2009 HONORS CONVOCATION

2009 HONORS CONVOCATION

Honors College Award Winners

in the

College of Arts and Sciences

School of Business

College of Arts and Sciences

Student Affairs Awards

Jonathan Maddison The Tommasso A. Borda Memorial Award, in memory of Tommasso A. Borda, recognized campus leader and athlete, Class of 1983, to a junior on the basis of outstanding contributions to campus activities, athletics, academics, and community service.

Nicole Lister The Rory “Cal” Maradonna Award

presented to full-time students who have demonstrated considerable involvement on the Camden campus and who have been dedicated to promoting Rutgers-Camden.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Kasey Gorman The Athenaeum Honor Society Award for

Jennifer Leonardis distinguished academic achievement to the

society members whose academic records

have shown the highest achievement among

candidates for degrees.

Melissa Aaronberg The Honors College Award for outstanding

Rajvi Vora performance in an Honors Seminar.

Kyle Weber

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS

Robert Becker, for his project We Eat…sexwaterreligion: A Project in Multimodal Composition, conducted with Dr. William FitzGerald of the Department of English.

Jonathan Maddison, for his project The Rhetoric of Dissent: How Judicial Dissents Influence Future Litigation, conducted with Dr. William FitzGerald of the Department of English.

Joseph Vessella, for his project Complexity of a Single Resource Scheduling Problem, conducted with Dr. Rajiv Gandhi of the Department of Computer Science.

Departmental Awards

Chemistry

Nazish Khan The Analytical Division of American Chemical Society Award recognizes a student’s aptitude for a career in analytical chemistry.

Foreign Languages

Katelyn Hoobler The French Prize to the most promising student in French language and literature.

Jennifer Leonardis The Michelle Muncy Academic Excellence Award to students for outstanding performance in the Spanish major.

Nursing

Jillian Lord The Academic Achievement Award in Nursing to a student who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement.

Political Science

The following Jack Marvin Weiner Memorial Awards honor Mr. Weiner, who graduated in 1955 from Rutgers-Camden as a Political Science major and also completed his Law degree here in 1958.

Jennifer Leonardis For the highest overall average among Political Science graduates.

Nicole Lister For outstanding performance by junior political

Jonathan Maddison science students.

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice

Amy Wood The George Masterton Award in Criminal Justice to a student for academic achievement, intellectual promise, and significant contributions to the University and larger communities.

Honor Societies

Athenaeum

Class of 2010

Scholarships

Robert Becker The Jack and Mary O’Malley Endowed

Chris Connors Scholarship to outstanding students in the Honors

Frank Iwanicki College.

Kelvin Ashby Ong

Julianne Sibiski

Russell Van Fossen The Kay and George Mamo Endowed Scholarship to an outstanding student in the Honors College.

Stephanie Wozunk The Baratz & Associates Endowed Scholarship to an outstanding student in the Honors College.

Rebecca Zielinski The Ed and Carolyn Kiessling Endowed Scholarship to an outstanding student in the Honors College.

Lindy Iannacone The Ralph and Marion Arbuckle Scholarship to an undergraduate who graduated from Palmyra High School with an interest in the sciences or arts.

Frank Iwanicki The Leonard Bidwell Memorial Scholarship to full-time students majoring in mathematics.

Julia Crawford The Chemistry Alumni Scholarship to Camden

Nazish Khan College of Arts and Sciences students majoring in chemistry.

Theresa Campanella The Dorothy and David Cooper Endowed Scholarship for students majoring in psychology.

Lisa Charon The Lambert Blunt Jackson Scholarship to a full-time undergraduate student in the Educational Opportunity Fund Program.

Patricia Mulbaier The Robert C. Sheppard Endowed Scholarship to one or more full-time students enrolled at Rutgers-Camden with preference given to students from South Jersey.

James Bocco The Stainrook Foundation International Scholar

Jessica Heaton Grant to support participation in the International

Katelyn Hoobler Studies Program.

Susan Krisch

Robert Langan

Angel Roman The Evelyn White Scholarship for excellence in musical studies.

Edyta Kuciapa The Harold and Florence Woll Scholarship to one

Monique Jenkins or more full-time undergraduates in the Honors College.

School of Business

Scholarships and Awards

The Dean’s Merit Scholarship is awarded to full-time undergraduate students, pursuing business degrees, based on academic merit.

Donald Causey The Dean’s Discretionary Scholarship is awarded to incoming freshman students based on academic merit.

Rohan Bhattacharya The James M. Gaffney Memorial Award honors Jim Gaffney, a student life counselor on the Rutgers-Camden campus from 1976-1992, is presented to a student who has achieved success in spite of challenges.

Reynold Cicalese, III The New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) is presented to outstanding accounting students entering his/her senior year and is based on outstanding performance as determined by members of the organization.

Reynold Cicalese, III The Ralph W. Newkirk, Jr. Scholarship is

Sarah Katt awarded to undergraduate business students, majoring in accounting, based on academic merit.

Rohan Bhattacharya The Joseph M. and Carol Rigby Scholarship is

Jacqueline Iannetta awarded to undergraduate business students based on academic merit.

STUDENT LEADERS