- Associate Professor Domonic Bearfield (PhD'04) was appointed to NASPAA’s Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA).
- Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs Gail Daniels (retired) was awarded the 2019 SPAA Staff Award.
- Distinguished Practitioner in Residence James Davy received the 2020 SPAA Faculty Teaching Award.
- Assistant Teaching Professor Michael Dillard (MPA'10) joined the SPAA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor.
- Associate Research Professor Madinah Hamidullah was appointed co-chair of the Diversity Scholars Undergraduate Committee for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
- Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Reginald Lewis was named one of the top 50 Education Leaders in the state of New Jersey by NJBIZ.
+ Lewis, as executive director of The Newark City of Learning Collaborative (NCLC) at Rutgers University–Newark, received a $500,000 capacity-building grant from the Prudential Foundation to continue offering residents of Newark the tools and resources to attend a higher-education institution.
- Associate Professor Jiahuan Lu was featured in Nonprofit Management & Leadership's "Best of the 2010s" listing. His article “Which Nonprofit Gets More Government Funding?: Nonprofits’ Organizational Attributes and Their Receipts of Government Funding," was named one of the most popular articles published in the journal between 2010 and 2019.
- Associate Professor Lindsey McDougle served as co-chair of planning committee for the 2019 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference, Nov. 21-23, 2019 in San Diego, CA.
+ McDougle will serve as co-chair of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) 2020 Annual Conference, April 3-7, 2020 in Anaheim, CA.
- Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Norma M. Riccucci was named the winner of the 2020 H. George Frederickson Award by the Public Management Research Association (PMRA).
- Elijah Smith (BA'15) was appointed Director of Debate at Rutgers University-Newark.
- Professor Gregg Van Ryzin was inducted as a 2019 Fellow by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).
- Assistant Teaching Professor Lois Warner was inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha as an honorary member.
- Associate Professor Yahong Zhang received the 2020 SPAA Faculty Service Award.
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