Students and Faculty Honored for Their Achievements

This list of Cornell faculty and student awards is a sampling of honors presented this year. Some awards not listed here already have been announced in the Chronicle. Congratulations to all!

The Class of 2002 Degree Marshals are Wirulda Pootakham and Timothy Uschold; Class of 2002 Banner Bearers are Melissa Bowlin, Jeffrey Walwyn and Arel Golombeck.

The Chancellor's Awards from the State University of New York (SUNY) for Student Excellence went to Jason Corwin, Andrew Luria, Kimberly Mohr, Alexander Pearson and Joanna Radin.

The award for Academic Excellence was presented to the top scholar in each of the college's majors. They were awarded as follows: animal science -- Kristin Vyhnal; applied economics and management -- Jeffrey Walwyn; atmospheric sciences -- Alexander Ruane; biological engineering -- Richard Cohen; biological sciences -- Timothy Uschold; biology and society -- Emily Puleo; biometry and statistics -- Jennifer Chunn; communication -- Nicole Mariani; crop and soil sciences -- Emma Sisti; education -- Meghan Concra; entomology -- James McNeil; food science -- Debby Wong; general studies -- Arel Golombeck; horticulture -- Adriane Lukens; international agriculture -- Jessica Milgroom; landscape architecture -- Carlyn Worstell; natural resources -- Jane Carlson; nutrition, food and agriculture -- Alexandra McGann; plant sciences -- Wirulda Pootakham; rural sociology -- Laura Sheiman; science of earth systems -- John Shiffer.

Julie Kelsey and Scott Belsky received the Richard A. Church Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, based on voluntary activities beyond undergraduate academic requirements.

Marc Waase was given the Paul Schreurs Memorial Award of $500 to recognize excellence in undergraduate research and service to the community, sponsored by the college's honor society, Ho-Nun-De-Kah.

The Professor of Merit Award, voted by the senior class, went to Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. Also voted on by the senior class, the Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Adviser Award recipient was Cindy Van Es, senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics and Management.

The Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, recognizing outstanding teachers in the first five years of their teaching appointment in CALS, went to Michelle Campo, assistant professor of communication.

The Innovative Teacher Award, for developing new approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, went to Kenneth Mudge, associate professor of horticulture.

Herbert Gottfried, professor of landscape architecture, received the Excellence for Promoting Cultural Diversity Award, recognizing members of the CALS faculty and academic staff who have made significant contributions to enhancing a positive climate for multicultural diversity within their teaching, research and/or extension programs.

David Winkler, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, received the Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Independent Research Award.

The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching went to David Galton, the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow from the Department of Animal Science, and Kifle Gebremedhin, professor of biological and environmental engineering.

The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service recipient was Mary-Lynn Cummings, manager of facilities operations in CALS. Martin Schlabach, head of the Comstock Memorial Library of Entomology in Ithaca and the Frank A. Lee Library at Geneva received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship.

The Edgerton Career Teaching Award, for a faculty member who has provided outstanding teaching and advising throughout a long and continuous career in the college, was presented to Douglas Haith, professor of biological and environmental engineering.

Seniors William Werkmeister and Robert Pistilli were chosen to receive $1,000 from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, which recognizes academic performance of students in the department.

The Kenneth J. Bissett Award, presented to a junior and senior communication major who exhibit academic excellence, creativity, sensitivity and an interest in the arts, went to Yonina Fishof (Dec. '01 graduate), seniors Laura Granka and Jonathan Kivell and junior Jessica Saunders.

The 1894 Memorial Debate Competition, a two-day, fall semester, campuswide competition among undergraduates who are members of the Cornell Forensics Society, awarded the following cash prizes: Lara Douglas, $520; David Jaffe, $500; Tzvetana Tochkov, $405; Melanie Fraticelli, $375; Meghan Dubyak, $280; David Fisher and Jason Corwin, $270; Daniel Kasell, $250; Matthew Miller and David Nicola, $135; Joanne Leung, Jesse Blonder, Michael Inwald, Stephanie Johnson, Julia Kornblatt and Michael Bender, $125; Jonathan Blank, $90; Michael Huth, Anthony Keeney, Jacob Brown, Jon Jacobs and William Hongach, $50.

