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 Alpha Zeta Scholarship Key Award went to Benjamin Morganstein.
The Baccalaureate Service Award went to Afsha Abid, Stephanie Anderson, Jeffrey Greyber, Daniel Kim, Summer Rayne Oakes, Miriam Pinsker, Emily Posner, Rachel Ruggirello and Jared Talbot.
Afsha Abid and Michelle Upton received the Richard A. Church Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, based on voluntary activities beyond undergraduate academic requirements.
The Paul Schreurs Memorial Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate research and service to the community, sponsored by the college's honor society, Ho-Nun-De-Kah, went to Matthew Moake.
Lauren Curry, Janeen Matacchiera and Emily Posner received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.
Jane Mt. Pleasant, associate professor of horticulture, received the Excellence in Promoting Multicultural 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.
Sandra Vehrencamp, professor at the Lab of Ornithology, received the Faculty Excellence in Research Mentoring award.
The Professor of Merit Award, voted on by the senior class, went to Rita Calvo, senior lecturer in molecular biology and genetics. Also voted on by the senior class, the Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Adviser Award went to W. Bruce Currie, professor of animal science.
The Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award went to W. Lee Kraus, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics.
The Innovative Teacher Award went to Debbie Cherney, a senior research associate in animal science.
Brent Gloy, assistant professor of applied economics and management, received the NACTA Teaching Award of Merit.
The Edgerton Career Teaching Award went to Brian Earle, senior lecturer in communication.
The following SUNY Chancellor's Awards were awarded: for Excellence in Professional Service: Donna Updike; for Excellence in Librarianship: William Kara; for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities: Ann Hajek; for Excellence in Faculty Service: Brian Chabot; and for Excellence in Teaching: William Ghiorse and Barbara Peckarsky.
Michael Stefanone and Erik Nisbet won the Graduate Student Anson E. Rowe Award.
The Kenneth J. Bissett Award, presented to a communication major who exhibits academic excellence, creativity, sensitivity and an interest in the arts, was shared by seniors Linde Rickert and Jamie Peters.
The 1894 Memorial Debate Competition, a two-day, fall semester campuswide competition among undergraduates who are members of the Cornell Forensics Society, awarded cash prizes to the following students: Lisa Wang, Lin Gan, Leili Fatehi, Ahmed Mousa, Craig Murray, Sukhneel Toor, Hannah Smith, Adrienne Foster, David Katz-Doft, Aaron Krieger, Juanita Parker, Benjamin Morganstein, Michael Pishchiker, Neill Trimble, Zachary Hollander, Daniel Pearlstein, Jeron Jackson, Sara Jeruss and Bryan Campbell.
The Thomas B. Bush Memorial Fund Award, based on academic ability, character and other relevant factors, went to Kira Johnson, Rebecca Rheinhardt, Catherine Carey, Jessica Woolf and Colin McLaughlin.
The Birge Kinne Fund Award, also based on academic ability, character and other relevant factors, went to Kristen Cotrone, Michele Head and Rebecca Berlemann.
Winners of the Woodford Speaking Contest, held in the fall, were: Matthew Lubeck, first place; Tara Hoffmann, second place; Jennifer Thompson, third place; and honorable mention went to Lori Gurien, Christopher Landrigan and Mollie Edinson.
Kris Ann Brady won the Edward L. Bernays Foundation Primus Inter Pares Award, to encourage leadership in the Cornell Public Relations Student Society of America chapter.
Winners of the Undergraduate Anson E. Rowe Endowment Fund were Christopher Westgate and Jamie Peters.
Laura Borden and RoseAnn Siciliano received the Foundation of 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 Ann Dye.
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 Andrew Riesenberg.
The Class of 1886 Memorial Speaking Contest, held in the spring, awarded the following prizes: Seth Wander, first place; Meghan Kappus, second place; Jonathan Weinstein, third place; and honorable mention to Brian Peterfreund, Meredith Keiling and Edward Segal.
The winners of the Eastman-Rice Speaking Stage, a persuasive speaking contest in which CALS majors compete, were Amber Parker, first place, Rebecca Rheinhardt, second place, Daniel Zarrow, third place. Honorable mention went to Effie Fish, Colleen Lambo and Jonathan Weinstein.
Winners of the 2004 Alfred N. Schwartz Prize for Excellence in Agricultural Journalism were Aaron Kornbluth, first place; Shannon Brescher, second place; Sarah Colby, third place; and Amanda Vanblarcom, honorable mention.
