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Tutoring Project Helps New Brunswick Elementary School Students

Honors College student Aasha Shaik (’20/RBS, DRC) was accepted to attend the 18th annual Public Policy and Leadership Conference (PPLC) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government next February in Cambridge, MA.

This year, PPLC received more than 800 applications from 220 different colleges and universities, and invited 73 students in all to attend the three-day conference, which will provide an introduction to the field of public policy and include a series of distinguished speakers, policy workshops, and exposure to possible public service careers.

Andrew Hanna came to Rutgers–New Brunswick in search of his passion. Luckily for the public health major he discovered two.

An aspiring dentist, Hanna’s two loves – dentistry and humanitarian work – led him to Nicaragua last summer, where he spent a week providing medical and dental care in underprivileged areas with Rutgers Global Brigades.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Big Ten Conference recognized 78 Rutgers student-athletes on the Fall 2017 Academic All-Big Ten list, it was announced Wednesday. Seven different programs were represented on the list including, eight from field hockey, 25 from football, nine each for men's and women's cross country, 10 on men's soccer, 11 on women's soccer and six from volleyball to round out the field.
 

HC student Eshan Kaul ('19/SEBS) spoke with NJTV earlier this month as part of a larger story on the special relationship between Rutgers and New Brunswick that also featured Rutgers–New Brunswick's Chancellor Dutta and Barry Smith, founder of Youth Empowerment Services - YES. Eshan spoke about the work that he and several other HC students have done with YES to scale up their tutoring program, A2E, to include hundreds of Rutgers student volunteers over the last two years.

First-year students who took the Honors College Forum this fall created more than 50 exceptional social innovation projects—14 teams were chosen to present their projects in front of the full Forum gathering and a panel of professional judges from academia and industry.

The Honors College Changemaker Award is an annual scholarship established to recognize students who have demonstrated exceptional awareness and commitment to service, an integral part of our mission. Please join us in congratulating this year’s outstanding Changemaker Award recipients who have served in their communities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and beyond:

April Nicklaus

The newly formed Honors College at Rutgers University was envisioned as “a living-learning community focused on tackling complex problems and global challenges.” Four students and their faculty advisors just put that theory into practice. Honors College students Yuki Osumi ('20/School of Arts and Sciences), Sarah Pomeranz ('20/Rutgers Business School), and Anurag Modak ('20/SAS), with Ari Mendelow (‘18/School of Engineering) won the Hult Prize at Rutgers University Competition on December 8.

UPDATE: Sulis won the Regional Hult Prize Competition March 10, 2018 in Boston! Next up for the Sulis team is the Hult summer startup accelerator in London where the top 50 Hult Prize startups from around the world will spend eight weeks in a castle together, learning and refining their concepts. At the end of the summer, 6 teams will be chosen to compete for the $1 million global Hult Prize. Sulis is one of two Rutgers–New Brunswick teams among the 50 regional Hult Prize winners. The other is LivingWaters.

Congress has set aside $5 million for an open educational resources pilot program -- the most significant federal push for alternative textbooks. Advocates are encouraged.

Three times since 2013, members in both houses of Congress have introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, which would create a federal program to fund the creation of open educational resources on a nationwide scale. Each time, that bill has faltered in committee.