This list of faculty and student awards is only a sampling of the honors presented this year. Some awards not listed here have yet to be chosen or have already have been announced in the Chronicle. Congratulations to all!
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
The Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, went to Karin Klapper and A'ndrea Van Schoick.
Molly Schiltgen received the Paul Schreurs Memorial Award to recognize excellence in undergraduate research, sponsored by the college's honor society, Ho-Nun-De-Kah.
The Academic Excellence Award recognizes the top scholars in each of the 17 majors in the college. They were awarded as follows: agricultural and biological engineering: Norbert Lou; agricultural, resource and managerial economics: Todd Builione; animal science: Stephanie Konsker; biological sciences: Deborah deSa; biometry and statistics: Matthew Kumpf; communication: Lyra Colfer; education: Laura Bogardus; entomology: Mark Milleman; environmental systems technology: Kevin Drees; food science: Yinqing Ma; general studies: Adam Landman; landscape architecture: Benjamin Young; natural resources: Tracy Triplett; nutrition, food and agriculture: Ginnie Anderson; plant sciences: Jason Griffin; rural sociology: Rachel Goodman; soil, crop and atmospheric sciences: Eric Brewer.
The Outstanding Student Employee Award went to Dawn Chavez and Tammie Cross, and the Perseverance Award went to Heather Rauf and Linda Riggs.
The Professor of Merit award, voted on by the senior class, was awarded to Lois Willett, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics.
The Distinguished Adviser Award, also selected by the senior class, has been renamed the Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Adviser Award in recognition of Burgett and his 28 years of service to the college. This year's recipient was Dale A. Grossman, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics.
The Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, given by the college to a faculty member with less than 10 years of teaching at Cornell who demonstrates excellence in undergraduate teaching, went to Margaret M. Kyle, assistant professor of plant breeding.
The Innovative Teaching Award, for developing new approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, went to David A. Levitsky, professor of nutritional sciences.
The NACTA Teaching Award of Merit, given by the National Association for College Teachers of Agriculture, went to Timothy J. Fahey of the Department of Natural Resources.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded by the State University of New York, went to George J. Conneman, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics, and George W. Hudler, professor of plant pathology.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service, also awarded by SUNY, went to Richard A. Church, director of alumni affairs for the Ag College.
The Edgarton Career Teaching Award, for a faculty member who has provided outstanding teaching and advising throughout a long and continuous career in the college, went to George J. Conneman, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics.
Agricultural, Resource & Managerial Economics
Charmaine T. Ing and Lori B. Marino were chosen to receive $1,000 each from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, which recognizes academic performance of students specializing in applied mathematics and business management.
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
The Martin Dominguez Award for Distinguished Teaching, voted on by all students and faculty in the department, went to Zevi Blum, professor of art.
The AIA Student Medal and Certificate, for best undergraduate academic grade average, went to Christopher Genter (medal) and Nicholas Larco (certificate).
Francisco Acoba received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, recognizing leadership, service and future promise.
Christopher Genter received the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, awarded to the senior attaining the highest cumulative average in architectural design.
The William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design, went to Monica Rodriguez.
Stephen Chen received the Eschweiler Prize, given to a graduating architecture student who has enrolled in an architecture graduate program at Cornell.
Nicholas Larco won the New York Society of Architects Matthew W. Del Gaudio Award for leading the class in design, planning and construction.
The Michael Rapuano Memorial Award for distinction in design went to Jutiki Gunter.
The Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medals went to Christopher Genter, silver medal for architecture; Laura Nova, bronze medal for art; and Todd Eisenpresser, David Nam and Monica Rodriguez, bronze medals for architecture.
The George How Summer Travel Award went to Nsenga Bansfield.
Catherine Tingey received the Faculty Medal of Art, based on academic record and studio work demonstrating promise of future achievement in the field of art.
Megan Faulkner won the Edith and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize, given to juniors exhibiting promise and accomplishment in the field of art.
The Department of City and Regional Planning Student Award for exemplary community service went to graduate students John Thomas and Charles Jennings and undergraduates Emily Hart and Ryan Tan.
Jennifer Tiffany won the American Institute of Certified Planners Student Award for outstanding achievement in the graduate study of planning.
Jennifer Swift received the John "Kip" Brady Award for Printmakers.
For academic achievement and contribution to the intellectual advancement of fellow students, the Thomas W. Mackesey Prize went to Martha Armstrong.
City and regional planning student Xavier Morales won $1,000 from the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund in support of a summer internship project.
The David Bean Scholarship for studying in Europe went to Eniko Hangay, Tasha Caugh, Mathew Abruzzo and Rachel Farber-Kaiser.
The Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achievement Award went to Amy Greenhouse.
Winners of the Edwin A. Seipp Memorial Prize, based on a special third-year design competition, were Ali Jeevanjee, Jose Gutierrez and Christopher Williams.
Robert James Eidlitz Fellowships to supplement professional training in the field of architecture went to Reja Bakhshandegi, Kyra Chomak, Mark Lawton, Sue Mee Lee, Sean Selby, Stefee Sloane-Qouchbane and Pamela Unwin-Barkley.