The Richard G. Price Award, given to a communication or animal science major interested in dairy cattle management, was awarded to Laura Borden.
Brian Earle received the Kendall S. Carpenter Advising Award.
Dietram Scheufele received the Young Scholar ICA Award.
The Robert H. Whittaker Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation by a graduate student at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, went to Mark Vellend for his presentation "Parallel Effects of Land-Use History on Species Diversity and Genetic Diversity of Forest Herbs." Vellend also received the LaMont C. Cole Award, given for the most outstanding published paper written by a graduate student in the department, for his paper "Dispersal of Trillium Seeds by Deer: Implications for Long-Distance Migration of Forest Herbs."
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award, for the best paper given by a beginning graduate student at the Graduate Student Symposium, went to James Mandel for his paper "The Virtues of Monocarpy in a Tropical Forest."
Baird Prizes, awarded for a special competition in second-year architectural design, went to Andrew Schuster and Amy D'Onofrio, first prize; Kendall Lowe, second prize; Marina Voloshina and Amanda Smith, third prize; Jennifer Chuong and Zachary Kemp, fourth prize; and Laura Coombs and Nicole McGuire, fifth prize.
Anna Czigler received the George How Travel Award.
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 Yarinda Bunnag, and the certificate of merit went to Kent Wu.
Erik Gerlach received the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, awarded to the graduating student with the highest cumulative average in architectural design.
David Scott received the William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design.
The Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal went to Yasemin Kologlu, silver; and Carson Chan, Garrick Ambrose and David Scott, bronze.
The Alpha Chi Rho Medal, awarded to a graduating student who has shown ability for leadership, performed willing service for the school and shows promise of professional merit through his or her attitude and personality, went to Emily Sullivan.
Lindsay Chandler-Alexander and David Peth received the Department of Art Distinguished Achievement Award.
Christine Elfman received the Faculty Medal of Art.
Nicole Ratos received the John Hartell Graduate Award.
The Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards went to Kathryn March, associate professor, Department of Anthropology; Mary McCullough, associate professor, Department of English; and Nicholas Davis, teaching assistant, Department of English.
Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists went to Delia Graff, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy; Jose Edmundo Paz-Soldan, assistant professor, Department of Romance Studies; and Mary Pat Brady, associate professor, Department of English.
John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards went to senior lecturers Barry Maxwell, comparative literature; Steven Russo, chemistry and chemical biology; and Thuy Tranviet, Asian studies; and teaching assistants Emily Balcetis, psychology; Christopher Francisco, mathematics; Edmund Goode, English; and Joshua Parks, physics.
The Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising went to Szonja Szelenyi, associate professor, sociology; and Michael Koch, senior lecturer, English.
The ACS Analytical Prize to Alyssa Wu. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Johnathan Chittuluru, Peter Clark and Cristian Gradinaru. Hypercube Scholar to Zekeriyya Gemici. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Chanin Choopojcharoen, Po Chee Chow, Daniel Treitler and Matthew Thomas. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to David Wang. Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Stephan Zuend. Merck Index Awards to Carrie Bernecky and Sara Metzger.
The following graduate prizes were awarded:
Bayer Teaching Excellence Awards to Shridhar Bale, Amy Haas, Anne Poduska, Jeffrey Rose and Burak Ulgut. Tunis Wentink Prize to Pieter Dorrestein, Simon Garcia, Yutan Getzler and Anne McNeil.
The Richard Evans Prize for Excellence in Teaching went to Nancy Munkenbeck.
Cathleen Drake received the Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize, and Charity Ketz received the Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize.
Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prizes went to Caroline Manring and Laurie Derosa; honorable mention went to Irina Privorotskaya and Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein.
Harrison Leavens won the George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature for "Parallels of Non-belonging: Racial and Gender Identity in Faulkner's Light in August."
Class of 1916 Prizes, awarded for the best honors theses of the year in English, were given as follows: first prize to Ganga Dharmappa, "Together and Apart: The Poetics of Cleaving in the Short Stories of Shani Mootoo and Ginu Kamani"; second prize to Jacob Johnson, "'So Great a Conquest by His Might': Spenser's Ambiguity and Erasmian Influence in The Faerie Queene, Book One"; third prize to Craig Plunges, "'Wild Margins Are Possible': Possibility and Implications in the Poetry of John Ashbery."