Winners of the Stansky Award, used to support Forensics Society team members' travel expenses to a speech and debate tournament, went to Lara Douglas, David Jaffe, Tzvetana Tochkov and Melanie Fraticelli.

The Thomas B. Bush Memorial Fund Award, based on academic ability, character and other relevant factors, went to Amy Arrigo, Jessica Groppe, Eva Nahorniak, Nicole Sol, Amita Chugh, Julie Kluka, Gretchen Poulos, Jennifer Shaffer, Rebecca Tillemans, Rebecca Berlemann, Allison Simpson and Cassandra Lizaire.

The Birge Kinne Fund Award, also based on academic ability, character and other relevant factors, went to Jill Hogeboom, Duane Randall and Jacques Vigneault.

Winners of the fall Woodford Speaking Contest were: Robert Bonder, first place; Linda Schmidt, second place; Jacob Brown, third place; and honorable mention went to Katherine Granish, Victor Olds and Curtis O'Neal.

Adrial Lobelo, an ILR major, won the Edward L. Bernays Foundation Primus Inter Pares Award, to encourage leadership in the Cornell Public Relations Student Society of America.

Mark Chong was named Best Graduate Teaching Assistant in Communication.

Winners of the Anson E. Rowe Endowment Fund were seniors Joanna Radin and Laura Granka and juniors Tzvetana Tochkov and Duane Randall.

Dominique Brossard and Matthew Nisbet received the Graduate Student Anson E. Rowe Award.

Amy Arrigo received the William B. Ward Communication Scholarship.

Gillian Walters and Melanie Friedman received the Women Executives in Public Relations Foundation Award.

The Sheila Turner Seed Memorial Award, a paid internship at Scholastic Inc.'s Choices magazine for junior women majoring in communication, went to Briana Collins.

The Chester Freeman Communication Leadership Fund Award, given to a communication junior who best exhibits the interdisciplinary character of the department's program, went to Gretchen Poulos.

The Class of 1886 Memorial Speaking Contest, held in the spring, awarded the following prizes: Patrick Callahan, first place; Miranda Pugh, second place; Elizabeth Hastings, third place; and honorable mention to Leron Thumim, La'Toya Latney and Christina Jordan.

David Moeller and Angela Lieverse received Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Teaching Awards, given in recognition of excellence in teaching by a teaching assistant.

The Robert H. Whittaker Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation made by a graduate student at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Association's Symposium, went to David Moeller for his presentation, "Spatial Variation in Bee Pollinator Communities and Breeding System Evolution in Clarkia xantiana."

The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award, for the best paper given by a beginning graduate student at the Graduate Student Symposium, went to Jeanne Robertson for her paper, "What Is a Stream Frog Doing in the Middle of the Forest? Movement Patterns of a Neotropical Glass Frog."

Sarah Broadley, of the Field of Genetics and Development, and Mi-Young Kim, of the Field of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, won the Laboratory Product Sales Graduate Student Research Award.

The following students were named College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants: Kristina Blake-Hodek, Genetics and Development Award; and Lilia Nunez Rodriguez, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology Award.

The Martin Dominguez Distinguished Teaching Award went to Medina Lasansky.

Casey Thomas Cadwallader won the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, awarded by the professional architectural fraternity to a graduating student who has demonstrated leadership ability, performed service to the school and who shows promise of professional merit through attitude and personality.

The American Institute of Architects awards a medal and certificate of merit to the top-ranking graduating students. This year's Henry Adams Medal went to Terence Francis Go Cuaso, and the certificate of merit went to Raymond Chun Wai Kwok.

Terence Francis Go Cuaso also received the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Award, for the graduating student who has attained the highest cumulative average in architectural design, and the William S. Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design.

The Eschweiler Prize went to Kent Kian Yap Lim.

Maya Krause and Raymond Kwok received the Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship.

The Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal is awarded on the basis of exceptional merit to architecture students in architectural design and to art students in sculpture or painting and composition. For architecture, Ivan Perez-Rossello won a silver medal, and Ifeoma Nkemdilim Ebo, Arthur Huang and David Qirong Huang won bronze medals; for art, Jeremy Williams won a bronze medal.

