• Douglas Greenberg, executive dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of Phi Beta Kappa’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities.
• The Board of Public Utilities has awarded Rutgers University the 2009 Energy Educator of the Year Award, part of the 2009 New Jersey Clean Energy Leadership Awards.The award recognizes the university's efforts to improve energy efficiency, use renewable technologies, and implement energy education and student involvement programs.
• The Institute of Medicine has awarded David Mechanic, director of Rutgers' Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, the 2009 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health in recognition of his work in medical sociology.
• Joanna Burger, professor of biology, was awarded the Brewster Medal by the American Ornithologists' Union for her work on seabird behavior and ecology and for her mentorship of more than 50 graduate students.
• Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history in Newark, received the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition, for her book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The book also won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history, the 2008 National Book Award for nonfiction, and the 2009 George Washington Book Prize given annually to the "most important new book about America's founding era."
• Rutgers women's basketball head coach C. Vivian Stringer was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2009.

• Sang-Wook Cheong, the Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics, has been awarded the 2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, one of the most prestigious awards of the American Physical Society.

• Three Rutgers professors were named winners of the 2008 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers in recognition of their exceptional potential for leadership in research and their demonstrated commitment to community service. They are Jimmy de la Torre, associate professor of educational psychology; Hao Lin, asssitant professor of mechanical engineering; and Charles R. Keeton II, assistant professor of astronomy.
• Professor J. Frederick Grassle was honored as a trailblazer in science by the Franklin Institute for his work on the biology of high-temperature, deep-sea vents.
• Two Rutgers professors, historian T. Jackson Lears and philosopher Stephen Stich, have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation's preeminent learned society and research institution.
• Four Rutgers professors have been named Guggenheim fellows: historian Deborah Gray White, historian Annette Gordon-Reed, historian Jacob Soll, and philosopher Jeff McMahan.
• Two Rutgers professors have won Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Awards intended to enhance the careers of exceptional young faculty members. The winners of these highly competitive awards are Alexandre Morozov, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Jian Song, assistant professor of mathematics.

Student Awards

• Junior Simon Gordonov received a 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship to continue his studies. A member of the men's cross country and track and field teams, he is the first Rutgers student-athlete to receive this distinguished honor.
• Senior Corbin Laedlein, an Africana studies major, was named a 2009 Clarendon Scholar. The highly competitive scholarship covers a full year of tuition and expenses at Oxford University in England.
• Two students received 2009 Fulbright awards: senior Paul Chiariello will teach English in Indonesia; senior David Stuckey will teach English in Colombia.
• The Daily Targum, Rutgers' student newspaper, won the 2009 Associated Collegiate Press Best in Show award for four-year daily newspapers.
• Senior Avi Smolen received a 2009 fellowship from the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to raise awareness about efforts to fight malaria in Africa.
• The Children's Literature Association awarded sophomore Erica Wnek the 2009 Carol Gay Award for the best undergraduate paper written about children's literature.