Philosophy Undergraduate Awarded New Scholarship to Oxford
This past February Oxford University announced that it had received $26 million from the widow of Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, to establish a scholarship in her husband’s memory which would support graduate study in the humanities, and Kevin Tobia, a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics from Chatham, New Jersey, is one of only 15 students world-wide to be selected for the... Continued
Undergraduate Scientists Continue Success with the Goldwater Scholarship
Since 1989 the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship has recognized the very best among sophomores and juniors in the United States with majors in mathematics, science, engineering, and computer science, and this year two Rutgers students are once again among those so honored. Devinn Lambert, a junior biotechnology major from Howell, New Jersey, and Kelvin Mei, a junior Physics major from Flemington,... Continued
Nineteen Fulbright Grants . . . And Still Counting!
For the fourth consecutive year graduating seniors and recent graduates from Rutgers have been awarded more Fulbright Grants than ever before in the university’s history. Next year 19 Rutgers’ students will be living abroad as Fulbright Grantees in Azerbaijan, Colombia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom. 16 of them will be working as... Continued
Rutgers’ Truman Scholar Honored by the New Jersey Nets
Walter Fortson, a junior with a major in Exercise Sciences, was one of three New Jersey college students recognized by the New York Nets with its Nets Foundation Appreciation Scholarship. The other recipients were Lee-Anna John and Tiffanie Serritella, both studying at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The recipients were selected on the basis of their academic achievement and commitment to community... Continued
Rutgers’ Graduate Becomes the University’s Fifth HIA Fellow
Janina Pescinski, a 2011 graduate in French and Cultural Anthropology from Hillsborough, New Jersey, was recently selected for the Humanity In Action Fellowships Program. Previous winners of the award from Rutgers were Natalie Jesionka (2007), Janine White (2008), Amber Henry (2010), and Paul Chiariello (2010). Ms. Pescinski’s mother Janet is an Administrative Assistant in the Materials Science... Continued
From Prison Inmate, to Rutgers Honors Student, to Truman Scholar
When Walter Fortson began his academic career at Rutgers University three years ago, he was living in a half-way house in Newark waiting to be paroled after serving two years in prison for selling crack cocaine. Today, the 27-year-old former inmate turned honor student has been selected as a 2012 Truman Scholar, a national award given to the country’s top students pursuing careers in government... Continued
Aspiring Teacher will Train in South Korea and Mississippi
Shortly after graduation, Artemus Werts will travel to South Korea on a Fulbright Fellowship, where he’ll teach English to students for a year. Upon his return, he’ll have just enough time to repack his bags before leaving for Mississippi where a two-year position with Teach for America awaits him. The posts are worlds apart – two vastly different systems on two ends of the educational spectrum... Continued
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