The Undergraduate Arts Recognition Award, given jointly by the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Cultural Endeavors Committee, went to Scott Pitek.

Marion Karl won the Faculty Medal of Art, awarded to a graduating art student whose academic record and studio work, in faculty opinion, demonstrate the greatest promise of future achievement in the field of art.

The John Hartell Graduate Award for Art went to Julia Featheringill and Claudia Sbrissa.

The Department of Art Distinguished Achievement Award went to June Glasson, Meejin Hong, Rebecca Messineo and Ashley Wenham.

The Charles Baskerville Painting Award went to Sydney Chastain-Chapman.

Joseph Bowes received the Michael Rapuano Memorial Award, for "distinction in design" given to a graduating student in architecture, landscape architecture, painting, sculpture or planning.

The Thomas W. Mackesey Prize, awarded to a city and regional planning student who has demonstrated unusual academic competence or has significantly contributed to the intellectual advancement of fellow students, went to Christina Chan.

The American Institute of Certified Planners Student Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in the graduate study of planning, went to Robin Heyduk.

The John W. Reps Award, given to a second-year graduate student for academic excellence to encourage and reward a preservation student for achievement, went to Kristen Marie Brennan.

Joanna Canter and Vincent Reina received the Academic Achievement Award for Urban and Regional Studies.

The Urban and Regional Studies Community Service Award went to undergraduates Rose-Marie Jerlaianu and Alexander Santiago-Jirau.

The Department of City and Regional Planning Community Service Award went to graduate students Kenia Colon, Krys Cail, Melissa Carino, Joan Chen, Gabriel Lemus, Rafael Ignacio Salas and Lina Velasco.

The Kermit C. Parsons and Janice I. Parsons Scholarship went to Margaret Cohen-Stevens.

The Peter B. Andrews Memorial Thesis Prize went to Celeste Frye.

The Upstate N.Y. Chapter of American Planning Association Student Project Award went to the Northside Neighborhood Improvement Program -- Thomas Chandy, Caitlin Chipperfield, Rose-Marie Jerlaianu, Terrance McKinley, Kyessa Moore, Edwardo Valero, Joshua Abrams, Joseph Braitsch, Holly Spoth and Joe Bowes.

Noah Demarest and Deina Luberts received the E. Gorton Davis Traveling Fellowship.

The American Society of Landscape Architects Award for excellence in education went to Alexandre Champagne and Jamie Vanucchi Hartung, certificates of honor; and Theodore Eisenman and Jiyeon Woo, certificates of merit.

Deina Luberts received a Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship.

The Degree Marshals and Banner Bearers are Han Pin Goh, Jason Adam Flannick, Mayely Laura Boyce, Joshua David Goldman and Graham William Meli.

Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards went to Ravi Ramakrishna, assistant professor of mathematics; Molly Diesing, associate professor of linguistics; and Neil Jenkins, teaching assistant in chemistry.

John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards went to senior lecturers Hairhin Diffloth, Asian studies; Robert Lieberman, Learning Strategies Center; and Shambhu Oja, Asian studies; and to the following teaching assistants: Sarah Heidt, English; Tanya Matthews, linguistics; Anthony Pollock, comparative literature; and Matthew Van Adelsberg, physics.

Peter Holquist, assistant professor in history, and Michael Spivey, associate professor in psychology, received Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists.

The Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising went to Christopher Way, assistant professor of government.

The 2002 Eleanor Norton York Prize in Astronomy went to Britt Scharringhausen and Karen Masters.

Dae-Sik Moon and Shamibrata Chatterjee received the Cranson W. and Edna B. Shelley Award for Graduate Research in Astronomy. The Shelley Award for Undergraduate Research in Astronomy went to Adam Mantz.

The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded:

ACS Analytical Prize to Zuleikha Kurji. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Friedrich Popp, Sek Liew Teo and Yelena Koldobskaya. Hypercube Scholar to Benjamin Steinberg. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to Ewa Lis. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Michael Nanaszko, Tam Thien Ngo, Bridgit Nolan and Andrew Lieben. Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Jason Hill. Merck Index Awards to Jean-Philip Lumb and John Khoury.