The Peter B. Andrews Memorial Thesis Prize for the best thesis presentation for the degree of master of regional planning went to Elisabeth Uphoff.
Athletics
Each Ivy League institution nominates five men and five women among its eligible student-athletes who were starters or key reserves on any officially recognized varsity team with a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average. The recipients are announced by the Ivy League Office.
All-Ivy Academic Honors for fall 1995 went to Michelle Lauermann, women's soccer; Olga Itskhoki, women's tennis; Thomas Strobel, lightweight football; and Ron Mateo, football.
Winter 1995-96: Kristin Davis, women's track; Mary LaMacchia, women's basketball; Liz Thomson, women's swimming; and Brandt Schuckman, men's basketball.
Spring 1996: Craig Palmer, men's heavyweight crew; Olga Itskhoki, women's tennis; and Amy Carpenter, women's lacrosse.
Chemistry Department
Stephen Schvaneveldt received a Clark Teaching Award.
The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded:
Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Phillip Geissler. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Jima Jenab and Michael Eichberg. American Institute of Chemists Medal to Steven Ewer. Merck Index Awards went to Susan Mao and Andrew Yeh. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to Emily Reines. ACS Analytical Prize to Cherie Purring. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Betsy Ostrov, Andrew Blix and Richard Larson.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Richard N. White was elected the 1996 Chi Epsilon Professor of the Year by the students in civil and environmental engineering.
Lee Fishman has received a $2,000 award from the American Concrete Institute Concrete Research and Education Foundation for "high potential for making the most significant contributions to the concrete profession."
Students who won $1,000 first prizes in the National Student Paper Competition for the 1996 International Bridge Conference were Barbara J. Jaeger for "Evaluation of a Post-Tensioned Bridge Using the Impact-Echo Method" and John Ochsendorf for "An Engineering Study of the Last Inca Suspension Bridge."
Patrick McCafferty won the two-year Ove Arup & Partners Engineering Fellowship for civil engineering practice in London.
Khalid Mosalam won the 1995 National Student Paper Competition of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute for his paper, "Modeling of the Nonlinear Behavior of Gravity Load Designed Infilled Frames."
Dean of Students Office
The Class of 1963 Diversity Awareness Award for the "student organization or program house that is most successful in using formal and/or informal learning to promote understanding, respect and amicable relations among students of different races and cultures" went to Watermargin Education Program.
The Hahn-Rotterdam Prize for "exceptional contributions to the development of innovative, high-quality student activities programming and for adhering to the highest human values while maintaining academic excellence" went to Jill Meredith Nusbaum of the Cornell University Program Board.
Scott Logan Aronson of the Cornell Concert Commission received the Daniel F. Mahaney Scholarship, awarded for "exemplary performance as a volunteer leader and as a student employee."
Winners of the Edgar A. Whiting Award for "exemplifying the personal characteristics and dedication of Edgar Whiting, director of Willard Straight Hall from 1930 to 1970, on behalf of the programs and services of student activities/development" were Michael G. Merritt Jr. and Andrew Craig Swanson.
Ecology and Systematics
Co-recipients of the Robert H. Whittaker Award are Corey R.Freeman-Gallant for his presentation, "Domesticity and Sex: Lessons From Savannah Sparrows," and William V. Sobczak for "Microbial Responses to Variations in Dissolved Organic Carbon Along Subsurface Flowpaths in Stream Ecosystems."
1996 Teaching Awards, given in recognition of excellence in teaching by a graduate student, went to Patricia Doak and Cynthia A. Wilczak.
English Department
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize was awarded to Ellen Samuels for "Forgiving the Body"; honorable mention went to Anna Isabel DiDonno for "Us Four."
Phoenix Mayet received the Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize; honorable mention went to Barbara Yien.
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for short fiction went to Michael Cobb for "Milo's Woods" in the undergraduate division and to Julia Cumes for "And What Music Will Accompany Us" in the graduate division; second place went to Joshua Harmon for "The Lighthouse Keeper."
First prize for the Corson Bishop Poetry Prize went to Daniel Donaghy for a selection of poems. Second-prize winners were Peter Coviello for "These Plainest Sentences" and Jake York for "Wake."
European Studies Institute
Frederic Conger Wood Fellowships for undergraduate students went to Jasmina Burdzovic, College of Human Ecology, and Mark Klempner, College of Arts and Sciences.
Michele Sicca Summer Research Grants went to, from the Arts College, Carolyn Gray Anderson, Maria Blume, Ginger Diekmann, Leigh Anne Eubanks, Richard Gay, Mechele Leon, Colleen McFarland, Sophie Muetzel, Vicki Ellen Szabo and Kim Williams; and, from the Ag College, Oleg Biloukha and Jason Frost.
Sarah Benson, Arts College, received the Manon Michels Einaudi Travel Grant.
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships went to Arts students W. Eugene Cobble, Ulrich Krotz and Judith Surkis.
Denise Bratton from Architecture, Art and Planning received the Mario Einaudi Fellowship.
Geological Sciences
The $1,000 Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding senior geology major, went to Michael A. Zimmer.
