This list of Cornell-based 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 2001 Degree Marshals are Colleen MacLachlan and Olga Golod; Class of 2001 Banner Bearers are Julie March, David Kaplan and Adam Schwartz.
The Chancellor's Awards from the State University of New York (SUNY) for Student Excellence went to Gabrielle Erbacher, Brooke Foucault, David Key and Alexandra Martisauskas.
The award for Academic Excellence was presented to the top scholar in each of the college's 19 majors. They were awarded as follows: agricultural and biological engineering, Michael Gurzo; animal science, Katharine Jenkins; applied economics and management, David Kaplan; atmospheric science, Christopher Woods; biological sciences, Colleen MacLachlan; biology and society, Vanessa Centoducati; biometry and statistics, Olga Golod and Jill Zimmerman; communication, Melissa Gorczynski; crop and soil sciences, Drew Zwart; education, Stephen Naughton; entomology, Anthony Clark; food science, Chiew Teck Tay; general studies, Indrawati Liauw; landscape architecture, Brian Hirsch; natural resources, Nicholas Gray; nutrition, food and agriculture, Carrie Cresenzi; plant sciences, Timothy Durham; rural sociology, Karen Hills; science of earth systems, David Rosenfield.
Nathan Connell received the Richard A. Church Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, based on voluntary activities beyond undergraduate academic requirements. Megan Whittaker received the Outstanding Student Employee Award for her work in Professor Bill Brodie's plant pathology lab. Jennifer Park 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 on by the senior class, went to Rich Curtis, lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. Also voted on by the senior class, the Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Advisor Award recipient was Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management, also 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 Dietram Scheufele, assistant professor of communication. The Innovative Teacher Award, for developing new approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, went to Robert Milligan, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise in the Department of Applied Economics and Management.
A new award, Excellence for Promoting Cultural Diversity, created by the CALS Academic Human Diversity and Resources Committee, serves to recognize 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. The inaugural recipient of this award was Marianne Krasny, associate professor of natural resources.
A second new award was presented for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Independent Research. The inaugural recipient was Antje Baeumner, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching went to Geri Gay, associate professor of communication, and Mark Wysocki, senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service recipient was Gary Bergstrom, professor of plant pathology. Mary A. Ochs, head of collection development and preservation of Mann Library, 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 Richard A. Baer Jr., professor of natural resources.
Jeremy Pattison, a first-year graduate student in horticulture, received the 2001 Perrine Scholarship Award of $2,000 for his outstanding work in pomology.
Seniors Benjamin Bernstein and Rajat V. Khanna were chosen to receive $1,000 from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, which recognizes academic performance of students in the department.
The Alfred N. Schwartz Prize for Agricultural Journalism, for undergraduates submitting original manuscripts, went to: Devin Smith, first place; Trina Lee, second place; and Tiffany Drape, third place.
The 1894 Memorial Debate Competition, a two-day campuswide competition among undergraduates who are members of the Cornell Forensics Society, awarded the following cash prizes: Bradley Baebler and Lara Douglas, $475; Minka Lanier and Calvin Warren, $375; John Merrill, Anoop Prabhu, Seth Sarelson and Paul Wenzel, $250; Meghan Dubyak, Melanie Fraticelli, Akiva Holzer, Stephanie Johnson, Annapurna Singh, Shannon Smith, Tzvetana Tochkov and Stephen Zammit, $125; Fionnuala Browne, Jonathan Clark, Adam Lounsbury, Jesse Rothstein and Milan Slavkovich, $50.
The Birge Kinne Fund Award, based on academic ability, character and other relevant factors, went to Apra Bhandari, Josh Fredley, Maureen Sullivan and Greg Yrchuk.
The Thomas B. Bush Memorial Fund Award, also based on academic ability, character and other relevant factors, went to Melissa Carvalho, Amita Chug, Nicole Cohen, Gabrielle Erbacher, Brooke Foucault, Dianne Lloyd, Kellee Nygan, Tim Olsen and Mollie Twohig.