The following graduate prizes have been awarded:

Teaching Excellence Awards went to Jahan Dawlaty, William Kennerly and Anne McNeil. The Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium award went to Jonas Goldsmith, Phillip Hustad and Rikard Wind. The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize went to William Silveira.

The Richard Evans Prize for Excellence in Teaching went to Katie Gulliford.

Sarah Heidt won an Assignment Sequence Award (English 187). Reesa Grushka won an Assignment Sequence Honorable Mention (English 132).

Sean Serrell won both an Essay Portfolio Award (jointly with his student Rebecca Rheinhardt, English 132) and an Assignment Sequence Honorable Mention (English 132).

Genny Love won a Spencer Prize for work leading to a finished paper (jointly with her student Megan Ryan, English 185).

Winners of the Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction were: John Cullom, first place in the graduate student division, and Jeffrey Richard Barker, Christopher Kang, Ezra Kautz and Brandon Krieg, first place in the undergraduate student division.

The following poetry prizes were awarded: The Corson-Bishop Prize went to Gina Franco and Toshiaki Komura; the Robert Chasen Prize, to Emily Rosko; and the Dorothy Sugarman Prize, to Emily Adelman.

The Goethe Prize is awarded for the best essays on German literature, culture or film. In the category for graduate students, first place went to Nancy November, music department; second place went to Nina Lauritzen, comparative literature. In the category for juniors and seniors, second place went to senior Julia Guarneri. In the category for freshmen and sophomores, second place went to freshman Denise Zeichner and sophomores Kim Gillece and Elidor Mehilli.

The Simmons Award in German, which goes to the student who has done the best work in German, went to sophomore Justin Hall.

Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. Books are donated to the Department of German Studies by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. For German Studies 121: Lauren Schwartzman, Maximilian Eisenburger, Rachel Wilson, Amy Jo Burns and Maureen Wang; for GS 122: Hakan Bas, Dominique Frega, Feng Zhou and Elisabeth Gennis; GS 123: Rachel Wilson, Chris Burk, Gregory Seaberg and Lilli Shoen; GS 200: Alix Morse, Scott Creary, Mark Polking, Amy Yang, Christian Coerds and Zekeriyya Gemici; GS 202: Gokce Kirca and David Kim; GS 204: Tara Hamm and Sarah Service; GS 206: Anton Seidel; GS 301: Jason Canavan and Justin Hall; and GS 302: Aylin Kasapoglu and Sarah Sheridan.

The following students received Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships for 2001-02: Jason Lyall, government; Gary Tsifrin, history; and Adelheid Voskuhl, science and technology studies.

Recipients of Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships for Academic Year 2001-02 and Summer 2002 were: Diego De Acosta, linguistics; Michelle Duncan, German studies; Leslie Schill, city and regional planning; Eric Lief, Romance studies; and Thomas Platt, Romance studies.

Recipients of Michele Sicca Summer 2002 Research Grants were: Josephine Alcott, landscape architecture; David Agruss, comparative literature; Joseph Campana, English; Nancy November, music; Scott Siegel, government; and Amanda Smith, Romance studies.

Recipients of Michele Sicca Summer 2002 Honorary Research Grants were: William Van Esveld and Yuliya Komska.

Niall Atkinson, architecture, received a Manon Michels Einaudi Summer 2002 Travel Grant.

Frederic Conger Wood Fellowships went to: Seth Harris, industrial and labor relations; Joshua Juel, ILR; Margaret Marczewski, biology; Julia Markish, College Scholar; and Julia Tretiak, psychology.

The Harry L. Kieval Prize in Mathematics, awarded to outstanding graduating senior mathematics majors, went to Daniel Ramras.

The Donald J. Grout Memorial Scholarship went to Willa Collins, Jeremy Day O'Connell and John Sheinbaum.

Daria Kwiatkowska received the Robbins Family Composition Prize.

John James Blackmore Prizes went to Augustus Arnone, Chia-Chi Chen, Stephanie Chin, Thomas Irvine, Spencer Lambright, Victor Chia-Wei Lin, Kevin Lowe, Glenn Schneider, Tom Schneller, Matthew Testa, Wiebke Thormahlen and Diego Vega.

The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize went to David Kempe, David Kim and Nicholas Matthew.