Andrea Rehn received a John S. Knight Assignment Sequence award for "Entering a Critical Debate," designed for English 105.4: Whose Story Is It?: The Politics of Privacy.
Benjamin Warner won first place in the Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction (graduate student competition) for "Daredevils."
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction (undergraduate student competition) went to Christopher Kang for "M. Avenue," first place; Marissa Perry for "Leadbelly" and Ch-Yuan Kaiy Quek for "Dreamtime & Realtime," tie for second place.
The Simmons Award in German, for the student who has done the best work in German, went to sophomore Scott Francis.
Brian Tauzel and Chad Miller received the Martijn Zwart Prize for Dutch Language and Culture Immersion.
Amy Arroyo won the Excellence in Swedish award.
Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. Books are donated to the department by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. For German Studies 121: Jennifer Sewell, Brita Lorentzen, Heng Du and Meredith Callahan. For GS 122: Michael Smingler, Ziren Zhou, Josh Groffman, Andrew Uhl, Ameya Agaskar, Katja Petrova, Junping Shao, Levon Azizyan and Sydney De Lapeyrouse. For GS 123: Sonali Rajan, Evan Labuzetta, Robyn Ellerbrock and Robert Petty. For GS 200: Anne Giedinghagen and David Herman. For GS 202: Chloe Layman, Anastasia Poushkareva and Feng Zhou. For GS 204: Greg Dokshin and Sabastian Atwood. For GS 206: Elisabeth Becker and Patrick Hegde. For GS 301: Ashley Carter and Felix Moser; For GS 302: Kasia Preneta and Richard Timm. For GS 310: Tedmond Wong, Jennifer Gardner and Gokce Kirca. For GS 417: Anne Seiffert.
Rachel Somerstein received the Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize.
Shirleen Robinson and Sheila Marikar received the Moses Coit Tyler Prize.
The Frederick G. Marcham Prize went to Justin Berkowitz, Shawnakim Lowey-Ball and Nathalie Fassie.
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships for 2004-05 were awarded to Ayse Banu Bargu Hasturk, government; Yuliya Komska, German studies; and Guillaume Ratel, history.
Recipients of Foreign Language and Area Studies Graduate Fellowships for Summer 2004 were: Stephen Bocskay, Romance studies; Robert Gormley, philosophy; Richard Guy, architecture; Karrie Koesel, government; and Anouk Patel-Campillo, city and regional planning.
Frederic Conger Wood Undergraduate Fellowships for Summer 2004 went to Jacob Bronsther, government/philosophy, and Matthew Schneid, industrial and labor relations; Mariel Selbovitz, sociology; Emily Sharpe, college scholar; and Emily Spratt, art history/religious studies.
Francesca Brittan, history, received a Manon Michels Einaudi Summer 2004 Travel Grant.
Michele Sicca Summer 2004 Research Grants went to Willa Collins, music; Loredana Comparone, Romance studies; Emily Dolan, music; Sean Franzel, German studies; Charles Graninger, classics; Amalia Herrmann, German studies; Daniel Kinderman, government; Ecehan Koc, sociology; Asaf Levanon, sociology; Luna Najera, Romance studies; Jennifer Nolan, policy analysis and management; Tsveta Petrova, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs; Thomas Platt, Romance studies; Alfredo Sosa-Velasco, Romance studies; Jamie Trnka, comparative literature; Stephen Watts, government; and Nicholas Wille, music.
Winners of Mellon Sawyer Pre-doctoral Fellowships were Marcel Ionescu-Heroiu, city and regional planning; Daniel Kinderman, government; and Jamie Trnka, comparative literature.
Jon Darvill and Hyun Kyong Chang won the Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award.
Barbara Troxell Vocal Music Awards went to Jevon Bindman, Rob Shapiro, Anne Jones and Dimitri Shapovalov.
Pierpalo Polzonetti won the Donald J. Grout Memorial Scholarship.
The Robbins Family Prize in Composition went to Diego Vega.
The Herman and Phoebe Karpel Memorial Prize, in recognition of superior performance in Hebrew studies, went to Nicole Schwartzberg, Hannah Shafran, Scott Kramer, Risa Wolk and Mariya Kupershmidt.
The Corson French Prize in the graduate student category went to Niels Buch-Jepsen, and Amy Ruszkiewicz won in the undergraduate student category.
The J.G. White Scholarship went to Arturo Solis, for his excellent record of performance that he demonstrated as a commitment to the study of Hispanic language, literature and culture.
