On May 8, 2019, 80 outstanding Rutgers University-Newark students were honored at the 2019 School of Arts & Sciences-Newark (SASN) Annual Awards Banquet by their professors, mentors, and loved ones.
Every year, the Office of Academic Services (OAS) works together with the Office of the Dean and the academic departments across SASN to present awards to a select group of students, mostly seniors, for going above and beyond in their chosen areas of study. The awards are a combination of scholarships, monetary awards and plaques or certificates.
Sofia Pinto-Figueroa, Dean of Academic Services, looks forward to the event each year.
“The SASN Annual Awards Banquet is an opportunity to celebrate and honor our undergraduate scholars. It’s a very exciting time to come together as a community with family, friends, faculty, staff and students all celebrating this amazing accomplishment that they’ve worked very hard to attain, which is their degree, and while doing so they’re being honored for their excellence in their field or in their specific area."
Some of the students shared their journey and plans for the future in a video that was shown to the guests at the banquet.
"Many of the awardees have overcome great obstacles to be here, many of them are first-generation, and first in their families to go to college,” said Pinto-Figueroa. “They have left an imprint on the SASN and overall Rutgers community, and we are excited to see what the next step in their journey will lead to, as we know that many will go on to graduate programs, medical schools, law schools, or accelerated masters programs. This is just the beginning of the success that our scholars will achieve."
The full list of 2019 awards and recipients are as follows:
| Academic Foundations (EOF) | |
|---|---|
| Community Service Award - EOF | Yasmin Huff |
| African American and African Studies | |
|---|---|
| Wendell A. Jean-Pierre Award of Excellence | Jonathan N. Williams |
| Merit Award | Keturah Maingrette |
| Arts, Culture and Media | |
|---|---|
| Creative Achievement in Fine Arts | Jenna Arevalo, Medinilla Soares |
| Creative Achievement in Graphic Design | Jahi Lendor, Joanna Mantilla, Carmen Santiago |
| Journalism Excellence Award | Claretta Bellamy |
| Theatre Excellence Award | Nyasia Drye |
| Biological Sciences | |
|---|---|
| Bessie Dolgan Memorial Award | Deborah Daoud |
| Biological Sciences Award - Excellence in Scholarship | Chioma Anamejeh, Penelope Collins, Daniel Nam, Rozan Ramadan, Isis Zhang |
| Biological Sciences Award - Health Professions Career Award | Emanuellie Romelus |
| Biological Sciences Award for Excellence in Research | Charmi Rana |
| John Keosian Award | Ken Knapp |
| Chemistry | |
|---|---|
| Charles Sabat Award | Berothy Jilus |
| General Chemistry Teaching Award | Shumuel Ofosu-Koranteng |
| Harold A. Fales Memorial Award | Janmesh Rana |
| Hugh W.Thompson Memorial Award | Anastacia Ipekci |
| R. Ian Fryer Memorial Award | Mastora Saleh |
| Dean's Office | |
|---|---|
| CARR Academic Scholars | Mussab Ali, Shoshi Chowdhury, Saba Farid, Catalina S. Guzman, Nazje D. James, Laura A Marrone, Vyvan V. Nguyen, Emmanuellie Romelus |
| Charles Pine Memorial Fund Award | Monica de deus dias matos, Brandon Martinez, Bakhtawar Zafar |
| School of Arts and Sciences-Newark Dean's Award | Vyvan Nguyen, Daniel Nam |
| John Faulstich NCAS Alumni Award | Khadija Tan |
| Richard Robey Memorial Award | Sarah Elgalad |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | |
|---|---|
| Herbert P. Woodward Memorial Fund | Brittany Washington |
| Economics | |
|---|---|
| Morris H. Beck Student Achievement Award | Gifty Vroom Minnow |
| English | |
|---|---|
| Louis R. Zocca NCAS English Prize | Julie Gomez |
| David Diorio Memorial Award | Yasmine Quinones |
| Madison C. Bates Memorial Prize | Kevin Garrido |
| History | |
|---|---|
| David Robert Friedlander Memorial Award | Cara Joy Skelley, Robert Platvoet |
| Edward H. Zabriski Memorial Fund Award | Zachary Jellison, Jasmine Shafei |
| John C. Smock | Solana Reyes |
| Sydney Zebel Award - NCAS History | Jason P Boehm |
| Math and Computer Science | |
|---|---|
| Computer Science Award | Laura Etori |
| Ingrida Soldatova Award for Women in Mathematics | Xining Yuan |
| Samuel Greitzer Math Award | Monica de deus dias matos |
| Office of Academic Services | |
|---|---|
| Cassie Edward Miller Award | Christian Mejia |
| Dean Inge Gambe Scholarship | Salma Abdalla |
| Dean Norman C. Miller Award | Crystal Deleon |
| Dean of Academic Services Award | Amanda Carillo |
| Tau Sigma National Honor Society | Jasmine Woodyard, Paige Rusnock, Chioma anaemejeh |
| Yolande Rubianes Memorial Award | Tia Ryans |
| Philosophy | |
|---|---|
| Charles I. Biederman Award | Nicholas Planer |
| Physics | |
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| Betty Skuse Thompson Prize in Physics | Bakhtawar Zafar |
| Political Science | |
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| Benjamin M. Weissman Memorial Scholarship | Hector Perez |
| Benjamin M. Weissman Writing Award | Alexandra Vidal |
| Heinz Seelbach Award | Robert Platvoet |
| Psychology | |
|---|---|
| Joel Girgus Memorial Award | Paige Rusnock, Elias Pitsilis, Sharon Katina |
| Lillian Robbins Memorial Award | Alexandra Hansen, Naa Adei Kotey |
| Lourdes Casal Memorial Award | Jessica Kluge |
| Social Work | |
|---|---|
| Academic Excellence and Leadership | Stephanie Cedeno |
| Academic Excellence in Social Work | Amy Aracena |
| Dean James Plummer Award | Darrius Mcknight |
| Excellence in Field Practice Award | Nakiya Santos |
| Sociology and Anthropology | |
|---|---|
| Jay Rumney Memorial Award | Michael Speights |
| Joannie L. Huberman Memorial Award | Alexander Rush |
| Spanish and Portuguese Studies | |
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| Academic Excellence in Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies | Ana Pais, Ashley Gomez |
| Israel S. Stamm Memorial Prize Fund | Raydel Rijo, Olivia Dlugosz |
| Outstanding Achievement in Spanish and Hispanic Civlization | Olivia Dlugosz, Raydel Rijo |
| Urban Education | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding Urban Teacher Candidate Secondary Education | Emmanuel Barchue, Mastora Saleh |
| Women's and Gender Studies | |
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| Beth Niemi Award for Excellence in Women's and Gender Studies | Sylwia D. Chmielowska |
| Dean James Credle Award | Yadira Aguiar |