This list of faculty and student awards is only a
sampling of the honors presented this year. Some awards not
listed here already have been announced in the Chronicle.
Congratulations to all!
The Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, went to Michael Mischna.
Robin Vora 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 19 majors in the college. They were awarded as follows: agricultural and biological engineering: Daniela Stahl; agricultural, resource and managerial economics: Sharon Loy; agricultural systems technology: Craig Jakubek; animal science: Brian Arnold; biological sciences: Karen DeGroat; biometry and statistics: Shalin Shah; communication: Lisa Schwartz; education: Oona Palmer; entomology: Rachel Wignes; environmental systems technology: Nancy Doon; food science: Michael Greenberg; general studies: Vanessa Margolis; international agriculture: Meredith Fowlie; landscape architecture: Hui Wang; natural resources: Spencer Hall; nutrition, food and agriculture: Valerie Ling; plant sciences: Christopher McGuire; rural sociology: Khadija Bah; soil, crop and atmospheric sciences: Adam Cohen.
The Outstanding Student Employee Award went to Angie Datta and Stacy Hines, and the Perseverance Award went to Amy Kornbluth.
The Professor of Merit award, voted on by the senior class, was awarded to Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in agricultural, resource and managerial economics.
The Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Adviser Award went to Brian Earle, senior lecturer in communication.
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 Susan McCouch, assistant professor of plant breeding and biometry.
The Innovative Teaching Award, for developing new approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, went to Susan Merkel and Marcia Cordts, both lecturers in microbiology.
The NACTA Teaching Award of Merit, given by the National Association for College Teachers of Agriculture, went to Michael Thonney of the Department of Animal Science.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded by the State University of New York (SUNY), went to Timothy Fahey, associate professor of natural resources, and Kraig Adler, professor of neurobiology and behavior.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Service, also awarded by SUNY, went to Jane McGonigal, assistant director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and lecturer in education.
Katherine Chiang received SUNY's 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, went to Harold "Skip" Hintz, professor of animal science.
Agricultural, Resource & Managerial Economics
Seniors Christopher Cass, Angie Datta and Melissa Silver received awards from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, which recognizes academic performance of students specializing in applied economics and business management.
The Ron LaFrance Memorial Leadership Award, recognizing an individual or individuals who have shown leadership within the American Indian student population, went to Dawn Colburn, Melissa Phillips and Anthony Lee.
Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists went to assistant professors Jane Fajans, anthropology, and Andrew Galloway, English.
Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Awards for Excellence in Advising went to professors Richard Galik, physics and nuclear studies, and Charles Van Loan, computer science.
Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards went to graduate student Ewa Badowska and professors Calum Carmichael, comparative literature, and David Mermin, physics.
One lecturer and 10 graduate students received John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards: lecturer Ann Boehm and graduate students Cathy Carlson, Aash Clerk, Pete Coviello, Ofelia Ferran, Nick Fowler, Bill Ham, Jeff Hyson, Michelle McClure, Hal Schenck and Yan Vtorov-Karevsky.
Harry Caplan Travel Fellowships were awarded to Daniel Barrett and Asa Mittman. The fellowship provides two awards of $2,500 each for summer travel to Europe or the Near East.
The 1997 Eleanor York Prize for excellence in research, teaching and service went to Katie Jore and Tyler Nordgren.
The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded:
Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Oksana Korol. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Michael Ho and Emily Reines. American Institute of Chemists Medal to Cherie Purring. Merck Index Awards went to Elizabeth Papish and Mark Werner. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to Dmitriy Kruglyak. ACS Analytical Prize to Nathan Kruger. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Wei Wang, Bryan Chow and Michael Seidman.
The following graduate prizes have been awarded:
DuPont Teaching Prizes to James Boiani, Urmila Deo, Ashley Jones, Erika Merschrod, Ryan Schoenfeld, Michael Stimson and Joseph Tanski. The Howard Neal Wachter Prize to Anatoly Kolomeisky. Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium to Michael Stimson, Neil Kelleher and Grigori Vajenine.
Cornell's American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter, under the guidance of its faculty adviser, William Philpot, received an ASCE Vice President's Award for Regional Excellence.
