Rising Rutgers senior and English major Matt Cortina, and Virginia Tech senior Grant Gardner, co-founders of the nonprofit organization Planting America, Inc., rode their bikes this summer on a 101-day cross-country journey planting one million trees to promote social and environmental responsibility.

Nova Roman (BA 2007), a double major in English and political science, was one of thirty student-athletes initiated into the Rutgers’ Delta Chapter of the National College Athlete Honor Society, Chi Alpha Sigma, who were selected for membership based on outstanding scholarship, earned athletic letter, and excellent character and citizenship.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM AWARDS

Elana Aaron
Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing

Sharae Allen
Edna N. Herzberg Prize (for an outstanding original composition)

Christine Beers
Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing

Jaya Bharne
Jordan Lee Flyer Honors Award (for outstanding promise and
achievement in the study of language and literature)

Daina Lynn Galante
Edna N. Herzberg Prize (for an outstanding original composition)

Jessica Hardie
Evelyn Hamilton Award (for fiction)

Amy Mazzariello
Evelyn Hamilton Award (for poetry)

Anna Pokazanyeva
Jordan Lee Flyer Honors Award (for outstanding promise and
achievement in the study of language and literature)

Janis Rodgers
• Academy of American Poets Enid Dame Memorial Prize
• Edna N. Herzberg Prize (for an outstanding original composition)

Zeynep Uzumu
Julia Carley Poetry Prize

Elizabeth Varall
John and Katherine Kinsella Prize (to support honors thesis research)