National Awards, Honors, and Distinctions Held by Students of
The Graduate School-New Brunswick, 2008-2009

Air Pollution Educational and Research Grant
   Hua Qian (Environmental Sciences)

American Association of University Women Fellowship
   Stacy Hunt (Political Science)

American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Fellowship
   Matthew Palombo (Pharmaceutical Science)

American Library Association Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
   Nicole Cooke(Communication, Information, and Library Studies)
   Stefani Gómez (Communication, Information, and Library Studies)

American School of Classical Studies (Athens) Fellowship
   Sean Jensen (Classics)

American Sociological Association-National Institute of Mental Health Minority Fellowship
   Dawne Mouzon (Sociology)

British Arts Center (Yale) Fellowship
   Amy Tims (History)

British Research Council Fellowship
   Amy Tims (History)

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
   Kelly Mason (Philosophy)

Chateaubriand Fellowship
   Nell Quest (Anthropology)

CONICYT Fellowship (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile)
   Claudia Cabello-Hutt (Spanish)

DAAD Fellowship
   Magdalena Bazan (Comparative Literature)

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Grant
   Seunghun Lee (Linguistics) declined
   Peter Polak-Springer (History)

Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
   Patrick O’Malley (Physics and Astronomy)

Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative Fellowship
   Glenn Lockwood (Materials Science and Engineering)

ExxonMobil Indonesia Geosciences Fellows
   Hendra Wahyudi (Geological Sciences)
   Zulfitriadi (Geological Sciences)

Ford Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship
   Omatayo Jolaosho (Anthropology) declined

Fulbright Fellowships
   Nell Quest (Anthropology) (France)
   Kari Burnett (Geography) (Czech Republic)
   Yelena Kalinsky (Art History) (Russia)

Fulbright International Fellows
   Harnida Adda (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Indonesia)
   Yasmeen Daher (Comparative Literature) (Israel)
   Abidah Setyowati (Geography) (Indonesia)

Japanese Education Ministry Fellowship
   Philip Streich (Political Science)

Javits Fellowship
   Heather Demarest (Philosophy)
   Megan Paustian (Literatures in English)

Kress Foundation Fellowship in the History of Art at Foreign Institutions
   Chiara Scappini (Art History)

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
   Sarah Alexander (Literatures in English)
   Seunghun Lee (Linguistics) declined

Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship
   Mary Shea Millea (Art History)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Fellowship
   Andrew Rodriguez (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

National Development and Research Institute, Inc. Predoctoral Fellowship for Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research
   Ben Singer (Literatures in English)

National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirchstein Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
   David Root (Psychology)
   Alexander Son (Neuroscience)

National Institute of Mental Health Predoctoral Fellowship
   Rebecca Price (Psychology)

National Science Foundation Central Europe Summer Research Institute Fellow
   Alison Golinski (Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
   Karen Routledge (History)
   Kirsten Schwarz (Ecology and Evolution)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
   Aixa Alemán-Díaz (Anthropology)
   Omotayo Jolaosho (Anthropology)
   Corinne Moss-Racusin (Psychology)
   Timothy Nordin (Education)

New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Fellowship
   Jean-Pierre Dolle (Biomedical Engineering)

New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Fellowship
   Kevin Nikitczuk (Biomedical Engineering)

New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Fellowship
   Chris Langhammer (Biomedical Engineering)

New Jersey Historical Commission Fellowship
   Patricia Hampson (History)

New Jersey MAC Dissertation Fellowship
   Christopher Rivera (Comparative Literature/Women’s and Gender Studies)

New Jersey MAC Doctoral Fellowship
   Marlena Brown (Biomedical Engineering)

Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Fellowship
   Krystal Frazier (History)

P.E.O. Fellowship
   Sarah Murray (Linguistics)

Open Society Institute Doctoral Fellows Program
   Ion Marandici (Political Science)
   Ina Pislaru (Sociology) deferred
   Lilia Raileanu (Sociology)
   Hakim Zainiddinov (Sociology)

Smithsonian Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (American Art Museum)
   Annemarie Voss (Art History)

Smithsonian Summer Fellowship
   Omatayo Jolaosho (Anthropology)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowships
   Lincoln Addison (Anthropology)
   Melissa Horne (History)
   Stephanie Hunt (Literatures in English)

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Completion Grant
   Chaunetta Jones (Anthropology)

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
   Jim Jeffers (Geography)

Spain. Ministry of Culture. Program for Cultural Cooperation Grant
   Ben Arenger (Spanish)

Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Scholarship
   Chiara Scappini (Art History)

Wenner Gren Research Grant
   Nell Quest (Anthropology)

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship
   Kate Burlingham (History)

