Francille Firebaugh, left, dean of the College of Human Ecology, gives junior Rachel Harris the Robinson Award for Academic Excellence at the college's April 29 "Evening of Excellence." The award, endowed by Professor Emerita Jean Robinson, is given annually to students with the highest grade-point averages. Frank DiMeo/University Photography
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!
Highest Distinction went to Alexa Cox for having the highest GPA in the college.
Megan Marshall, Danielle Trichilo and Alexa Cox were named the Degree Marshals, and Ellena Cronquist, Justin Davies and Giuseppe Militello were named the Banner Bearers.
The Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, for voluntary service activities beyond undergraduate academic requirements, went to Craig Gfeller.
Joseph Ippolito received the Paul Schreurs Memorial Award to recognize excellence in undergraduate research, sponsored by the college's honor society, HoNunDeKah.
The Academic Excellence award recognizes the top scholars in each of the 16 majors in the college. They were awarded as follows: agricultural and biological engineering: Megan Marshall; agricultural, resource and managerial economics: Danielle Trichilo; animal science: Alexa Cox; biological sciences: Howard Moskowitz; biometry and statistics: Mark Noble; communication: Jason Reich; education: Michael Isenberg; entomology: Rachel Keats; food science: Winny Setiady; general studies: Kristen Rumsey; landscape architecture: Kiyomi Saeki; natural resources: Sarah Raposa; nutrition, food and agriculture: Eric Epstein; plant sciences: Sara Fitzgerald; rural sociology: Allison Kavey; and soil, crop and atmospheric sciences: Deena Bollinger.
This year's Outstanding Student Employee Award went to Rob Peterson, and the Perseverance Award went to Tina Strasheim.
The Professor of Merit award, voted on by the senior class, was awarded to Brian Earle, professor of communication. Also by the senior class, the Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Adviser Award recipient was Gene German, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics. The division of biological sciences presented a special appreciation award to Harry Stinson for his many years as advising coordinator for biological sciences.
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 James Shanahan, professor of communication.
The Innovative Teacher Award, for developing new approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, went to Susan Piliero, professor of education.
The NACTA Teaching Award of Merit given by the National Association for College Teachers of Agriculture went to Gene German of the Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching went to Douglas Haith, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Edward McLaughlin, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics. The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service went to Michael Duttweiler of Cornell Cooperative Extension. Susan Barnes received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship.
The Cooperative Extension/Outreach awards were presented to Warren Stiles and the Cornell Local Roads Program.
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 Leonard Topoleski, professor of fruit and vegetable science.
Seniors Woei-Jiun Mary Chang and Daniel Trichilo received awards of $1,000 from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, which recognizes academic performance of students specializing in applied economics and business management.
Charles Ross received the Ecology and Systematics Teaching Award, 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 Ruth Hufbauer for her presentation "Effects of a Biological Control Introduction on Resistance and Virulence in an Aphid-Parasitoid Association" and to David Lytle for "Evolution of Rainfall Cues in the Giant Water Bugs (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae)."
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award for the best paper given by a beginning graduate student at the January Graduate Symposium went to Daniel Ardia for his paper "Energetic Consequences of Sex-Related Differences in Habitat Use in Wintering American Kestrels (Falco sparverius)."
The LaMont C. Cole Award, given for an outstanding paper (published or accepted for publication) by a graduate student or an Ecology and Systematics faculty member, went to Carla Cáceres for "Temporal Variation, Dormancy and Coexistence: A Field Test of the Storage Effect."
The AIA (Henry Adams) Student Medal and Certificate of Merit, awarded to members of the architecture graduating class who maintained the best academic grade average throughout their entire course of study, went to Victor Lai, medal, and Edward Luginbill, certificate.
Joanna Wieloch won the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, awarded by the professional architectural fraternity to a graduating student who has demonstrated leadership ability, performed service to the school and who shows promise of professional merit through attitude and personality.
The American Institute of Certified Planners Student Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in the graduate study of planning, went to Dave Smole.
The Baird Prizes, awarded to winners of a special second-year design competition, went to Jason Frantzen, Anees Assali and Erika Tapp.
Hansy Better received the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, awarded to the graduating student who has attained the highest cumulative average in architectural design.
The Department of City and Regional Planning Community Service Awards went to Mario Flores, Maile Deppe, Karina Ricks, Lehr Benjamin and Andrea Yang.
The William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design, went to Jose Gutierrez.
The Eschweiler Prize of approximately $700, given to a student with high scholastic achievement who has been accepted in one of the architecture graduate programs at Cornell, went to Luis Yordan.
Kathleen Kranack won the Faculty Medal in 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.
Timothy Blanchard received the New York Society of Architects Matthew W. Del Gaudío Award Certificate, given to a senior who leads the class in total design, including design, planning and construction.
