Student Spotlight

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.

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

Ankita Kodali began Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick as a shy student who sat in the back of the room and listened quietly when she joined a campus organization.

By the second half of her sophomore year, she had served in one or two leadership positions in small student groups and accepted the role of president for the Rutgers Business School Innovation Committee (RBSIC), which works closely with the Office of Career Management. By the end of her senior year, she would be president of two other student groups.

A geology major spent summer in Houston focusing on Red Planet

Sophie Benaroya had long dreamed of working at NASA.

“I’ve been interested in planetary science since I was a kid,” said Benaroya, a School of Arts and Sciences and Rutgers Honors College senior at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. “I just didn’t think NASA was an option.”

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 and thanking this year’s outstanding Changemaker Award recipients, who have served in their communities in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and beyond:

Caroline Kratka