Arnim Meyburg was elected Engineer of the Year by the Ithaca Section of ASCE.
ASCE's John G. Moffatt -- Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award, recognizing "new ideas and concepts that can be efficiently implemented to expand the engineering or construction techniques available for harbor and coastal projects," went to Philip Liu.
Anthony Ingraffea was awarded the first Professor of the Year Award by the Cornell Society of Women Engineers "in recognition of excellence in teaching and student support."
Wilfried Brutsaert was selected by the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to give the 1997 Langbein Lecture, which is awarded for "lifetime contributions to the basic science of hydrology and/or unselfish service promoting cooperation in hydrologic research."
Tony Ingraffea, with Paul Wawrzynek and David Potyondy, received a 1996 NASA Group Achievement Award as members of the Fuselage Structural Integrity Analysis Team.
Bill McGuire delivered the Thomas C. Kavanaugh Memorial Structural Engineering Lecture at Penn State.
Linda Nozick received an NSF Career (formerly PYI) Award.
Stephen Buonopane submitted one of the four best papers in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute 1996 Student Paper Competition.
Tamara Williams received the 1997 ACI -- James Instrument Award for her best student research paper on nondestructive testing.
Leslie Bank-Sills of Tel-Aviv University was the recipient of a Mary Upson Shepherd Professorship for her stay in the CEE School.
Thomas O'Rourke was awarded the 1997 Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award.
The 1997 Julian Hinds Award, given by the Water Resources Planning and Management Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, went to Jery Stedinger.
Dick White has been elected president of the American Concrete Institute.
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 Model United Nations.
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 Laura Barrantes of the Orientation Steering Committee.
Leslie Kirchler of the Class Councils 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 Mark Harrahy and Sarah Brown.
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 Michelle McClure for her presentation titled "Pigment Pattern Determination in Relation to Size and Shape Change in Fishes of the Genus Danio."
1997 Teaching Awards, given in recognition of excellence in teaching by a graduate student, went to Michelle McClure and James Wise Jr.
The co-winners of the Barnes Shakespeare Prize are Peter Michalik for "Irony and Identity in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Theodore Burry for "The Unseen Scene: Traces of the Offstage in Shakespeare's Plays." Honorable mention went to Alexandra (Sasha) Kahn for "Morality and Valuation: Hamlet and the Search for Order" and J. Matthew Zarnowiecki for "Sudden Storm: The Corruption Scene in Othello."
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize, for a long poem or integrated sequence of 300 lines or more, has been awarded to E. Cameron Scott for "States of Naming."
Peter Coviello received the 1997 Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize, for a long poem or sequence totaling 100 lines or more.
The winner of the George Harmon Coxe Award in Creative Writing was Francis Mahoney for his short story Edith.
J. Matthew Zarnowiecki received the Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize.
Ellen Samuels and Justine Dougherty received a Constance Saltonstall Foundation writing grant.
The Shin Yong-Jin Graduate Fellowship in English went to Antonia Losano.
Anne Mallory, Dana Luciano and Libbie Rifkin received a Martin Sampson Teaching Fellowship.
Vera Palmer received a Ford Fellowship.
Frederic Conger Wood Fellowships for undergraduate students went to Asa Mittman, Boglarka Petruska and Jonathan Laurence, all in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Michele Sicca Summer Research Grants went to: from the Arts College, Rebecca Berens-Matzke, Leland DeLadurantaye and Elizabeth Pryor; from the Architecture College, Kandalyn Hahn and John Hendrix; and, from the Ag College, Shelley Costa.
Gina Herrmann, Arts College, received the Manon Michels Einaudi Travel Grant.
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships went to Arts students Margaret Kohn and Szabolcs Kemeny.
Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, gave sophomore academic achievement awards to Karolina Jameson, Vet College; Carrie Jabinsky, Human Ecology; and Amanda Itzkoff, Ag College.
Faculty were recognized in the following areas:
Teaching: Rosemary Avery, associate professor in consumer economics; research: Carroll Glynn, associate professor of communication; extension: Muriel Brink, professor of nutritional sciences; and administration: Charles McClintock, associate dean, Human Ecology.
