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The Honors College Forum, taken by half of the Honors College student body in fall 2015, focuses on social innovation to help set our students on a path toward a career with purpose. Students gather for lectures with guest speakers and also work in small seminars and still smaller teams to create truly innovative ideas for tackling some of the world's greatest challenges.

The Honors College Spring Forum resulted in more than 50 exceptional project ideas with social innovation at their core. From among those projects, 13 were chosen to be presented in front of peers and a panel of professional judges from academia and industry.

Another Honors College Forum has concluded this spring and with it came more than 50 extraordinary project ideas focused on social innovation. Students gathered for lectures and presentations with guest speakers, studied in small seminars, and worked in interdisciplinary project-based teams to create detailed plans for change-making products, services, or initiatives.

As all Honors College members have before them, first-year students demonstrated our mission this spring by creating more than 50 extraordinary social innovation projects intended to improve the lives of others, while they also learned to work together to define, shape, and articulate their ideas. Their peers selected just 12 project teams to present at the Forum plenary on a single night before a panel of judges from business and academia.

Daniel Raser is a first-year Honors College student studying Engineering. Upon entering the Honors College, he had a strong belief in the importance of giving back and joined the Career with Purpose Changemaking Community. His passion for giving back to local communities stems from his experience volunteering for a youth lacrosse program his freshman year of high school. He worked on a team to help create a free camp for youth lacrosse players from Newark.

David Rosenberg’s passion is to develop sustainable food production, building and leading multiple companies by tapping technology, biological principles, and data to create new food sources and maximize production using fewer environmental resources. 

This interdisciplinary approach, combined with his foundation in finance and his life-long engagement in and study of philosophy, has led him to a place of doing well by doing good.