Mark Blajsa was selected by his peers to serve as the President of the Club Sports Executive Board. In this role, our recipient provided oversight to all 55 sport club teams and served as the spokesperson for all club sport activities to the Vice Chancellor. As the President of the Rutgers Baseball Club he recruited…
Andy Liebau has been involved in research at Rutgers since the summer before he enrolled at Rutgers. He began working in Professor Monica Driscoll’s lab in the summer of 2012, and has continued there researching the connection between MicroRNAs and Dietary Restriction in C. Elegans. He presented that research last summer at the 20th International…
Lauren Fish has an impressive track record of making meaningful contributions to research across biomedical engineering and medical science. She has served as a Research Assistant in the Rutgers Biomedical Engineering lab of Dr. Martin Yarmush, worked as a Research Assistant for the summers 2011-2014 in the Cardiovascular Research Center of the Icahn School of…
Kevin Feigelis was described by his advisor, Professor Sunil Somalwar, as the type of student who maintains straight A’s, juggles multiple research projects and makes publication-worthy contributions. He has completed an honors thesis in Physics and Astronomy analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He has presented his work in front of international…
Linsey Goon currently serves as a co-chair for the Rutgers University Queer Caucus. They are an outstanding student, leader, and educator on campus working to support multiple communities on campus. They are a long-time employee and office manager at the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, where they are quick to provide mentorship…
Jason Gaines is a leader within the Rutgers Future Scholars Dream Team. The RFS Dream Team is an absolute powerhouse in the realm of diversity and inclusion. The organization has its roots in the Rutgers Future Scholars program that has been run by the University for over 8 years. The first class of Future Scholars…
Brianna Battle is the vice president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, and currently serves as the student co-chair of the Chancellor’s Taskforce on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Values. She has led and participated in initiatives on campus that have helped to raise the voices of those who experience marginalization. She has raised awareness on…
Timothy Lee is currently a tutor for students in General, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. Previously, he served as a Teaching Intern for the Honors Organic Chemistry courses, and as a chemistry tutor for the Rutgers Learning Center. When writing about his profound love of chemistry he explains his journey of becoming a tutor at Rutgers…
Saaketh Krosuri is being acclaimed for his admirable efforts of fostering academic opportunities for his peers here at Rutgers. Despite it being his second year here, this young man has already achieved an enormous amount of accomplishments while serving the investment banking club LIBOR. He has also taken a step further to charter the first…
William Kelly currently serves as a learning assistant for the Learning Resource Center and has directly impacted the learning of at least 200 students in philosophy and physics courses. Despite mistakenly being assigned as a learning assistant for an additional course this semester he never complained about his assignments, approaches his work positively and is…