Winners of the fall Woodford Speaking Contest were: Andrew Oldenburg, first place; Justin Shubert, second place; Jason Corwin, third place; and honorable mention to Sophia C. Edukere, Peter Y. Jun and Margaret K. Timmons.
Winners of the Stansky Award, used to support Forensics Society team members' travel expenses to a speech and debate tournament, went to Bradley Baebler, Lara Douglas, Minka Lanier and Calvin Warren.
The Kenneth J. Bissett Award, presented to a junior and senior communication major who exhibits academic excellence, creativity, sensitivity and an interest in the arts, went to Jeffrey Fine, first place; and Nicole Neroulias, second place.
Yonina Fishoff and Jessica Margrill received the Women Executives in Public Relations Foundation Award.
Margaret Loiselle received the William B. Ward Communication Scholarship. Yemi Rose and Tzvetana Tochkov won the Guldin Award.
The Class of 1886 Memorial Speaking Contest, held in the spring, awarded the following prizes: Sean Conroy, first place; Krista Guerrero, second place; Garth Reid, third place; and honorable mention to Christy Bensen, Sara Cohen and Sarah Hutcheons.
The Sheila Turner Seed Memorial Award, a paid internship at Scholastic Inc.'s Choices magazine for junior women majoring in communication, went to Nicole Mariani.
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 Joanna Radin.
Winners of the Anson E. Rowe Endowment Fund were seniors Nicole Neroulias and Yemi Rose and juniors Jason Corwin and Kimberly Mohr. Matthew Nisbet and Raul Roman received the Graduate Student Anson E. Rowe Award.
Ndunge Kiiti was named Best Graduate Teaching Assistant in Communication.
Bryon A. Daley and Elias J. Kontanis 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 Peter M. Buston, neurobiology and behavior.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award for the best paper given by a beginning graduate student at the January Graduate Symposium went to Robert D. Harris.
Jocelyn Handley received the Walter R. Clarke Memorial Fund Award, given to CALS students primarily interested in fruit growing.
Kevin Bittner received the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Fund Award, given to a senior student who transferred to CALS from a two-year college in New York and who has achieved outstanding academic performance during the year.
The Edwin J. Dietz Award went to Erin E. Cannon, Karin P. Giovanoni and Elizabeth A. Savory.
The William Frederick Dreer Award, which provides the opportunity for a student to study or engage in directed practice related to the field of floriculture and ornamental horticulture abroad, went to Nicole C. Mason.
Stephen Falcone received the Melvin B. and Helen K. Hoffman Award and the New York Farmers Fund Award.
The Frederick F. Horton Fund Award went to Molly Finn.
Molly Finn and Stephen W. Maher received the Alfred C. Hottes Amateur Gardening Fund Award. Maher also won the Professor Alfred M.S. and Mrs. Alice Read Pridham Scholarship Fund Award and the New York State Flower Industries Research and Education Fund Award.
Karin P. Giovanoni won the NYS Flower Industries James W. Boodley Award; Timothy J. Benishek won the NYS Flower Industries John Feldis Sr. Memorial Award and the H.R. Schenkel Sr. Memorial Fund Award; Kevin Q. Pennings won the NYS Flower Industries John G. Seeley Award; and Erica L. Wilhelm received the NYS Flower Industries Joseph J. Yedowitz Sr. Award.
The Kenneth Post Award went to Jeremy J. Flansburg.
The Marvin L. Lindner Award went to Jessica Chapman, Jeremy Flansburg, Jessica Lyga, Heather Blaikie, Andreya Daubman and Andrew Vidulich.
Jessica M. Lyga received the New York State Nursery and Landscape Association A.M.S. Pridham Award.
Nathan A. Pierce was named Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant.
The Arthur Thomas Memorial Horticulture Fund Award went to Marian L. Boutet, Jennifer G. Browne, Elizabeth M. Burdick, Erin E. Cannon, Jeremy J. Flansburg, Thomas P. Kaplun, Stephen W. Maher, Robert M. Mediak, Scott D. Milliman, Kevin Q. Pennings and Andrew R. Vidulich.
