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First Honors College Faculty Fellow Teach-In!

From October 7 through 10, the Honors College Faculty Fellows hosted the first ever Honors College Teach-In as a way to connect with students and the issues that society is confronting. The goal was to encourage open dialogue and engage in respectful conversations.

First-Generation American Driven to Give Back to Her Community

Larissa De Paula ('26, SAS/HC) is the first in her family to attend college. She is working toward a dual major in criminal justice and political science with a minor in Latina and Caribbean studies, and she hopes to become an immigration lawyer. Her focus stems from a desire to give back to her family and the Brazilian community that raised her outside of Boston.

Food Hotline Created by Rutgers Seniors Evolves to Meet Students’ Needs

A photo of students Hassan Choudhry, Steven Montes Montecinos, Jonathan Shoham, and Thirth Patel holding baskets of food at the Rutgers Food Panty.

When four first-year students launched a research project to tackle a social issue on campus in 2022, they were shocked to learn that nearly a third of Rutgers-New Brunswick students were identified as food insecure in a basic needs study.

Four Rutgers Students Earn Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Photo collage representing Tiffany Chan and Alan Rozenblit from Rutgers-Camden (top) and also Adrian Jackson and Iris You (bottom).

Four Rutgers students have been selected as Goldwater Scholars, a prestigious national honor for undergraduates who plan to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

From Hallmates to Social Innovators

Tech Thinker team at the Rutgers Hult Prize Competition

This March, a group of four Honors College first-year students will attend the Hult Prize Regionals in San Francisco. While living as hallmates, Kevin Estabillo (‘22, SOE/HC), Sebastian Muñoz (‘22, SAS/HC), Ty Goldin (‘22, SAS/HC), and Claire Whang (‘22, SAS/HC) decided to form their own social innovation business and compete.

Gavin Wagner Sends Greetings from Antarctica!

Gavin Wagner ('24, SEBS/SOE/HC) has been in Antarctica since late October working on the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project as a technician maintaining stream gauges and assisting other graduate students with their sampling efforts—he lives in F6 hut in Taylor Valley, and temperatures recently just rose above freezing for the first time since he arrived.

Geek Week at Hogwarts!

Can you honestly say that you've had the experience of sipping a butterbeer while listening to a potions-making lecture, without having walked through a brick wall in a London subway station? The Honors College offered exactly that opportunity on March 2, 2017 when students from across Rutgers came for a Harry Potter-themed Geek Week celebration dedicated to the “geeks” of the sci-fi and fantasy genres.

Giving Back: An Alternative Answer to Freshman Angst

Global citizenship is about recognizing yourself as part of a larger community, realizing that our actions are important and that we have a role to play. We should be asking ourselves, how can I harness my time, energy, and abilities to serve the greater good and make a meaningful, sustainable impact? Alternative Breaks provide some of these answers. You learn what interests you and where your strengths lie in a hands-on, immersive, supportive setting so you can continue to make a difference. And I could not be more grateful for an opportunity to do so, and to meet such wonderful people along the way.

Giving with Honors

Krishna Varre, member of the Honors College

On December 1 last year, Rutgers University–New Brunswick Honors College students gathered for their usual morning Coffee with the Deans, but it was no ordinary morning. It was the first-ever Rutgers Giving Day, and the students were ready to leap into action in support of the place they call home.

Growing Trend Toward Inclusion in the Arts Reflected in Rutgers Student Theater Groups

Cabaret Theatre’s Uchenna Agbu, Livingston Theater Company’s Kira Harris and College Avenue Players’ Kyle Cao on stage at Cabaret's Black Box Theatre | Photo by Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University

For the first time in 48 years, all three student theater groups at Rutgers-New Brunswick are being led by artistic directors of color.

It’s no coincidence, said the trio – Cabaret Theatre’s Uchenna Agbu, College Avenue Players’ Kyle Cao and Livingston Theater Company’s Kira Harris. Their diversity reflects a growing trend toward inclusion both at Rutgers and in the arts, media and society at large, they said.

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