SPAA Student Highlights: Academic Year 2020-2021
- BA/MPA student Anna Agbotse was selected for a three-week Impact Investing Bootcamp run by University Impact (UI).
- SPAA graduate Michelle Amparbin (MPA’21) was awarded the 2021 SPAA Outstanding MPA Student Award for high achievement in both academic and co-curricular pursuits.
- PhD candidate Meril Antony was awarded a $5K scholarship grant by RAND Corporation.
+ Antony was selected as a 2021 Founders’ Fellow by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).
+ Antony received a Rutgers University–Newark Graduate School Dean Dissertation Fellowship for academic year 2021-2022.
- PhD candidate Adam Kuczynski was selected as a 2020 Doctoral Seminar Fellow by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
- SPAA graduate Jeffrey Layden (MPA'21) was awarded the 2021 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.)
- PhD student Hanjin Mao was selected as a 2020 Doctoral Seminar Fellow by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
+ Mao received the American Society for Public Administration’s (ASPA) 2021 Walter W. Mode Scholarship and Wallace O. Keene Conference Scholarship.
- BA/MPA student Ana Olivera (BA'21) was awarded the 2021 SPAA Outstanding BA Student Award for high achievement in both academic and co-curricular pursuits.
+ Olivera was selected for a three-week Impact Investing Bootcamp run by University Impact (UI).
- EMPA student Andrew Saunders received a grant for his co-founded nonprofit organization, New Blue, via The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures from Columbia Business.
- PhD candidate Kayla Schwoerer was selected to be the first American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) Section for Science and Technology in Government Fellow.
+ Schwoerer joined the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) National Council for 2021-2022 in the role of student representative.
- PhD student Valentine A. Lamar received ASPA’s Section on Ethics and Integrity in Governance 2021 Outstanding Student Paper Award.
- PhD graduate Kareem Willis (BA’16, MPA’17, PhD’21) was awarded the 2021 SPAA Outstanding PhD Student Award for high achievement in both academic and co-curricular pursuits.
+ Willis was selected to be part of the 2020 Graduate Diversity Scholars and Leaders program by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
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