Naalamle Amissah, Edwin Reidel and Ann Toren completed the 2001 Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop given by the college. Yanxin Gao "Star" completed the Spring 2001 International Teaching Assistant Training Program.
Gerald Feigenson received a Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in May 2000.
The following graduate students were named College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants: Samantha Dozier, Melissa Mason and Pete Pascuzzi.
The college's Burnham Kelly Award for Distinguished Teaching went to Assistant Professor Rolf Pendall, City and Regional Planning.
Kevin Oliver won the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, awarded 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 Jason Frantzen, and the certificate of merit went to Brian Fanning.
Lianie Dalby received the Suzanne Sheng Memorial Prize, for an architecture student demonstrating design excellence.
The William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design, went to Nathan Blanding and Natalia Meana.
Jessica Marshall received the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, awarded to the graduating student who has attained the highest cumulative average in architectural design.
The Undergraduate Arts Recognition Award, given jointly by the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Cultural Endeavors Committee, went to Scott Pitek.
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, Layth Madi won a silver medal, and Lauren Bernard, Jessica Marshall and Natalia Meana won bronze medals; for art, Emily Marie Hardgrove won a bronze medal.
The John Hartell Graduate Award for Art, for research support, went to Julie Ann Buffalohead.
Ann Christine Wilker 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 Department of Art Distinguished Achievement Award went to Leigh Frances Craven and Diane Rachelle Peters.
The Charles Baskerville Painting Award went to McArthur Freeman.
Grace Yung-Ting Teng received the Michael Rapuano Memorial Award, for "distinction in design."
The Peter B. Andrews Memorial Thesis Prize, awarded for the best thesis for the degree of master of regional planning, went to Kevin Sherper Walker.
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 Celeste Frye.
The American Institute of Certified Planners Student Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in the graduate study of planning, went to Angus Jennings.
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 Seth Bergstein.
The Kermit C. Parsons and Janice I. Parsons Scholarship went to undergraduate Christine McMillan and graduate student Katherine Lizon.
Christine McMillan and Jeffrey Siow received the Academic Achievement Award for the Undergraduate Program in Urban and Regional Studies.
The Women, Work and Welfare Workshop -- Celeste Frye, Lynn Ross, Carrie Gleason, Sherry Chen, Mathew Golden and Sara Michaelchuck -- received the Upstate New York Chapter of the American Planning Association Student Project Award, for an outstanding paper or class project demonstrating "innovation, transferability, quality, comprehensiveness and potential for implementation."
The Graduate Community Service Award, recognizing students in the Department of City and Regional Planning who have been effective in serving their peers and the Cornell and Ithaca communities, went to Hallie Salem and Lynn Ross.
The Urban and Regional Studies Community Service Award went to Zoe Hollomon and Sara Michaelchuck.
Alexandre Champagne, Daniel Costura, William Mallard and Holly Spoth received the E. Gorton Davis Traveling Fellowship.
The American Society of Landscape Architects Award for excellence in education went to Dalin Janpathompong, Kimberly A. Michaels, Jessica Caroline Williams and Brian R. Jencek, certificates of honor; and William R. Sprengnether and Amity N. Davis, certificates of merit.
The Degree Marshals and Banner Bearers are Pakorn Kanchanawong, Ben Wong, Ayan Mandal, Ken Wong and Laurel Freas.
Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards went to Dexter Kozen, professor of computer science; Peter Gilgen, professor of German studies; and Mary Miles, teaching assistant in history.
John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards went to senior lecturer Bonnie Buettner, German studies; lecturers Robert Fulbright, physics, and Sarah Jefferis, English; and the following teaching assistants: Sean Breslin, chemistry; Gabrielle McIntire, English; and Kathryn Nyman, mathematics.
Stephen Hilgartner, associate professor in science and technology studies, and Viranjini Munasinghe, assistant professor in anthropology and Asian American studies, 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 Ken McClane, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature.
The 2001 Eleanor Norton York Prize in Astronomy went to Shamibrata Chatterjee.