The $1,000 Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding senior geology major, went to April Ruebel.
Lisa McGill has 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.
The Simmons Award in German, which goes to the student who has done the best work in German, went to Gabriel Tavares.
One first prize and two second prizes were awarded in the Goethe Prize Competition. First prize of $100 in the freshman/sophomore category went to Claire Johnson for her essay "Science and Magic in E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman." Second prizes in the upperclassman/graduate student category of $150 each went to Valerie Weinstein for "Orientierunslosigkeit and Orientalism: Narrative in Saliha Scheinhardt's Die Stadt und das Madchen" and to Peter Yoonsuk Paik for "Kafka's Negative Epiphany."
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, worth $75 in books to a history major, went to Joshua Greenblatt.
The two Anne MacIntyre Litchfield Prizes, worth $275 in books awarded to two women seniors majoring in history, went to Suzann Gallagher and Jenny Hsieh.
The George S. Lustig Prize, awarded to an outstanding senior planning to study history in graduate school, went to Dara Baker.
Jonathan Goldstein received the Frederick G. Marcham Prize, awarded to the "undergraduate student whose growth as a person and as a student of history exemplifies the goals of Professor Marcham's tutorial discussions during his years of teaching."
The Clyde Robinson Awards went to the following students: the Freshman Award to Michelle Li; the Academic Excellence Award to Nophmas Kositchotitana; the Service Award to Allison Myatt; the Leadership Award to Felicia Sparkman; and the Dean's Award to Alex Tse.
Amy Fitzgerald received the R.C. Kopf Student Achievement Award.
The Dean's Awards went to the following students: Freshman Award to Christopher Simogolu; Sophomore Award to Tracey Gambel; Junior Award to Amit Kiesel; and Senior Award to Christina Foerster.
The following faculty awards were given: Freshman/Sophomore Awards to Jane Lumley and Bruce Tracy; Junior/Senior Awards to Jack Corgel and Elizabeth Huettman; Graduate Awards to Chris Muller and Cheri Kimes; and Overall Teaching Award to Melanie Lankau.
The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement in Consumer Economics and Housing and Policy Analysis went to Thomas Fong.
The following students received Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communications: first prize to Beth Rubenstein; second prizes to LaShonne Watts and Kelly Welch; third prize to Michelle Blacksburg; and fourth prize to Jared Kanover.
The winner of the Florence Halpern Prize was Geoffrey Moran.
The following students were named Outstanding Seniors: Robyn Altman, Gabrielle Benadi, Michael Buff, Anupama Chaturvedi, Francesco DelVecchio, Kristina Eng, Tommy Fu, Martha Jimenez, Jennifer Moldoch, Yvette Nick, Nancy Raitano, David Rodin, Amy Silino, Christopher Vaeth, LaWanda Williams and Samantha Youngman.
Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: Sara Best, Stephanie DiPerna, Carrie Jabinsky, Anne Magats, Jill Morganstern and Kathryn Tunison.
Carrie Fader won the Kappa Omicron Nu Achievement Award.
Magdalena Cerda won the Flora Rose Prize, and Jasmina Burdzovic received honorable mention.
The Gamma Sigma Delta Sophomore Academic Achievement Award went to Carrie Jabinsky.
Caroline Westover won the James Campbell Memorial Award to honor her "academic excellence; personal qualities of humility and friendliness; and service to the school."
Rachel Schottland received the Irving M. Ives Award, given to the senior demonstrating "good faith, integrity, responsibility, cooperativeness and good will."
Joseph Choi received the Edward M. Snyder Prize in Statistics for "academic excellence, personal qualities and the achievement as a student and as a TA in statistics for which Ed Snyder is remembered."
The Daniel Alpern Senior Award went to Michael Lingle and Seth Stern in recognition of their scholarship and service to the school.
The John O'Donnell Prize for Outstanding Performance in Labor Law and Employment Law went to Heather Mahar.
Ali Hadi and Risa Lieberwitz have been named recipients of the Schering-Plough Exemplary Teaching Awards, nominated by students and selected by the ILR School's Teaching Advisory Committee.