Barbara Troxell Vocal Awards went to Sara Lozyniak and Yotam Haber.

Martha Jane Dale Awards went to Christopher Arrell, Blaise Bryski, Lars Haugbro and Rebecca Marques.

The Harold A. Falconer Memorial Award went to Daniel Acsadi, Megan Lemley and Jillian Nalevanko.

Ellen Gussman Adelson Prizes went to Andre Allavena, Anna Herforth, Levy Lorenzo, Keigo Hirakawa and Kenneth McEnaney.

Rachel Isaacson was recognized for excellence in intermediate Arabic, and Michelle Fullwood, Susan Moskwa and Emily Sharpe were recognized for excellence in elementary Arabic.

Nida Chaudhary and Maria Khan were recognized for excellence in Qur'anic Arabic.

Matthew Bliss, Rebecca Hisiger, Hayley Feldman and Alexandra Kleinerman received the Herman and Phoebe Karpel Memorial Prize in recognition of superior performance in Hebrew studies, awarded by the Program of Jewish Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

The Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize in Peace Studies went to Katelin Maher, a senior in the ILR School.

Jason Flannick, Han Pin Goh and Joshua Goldman received the Kieval Prize in Physics.

Hui Khoon Ng won the Paul Hartman Prize in Experimental Physics, awarded jointly by the Department of Physics and the School of Applied and Engineering Physics.

The Donald R. Yennie Prize in Physics went to Justin Kinney.

The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize, which recognizes a graduating senior woman majoring in French who made the best record for four years, with special reference to facility of expression in French, went to Tina Tolentino.

The following faculty members received 2001 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Awards: Beth Ahner and Douglas Haith, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering; Frank Wise, School of Applied and Engineering Physics; Anthony Ingraffea, Leonard Lion and Jery Stedinger, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Brad Anton, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Johannes Gehrke, Juris Hartmanis and Greg Morrisett, Department of Computer Science; David Delchamps, Mark Heinrich and Rajit Manohar, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Mark Psiaki, Marjolein van der Meulen and Zellman Warhaft, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; George Malliaras and Michael Thompson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; James Renegar, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering; and Steven Strogatz, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Professors Michael Shuler, chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Donald Farley, electrical and computer engineering, received the 2001 James M. and Marsha D. McCormick Award for excellence in advising first-year engineering students.

Norman Scott received the ASAE McCormick Case Gold Medal Award.

The Horton Medal went to Yves Parlange.

Steven Zicari received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

Michael Duncan received the Paramount Professor Award from the Panhellenic Council and Inter-Fraternity Council.

The 2002 Achievement Award from the Cornell Society of Engineers went to Miriam Ackley.

Steve Harasim received the Dow/Rodriguez Outstanding Student Award.

The Dow/Scheele Outstanding Junior Award went to Theresa Ellspermann.

Stephen Cypes received the Procter and Gamble Technical Excellence Award.

Tiffany Wong received the award for Outstanding Service to the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

The American Institute of Chemists Award went to Peter Chiulli.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers Twin Tiers Award went to Martin Kennedy.

The 2002 Chi Epsilon Professor of the Year award went to Richard Dick.

The John E. Perry Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize went to Phech Colatat, Jessica Moeller and Troy Zezula.

The John E. Perry Outstanding Undergraduate Prize went to Christopher Gosling, Selina Lee, Margo Levine and Stephen Phillips.

Chin Kuan Kuek received the 2001 Fuertes Undergraduate Medal.

Christopher Gosling received the ASCE Ithaca Section 2002 Winslow T. Shearman Student Merit Award. The ASCE Chapter Student Service Award went to Mark Mattson. Stephen Phillips received the ASCE Chapter John P. Riley '22 Award. Raphael Siebenmann received the ASCE Marshal Case Haggard Award.

Winners for the Charles Lee Crandall Writing Competition were: Weiting Ng, first place in the environmental engineering category; and John Alfano, first place in the civil infrastructure and the engineering systems and management categories.

Yueh Phern Tan won the Ve-Sing and Tseng Soo Koo Award.

Hwee Bin Tay won the Margaret Arronet Corbin '21 Prize.

