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Harvey Schwartz Shares Insights on His Journey to Wall Street

Honors College sophomores, pictured with Mr. Schwartz (L-R), Johnny Shamir, Anthony Stella, and Amol Lotia, were excited and inspired by his story.

Schwartz launched Road to Wall Street, a program that grooms Rutgers students for jobs in the financial industry and connects them to alumni already there

Harvey Schwartz, president and co-chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, spoke to hundreds of Rutgers students on April 4 about his journey to Wall Street, the value of mentoring and disruption in the financial industry.  

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.

HC Associate Dean Shares Her Experience During COVID-19

Issata Oluwadare, the Honors College Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Issata Oluwadare earned her MSW degree at Rutgers School of Social Work and is now working as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Honors College of Rutgers University – New Brunswick. She shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her life both personally and professionally. 

HC First-Years Rise Against Hunger

Students packaging meals and holding a sign that says, "This is Possible" referencing ending hunger by 2030
Three students are filling a meal package with grain.
Students are boxing meals for Rise Against Hunger to be shipped.
An Honors College Tradition introduces first-year students to what it means to be HC in their very first days at Rutgers. With our annual Welcome Days Rise Against Hunger event comes an opportunity to do service, a requirement to become an Honors College Scholar upon graduation and a reflection of our motto: Curiosity. Knowledge. Purpose.

HC Graduate Makes Her Mark on the Road to Wall Street

Double major Simmi Sharma ('19, RBS/HC) says Rutgers helped her realize what she is capable of
Simmi Sharma’s road to Wall Street began as a high school sophomore at JP Stevens in Edison. A discussion about the Great Recession during an AP U.S. history class caught her attention. As she started to read more about what happened, she began to develop an interest in finance. “I realized that money is the string that ties the world together,’’ Sharma said. “Regardless of the industry, the company, the product or the idea, financing is required. Being in finance means that you have a hand in picking the right ideas and supporting them to a point where they can make a material impact. I wanted to be a part of that.”

HC Junior as a student entrepreneur, and a student of entrepreneurship

Sarah Pomeranz ('20, RBS/HC/DRC) and the Sulis team piloted their water purification system in India.
Sarah Pomeranz ('20, RBS/HC/DRC) is majoring in Leadership & Management with a concentration in entrepreneurship and a minor in social justice. Her academic interests and entrepreneurial drive led her to co-found Sulis, a start-up addressing clean water scarcity with their innovative water sterilization technology, alongside team members Anurag Modak ('20, SAS/HC), Ari Mendelow ('18, SOE), and Yuki Osumi ('20, SAS/HC).

HC Rising Sophomore Launched Mother's Touch to Address Maternal Health Disparities

Gloria Bachmann of the RWJMS Women's Health Institute, left, expectant mother Michelle Leighton, and Rutgers-New Brunswick Honors College student Zoe Reich (SAS ’24) review the Mother's Touch app, a student project led by Reich that launched in June. | Photo by Nick Romanenko
While working remotely as a first-year student and interning at the Women's Health Institute at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School under Dr. Gloria Bachmann, Zoe Reich ('24, SAS/HC/DRC) learned about the maternal health statistics and racial disparities that exist in New Jersey, ranked 47th in the nation for maternal deaths. Moved by this information, she formed a team of 40 fellow female students from the Honors College and Douglass to design and create an app to help empower current and expectant mothers.

HC Senior rethinks her major and the impact she could have on the world

Samantha Chen

Samantha Chen says her major in biological sciences is great preparation for a calling that combines her strength in science with her passion for social justice. “I came in thinking I would be premed,” Chen says. “But I had to rethink the impact I could have on the world.”

Samantha Chen seemed destined for medical school.

Strong in science and passionate about helping others, the Morris County native attended a STEM-focused magnet high school, earned dozens of AP credits, and chose biological sciences as her major at Rutgers.