John Wilson and Wynn Ho received the Cranson W. and Edna B. Shelley Award for Graduate Research in Astronomy. The Shelley Award for Undergraduate Research in Astronomy went to Jascha Sohl-Dickstein.
The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded:
ACS Analytical Prize to Jason Hill. American Institute of Chemists Award to Sean Wiedemann. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Brian English and Robert Eaton. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to Yelena Koldobskaya. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Jennifer Elges, Yvonne Leung and Eric Margelefsky. Hypercube Scholar to Jonathan Melnick. Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Pakorn Kanchanawong. Merck Index Awards to Jennifer Adamchuk and Joseph Reczek.
The following graduate prizes have been awarded:
DuPont Teaching Prizes to Daniel Baird, Yutan Getzler, Neil Jenkins, Ellen Scheuer and Carrie Stearns. The Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium award went to Ryan Williams.
The Richard Evans Prize for Excellence in Teaching went to Robert Neuman.
The George Harmon Coxe Award, for outstanding achievement in creative writing by an undergraduate, went to Marcus Baldwin, Leah Laben and Jacqueline Schneider.
Winners of the Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction were: Herman Carroll, first place in the graduate student division, honorable mention to Aimee Parkison; Patrick Moran and Ari Moore, first place in the undergraduate student division, honorable mention to Diana Lind.
The following poetry prizes were awarded: The Corson-Bishop Prize of $650 went to Sean Serrell; the Robert Chasen Prize of $500, to Joseph Campana, with an honorable mention to Ryan Mink; and the Dorothy Sugarman Prize of $150, to Jonah Rivera.
The Moses Coit Tyler Prize, given for the best essay by a graduate or undergraduate in the field of American history, literature or folklore, went to Kay Yandell, a graduate student in the Department of English.
The Goethe Prize is awarded for the best essays on German literature, culture or film in two levels of competition. In the category for juniors, seniors and graduate students, first place went to Marianne Tettlebaum, a graduate student in the Department of Music; second place went to Anna Parkinson, a graduate student in German studies.
In the category for freshmen and sophomores, second place went to freshmen Jessica Lammers and Jamie Wainstock; third place went to freshman Esther Livingstone.
The Simmons Award in German, for the best work in German, went to sophomore Jessica Bauman.
The Anne MacIntyre Litchfield Prize, given to the two outstanding women graduating with a history major, went to Chin Jou and Katherine D. Rubin.
Peter Bowen and Seth Center won the Clyde A. Duniway Prize for the two outstanding men graduating with a major in history.
The George Lustig Prize, awarded to an outstanding senior continuing the study of history, went to Mary S. Panelo.
The Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for the best honors thesis in U.S. history or American studies went to Katherine D. Rubin.
Marisa Van Poznak received the Frederick G. Marcham Prize.
The James E. Rice Jr. Award, for excellent expository writing in a first-year writing seminar, went to Aviram Giladi and Lauren Boehm, with honorable mention to Hamsa Stainton.
The Elmer Markham Johnson Award, also for excellent expository writing in a first-year writing seminar, went to Jacqueline Bodine.
The Adelphic Award, for the best essay written in a first-year writing seminar by a student whose native language is other than English, went to Irina Privorotskaya; honorable mention went to Jun Jie Zhou.
The Spencer Portfolio Award, given jointly to a student and instructor in recognition of excellence in the development of a portfolio of the student's essays, went to: student Zachary G. Hollander and instructor Diane Rubenstein; and student Matt Siegler and instructor Margaret A. Weitekamp. Student Sarah Bender and instructor Nick K. Davis received an honorable mention.
The Gertrude Spencer Prize, given jointly to a student and instructor for work that culminated in the student's finished essay, went to: student Eric Margelefsky and instructor Magdalena Romanska; and student Rebecca Wohlgemuth and instructor Amanda P. Moore.
Winners of the John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Prize, given to the instructor submitting the best sequence of writing assignments for a first-year writing seminar, were Daniel J. Sherman and Donna Truglio; Erica Doerhoff received an honorable mention.
