RLA 2023-2024 Cohort
Our 31 RLA Fellows are listed below, and their capstone project proposals posters are linked here.
Maria Ambrosio
Assistant Professor
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
Nominator: Steven Singer
Asima Arslan (She/Her/Hers)
Chair and Laboratory Director, Department of Pathology, Hamilton Hospital
Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Nominator: Valerie Fitzhugh
Tiffany Berg (She/Her/Hers)
Director of Administration
Division of Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences
Nominator: Rebecca Walkowitz
Jimmy Camacho (He/Him/His)
Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs and Graduate Enrollment Services
School of Criminal Justice
Nominator: Bill McCarthy
Keywuan Caulk (He/Him/His)
Director, Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities
Division of Student Affairs
Nominator: Lisa Sanon-Jules
Paul Copeland
Professor, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director RWJMS-Princeton MD/PhD program
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Office of Research, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Nominator: Celine Gelinas
Frederick Curry (He/Him/His)
Associate Professor, Director of the EdM Program in Dance Education, and Director of the Polestar Pilates Teacher Training Program
Department of Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Nominator: Rebecca Cypess
Laura Danson (She/Her)
Associate Director of Budgeting
Office of the Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Nominator: Anthony Gardner
Celeste Domsch (She/Her/Hers)
Program Director, Speech and Language Pathology (Master of Science)
Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, School of Health Professions
Nominator: Nancy Kirsch
Próspero N. García
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Spanish M.A.T.
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Nominator: Tyler Hoffman
Vicki Hewitt (She/Her/Hers)
Executive Secretary
University Senate
Nominator: Andrea Bueschel
Minakshi Lahiri (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Dean for Assessment
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Nominators: Joseph Barone and Carol Goldin
Felicia R. LeSure (She/Her/Hers)
Director, Office of the Chancellor
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nominator: Brian Strom
Amy Mandelbaum
Senior Program Administrator
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Nominator: Margaret Brennan-Tonetta
Matthew Miller
Associate RBHS Registrar
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nominator: Susan Hamilton
Audrey Minden
Associate Professor
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Nominator: Suzie Chen
Milady Murillo (She/Her/Hers)
Associate Director, Institute for Families
School of Social Work
Nominator: Cathryn Potter
Akhila Naik (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Teaching Professor
Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations
Nominator: Adrienne Eaton
Dilafruz Nazarova (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Teaching Professor and UNMA Associate Program Director
Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Nominator: R. Daniel Kelemen
Alexandra Pechhold (She/Her/Hers)
Patent Prosecution Manager, Technology Transfer
Office for Research
Nominator: Michael Zwick
Sara Perryman (She/Her/Hers)
Director of the Livingston Writing Center and Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Nominator: Lynda Dexheimer
Janelle Rodriguez
Director of Communications
Douglass Residential College
Nominator: Meghan Rehbein
Troy A. Roepke (They/Them)
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Nominator: Laura Lawson
Bhupinder Singh
Director, Comparative Medicine Resources
Office for Research
Nominator: Michael Zwick
Laura Stone (She/Her/Hers)
Senior Program Coordinator for Student Engagement and Wellbeing
School of Nursing
Nominator: Mike Varano
Lori Van Walters-Truell (She/Her/Hers)
Senior Counselor, Special Programs
Rutgers School of Nursing, Educational Opportunity Fund Program
Nominator: Anyelina (Angie) Diaz
Alexis White
Academic and Faculty Affairs Administrator
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Nominator: Rebecca Cypess
Kim Williams (She/Her/Hers)
Director, Rutgers Future Scholars Program
Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Nominator: Courtney McAnuff
Zhimin Xi
Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
School of Engineering
Nominator: Mohsen Jafari
Aparna Zama (She/Her/Hers)
Associate Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Department of Animal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Nominator: Thomas Leustek
Devon Ziminski (She/Her/Hers)
Senior Research Project Administrator
Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs (WRI)
Nominator: Kristin Curtis