Elise Millner won the $1,000 Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize, awarded to a senior geology student who has proved adept in other fields as well as geology.
German Studies Department
The Simmons Award in German, which goes to the student who has done the best work in German, went to Stephanie K. Wolf.
One first prize and two second prizes were awarded in the Goethe Prize Competition. First prize of $250 went to John R. Crutchfield for his essay "Language and the Mechanics of Presence in Herder's Plastik." Second prize of $150 each went to Christian Gundermann for "Voodooeske Blutbader: Hubert Fichte Between Ritual and Ego" and to Christopher Clark for "The Weg Not Taken: The Unexpected Politics of Gunter de Bruyn's Buridans Esel."
History Department
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, worth $75 in books to a history major, went to Nicholas Daum.
The two Anne MacIntyre Litchfield Prizes, worth $275 in books awarded to two women seniors majoring in history, went to Deirdre Daly and Kathleen O'Halloran.
The George S. Lustig Prize, this year worth $200 awarded to an outstanding senior planning to study history in graduate school, went to Arthur C. Smith.
School of Hotel Administration
The Clyde Robinson Awards went to the following students: the Freshman Award to Clinton Wu; the Academic Excellence Award to Ana Kositchotitana; the Service Award to Felicia Sparkman and Allison Myatt; the Leadership Award to Tairea Mattox; and the Dean's Award to Burnell Goldman.
The Dean's Awards went to the following students: Freshman Award of $250 to Tracey Gamble; Sophomore Award of $250 to Amit Kiesel; Junior Award of $500 to Kristina Foerster; and Senior Award of $500 to Alexandra Jaritz.
The following faculty awards were given: Freshman/Sophomore Awards to Florence Berger and Rupert Spies; Junior/Senior Awards to Christopher Muller and Elizabeth Huettman; Graduate Awards to Timothy Hinkin and Linda Canina; and Overall Teaching Award to Bruce Tracey.
College of Human Ecology
The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement in Consumer Economics and Housing and Policy Analysis went to Joseph Doyle.
The following students received Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communications: first prize to Tina Shiau; second prizes to Jonelle Bradshaw and Brian Finch; third prize to Sujin Lim; and fourth prize to Erin McCloskey.
The winner of the Halpern Award was Briana Barocas. Honorable mentions went to Erin Fitzpatrick, Kelly Gonzalez and Alexis Hartstone.
Esther Jacob received the Hillier Interior Design Award.
The following students were named Outstanding Seniors: Jonelle Bradshaw, Joseph Doyle, Mary Ewing, Devin Gallagher, Jason Kahn, Miriam Levine, Erin McCloskey, Edmond Murphy, Laura Scheirer, Israel Soong and Melissa Wigderson.
Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: Lisa Berman, Thomas Fong, Matthew Hollander, Daniel Katz, Jill Morganstern and Melissa Wigderson.
Paul Eshelman won the Human Ecology Alumni/Kappa Omicron Nu Advising Award.
The Halpern Prize for Extension/Outreach went to Frank Barry.
Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award for New York State went to Priscilla Tennant.
The Gamma Sigma Delta Distinguished Teaching Award went to Gary Evans.
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Lorraine Stokes won the James Campbell Memorial Award to honor her Òacademic excellence; personal qualities of humility and friendliness; and service to the school.Ó
Clay Samford received the Irving M. Ives Award, given to the senior demonstrating Ògood faith, integrity, responsibility, cooperativeness and good will.Ó
The Daniel Alpern Memorial Prize went to Joyce Hoying and Derek Shaffer in recognition of their scholarship and service to the school.
Michael E. Gold has been named as the first recipient of the Schering-Plough Exemplary Teaching Award, nominated by students and selected by the ILR SchoolÕs Teaching Advisory Committee.
Linguistics
Assistant professors Abby Cohn and Molly Diesing received Appel Fellowships, recognizing teaching excellence and scholarly promise.
Denise Meyer was awarded a Clark Distinguished Teaching Award for teaching assistants.
Peace Studies
The Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize in Peace Studies went to Afra Afsharipour, a government major in the College of Arts and Sciences, and to Neil Giacobbi, a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. They will both receive $750.
Romance Studies
The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize for academic achievement, with special reference to facility of expression in French, went to Mariah Magargee.
The winners of the J.G. White Competition were as follows: J.G. White Scholarship to Kristin A. Loberg; Prize for Excellence in Spanish to Nazaneen Grant, Jason Markham and Alisa Yang; and Prize for Excellence in English to Calie Santana and Isabel Ramos.
College of Veterinary Medicine
The Horace K. White Prize for the student with the highest academic record during his or her veterinary training went to Karen Fessler.
Sarah Ford and Liesl Breickner received the Gentle Doctor Award, for a fourth-year student who, in the opinion of the faculty of the Department of Clinical Sciences, exemplifies enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to the delivery of excellent veterinary patient care.
The Norden Distinguished Teacher Award, for a full-time member of the veterinary medical faculty who has shown continued excellence in teaching, went to Dr. Thomas Divers.
Dr. Peter Daels won the Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence, presented to a young investigator whose research achievements are likely to have a significant impact on our understanding of the biology or medical management of animals.