Lydia Nussbaum received the Knight Prize for Writing in the Majors, given for the best student paper written in a course affiliated with Writing in the Majors.
Maureen Zi Wang received the Knight Prize for Expository Writing, English 288, for the best student paper written in an expository writing course. Edward Howard received an honorable mention.
Gabrielle McIntire received the Biddy Martin Prize for the best graduate essay of the year in lesbian, bisexual and gay studies.
The Harry L. Kieval Prize in Mathematics, awarded to outstanding graduating senior mathematics majors, went to Jesse McCarthy Alt.
The Donald J. Grout Memorial Scholarship went to Stacy Moore.
James Matheson received the Robbins Family Composition Prize.
John James Blackmore Prizes went to Steven Curtis, Emily Green, Geoffrey Govier, Damon Lee, Dee-Pong Lu, Nicholas Mathew and Joseph Phibbs.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize went to Victor Kam.
Barbara Troxell Vocal Awards went to Daria Kwiatkowska, Robert Paterson, Dmitri Shapovolov, Jeffrey Solomon and Diego Vega.
Martha Jane Dale Awards went to Dan Bauer, Francesa Brittan, Constance Dunlap, Thomas Irvine and Weibke Thormahlen.
The Harold A. Falconer Memorial Award went to Adam Farouk, Joseph Gregorio and Ian Woolford.
Ondrej Elleder was recognized for excellence in intermediate Arabic, and Charity Irvine was recognized for excellence in elementary Arabic.
Hally Chu, Amanda Brozinsky and Rebecca Fuchs 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 Lydiah Bosire, a government major, and Sarah Hart, a history major.
Department of Physics
Joseph Betzwieser and Carolyn Sealfon received the Kieval Prize in Physics.
Aren Jansen 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 Surachate Limkumnerd.
The Corson French Prize in the Graduate Student Category went to Nathan Guss, and Abigail Kowaloff won in the Undergraduate Student Category.
The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize, which recognizes a graduating senior woman majoring in French who made the best record for four years with excellent performance in the French language, went to Claire Topal.
The winners of the J.G. White Prize and Scholarship
competitions were: J.G. White Scholarships to Sara Elizabeth Troyani,
Jessica Lianne Korf and Jessica Marie
Beegan; Prize for Excellence in Spanish (Engineering student) to
Daniel Broderick; Prize for Excellence in Spanish to
Maison Rippeteau, Jessica Racines and Darina
Stankeyeva; and Prize for Excel
lence in English to Jose O. Alemán
Díaz and Olga Puigdemont Sola.
Kelly L. Dietz won the Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for the best graduate student paper in sociology.
Beatrice Brown Award winners were: Christopher Clark, Celeste Frye, Cheryl Higashida, Takeko Iinuma, Sheetal Majithia, Gabrielle McIntire, Dia Mohan, Shobita Parthasarathy, Sandrine Poisson, E. Cameron Scott, Kay Yandell and B. Jean Young.
Megan Elizabeth Wesling and Esther Susana Prins won Dissertation Fellowships.
The Mildred April Award went to Christina Payne.
Antonio Anagaran, senior theater arts major, was named the 2000-01 recipient of the Edward M. Murray Committee on the Arts Scholarship.
The Degree Marshals are Karen Chastain and Michael Little; Banner Bearers are Michael Gurzo, Carmel Majidi and Deborah Schorr.
The following faculty members received 2000 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Awards: Kifle Gebremedhin, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Robert Buhrman and Alexander Gaeta, School of Applied and Engineering Physics; Kenneth Hover, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Michael Duncan and Kelvin Lee, School of Chemical Engineering; Graeme Bailey, Kenneth Birman, Jon Kleinberg and Frederick Schneider, Department of Computer Science; Zygmunt Haas, Sheila Hemami, Paul Kintner, Clifford Pollock and Richard Shealy, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Raffaello D'Andrea, Kenneth Torrance and Charles Williamson, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; and Gennady Samorodnitsky and Michael Todd, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
Professor Michael F. Walter, agricultural and biological engineering, received the James M. and Marsha D. McCormick Award for excellence in advising first-year engineering students.