The George Winter Graduate Fellowship in Structural Engineering was won by Jon Matthews Rouse.

Susan Berotti received the Richard N. White Master of Engineering Award for structural engineering.

The Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding senior geology major, went to Matthew Recker.

Jeffrey Barker received the Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize, awarded to an outstanding senior geology student who is "adept in other liberal arts fields as well as geology -- a student of the world."

Anat Shahar received the American Mineralogist Undergraduate Award.

Jahan Dawlaty, William Kennerly and Anne McNeil received Teaching Excellence Awards.

Winners of the Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium were Jonas Goldsmith, Phillip Hustad and Rikard Wind.

The following undergraduate students received awards, prizes and scholarships from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering this year: Susan Kuo and Joanna Lai received Schlumberger Collegiate Award Scholarships; Allen Chang, Paul George, Alan Leung, Barry Rafkind and Kush Varshney received Lockheed Martin Awards for Academic Excellence; Salim Bhimji and Jeffrey Hantson received William S. Einwechter Awards; David Chao received the John G. Pertsch Prize.

Cornell Continuing Fellowships were given to Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Daniel Kucharski and Richard Martin.

Toby Berger received the Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Donald Farley received the 2001-02 Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award. The 2001 IEEE Power Engineering Society Career Service Award went to James Thorp.

The Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award went to Graeme Bailey.

The Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2002 went to Anna Allegra Angus.

Winners of the Degenfelder grant scholarship in computational biology went to Ben Mathew and Vlad Muste.

Serguei Vassilvitskii won the 2001-02 Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship Award.

Ken Diest received the Undergraduate Materials Research Initiative Award from the Materials Research Society.

Arthur Howard and Michael Harbeck received Boeing Fellowship Awards.

The Outstanding Senior Award, presented by the student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, went to Sharon Ang.

Adam Wickenheiser and Chin Leong Teo won the Frank O. Ellenwood Prize for excellence in junior power engineering courses.

Sophomores Derek Carboni, Matthew Fritsch, Michael Giansiracusa, Scott Nolan and Daniel Sheinfeld won the Lockheed Martin Engineering Scholars Award for academic excellence.

Marjolein van der Meulen was awarded the Dennis G. Shepherd Teaching Prize for outstanding teaching in the Sibley School and the Dorothy G. Swanson Teaching Award.

Michel Louge received the Cornell Society of Engineers 2001 Annual Award to The Gas Particle Interactions in Microgravity Team.

Joshua Barratt received the Harriet Davis Fellowship for Spring 2002; Stephen Holland won the David H. Block Award for 2001; and Wen-Pin Shih received the David H. Block Award for 2002.

Class Marshals and Banner Bearers: Phillip Cummins, Gilda Perez, Bennett Nolan, Jason Gold and Marisa Althoff.

The Teaching Excellence Awards were given as follows: freshman core courses to Associate Professor Dennis Reynolds; sophomore core courses to Assistant Professor Scott Gibson; junior/senior core courses to Assistant Professor David Sherwyn; junior/senior elective courses, Associate Professor Bruce Tracey; and master's of management in hospitality courses, Associate Professor Linda Canina.

The winners of the Faculty Research Award were: David Sherwyn, Tony Simons and Michael Sturman.

Winners of the Undergraduate Research Awards were: William Balinbin, first place for his work with Assistant Professor Dennis Reynolds; and Brenna Halliday, second place for her work with Associate Professor David Stipanuk.

Jesse Fox received the R.C. Kopf Student Achievement Award, presented to a student who has demonstrated exceptional interest in fine wines and restaurant management and who is committed to practicing that profession in the United States.

The Joseph Drown Prize went to Jarrod Norkus. Finalists were Rohan Gopaldas, Susan Hambro, Ashley Morgan and John Zeltmann.

The Florence Halpern Prize, based on achievement in a community service project, went to Shwe Htee.

The Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communication went to: first prize, Zela Brotherton; second prize, Kate Robinson; third prize, Ari Stern; and fourth prize, Kavel McLean.

Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: seniors Vanessa Ulmer and Jeffrey Vigliotti; juniors I Hua Hsieh and Hedwig Lee; and sophomores Michelle Findley and Elizabeth O'Brien.

