Adriana Scanteianu advocated for a more equitable admissions process at the Rutgers-New Brunswick Honors College
There was never a doubt about what Adriana Scanteianu would major in when she entered Rutgers University-New Brunswick: Math.
After all, she comes from a STEM family. Her mother is a business analyst for a bank, her father is an electrical engineer, her brother is pursuing a master’s in computer science from Columbia University, and her grandmother was even a math teacher in Romania. And Scanteianu was awarded the Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar for her self-led computational biology research in high school – some of which has since been published.
Courtesy of Adriana Scanteianu
Adriana Scanteianu, who is pursuing a Master of Public Policy degree at the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to teach English and coordinate social justice activities with a nonprofit group in Spain.
She will work at Fundación Secretariado Gitano, which deals with marginalization of the Gitano community in Madrid. The daughter of Romanian immigrants, she is fluent in Romanian and Spanish and is majoring in mathematics with a minor in urban studies. Following a social justice class in high school, she became further interested in equity and diversity while at Rutgers when she found her first math course dominated by male students.