Karen Chastain received the Merck Engineering and Technology Fellowship.
Christopher DiMarco was named the 3M Engineering Scholar, awarded on the basis of scholarship, communication, interpersonal skills and creativity. DiMarco also received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Twin Tiers Award for outstanding scholarship and leadership in campus, community and professional activities.
The AIChE Othmer Award, for the student with the highest GPA after sophomore year, went to Michael Little.
Umar Akbar received the P&G Technical Excellence Award for the best technical presentation.
Arianne Baker received the American Institute of Chemists Award, which recognizes a student's demonstrated record of ability, indication of leadership and professional promise.
Umar Akbar and Colleen Brosnan received the Award for Outstanding Service to the School.
Charles Lee Crandall Essay Prizes were awarded to Wei Shyan Lim, first place in the environmental engineering category; Daniel Kuek, for first place in the civil infrastructure category; and Carmel Majidi, for second place in the civil infrastructure category.
The John E. Perry Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize went to Jessica Moeller, Owen Bailey and Ketan Dodhia.
The John E. Perry Outstanding Undergraduate Prize went to Lucie Fougner, Courtney Kimball, Matthew Sledjeski, Peter Velez and Troy Zezula.
The Margaret Arronet Corbin '21 Prize went to Peter Velez.
The Richard N. White Master of Engineering Prize went to Michael Tavolaro.
Troy Zezula received the ASCE Winslow T. Shearman Student Merit Award and the ASCE John P. Riley Senior Award.
The ASCE Marshal Case Haggard Award and the ASCE Student Service Award were presented to Courtney Kimball.
Lucie Fougner was presented with the 2001 Clark Construction Award. She also was a recipient of the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship.
The George Winter Graduate Fellowship in Structural Engineering was won by Rebekah Green.
Monroe Weber-Shirk received the 2001 Chi Epsilon Instructor of the Year Award, while Kenneth Hover won the Chi Epsilon Professor of the Year Award.
Tim Bond received the first annual Cornell Society of Engineers Academic Excellence Award.
William Langin was awarded the Estwing Award for the Most Outstanding Graduate Student.
The Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding senior geology major, went to Christine Lee.
Joseph Aliperti and Daniel Powell shared 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."
Nestor Cardozo received the Bender Graduate Scholarship, awarded for excellence, leadership, collegiality and service.
The following undergraduate students received awards, prizes and scholarships this year from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Amber L. Bullington and James R. Psota received Schlumberger Collegiate Award Scholarships; Chirag Umed Fifadra and Elias C. Selinger received 3M Engineering Scholarships; Timothy L. Hanson, Susan H. Kuo, Christian M. Petersen, Leonid Y. Sapronov and Michael J. Walsh received Lockheed Martin Awards for Academic Excellence; Anish Jain and Uri I. Moszkowicz received William S. Einwechter Awards; Tze Kiat Tan and Meng Fai Tung received John G. Pertsch Prizes.
John A. Guckenberger won the 2000-01 Teaching Assistant of the Year Award from the IEEE Student Branch, and Assistant Professor Rajit Manohar won the 2000-01 Teacher of the Award.
Professor Stephen B. Wicker received the 2000-01 Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award from the school.
Associate Professor David F. Delchamps was named the 2000 Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council in addition to winning the Tau Beta Pi and Cornell Society of Engineers 2000-01 Excellence in Teaching Award.
The recipients of the Ralph Bolgiano Sr. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award were Juan Abello and Ciro Cerretelli, with honorable mention to Todd J. Turner.
Justin Davison and Datong Zhang won the Frank O. Ellenwood Prize for excellence in junior power engineering courses.
Sophomores George Adamson, Nicole Graf, Michael Harbeck, Matthew Kostura and Lisa Scoles won the Lockheed Martin Engineering Scholars Award for academic excellence.
Arthur James Howard received a Boeing Fellowship Award.
The Outstanding Senior Award, presented by the student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, went to Mark A. Frontera and Stephen R. Shapiro.
