Student Spotlight: Rachel Bruno, '24

Student Spotlight

Meet Rachel Bruno, Class of 2024

"While I was a sophomore in high school, I toured Rowan for the first time with my older brother. I immediately fell in love with the campus buildings and all Rowan had to offer. What really caught my attention was the math department and the 4 + 1 mathematics and education program that was offered. After four years of being an undergraduate I will graduate in the spring of 2024 with a B.A. in Mathematics and, after my fifth year, I will graduate in the summer of 2025 witha M.A. in STEM Education.

During my four years at Rowan, I have developed many valuable relationships with professors as well as some really great friendships with peers. I am a student worker for the Mathematics Department, the treasurer for the Math Team, a member of the Association of Women in Mathematics, a member of the Pi Mu Epsilon, and I have participated on an intramural basketball team for the past three years. While working in the Mathematics Department, I have been given the opportunity to help out at many of our events. Last year, I attended many lunches with potential candidates for a position in the department. I helped set up for the Pi Mu Epsilon induction ceremony and even got to hand my roommate her honor cord! I helped out at Rowan’s Accepted Students Day and got to talk to potential mathematics majors about our department and classes. On top of all this, I have a minor in physics as well as statistics and operations research in addition to the 4 + 1 mathematics and education program. I have just started taking my graduate level classes and finally started to go into the field to begin observing a teacher at a middle school. At the end of my five years here, I hope to be a middle school or high school teacher up in North Jersey where I am from!"