The General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching went to Martin Wells.
The James E. Rice Jr. Prize, a $150 award given for excellence in expository writing in a freshman writing seminar, went to C. Mina Hochberg for "A Confining, Intoxicating Rhythm" and Matthew Williams for "Premature Activists: African Americans and the Spanish Civil War." Honorable mention went to Ashraf Thabet for "United States Foreign Policy and Latin American Human Rights Abuses."
The Elmer Johnson Markham Prize, a $150 prize given for excellence in expository writing in a freshman writing seminar, went to Stan Karas for "A Crumbling View." Honorable mention went to Robert Guerry for "The Uncaused Cause: Reconciling the Agent and the Action in Shakespeare's Hamlet."
The Adelphic Award, a $150 prize given for the best essay in a freshman writing seminar by a student whose native language is other than English, went to Ricard Masia for "For the Reds a Fascist, for the Fascists a Red." Honorable mention went to Elina Mer for "A Letter."
The Expository Prose Essay Prize of $150 for the best student paper written in English 288 (fall) and English 289 (spring) went to Amy Lai for "Female Rebellion in The Bacchae: Criticism and Motivation." Shannon Smith received an honorable mention for "Jazz as Jazz: A Musical Interpretation of the Novel."
The Gertrude Spencer Prize, given jointly to a student and instructor for work that culminated in the student's finished essay, worth $350 for each, went to Cara Greene, student, and Jodie Medd, instructor, for "A Guided Tour of Alcatraz." Honorable mention went to Kathlyn Moran, student, and Amy Blair, instructor, for "Class Differences."
The John S. Knight Assignment Sequence Award of $350 given to the instructor submitting the best sequence of writing assignments for a freshman writing seminar went to Elisa Mangina for "The Self and the Model in Medieval Culture."
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics, awarded to an outstanding graduating senior mathematics major, was shared by Jeremy Bem and Robert (Bobby) Kleinberg.
The Eleanor Norton York Award in Mathematics went to Jeffrey Mitchell.
The Donald Jay Grout Memorial Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. candidate in musicology went to Emanuele Senici and Katalin Komlos.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize for outstanding piano performance went to Ken Chan.
The Harold A. Falconer Memorial Voice Scholarship went to Alexander Brose.
Barbara Troxell Vocal Awards went to Lea Friedman, Gary Moulsdale, Arsenia Soto and Peter Tengstrom.
John James Blackmore Prizes went to Patricia Bolen, Brian Brooks, Steven Burke, James Matheson, Jeremy O'Connell, Garth Sundem and Edith Wu.
Susan Crisfield received the John James Blackmore Prize for her performance in the Brahms Cello Sonata.
The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize for academic achievement, with special reference to facility of expression in French, went to Veronica Nolan-Wheatley.
The winners of the J.G. White Competition were as follows: J.G. White Scholarships to Uriyoan Colon, Junyoung Kim and Klara Ng; Prizes for Excellence in Spanish to Joseph Arencibia, Aleksandra Bytnerowicz and Veronica Nolan-Wheatley; and Prize for Excellence in English to Oliver Page.
T. Michael Duncan, associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, won the Tau Beta Pi and Cornell Society of Engineers 1996-97 Excellence in Teaching Award, presented to a faculty member, elected by the engineering student body.
The Horace K. White Prize for the student with the highest academic record for his or her veterinary training went to Jean Ann Ferreri.
Kevin Wallace 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 demonstrated continued excellence in teaching, went to Dr. John Saidla.
Dr. Rory Todhunter 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.
The Pfizer Animal Health Award, for a third-year student with the highest academic record, went to Adrienne Bentley.
Upjohn Clinical Awards went to Mark Thomas and Patricia Ernst Grinnell.
Joe Consigli received the first Dr. John F. Cummings Memorial Award, for a third-year student who best exemplifies the personal qualities of Dr. Cummings.
The Outstanding Clinical Resident Award went to Dr. Shannon Flood.
Carolyn Edsell has received the Judith Ellen Kram Award, which assists students in pursuing field research or an internship on topics of concern to women.