After being involved with political campaigns on and off campus, Shakee Merritt says he is now working on launching the GENNEX Political Action Committee, “a PAC dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing Generation Z to run, vote and partake in the democratic system one hundred percent.”

Diane Zaragoza talks about her passion for the environment, her Rutgers journey, and how she plans to do her own part to protect Planet Earth.

Esmeralda Diaz-Calderon gives back to the program that supported her college dreams.

Thaquib Ahammed arrived at Rutgers not knowing where his future would take him. Yet it didn’t take long before he discovered his niche in the world of website development.

Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider.

Daniel Ortega will graduate in May with a degree in biological sciences, a 4.0 cumulative grade point average and fulfill the middle school promise to himself when he starts medical school at Columbia University in August.

Kyra Bostic, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick senior, served as the High Seas Youth Ambassador for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a global authority on the environment.

Teresa Osorio, a graduating Rutgers University–Camden senior majoring in biology, was accepted into the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Talia Rosen has spent the past two years building a small, vibrant community of gay and Jewish students at Rutgers–New Brunswick.