David Haas, Benjamin Barrett and Corene Luh received the J.G. White Prize for Excellence in Spanish.
Carlos Ruiz-Vargas received the J.G. White Prize for Excellence in English.
The following faculty members received 2003 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Awards: Alexander Gaeta and Lois Pollack, School of Applied and Engineering Physics; Kifle Gebremedhin and Norman Scott, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering; James Engstrom and Fernando Escobedo, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Mircea Grigoriu, Kenneth Hover, Thomas O'Rourke and Mark Turnquist, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Emin Sirer and Eva Tardos, Department of Computer Science; Martin Burtscher, Zygmunt Haas and Edwin Kan, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Albert George, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Shane Henderson and David Shmoys, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering; and Chung-Yuen Herbert Hui, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
2003 James M. and Marsha D. McCormick Advising Awards went to Paulette Clancy, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Charles Van Loan, Department of Computer Science.
Chris Xu, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, received the 2004 Tau Beta Pi/Cornell Society of Engineers Excellence in Teaching Award.
Daisy Fan, Department of Computer Science, received the 2004 Cornell Society of Engineers Academic Achievement Award.
Paulette Clancy won the 2002 James M. and Marsha D. McCormick Award for Excellence in Advising First-Year Students, which was announced in 2003.
James Engstrom and Fernando Escobedo received College of Engineering Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Tucker '50 Teaching Awards.
Abraham Stroock received a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, as well as a 2004 ONR Young Investigator award.
Undergraduate students received the following awards: Eric Margelefsky -- Merck Engineering and Technology Fellowship, as well as the AIChE Othmer Award and the P&G Technical Excellence Award; Jonathan Chin -- 3M Engineering Scholar; David McClain -- Dow/Scheele Outstanding Junior Award; Matt Rizk -- Dow/Rodriguez Outstanding Student Award; Fanny Huang -- AIChE Twin Tiers Award, for outstanding scholarship and leadership in campus, community and professional activities; Andrew Sokolik -- AIC Award, which recognizes a student's demonstrated record of ability, indication of leadership and professional promise; and Robert Ferris -- Award for Outstanding Service to the School.
James Ruvolo was the recipient of the 2004 Ve-Sing and Tseng Soo Koo Award.
Elizabeth Agnew and Timothy Beach received the 2004 Clark Construction Award.
Dana Cohen and Dale Meck were the recipients of the 2004 Margaret Arronet Corbin '21 prizes.
The 2003 Fuertes Undergraduate Medal went to Martin Kistenmacher.
The 2004 ASCE Marshal Case Haggard Award recipient was Dale Meck.
The John E. Perry Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize winners for 2004 were Bryan Tolson, Margaret Tomeo and Veronica Griffis.
The John E. Perry Outstanding Undergraduate Prize winners for 2004 were Dale Meck, Pei Ming Goh and Jeremy Billig. Billig also received the ASCE Ithaca Section 2004 Winslow T. Shearman Student Merit Award.
Rob D'Onofrio was the recipient of the ASCE Chapter 2004 John P. Riley '22 Senior Award.
Graduate students received the following recognition: Cagdas Kafali won the 2003-04 George Winter Graduate Traveling Fellowship. Amanda Bonneau won a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research award. Evan Variano was awarded a Cornell Science Inquiry Partnership fellowship
Mike Veilleux won a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.
ASCE Student Chapter Awards for 03-04: In April 2004, the ASCE Student Chapter placed first at the Upstate New York Regional Conference held at SUNY Buffalo. The team, which won the Paper and Presentation competition as well, will be invited to Nationals. The ASCE Steel bridge team took an overall fifth place.
The Solar Decathlon Team received the Team Projects Award, given to an undergraduate engineering team for its extraordinary achievement and leadership.
The Individual Undergraduate Research Award for excellence in a research project went to Alok Suryavamsee Tayi for his research on optimization of nanocrystalline photovoltaics.
Kit-Yee Daisy Fan received the Academic Achievement Award, recognizing a non-tenure-track faculty member who enhances undergraduate education outside the classroom.
The Tau Beta Pi Award, given to a professor nominated by engineering students in recognition of their exemplary teaching, went to Chunhui Chris Xu.
Katie Boucakis received the Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize, awarded to a senior geology student who is "adept in other liberal arts fields as well as geology -- a student of the world."
Adam Goss received the Estwing Award and Rock Pick, awarded to the Most Outstanding Graduate Student.
