do You Want To Be Remembered By?

It was a rainy Friday evening during the spring semester of my first year. February of 2020– the calm before the storm. Our course coordinator for Honors College Forum sent out an email that included a survey, which asked for our availability over the weekend to help install an exhibit. That exhibit belonged to John Noltner. What began as a momentary burst of enthusiasm to lend a hand led to a relationship that I cherish to this day.

Meet the Bayonne man taking broadcast meteorology by storm

Jeremy Lewan conducting a weather report image

Jeremy Lewan says he’s wanted to be a meteorologist since he was five years old. And now the Rutgers senior has been awarded the 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Orville Family Endowed Scholarship for $10,000, the top prize in the country offered by AMS.

Lewan, who was born and raised in Bayonne, is currently a senior at the Honors College at Rutgers University- New Brunswick majoring in Meteorology with a 4.0 grade point average.

Alumna Receives Charles B. Rangel Fellowship to Prepare for Career as Diplomat

Anna Baker (2019 Rutgers Graduate and Honors College Alumna) - photo courtesy of Anna Baker

Anna Baker’s love of travel and languages shaped her interest in becoming a Foreign Service officer, a dream job now in sight after she was awarded a fellowship with the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program.

Baker, a 2019 grad, is Rutgers’ fourth Charles B. Rangel Fellow, named for the former U.S. Congressman and considered one of the most demanding of all nationally competitive fellowships.

She started on this path as an undergraduate at Rutgers as she found opportunities to travel and learn about international conflict.