National Awards, Honors, and Distinctions Held by Students of
The Graduate School-New Brunswick, 2006-2007

American Academy in Rome Rome Prize
   Michael Johnson (Classics)

American Academy in Rome Summer Program in Archaeology
   Jennie Smithkin-Lindsay (Art History)

American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
   Jessica Anderson Hughes (History)

American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
   Chelsea Booth (Anthropology)

American Museum of Natural History Frank M. Chapman Memorial Grant
   Kari Prassack (Anthropology)

ACLS-Luce Dissertation Fellowship
   Kimberly Curtiss (Art History)

American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Pre-doctoral Fellowship
   Hillard Kutscher (Pharmaceutical Science)

American Political Science Association Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Politics
   Kate Bedford (Political Science)

Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Fellowship
   Jennifer Miller (History)

Bombardier Foundation Scholarship
   Michael Mohammed (Geography)

DAAD Graduate Scholarship
   Stephan Schmidt (Planning and Public Policy)

Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
   Ralph Buehler (Planning and Public Policy)

Eno Transportation Foundation Fellow
   Michail Gkolias (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship
   Monica Palta (Ecology and Evolution)

Executive Women of New Jersey Graduate Merit Award
   Lisa Belzer (Nutritional Sciences)

Fulbright Fellows
   Kris Alexanderson (History) (Netherlands)
   Peter Polak-Springer (History) (Poland)
   Bradley Wilson (Geography) (Nicaragua)

Fulbright/LASPAU International Fellows
   Gulin Cakmak (Economics) (Turkey)
   Victoria Fernández Martínez (Civil and Environmental Engineering) (Venezuela)
   Aritanan Borges García Gruber (Operations Research) (Brazil)
   Raúl Hernández Báez (Economics) (Dominican Republic)
   Sung Chul Jung (Political Science) (South Korea)
   Simone Marini (Philosophy) (Italy)
   Susana Matellana Pelláez (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Colombia)
   Mercedes Morales (Biomedical Engineering) (Argentina)
   Hoa Nguyen (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Vietnam)
   Ayeesha Saleem (Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Pakistan)
   Roberto Sepúlveda Alcázar (Physics and Astronomy) (Chile)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow
   Peter Polak-Springer (History) (Poland)

GAR Foundation Award
   Michail Gkolias (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

GEM Fellow
   Staci Brown (Physics and Astronomy)

Jacob K. Javits Fellowships
   Candace Amich (Literatures in English)

Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship
   Karen Lloyd (Art History)

Kress Institutional Fellowship in the History of European Art
   Karen Lloyd (Art History)

McNeill Center for Early American Studies Fellowship
   Charles Foy (History)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
   Kelsey Bitting (Geological Sciences)
   Kenneth Elgersma (Ecology and Evolution)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
   Jessica Kelly (Geography)
   Sarasij Majumder (Anthropology)
   Debarati Sen (Anthropology)
   Satsuki Takahashi (Anthropology)

New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship
   Vincent Shen (Biochemistry)

New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   Jonathan D’Avila (Cell and Developmental Biology)
   Lulu Li (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
   Zhaoxia Qu (Neuroscience)
   Saumya Pant (Cell and Developmental Biology)
   Nripen Sharma (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
   Wenying Zhang (Neuroscience)

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship (Italy)
   Martina Saltamacchia (History)

Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship
   Ja Yun Choi (Literatures in English)

Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   Sascha Scott (Art History)

Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   Mary Tinti (Art History)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship
   Karen Lloyd (Art History)

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowships
   Karen Lloyd (Art History)
   Peter Polak-Springer (History)
   Mi Shih (Planning and Public Policy) unable to accept

Society for Historical Archaeology 2006 Dissertation Prize
   Elizabeth Jordan (Anthropology)

Summer Cooperative African Languages Institute (Indiana U.) FLAS Award
   Omatayo Jolaosho (Anthropology)

Taraknath Das Foundation (Columbia University) Awards
   Sarasij Majumder (Anthropology)
   Debarati Sen (Anthropology)

U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
   Ariella Sasson (Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Graduate Fellowship
   Debarati Sen (Anthropology)

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Women's Studies Fellowship
   Valsala Kumari (Women’s and Gender Studies)

Book:
   David F. Gruber, Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
   (Harvard University Press, 2006) (Oceanography)

Continuing Fellowships

Baldwin Fellowship (Leakey Foundation)
   Godwin Mollel (Geological Sciences)

Fulbright/LASPAU Visiting Fellows
   Soheli Azad (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Bangladesh)
   Emanuel Carneiro (Mathematics) (Brazil)
   Andrés Fernandez Martín (Economics) (Colombia)
   Yu-Sheng Lin (Sociology) (Taiwan)
   Natalia Santamaria Tobar (Operations Research) (Colombia)
   Ji-Hye Shin (History) (Korea)
   Arzoo Syeda (Computer Science) (Pakistan)

Javits Fellowships
   Candice Amich (Literatures in English)
   Alexander Dickow (French)
   Jennifer Nado (Philosophy)
   Julie Phelan (Psychology)
   Karen Shanton (Philosophy)

Mustard Seed Fellowship
   Krystal Frazier (History)

Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Fellowship
   Stephanie Clare (Women’s and Gender Studies)
   Karen Routledge (History)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship
   Emmanuel Ndiema (Anthropology)

Notable Alumni/ae Accomplishments and Honors

Notable Books:
   Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
  (University of Chicago Press, 2006) (History)

   Sara Gronim, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York
  (Rutgers University Press, 2007) (History)

   Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art (Yale University Press, 2006)
   (Comparative Literature)

Notable Appointments:
   David Braun, NSF International Postdoctoral Fellowship (Anthropology)
   DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)

   Chris Norton, Wenner-Gren Post-Doctoral Award (Anthropology)

   Martin Summers, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon (History)

   Stacey Sutton, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University
  (Planning and Sociology)

   Camilla Townsend, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University (History)

   King-To Yeung, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University (Sociology)

ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars
   Martin Summers (History)

American Historical Association J. Russell Major Prize
(for the best book in English on French History)
   Todd Shephard (History)

Rome Prize in Preservation of the American Academy in Rome
   Meisha Hunter (Art History)

New Jersey Technology Postdoctoral Fellowships
   Andrew Colasanti (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)
   David Fela (Biochemistry)
   James Flint (Biomedical Engineering)
   Megan Tierney (Environmental Sciences)

Council of Latin American History Tibesar Prize
   Camilla Townsend (History)