The Kappa Omicron Nu Achievement Award went to Elizabeth O'Brien.

The following students were named Outstanding Seniors: Jesse Boring, Julia Durgee, Jason Freedman, Dornechia George, Julie Katz, Sharon Kim, Heather Lord, Cristina Melendez, Meghan Morris, Waitz Ngan, Rachel Rubin, Courtney Sherman, Vanessa Ulmer, Jennifer Valla, Wendy Vargas, Jeffrey Vigliotti, Julie Vultaggio and Abigail Watson.

The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement in Policy Analysis and Management went to Jeffrey Vigliotti.

The Ruthanna Wood Davis Award for Academic Achievement in Nutritional Sciences went to Rachael Drabot.

Nolapot Pumhiran received the Hillier Award.

The Janet and Joseph Zuckerman Award for Excellence in Human Development Studies went to Jessica Conser.

Julie Katz won a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, and Steven Robertson was the nominee for the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The Kappa Omicron Nu/Human Ecology Alumni Association Advising Award went to Carole Bisogni.

Gary Evans and Paul Eshelman won the Cornell Class of 1972 Award for Academic Innovation for their collaborative teaching work.

Professor George Boyer received the General Mills Award for Exemplary Teaching; Professor Quinetta Roberson received the General Mills Award for Innovation in Teaching; Professor Cletus Daniel received the General Mills Award for Achievement in Teaching; and Latha Chekuru received the General Mills Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching Assistant Instruction.

The Daniel Alpern Memorial Prize went to Uzodinma Asonye and Moez Kaba in recognition of their scholarship and service to the school.

Tracy Zuckerman won the James Campbell Memorial Award, presented to the senior selected as best representing the qualities of character and personality exemplified by Professor Campbell.

The Irving M. Ives Award, presented to the senior who has best demonstrated the qualities of good faith, integrity, responsibility, cooperativeness and good will, went to Elena Voss. The Irving M. Ives Freshman Award went to Evan Andrews; the Sophomore Award went to Cari Stern; and the Junior Award went to Jessica Solinsky.

Scott Paltrowitz received the John O'Donnell Prize for Outstanding Performance in Undergraduate Labor and Employment Law.

The Edward M. Snyder Prize in Statistics went to Christopher Smith.

The Joel Seidman Prize went to Luke Barefoot and Danielle Van Jaarsveld.

Keisha Hudson and James Meadows received the Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights.

The Stanley E. Gould Prize for Public Interest Law went to Kimberly Macey and Lisa Wolford.

Elizabeth Padilla received the Seymour Herzog Memorial Prize, awarded to a student who demonstrates excellence in the law and commitment to public interest law, combined with a love of sports.

The Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence went to Ruth Collins.

Ronald Riis received the Norden Distinguished Teacher Award, selected by the members of the fourth-year class.

The Outstanding Clinical Resident Award, also selected by the fourth-year class, went to Tristan Karl Weinkle.

Carlos Hortiguela de Pablos received the Outstanding Veterinary Technician Award.

The American Animal Hospital Award went to Laura Shepard.

Rita Kivircik won the American Association of Feline Practitioners Award.

Jennifer Barrett was awarded the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Award.

Jeremy Cohen received the American College of Veterinary Radiology Prize.

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons Award went to Jennifer Barrett for large-animal surgery and to Eve Flores for small-animal surgery.

Emily Meseck received the Auxiliary of the American Veterinary Medical Association Prize.

The James Gordon Bennett Prize, for the fourth-year student who shows the greatest humaneness in handling animals, went to Angela Martin.

Julie Maul won the Anne Besse Prize for best work in food-animal medicine.

The Frank Bloom Pathology Award went to Jennifer Gummo-Wagner.

Tracy Powell and Jardayna Werlin won the Gary Bolton Memorial Cardiology Award.

The Charles Gross Bondy Prize, for the best work by a student in the fourth year in courses in practical medicine and surgery of small animals, went to Stacey Benton. Benton also won the Horace K. White Prize, for the student with the highest academic record during veterinary training.

Dharshan Neravanda received the John F. Cummings Memorial Award.

Michelle Delco won the A. Gordon Danks Large-Animal Surgery Award.

