Faculty, staff, and students recently recognized for major accomplishments
Faculty/Staff Awards
- Assistant Professor Kristjan Haule, who studies condensed matter physics, has won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a highly competitive award intended to enhance the careers of the best young science faculty.
- David Greenberg, an assistant professor of journalism and media studies, has received the 2008 Hiett Prize in the Humanities, awarded annually by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture to a young scholar whose work shows exceptional promise.
- Endre Szemeredi, professor of computer science, was awarded the American Mathematical Society's 2008 Leroy P. Steele Prize for his work on the Szemeredi theorem used in combinatorics, number theory, and computer science.
- Dan Morgenstern, director of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies on the Newark Campus, received his third Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; a Lifetime Achievement Award from Down Beat magazine; and a Legacy Award from The Recording Academy.
- Julie E. Kendall, a professor of management at the School of Business-Camden, was inducted as a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. She is the second New Jersey scholar and the ninth woman to receive this international honor.
- A research team at Rutgers Wireless Information Networking Laboratory received the fourth annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation for establishing a unique facility to test new mobile communications technologies.
- Ben Sopranzetti, an associate professor of finance at Rutgers Business School- Newark and New Brunswick and an expert in business valuation, was voted a "Favorite Undergraduate Business School Professor" in a BusinessWeek magazine poll of undergraduates. A profile of him appeared in the magazine.
- Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies that advises the federal government on scientific matters. A historian of health and medicine, Wailoo has helped shape new understandings of disease, politics, and culture in America.
- Four Rutgers scholars have been made fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are: Philip Furmanski, executive vice president for academic affairs; Jay Tischfield, the Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Professor and chair of the Department of Genetics; Barbara Zilinskas, professor of plant biology and pathology; and Mark Baker, professor of linguistics.
Student Awards
- Three Rutgers seniors have been awarded highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. The awards provide full support toward master's degrees for Michael Hayoun in bioscience enterprise, Suzanne Pilaar in archaeological science, and Brian Spatocco in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise. Gates scholarships are awarded based on a candidate's academic excellence, leadership potential, and commitment to improving the lives of others.
- Ronn Friedlander, a senior biomedical engineering major, has been named a Whitaker International Felllow, which funds a year of study or research anywhere in the world.
- A team of students from the Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick won the Sixth Annual Investment Research Challenge.
