The Livingston Alumni Association (LAA) established its Distinguished Alumni Award in September 2000 to recognize Livingston College alumni who have distinguished themselves by contributions they have made in their chosen fields of endeavor, by the leadership they have exhibited, and by the general benefits to the larger society resulting from their activities.

In November 2004, the LAA established the Seth Dvorin Distinguished Young Alumni Award in memory of Army First Lt. Seth Jeremy Dvorin '02 (Administration of Justice), who was tragically killed in Iraq on February 3, 2004.  The Seth Dvorin Award is presented to Livingston College young alumni 30 years old and under who have distinguished themselves by contributions they have made in their chosen fields of endeavor, by the leadership they have exhibited, and by the general benefits to the larger society resulting from their activities.

The Livingston Legacy Award was established in 2008 to recognize Livingston College faculty and staff that played a key role in the establishment and growth of Livingston College and its mission, and contributions to the overall Rutgers and global communities. 

The next LAA Awards will be presented in May 2011.  To nominate a candidate, complete the nomination form and support materials, and submit them via email to info@livingstonalumni.org or send them via regular mail to the Livingston Alumni Association, PO Box 5403, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.  Deadline for receipt of nominations by email is June 30, 2010.  Nominations submitted by regular mail must be postmarked no later than June 30, 2010.   

The Livingston Alumni Association presented Distinguished Alumni Awards to the following outstanding Livingston College graduates on Saturday, May 16, 2009: 

MARLA DIAMOND LC '92 has been a mainstay on the WCBS Newsradio 880 staff since 1997. She joined WCBS as its New Jersey correspondent and currently covers New York City for the station. Her radio career started at New Brunswick 's WCTC-AM and she also served as a public relations director for a New Jersey hospital. Diamond has won numerous awards in her career at WCBS, including the Art Athens Award for General Excellence in radio reporting. View Marla Diamond's biography.

FRANCOISE JACOBSOHN LC ‘78 is the Project Manager for Equality Works, Legal Momentum's Economic Justice Program focusing on expanding women's participation in high-paying non-traditional employment. She was named Project Manager for Women Rebuild in 2004. A former president of NOW-NYC, she most recently worked on an institutional and community-building project for public education in Upper Manhattan .

Françoise has been working in women's rights and community building for more than twenty years both in Europe and in the United States . She is a member of the New York City Mayor's Commission on Construction Opportunity, established in March 2005, to ensure that women and minorities gain access to work in the construction trades.

Françoise has taught a class on "Women, the Law and Public Opinion" for France's Political Science Institute, worked for a European nonprofit focused on violence against women at the workplace, and helped set up one of the early battered women's shelters in New Jersey in the late 70s.  View Francoise Jacobsohn's biography.

MARTHA NELL SMITH LC '85 is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland . Her numerous print publications include three award-winning books— Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson , coauthored with Ellen Louise Hart (1998), Comic Power in Emily Dickinson , coauthored with Cristanne Miller and Suzanne Juhasz (1993), Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992)—and more than 40 articles and essays in American Literature , Studies in the Literary Ima gin ation , South Atlantic Quarterly , Women's Studies Quarterly , Profils Americains , San Jose Studies , The Emily Dickinson Journal , and A Companion to Digital Humanities . With Mary Loeffelholz, she edited a Companion to Emily Dickinson (Dec 2007), and she has also written Dickinson , A User's Guide (July 2009) for Wiley-Blackwell.  View Martha Nell Smith's biography.

2009 Seth Dvorin Young Alumni Award

KEVIN APUZZIO LC ‘06 had worked as an emergency medical technician in Rutgers Department of Emergency Services for more than three years before his untimely death in April 2006, when he died trying to save someone in a house fire. One year to the day after Kevin's passing , members of the Rutgers community and the Apuzzio family gathered in the university's Public Safety Building to honor him by renaming the training facility the Kevin Apuzzio Training Center . Kevin was presented posthumously with the Rutgers University Alumni Association Meritorious Service Award for Community Service in 2006.  View Kevin Apuzzio's biography.