Student Spotlight

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.

The groups hope to follow in the steps of Roshni Rides, the Rutgers team that won the $1 million prize last year

The challenge: Find out a way to harness the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people in less than a decade. The prize: $1 million in seed money to support a sustainable, start-up businesses that addresses a humanitarian need.

Maine Christos, Nicholas Page are expanding knowledge through science

Nicholas Page has high ambitions; his goal is to develop the first drug-based treatment for autism. Maine Christos is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge by analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Each year, the Honors College recognizes students who have demonstrated exceptional 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:

Aasha Shaik

This year, the marathon celebrates 20 consecutive years of students coming together for children in the tristate area.

Two years ago, Matthew Ramina was making plans to attend Rutgers as a first-year Honors College student, but his life took an unexpected turn when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Booker leads charge to get college students to vote after Florida shooting

After student activists organized last month's marches for stronger gun laws, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said there was a way they could have an even bigger impact: Register and vote.

Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced legislation Wednesday requiring colleges to take a more active role in making students eligible to vote.

The Rutgers students whose idea for a solar-powered water purification system helped them win the Hult Prize regional competition are raising money to pilot the business in India this summer.

Rising senior earns spot in undergraduate research program for minority students at Keck School of Medicine of USC  

Eriel Santagado: Evolutionary Anthropology and Dance

Being a student-athlete means learning to work with others with different perspectives. For senior gymnast Eriel Santagado, she took that one step further and traveled across the globe with Rutgers students, who shared the common goal of learning more about primatology. That adventure has enriched her in many ways and helped her focus more on what her future path may be.