Jack Loveless won the Meyer Bender '29 Memorial Scholarship, awarded for dedication to academia and the human aspects of life.
The following undergraduate students received awards and prizes: Aaron Dobbins and Jian Gong received William S. Einwechter Awards; Setu Mohta and Woradorn Wattanapanitch received John G. Pertsch Prizes; and Aman Chawla received the Hiram Sibley Prize.
Damon Chandler was selected as the 2003-04 Teaching Assistant of the Year by members of the IEEE Student Branch.
Nanotechnology Fellowships were awarded to Aaron Kueck, Conrad Lovell, Michael Miller, Amit Patel, Emily Walton and Man Hoi Wong.
The Outstanding Senior Award, presented by the student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, went to Andrew Lapsa and Matthew Crozier.
Graduate students Mark Fogleman and Giridhar Jothiprasad received the Ralph Bolgiano Sr. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Timothy Reissman received an honorable mention.
The Sibley Teaching Assistant Award recipients were Javier Alcazar, Madhusudhan Venkadesan and Viktor Zykov.
John D'Antonio and Daniel Cohen received the McManus Design Award, for each writing a technical paper presenting an original solution to a design problem or project.
Graduate students Rob Lion and Mustafa Maqbool were selected as recipients of the R.N. Janeway Automotive Engineering Award, presented for co-authoring a technical paper proposing an improvement in automotive vehicles.
Albert George received the Dennis Shepherd Teaching Award from the school.
Junior/Senior Teachers of the Year: Chekitan Dev, marketing, information systems, strategy and tourism; and Charles Chang, finance and real estate.
Graduate Teachers of the Year: Gabe Piccoli, marketing, information systems, strategy and tourism; and Dan Quan, finance and real estate.
Tony Simons received the Faculty Research Award, sponsored by the Center for Hospitality Research.
William Balinbin and Sarah Daniels won Undergraduate Student Research Awards.
Elizabeth Witte received the "Life Is Service" Award, sponsored by Hotelies Volunteering Today, the school's first volunteer student organization.
Brian Simon won the R.C. Kopf Student Achievement Award, presented to a student who has demonstrated exceptional interest in fine wines and restaurant management.
The Joseph Drown Special Prize, awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated academic excellence, extracurricular leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, social responsibility and well-conceived career goals and aspirations, went to Adrien Desbaillets.
The following were named Outstanding Seniors: Marta Allstadt, Crystal Atwood, Alfred Byun, Sandy Chung, Kate Constantino, Christopher Dial, Michelle Findley, Karen Force, Jessica Garay, Aldo González, Kristen Hamilton, Zachary Hollander, Daria Homenko, Joann Kang, Rebecca Kurland, Clinton Mikel, Kimberly Notheis, Lisa Plush, Corinne Postle, Justine Rosa, Maia Sauro, Lauren Schlanger, Joshua Silberstein, Charlre' Slaughter, Hilary Smith, Maryann Totino, Frances Turcotte, Rachel Wechsler, Irving Zamora and Janet Zheng.
SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence went to Yaneris Rosa, policy analysis and management; and Amy Smith, nutritional studies.
Joann Kang received the Florence Halpern Award.
The Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communication went to Joyelle Lee, first place; Luisa Sparrow, second place; and Zela Brotherton, Ruben Frescas and Lin Yang, third place.
Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: seniors Kathryn Howell and Cara Palumbo; juniors Melissa Iammatteo and Hadas Rabinowitz; sophomores Tara Gilhooly and Melissa Medoway; and freshmen Mark Celano and Melissa Medoway.
The Hillier Award in Design and Environmental Analysis went to Alfred Byun.
Ian Troy Herrick received the E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement in Policy Analysis and Management.
Winners of the Ruthanna Wood Davis Award for Academic Achievement in Nutritional Sciences were Andrea Sharkness, Luana Shen and Crystal Weis.
Kimberly Notheis and Maryann Totino received the Janet and Joseph Zuckerman Award for Excellence in Human Development Studies.
The Kappa Omicron Nu/Human Ecology Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Advising went to Alan Mathios.
Elise Temple was a nominee for a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Suchi Mithani 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 goodwill, went to Ellen Cooper. The Irving M. Ives Junior Award went to Faith Bekermus; the Sophomore Award, to Galia Porat; and the Freshman Award, to Anna Fishman.
Ellen Cooper won the Kaufman-Seidenberg Book Award.
