Faculty Mentor Program
Building Connections between honors faculty and students
The SAS Honors Faculty Mentor Program provides undergraduates with access to the university's best faculty on a one-on-one basis. All incoming students are asked if they would like to participate in the program, and may select a faculty member from the list below. Many students develop close relationships with their faculty mentors over the first and second years; mentors often invite students to meet for lunch, to participate in departmental seminars and lectures, or even to collaborate with them or with colleagues on research projects.
- At the end of the spring semester the SASHP solicits faculty participation in the Faculty Mentor Program. During the summer new SASHP students are matched with their mentors.
- Faculty mentors and their student mentees get together for an initiating dinner in September.
- Faculty mentors participate in the SASHP recruitment efforts in spring.
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Adamo, Lauren Neitzke
Professor Lauren Neitzke Adamo is an associate teaching professor and the undergraduate director in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Adamo received her Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in Geological Sciences from Rutgers University. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms and underlying causes of the abrupt climate changes that are observed in sediment cores in the North Atlantic Ocean over the last 200,000 years by examining various geochemical, paleontological, and sedimentological proxies. In addition, Dr. Adamo is the director of the Rutgers Geology Museum. This position allows her to combine her love of teaching, science, research, and dinosaurs through the implementation of various educational activities and programming for the Rutgers and New Jersey communities.
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W https://geology.rutgers.edu/people/teaching-faculty/teaching-faculty-members/273-lauren-neitzke-adamo
Cahill, Christine
Professor Christine Cahill is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Political Science. Her research has two focuses: first, she has ongoing research projects on promoting student engagement and learning in large classrooms. Her second area of interest is in comparative politics, primarily how ballot-structures affect political accountability for legislators.
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Patel, Mukesh
Professor Mukesh M. Patel is a serial entrepreneur and executive board advisor with experience in private equity, venture capital, angel investments, innovation, technology, business law, and education. As an award-winning Professor and recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Service, he designs and teaches inter-disciplinary and experiential courses at Rutgers Business School, Law School, Engineering School, Arts & Science, and Honors College, across levels and disciplines. Prof. Patel is a three times TEDx speaker, and has presented keynotes and/or been featured at prestigious conferences including the Google Campus in Seoul, Korea, a US Embassy Conference, a United Nations Conference, Association for Corporate Growth, TIE, The Harvard Club, and Future Business Leaders of America. He has guest lectured at numerous universities nationally and globally. Prof. Patel also serves on Advisory Boards of startups and emerging growth ventures.
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W https://profmukeshpatel.com/
W https://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty/mukesh-patel#expand-collapse-0
Cevasco, Carla
Professor Carla Cevasco is Associate Professor of American Studies. A scholar interested in food, the body, gender, and race, she has written about hunger, colonialism, cannibalism, children's food, tobacco, and slavery, among other topics. Her first book is Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast, and she is writing a book on the history of feeding infants and children in the United States. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, Lapham's Quarterly, and other publications. She has received multiple teaching awards at Rutgers.
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W www.jvcasillas.com
Khayyat, Efe
Professor Efe Khayyat is an associate professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures. Before coming to Rutgers he taught in Frankfurt and Istanbul, Paris and New York, mostly philosophy of literature and religion. He works mostly with Turkish (Ottoman and modern), Ladino (Judeo-Espagnol), Italian, French, German, and Arabic. He published edited volumes and numerous pieces in cultural journals across Europe. He was a member of the founding board of Harvard's Institute for World Literature. Originally trained as a historian of European medieval philosophy and an English philologist, his teaching interests range from philosophy of literature to media history and political theology.
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W https://amesall.rutgers.edu/people/fac-staff/people-details/30-core-faculty/199-e-efe