Continuing Fellowships

American Sociological Association Minority Graduate Fellowship
   Alena Singleton (Sociology)

Canon National Parks Scholars
   Elizabeth Barron (Geography)
   Michele Lavigne (Oceanography)

Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Fellowships
   Jonathan Chappelow (Biomedical Engineering)
   Scott Doyle (Biomedical Engineering)

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

ExxonMobil Indonesia Geosciences Fellows
   Triyani Nur Hidayah (Geological Sciences)
   Ika Sulistyaningrum (Geological Sciences)

Fulbright International Fellows
   Shahid Zaman Khan (Industrial Relations and Human Resources) (Pakistan)
   Rodrigo Martins Borges (Philosophy) (Argentina)
   Susana Matellana Peláez (Women’s and Gender Studies) (Colombia)
   Roberto Sepúlveda Alcázar (Physics and Astronomy) (Chile)
   Na Mi Shin (Literatures in English) (Korea)
   Hsin-Yi Yeh (Sociology) (Taiwan)
   Syeda Arzoo Zehra (Computer Science) (Pakistan)

Javits Fellows
   Candice Amich (Literatures in English)
   Tyler Bradway (Literatures in English)
   Alexander Dickow (French)
   Jessica Good (Psychology)
   Jennifer Nado (Philosophy)
   Julie Phelan (Psychology)
   Karen Shanton (Philosophy)

Kress Foundation Fellowship at the Hertziana, Rome
   Heather Nolin (Art History)

Mexican Government Fellowship
   Ricardo Mena Gallardo (Philosophy)

NASA-Harriet Jenkins Fellowship
   Ricardo Collado (Operations Research)

NIH Fellowship
   Charles Florek (Biomedical Engineering)
   Tiffany Polanco (Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences)
   Aníbal Soto (Food Science)

NOAA National Estuarine Research Fellowship
   Inga LaPuma (Ecology and Evolution)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant
   Luca Morino (Anthropology)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows
   Kelsey Bitting (Geological Sciences)
   Philip Matchett (Mathematics)
   Natalie Obrecht (Psychology)

National Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
   Jaclyn Taylor (Ecology and Evolution)

New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Fellows
   Kerri-Ann Norton (Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics)
   Aníbal Valentín (Cell and Developmental Biology)

New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Fellows
   Ian Gaudet (Biomedical Engineering)
   Shaunak Kamat (Neuroscience)
   Eunchan Park (Neuroscience)
   María Royo Gascón (Biomedical Engineering)
   Chia-Yi Tseng (Neuroscience)
   Evangeline Tzatzalos (Neuroscience)
   Andrew Voyiadjis (Biomedical Engineering)

New Jersey MAC Doctoral Fellowships
   Amanda Flanders (Political Science)
   Chaunetta Jones (Anthropology)
   Tiffany Morris (Biomedical Engineering)
   Kari Prassack (Anthropology)
   Fatimah Williams Castro (Anthropology)

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

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowships
   Stephanie Clare (Women’s and Gender Studies)
   Christina Doonan (Political Science)
   Janna Ferguson (Political Science)
   Jessica Good (Psychology)

Turkish Government Fellowship
   Ozgen Baykal (Political Science)

Alumni Awards and Accomplishments

Notable Faculty Appointments

   Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Syracuse University)
   Kevan Edwards (Philosophy)

   Assistant Professor of French (The Ohio State University)
   Bernadette Hoeffer (French)

   Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish (Washington University)
   Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature)

   Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science
   (University of Minnesota)
   Zenzele Isoke (Women's and Gender Studies)

   Assistant Professor of French (Virginia Tech)
   Corinne Noirot (French)

   Assistant Professor of Art History (Syracuse University)
   Sascha Scott (Art History)

Notable Awards

   American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
   Natasha Hurley (Literatures in English)

   Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Barclay Gibbs Jones Award
   for Best Dissertation in Planning
   Ralph Buehler (Planning and Public Policy)

   Guggenheim Fellowships
   Howard Bodenhorn (Economics)
   Don Mitchell (Geography)

   NSF CAREER Award
   Eva Halkiadakis (Physics and Astronomy)
   Julie Silva (Geography)

   NSF International Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
   Jennifer Krumins (Ecology and Evolution)

Ambassadorship

   James Spalding (Economics)
   Ambassador of Paraguay to the United States

Notable Books

   Alvin S. Felzenberg, The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the
   Presidential Rating Game , Basic Books, 2008.

   Tracy Fitzpatrick, Art and the Subway: New York Underground, Rutgers University Press,
   2009.

   Margaret Marsh (and Wanda Ronner), The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive
   Revolution, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.