The Edward M. Snyder Prize in Statistics went to Elisabeth Miller.
Maksim Rakhlin received the Teaching Advisory Committee Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Assistant Teaching.
The General Mills Award for Exemplary Graduate Assistant Teaching went to Arnaud Dellis and Shimul Melwani.
Lee Adler and Lisa Nishii received the MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching.
Bradford Bell and Gary Fields received the General Mills Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching.
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Excellence in Management and Leadership went to Jessica Alleman Thacher Crolick and David Carpenter Maier.
Michael William Ford and Yong Zhang received the Cornell United Religious Work Baccalaureate Service Leadership Award.
Lawrence Boyd, Athina Chatzistili, Kelly Reed Ingham, Steven Michael O'Keefe and Adam Wiesel were named Albert Fried Jr. Fellows.
The A. Donald Kelso Award went to Kimberly Young.
McAllister American Business Press Prizes went to Francois Bailly, Ashutosh Mahesh Bhondele, Renee Brown, Jessica Cullen, Sujit Jha, George Lo, Steven Michael O'Keefe, Scott Sanders, Andrew Joseph Scirri and Steven Xiaolin Wu.
Winners of the McAllister Essay Competition were Liesl Folks, Jonathan William Greene, Elizah Butler McLaughlin and Jonathan Vervoort.
Winners of the McAllister Speech Competition were Nadim Batri, Kelly Reed Ingham, Kelly Ann Johnson, David Joseph Kapolnek, David Carpenter Maier, Annabel Susan Nickles, Kachirayan Saravanan and Alexander Gene Tse.
Adam Wiesel won the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Superior Scholarship in Accounting Studies Award.
The Vithala & Saroj Rao Marketing Prize went to Scott Lawrence Christensen.
S.C. Johnson Marketing Case Study Competition winners were Nathaniel Grant Russell, Dennis Phillip Schreyer, Eric Daniel Shaff and Moneet Singh.
Whitney Fairbanks received the Wall Street Journal Award.
The Henny Wittink Memorial Marketing Prize went to Caroline Emilie Co.
The American Association of Feline Practitioners' Award went to Carol Ann Mauriello. Mauriello also received the P. Philip Levine Prize in Avian Medicine.
The American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Award went to M.K. Zarfoss.
Joshua Adam Wohlstadter won the American College of Veterinary Radiology Prize.
The American College of Veterinary Surgeons' Award went to Rebecca Christine Lin for small animal surgery and to Megan Leigh Campbell for large animal surgery.
Rebecca Christine Lin received the Auxiliary of the American Veterinary Medical Association Prize, presented to the member of the fourth-year class deemed to have best advanced the standing of the College of Veterinary Medicine on campus by special contributions of an extracurricular nature.
The Anna Olafson Sussex Pathology Award went to Andrew David Miller.
Nicolas Anderson Berryessa won the Jacob Traum Award, for superior interest and achievement in bacteriology, epizootiology, pathology and virology.
Dana Nicole Le Vine received the Horace K. White Prize, for the student with the highest academic record during his or her veterinary training. Le Vine also won the Charles Gross Bondy Prize, for best work by a fourth-year student in the courses in practical medicine and surgery of small animals.
The Col. Floyd C. Sager Equine Obstetrics and Pediatrics Award went to Janet Haeyoung Han.
Brett Thomas Tillou won the Simmons and Associates Career Excellence Award, for demonstrating interest or aptitude for the pursuit of excellence in the business of small animal medicine.
Andreas Andreou received the Pamela M. Slack Award, for the third-year student who has demonstrated the most outstanding competence and motivation in various areas of avian medicine.
Michael Alexander Kiselow received the Isidor I. Sprecker Wildlife Medicine Award, presented to a third- or fourth-year student with a strong interest in pursuing a career in zoo and wildlife medicine. Kiselow also won the New York State Veterinary Medical Society Prize, for the best senior seminar.
Hilda Mans Mitchell received the Dorothy Sullivan Prize, awarded to the fourth-year student whose interests and exemplary efforts as ambassador have strengthened and enriched the activities, outreach, image and environment of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Brielle Vastola Rosa received the James Gordon Bennett Prize, awarded for the fourth-year student who shows the greatest humaneness in handling animals, with special reference to the use of anesthesia. Rosa also won the Leonard Pearson Veterinary Prize, for the student who most successfully demonstrates the potential for professional and/or academic leadership in veterinary medicine, and the Gentle Doctor Award, for the student who exemplifies enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to the delivery of excellent veterinary patient care.