The Daphne Award, awarded to graduating students who exemplify excellence in the practice of veterinary medicine, went to Allyson Berent, Robert Rebhun, Kristen Reyher and David Smith.

The Donald D. Delahanty Memorial Prize, for a fourth-year student who shows an interest in equine practice, went to Daniel Lauridia.

Amy Lake and Kathy Chu Tater received the Dermatology Service Award.

Tabitha Shanies received the Hugh Dukes Prize in Experimental Physiology.

The Ettinger Incentive Award, for the second-year student who has made the greatest improvement in cumulative grade-point average, went to Vanessa Olenick.

Dina Bahrawy received the Howard E. Evans Award in Comparative Anatomy.

Anna Arimborgo received the Myron G. Fincher Prize, for a fourth-year student demonstrating the best work in courses dealing with large-animal obstetrics and reproductive disorders.

Melissa Hayes received the Finger Lakes Kennel Club Award.

The Gentle Doctor Award, for a fourth-year student who exemplifies enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to the delivery of excellent veterinary patient care, went to Mary Beth Nabity.

The Allan H. Hart Clinical Proficiency Award went to Diane Decker.

The Hills "Buddy" Award, for excellent problem-solving ability, knowledge and application of the principles of nutrition, went to Robert Hillman II.

The Grant Sherman Hopkins Prize, for interest, ability, perseverance and performance in work in anatomy, went to James Morrison.

Eve Flores won the IAMS and VECCS Award, for a fourth-year student who is a member of the student chapter of VECCS and has demonstrated excellence in the field of small animal emergency and critical care medicine.

The P. Philip Levine Prize in Avian Medicine went to Emily Gocke.

Winners of the Merck Manual Awards were Stacey Benton, Allyson Berent, Marie-Josée Desbarats, Amy Lake, James Morrison, Mary Beth Nabity, Kristen Reyher and Tabitha Shanies.

The Jane Miller Prize, awarded to a second-year student who has done the best work in veterinary physiology, went to Dana Le Vine.

Karen Deangelis received the Malcolm E. Miller Award, given to a fourth-year student who, in the judgment of the dean, has demonstrated perseverance, scholastic diligence and other personal characteristics that will bring credit and distinction to the veterinary profession.

Alison Lord received the Mary Louise Moore Prize.

The Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology Prize went to Edward Park.

Jennifer Barrett and Tabitha Shanies won the New York State Veterinary Medical Society Prize.

Jennifer Durenberger won the Leonard Pearson Veterinary Prize, awarded to the fourth-year student who demonstrates the potential for professional and/or academic leadership in veterinary medicine.

The Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Scholarship Award, recognizing the outstanding third-year student, went to Amy Johnson.

The Pharmacia Clinical Award for large-animal medicine went to Robert Rebhun, and the award for small-animal medicine went to Tabitha Shanies.

The Philotherian Photographic Prize, given for the best photograph of an animal in its environment, went to Stephanie Janeczko, first place; Erika Hoffeld, second place; and Emily Gocke and David Smith, third place.

Dana Le Vine received the Phi Zeta Award, recognizing the second-year student with the best academic record upon completion of the first three semesters of study.

Kimberly Cleland received the William C. Rebhun and Samuel Gordon Campbell Award, recognizing a fourth-year student who, while on clinical rotations, has demonstrated a practiced and reliable work ethic; a passion for discussing casework with colleagues, faculty and staff; and a balanced and active life away from the veterinary college.

Jennifer Durenberger and Melinda Freckleton won the Col. Floyd C. Sager Equine Obstetrics and Pediatrics Award.

The Pamela Slack Award, given to a third-year student demonstrating outstanding competence in various areas of avian medicine, went to Ana Woc Colburn.

Jessica Siegal-Willott won the Isidor I. Sprecker Wildlife Medicine Award, presented to a third- or fourth-year student with an interest in a career in zoo and wildlife medicine.

The Dorothy Sullivan Prize went to Gabriella Sfiligoi.

Jodie Gerdin won the Anna Olafson Sussex Pathology Award.

Emily Meseck received the Jacob Traum Award, given to the fourth-year student who exhibits and aptitude for and expressed interest in research on infectious diseases.