SPAA Student Highlights: Academic Year 2019-2020
- SPAA graduate Anna Agbotse (BA’20) was awarded the 2020 SPAA Outstanding BA Student Award for high achievement in both academic and co-curricular pursuits.
+ Agboste was awarded a 2020 Rutgers College Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award.
- PhD student Meril Antony was welcomed into the American Society for Public Administration's South Asian Section for Public Administration's first cohort of student ambassadors.
- MPA student Michael Baksh (BA’19) was awarded the SPAA Department of Public Administration and Academic Excellence Fund Scholarship for Fall 2019.
- SPAA graduate Salvador Bigay (MPA'20) was awarded the 2020 SPAA E. Drexel Godfrey Award for embodying the SPAA core values of high academic achievement, scholarship, and service to the community. (The award is named after E. Drexel Godfrey, former assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who joined the faculty of Rutgers University–Newark in 1974 and established and directed the graduate program in public administration.)
- BA student Kayla Calvo was selected to participate in the ARNOVA 2019 Undergraduate Diversity Scholars and Leaders Professional Development Program.
+ Calvo was awarded the SPAA Gala Anniversary Scholarship for Fall 2019.
- MPA student Sueann Gravesande (BA’19) was elected to the Orange Township Board of Education.
- PhD student Apoorva Gupta was welcomed into the American Society for Public Administration's South Asian Section for Public Administration's first cohort of student ambassadors.
- SPAA graduate Melinda Jensen (MPA’20) was awarded the Eckstein Fellowship for Fall 2019.
- SPAA student Diana Jones was awarded the SPAA Book Scholarship for Spring 2020.
- SPAA graduate Dr. Danbee Lee (PhD’20) was awarded the 2020 SPAA Outstanding PhD Student for high achievement in both academic and co-curricular pursuits.
+ Lee was awarded a 2019 Wallace O. Keene American Society for Public Administration Conference Scholarship.
- BA student Ana Olivero was selected to participate in the ARNOVA 2019 Undergraduate Diversity Scholars and Leaders Professional Development Program.
- SPAA graduate Nancy Pietrobon (MPA’20) was awarded the 2020 SPAA Outstanding MPA Award for high achievement in both academic and co-curricular pursuits.
- MPA student Lynese Rawlins was awarded a SPAA Graduate Scholarship for Fall 2019.
- BA student Simone Richardson was selected to participate in the ARNOVA 2019 Undergraduate Diversity Scholars and Leaders Professional Development Program.
- SPAA graduate Claudia Saavedra (BA'18, MPA’20) talked about the change she is making within the Newark community in a video documentary by The Aspen Institute.
- MPA student Edward Salas was awarded the SPAA Department of Public Administration and Academic Excellence Fund Scholarship for Fall 2019.
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