E3SL Peer Mentor Introductions
Have the chance to get to know your peer mentor before the start of the semester! Peer mentors have provided a short biography about themselves, giving mentees the chance to learn more about their assigned mentors.
MEET YOUR MENTOR
E3-STEM Student Leaders will be paired with an upperclassman majoring in a STEM field. Get to know your mentor before meeting them in person! Mentors have different majors/minors, career goals, involvement activities, and academic journeys. Whether you need help developing study skills, joining a student organization, or getting involved in research, learn from your mentor and gain the confidence to take control of your undergraduate experience.
Tiffany Chan
Major: Biology and Computational and Integrative Biology
Minor: Chemistry
Favorite RUC Experience: My favorite experience on the RUC campus is to be able to explore the research community and talk to the various faculty around campus.
Favorite RUC Event: My favorite event to attend each year is Biology Day, where students, faculty, and families come together for a poster presentation and be able to explore and view all of the scientific achievements made by the undergraduates throughout the academic year.
Kamryn (Kami) Sharief
Major: Biology and Computational and Integrative Biology
Myo Thinzar Htin Aung
Major: Biology
RUC Involvement: Vice President & Alumni Advisor of the Biology Club, Outreach Coordinator for SAATH-RUC
Aye Thinzar Htin Aung
Major: Biology
Minor: Chemistry
RUC Involvement: President of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), Secretary of the Biology Club
Favorite RUC Experience: One of my favorite experiences of being part of the Rutgers–Camden community is participating in the Civic Engagement Project, where I volunteered with the Free Book Project. It allowed me to engage with the Camden community and learn so much from my peers.
Favorite RUC Event: My favorite event to attend each year is the Research Retreat hosted by the Biology and Chemistry Clubs, where I enjoy listening to inspiring research presentations.
Zarah Bacchus
Major: Biology and Computational and Integrative Biology
Minor: Chemistry
RUC Involvement: Muslim Students Association; also a part of the Corbett lab and URISE program.
Favorite RUC Experience: Attending the annual symposium at the UPenn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders! At the time, I’d just graduated from high school with my associate’s degree, transferred to Rutgers, and suddenly I was a junior who barely knew anyone. When I saw the travel award application, I hesitated because it included funding for both me and a faculty mentor, and I wasn’t sure who to ask. The same professor who had encouraged our whole class to apply kept coming to mind, so I worked up the nerve to ask him, and before I knew it, we were on a train to Philly. That trip was the start of a mentorship that has shaped my time here in ways I’ll always be grateful for.
Favorite RUC Event: Biology Day! I got to present my first-ever scientific poster on my research there! I also met some pretty cool people to talk science with. Most importantly, my lab group picture in front of my poster! Definitely a key memory.