Associate Professor Mark Psiaki was awarded the Dennis G. Shepherd Teaching Prize for outstanding teaching in the school.
The IIE/INFORMS student chapter awards went to: Richard Cleary, Undergrad Outstanding Faculty Member; Joerg Rothenbuehler and Mayur Kandelwal, Undergrad Outstanding Teaching Assistants; Phillip Protter, Master of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Member; Joerg Rothenbuehler, Master of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant; and a special citation was given to Cindy Jay, undergraduate administrative aide and coordinator.
Class Marshals are Nancy Isa and Jessica Bologna; Banner Bearers are Cassie Moloney, Marisa Lizak and Venessa Richter.
The Teaching Excellence Awards were given as follows: Freshman and Sophomore Teacher of the Year Award to Associate Professor Dennis Ferguson; Junior and Senior Teacher of the Year Award to Assistant Professor David Sherwyn; the Graduate Student Teacher of the Year Award to Associate Professor Leo Renaghan; and the overall Teacher of the Year, voted on by the Hotel School student body, was David Sherwyn.
The winners of the Faculty Research Award were: Gordon Potter, first place; Chekitan Dev, second place; and Tony Simons, third place.
Winners of Undergraduate Research Awards were: Melissa Baker and Justin Cohen; Ilya Cherepakhin; and Eric Ricaurte.
The winner of the Graduate Research Award was Kelly Ann McGuire. Runner-up Graduate Research Award winners were Jie Li and Ankur Sehgal.
Christopher Stambaugh 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.
Matthew Armstrong, Karmia Griffin and Laura Lentz were recognized as Statler Hotel Student Managers on Duty.
The Joseph Drown Special Prize went to Christina G. Gamble. Finalists were Ryan E. McCarthy, Venessa Richter, Ankur Sehgal and Julie Takeguchi.
The Flora Rose Prize went to Jesse Boring.
The Florence Halpern Prize, based on achievement in a community service project, went to Khaliah Johnson.
The Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communication went to: first prize, Rachel Suchoff; second prize, Suzette Barakat; third prize, Cory Polonetsky; and fourth prize, Zela Brotherton and Joshua Silberstein.
Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: seniors Lori Noble and Suzanne Saufer; juniors Christie McGovern and Vanessa Ulmer; and sophomores Hedwig Lee and Matthew Smith-Raska.
The Kappa Omicron Nu Achievement Award went to Elaine VanEtten.
The following students were named Outstanding Seniors: Rita Choy, Adam Coen, Dana Cohen, Abiola Dele-Michael, Erik DiCarlo, Robyn Eaton, Carrie Gombos, Linda Goodman, Briton Holmberg, Courtney Jean, Khaliah Johnson, Linday Lyman-Clark, Ann Mizumoto, Sean O'Brien, Andrian Pawluk, Rachel Suchoff and Andrew Yee.
The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement in Policy Analysis and Management went to Jacob Tuckfelt.
The Ruthanna Wood Davis Award for Academic Achievement in Nutritional Sciences went to Waitz Ngan.
Andrian Pawluk received the Hillier Award.
The Janet and Joseph Zuckerman Award for Excellence in Human Development Studies went to Caitlin Dunning and Annie Roth.
Meghan Butryn, Yurij Pawluk and Cory Polonetsky won SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence, and Christine Schelhas-Miller won the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The Kappa Omicron Nu/Human Ecology Alumni Association Advising Award went to William Rosen.
The following General Mills teaching awards were given: for Exemplary Teaching, to Professor James A. Gross; for Innovation in Teaching, to Professor Michael Lounsbury; and for Teaching Assistant, to Daniel Drellich and Karen Marcus.
The Daniel Alpern Memorial Prize went to Keith Becker and Dianne LaRocca in recognition of their scholarship and service to the school.
Joanne Schleifman 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 went to William B. Adams.
Cari Stern received the John O'Donnell Prize for Outstanding Performance in Undergraduate Labor and Employment Law.
The Edward M. Snyder Prize in Statistics went to Iorva Marz.