The Anne Besse Prize, for the best work in food animal medicine, went to Eleanor Bronwen Moore and Theresa Lynn Ollivett.
Nicholas James Haley won the Frank Bloom Pathology Award.
The Gary Bolton Memorial Cardiology Award went to Scott Miner.
Karyn Alicia Havas received the John F. Cummings Memorial Award, presented to a member of the third-year class who best exemplifies the qualities of Cummings: enthusiasm, honesty, integrity and sense of humor.
The A. Gordon Danks Large Animal Surgery Award went to Lauren Virginia Schnabel.
The Daphne Award, given to graduating students who exemplify excellence in the practice of veterinary medicine, went to Nicolas Anderson Berryessa, Kelsey Alison Hart, Hilda Mans Mitchell and Meredith Perth Re.
Ashley Nicole Shelton won the Donald D. Delahanty Memorial Prize, given to a fourth-year student showing an interest in equine practice and a high level of proficiency in the field.
The Philotherian Photographic Prize, given to the student who has taken the best photograph of an animal in its environment, went to Jordyn Marie Boesch, first place; Joshua Adam Wohlstadter, second place; and Elizabeth Anne Carothers, third place.
The Phi Zeta Award, for the second-year student with the best academic record upon completion of the first three semesters of study, went to Amy Patricia Cordner.
Israel Paul Isenberg received the William C. Rebhun and Samuel Gordon Campbell Award, recognizing a fourth-year student who, while on clinical rotations, has demonstrated a practical and reliable work ethic, a passion for discussing casework and a balanced and active life away from the college. Isenberg also won the Myron G. Fincher Prize, awarded for the best work in courses dealing with large animal obstetrics and reproductive diseases.
The Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology Prize went to Ann Lori Bilderback and Edward MacKillop. Honorable mention went to Joseph Francis Church, Joseph Samuel Eagleson, Katherine Jane Goldberg and Michael Alexander Kiselow.
Colleen Erin MacLachlan won the Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Scholarship Award, for the third-year student who, through his or her ability, dedication and character, attains a high level of academic achievement and productivity.
Pfizer Clinical Proficiency Awards went to Michael Alexander Kiselow, small animal; Kelsey Alison Hart, equine; and Hilda Mans Mitchell, bovine.
Kelsey Alison Hart also received the Dermatology Service Award and the Hugh Dukes Prize in Experimental Physiology.
Jennifer Lynn Smith received the Ettinger Incentive Award, given to a second-year student who has made the greatest improvement in cumulative GPA between first and second year.
The Howard E. Evans Award in Comparative Anatomy went to Hindatu Mohammed.
The Finger Lakes Kennel Club Award, presented to a student who has demonstrated an interest in purebred dogs, went to Joel Ogden English.
Eleanor Bronwen Moore received the Allan Hart Clinical Proficiency Award.
The Hills "Buddy" Award, honoring a fourth-year student who has demonstrated excellent problem-solving ability, knowledge and application of principles of nutrition throughout the stages of life, as well as in clinical disease in small animal medicine and surgery, went to Meredith Perth Re.
Benjamin James Benander and Ann Lori Bilderback received the Grant Sherman Hopkins Prize, awarded on the basis of interest, ability, perseverance and performance in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
Melissa Ann Walker received the Iams and Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society Award.
Merck Manual Awards went to Ann Lori Bilderback, Jessica Erin Downing, Kelsey Alison Hart, Anna Felice Hochstedler, Erin Daniell Klene, Dana Nicole Le Vine, Edward MacKillop and Eleanor Bronwen Moore.
Lauren Marie Gallaspy received the Jane Miller Prize, awarded to a member of the second-year class who has done the best work in veterinary physiology.
LaShonn McNair received the Malcolm E. Miller Award, for a fourth-year student demonstrating perseverance, scholastic diligence and other characteristics that will bring credit to the veterinary profession.
The Mary Louise Moore Prize, for the best work in bacteriology, went to Jessica Erin Downing.
Richard Goldstein received the Carl Norden-Pfizer Distinguished Teacher Award, selected by members of the fourth-year class.
The Pfizer Research Excellence Award went to Teresa Gunn.
Dennis Bailey received the Outstanding Clinical Resident Award.
Paul Ebner won the Outstanding Veterinary Technician Award.
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