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Vivian Rosario, Jessica Jawahar, Tazmin Uddin and Meghan King were given the award for their contributions to both the college and local communities.
Helen Wolf, director of campus ministry, praised the students’ efforts.
“The Student Service Recognition Award, a national award, is presented to students who have been of service to their communities both locally and abroad. They exhibit strong leadership, courage, ingenuity, and compassion," Wolf said in a statement. "They have made significant contributions to the betterment of our world and are living testimony to the value of an Ursuline education.”
Jessica Jawahar served as the vice president of CNR’s Student Nurses Association, coordinating activities and fundraising for the association’s participation in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk and the Westchester division’s Breast Cancer Walk at Manhattanville College.
In addition, Jawahar took an active leadership role in a “Skills Party” hosted by the association to prepare nursing students in their first semester for their clinical practicum where she volunteered to show lowerclassman nursing care.
Meghan King is co-captain of the volleyball team and organized the team’s activities to contribute money to support Dig Pink for Breast Cancer and Dig Purple for Domestic Violence.
For the Special Olympics at CNR, King organized the student volunteers for the volleyball and basketball games and welcomed and registered each group of athletes as they arrived. She also volunteered as a buddy at the Hudson Valley Special Olympics 2014 Spring Games at Sleepy Hollow High School.
Vivian Rosario participated in the CNR Plunge Service Trip to Haiti to help establish the first library at College Pierre Toussaint, a secondary school in rural western Haiti.
After the Plunge, Rosario facilitated a book drive to donate additional books to College Pierre Toussaint. She went to Haiti alone in August 2014 to visit an orphanage and donate clothing, school supplies and toys to the children in the Port-Au-Prince community.
Currently, Rosario is working to organize a program in which homeless students from the Bronx can travel to Haiti to perform service work with Haitian students.
Tazmin Uddin participated in a fundraiser and served as an intern for Turning Point, a non-profit organization in Queens that serves Muslim women and children who are victims of domestic violence, providing information to clients and helping to facilitate the children’s group. Through her affiliation with the Islamic Center at NYU she participated in a Fastathon to raise awareness and funds to aid water scarcity in West Africa, for SMILE Women’s Fund which provides assistance to women facing extreme hardship, and to help raise funds to rebuild Gaza.
Lastly, as a peer minister with the College’s Office of Campus Ministry, Uddin raised awareness on multiple social justice issues including hunger, poverty and homelessness.
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