The Joel Seidman Prize went to Luke A. Barefoot and Danielle D. Van Jaarsveld.
Jack Jackson, Benjamin Meier and Anne Phelps received the Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights.
The Stanley E. Gould Prize for Public Interest Law went to Jeanhee Hong and Naomi Terr.
Jacob Lebowitz 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 Gary R. Whittaker.
Alexander deLahunta 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 Cheryl E. Balkman.
The American Animal Hospital Award went to Rachel Alice Meyer. Meyer also received the Auxiliary of the American Veterinary Medical Association Prize and the New York State Veterinary Medical Society Prize.
Anne Elizabeth Richards won the American Association of Feline Practitioners Award.
Jonathan Michael Levine was awarded the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Award. Levine also received the Hugh Dukes Prize in Experimental Physiology; the Alan Hart Clinical Proficiency Award; the Mary Louise Moore Prize; the Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology Prize; and the Horace K. White Prize, for the student with the highest academic record during veterinary training.
Anthony Fischetti received the American College of Veterinary Radiology Prize and the Grant Sherman Hopkins Prize.
The American College of Veterinary Surgeons Award went to Jennifer L. Zurkus for large-animal surgery and to Lynne A. Ricketts for small-animal surgery.
Chantal A. Acosta received the Banfield Human-Pet Bond Award.
The James Gordon Bennett Prize, for the fourth-year student who shows the greatest humaneness in handling animals, went to Rebecca Anne Lorig. She also 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.
Richard S. Germano and Kenneth L. Osborn won the Anne Besse Prize for best work in food-animal medicine.
The Frank Bloom Pathology Award went to Rachel S. Mo. She also received the Jacob Traum Award.
Jason Pintar 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 Erin Leigh Koster.
Anthea F. Elliott received the John F. Cummings Memorial Award.
Shannon K. Indoe won the A. Gordon Danks Large-Animal Surgery Award.
The Daphne Award, given to graduating students who exemplify excellence in the practice of veterinary medicine, went to Taryn A. Donovan, Kara S. Grosser, Sophy A. Jesty and Rebecca M. Stanclift.
The Donald D. Delahanty Memorial Prize, for a fourth-year student who shows an interest in equine practice, went to Erin K. Crotty.
Taryn A. Donovan received the Dermatology Service Award.
The Ettinger Incentive Award, for the second-year student who has made the greatest improvement in cumulative grade-point average, went to Tara E. Estra. She also received the Finger Lakes Kennel Club Award.
Robert C. Wilson 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.
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 Thea Mariah Wallace.
The Hills "Buddy" Award, for problem-solving ability, knowledge and application of the principles of nutrition, went to Lois C. Rich.
The P. Philip Levine Prize in Avian Medicine went to Marie-Josée Desbarats.
Winners of the Merck Manual Awards were Alexa Margaret Cox, Joanne Nicole Crane, Steven Matthew Fleischer, Shannon K. Indoe, Julie Catherine Keene, Erin Leigh Koster, Jonathan Michael Levine and Jason Pintar.
The Jane Miller Prize, awarded to a second-year student who has excelled in veterinary physiology, went to Sofia Cerda.
Thomas H. Rogers 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 profession.
Dennis Leon 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, for the outstanding third-year student, went to Stacey Benton.
The Pharmacia Clinical Award for large-animal medicine went to Rachel Beth Gardner, and the award for small-animal medicine went to Joanne Nicole Crane.
The Philotherian Photographic Prize, given for the best photograph of an animal in its environment, went to John Sykes and Lisa Tinanoff.
Todd M. Bishop received the Phi Zeta Award, recognizing the second-year student with the best academic record upon completion of the first three semesters of study.
Christy L. Shoup 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.
Rachel Beth Gardner won the Col. Floyd C. Sager Equine Obstetrics and Pediatrics Award.
The Pamela Slack Award went to David A. Crum.
John Sykes 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 Guanina S. Jenkins-Serrano.
James P. Morrison won the Anna Olafson Sussex Pathology Award.
Julie Catherine Keene received the Wild Bird Research and Rehabilitation Award.
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