Those drawn to majors in the liberal arts and sciences are typically interested in ongoing intellectual engagement — whether through writing, teaching, historical or analytical research and/or the pursuit of further academic study. At the College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences, students and young alumni continuously exemplify their drive by achieving success early in their careers. Here are just a few examples from the past several months.
Five weeks ahead of graduation, two Rider senior science majors learned they were accepted into Ivy League doctoral programs. This fall, Brandon Enalls ’15 began studying organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, and Danielle Minichino ’15 embarked on her graduate studies in cell and molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania. This marks the first time in University history that two students from the same class are entering Ivy League doctoral programs directly from undergraduate programs.
The opportunity to add her voice to the scholarly discourse arose for global studies major Josephine Boyle ’15 in a paper she co-authored with political science professors Frank Rusciano and Michael Brogan to be published in Proceedings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, 2015.
Similarly, criminal justice major Rachel Shari Safer ’16 also received a publishing credit for a paper she wrote with Associate Provost James Castagnera in The Homeland Security Review, 2015.
Chosen by Cosmopolitan from around 46,000 entries, the fashion blog adornedinarmor.com by senior communication studies major Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien ’15 was a finalist in the 2014 Cosmo Blog awards. One of only two American bloggers picked in the International Fashion Blog category, Saint-Elien traveled to the XO2 Tower in central London to attend the award ceremony and meet fellow writers from around the world.