The Mackesey Prize, awarded to a student in the Department of City and Regional Planning who has demonstrated unusual competence in academic work or who has contributed to the intellectual advancement of fellow students, went to Lisa Goldberg.
Peter Hedlund received the Michael Rapuano Memorial Award, for "distinction in design" given to a graduating student in architecture, landscape architecture, painting, sculpture or planning.
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 Angelique Bamberg.
Art student Yoon Eiu Chun won the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal, awarded on the basis of exceptional merit to architecture students in architectural design and to art students in sculpture or painting and composition. Hansy Better, architecture, won a silver medal, and Alexander Shumyatsky, Agustin Ayuso and Brian Chung, all in architecture, won bronze medals.
Naseem Alizadeh received the Suzanne Sheng Memorial Prize, for an architecture student demonstrating design excellence.
The Edwin A. Seipp Memorial Prize, an award of at least $150 to a third-year student(s) in a special design competition, went to David Allin, David Huang and Phillip Mandell.
For promise and accomplishment in the field of art, the Edith and Walter King Stone Memorial Prizes went to Elisabeth O'Brien, Mien Wong, Carlos Rodriguez and Anna Plesset.
The Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achievement Award, for the highest academic average after seven semesters at Cornell in that program, went to Hilda Chan.
The Edward Palmer York Memorial Prizes, awards in the amount of approximately $100 given to winners of a special introductory design competition, went to Khalid Almo, Prima Davidson, April Gruber and Cary Ng.
College of Arts & Sciences
The following were named Degree Marshals and Banner Bearers: Katherine Henzler, Daniel Klein, Karla Lambert, Ilya Nasrallah and Janice Wynn.
Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists went to professors John Borneman and Thomas Borstelmann.
Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Awa rds for Excellence in Advising went to professors Lydia Fakundiny and Glenn Altschuler.
Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards went to Teaching Assistant Howard Schweber and professors Keshav Pingali, Daniel Schwarz and Daniel Usner.
One lecturer and 10 teaching assistants won John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards: Lecturer Bruce Johnson and TAs Daniel Donaghy, Meredith Doran, Jennifer Hill, Min Hur, Ashley Jones, Lisa Lavoie, Nina Revoyr, David Reed Solomon, Anne Stork and Ji Zhu.
The 1998 Eleanor York Prize, for excellence in research, teaching and service, went to James Lombardi.
David Kaplan has been selected to receive the 1998 Astronomical Society of New York Undergraduate Student Prize.
The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded:
ACS Analytical Prize to Lawrence Low. American Institute of Chemists Medal to Samuel Wang. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Dori Engel and Peter Tsang. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to Kurt Melstrom. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Rachel Pessah, Michael Little and Pakorn Kanchanawong. Hypercube Scholar to Scott Wolkenberg. Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Katherine Henzler. Merck Index Awards to Yuko Hori and Steven Milman.
The following graduate prizes have been awarded:
DuPont Teaching Prizes to Pamela Arnold, Tevye Celius, Jason Scull and Douglas Weibel. Howard Neal Wachter Prize to Garegin Papoian. Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium to Christopher Jones, Jason Kirkwood and Alan van Giessen.
The winner of the George Harmon Coxe Award for an undergraduate essay on American literature was Francis Mahoney for "Truthful Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
The 1998 winners of the Arthur Lynn Andrews Prizes for Fiction went to graduate student Brian Roley, undergraduates Katherine Hue-tsung Liu and Geoff Kirsch. Honorable mention went to Bernell Downer.
The $1,000 Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding senior geology major, went to Karen Frey.
Margaret Milman 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.
Jennifer Yu won the $1,000 Bender Graduate Scholarship, awarded for "dedication to academia ... and to the human aspects of life ..."
The Simmons Award in German, which goes to the student who has done the best work in German, went to senior Gena Lavallee.
The following students won Goethe Prizes, awarded for the best essays on German literature or film: In the category for juniors, seniors and graduate students, no first prizes were awarded, but Jennifer Koenig, a senior in the Arts College, received a second prize of $100 for her essay "Die Eroberung der bekannten Welt: Das Unbekannte in Hildesheimers Märchen von Prinzessin Turandot." A third prize of $50 in the same category went to Petek Salman, a junior in the Arts College, for her essay "Auf der Suche nach der Bedeutung des Lebens." In the freshman and sophomore category, a first prize of $100 went to Eric Stevens, sophomore in the Arts College, for "Nur das Leben darstellen: Ein Vergleich zwischen Dürrenmatts Der Meteor und Frischs Biographie: Ein Spiel." Second prize of $25 went to freshman Kristen Strassner, Ag College, for "The Use of Imagery and Setting to Condemn the World Wars in Anna Seghers' 'The Outing of the Dead Girls.'"
German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Fellowships went to Susanna Clark, Jonathan Laurence, Tracie Matysik and Maribeth Polhill.
Sonya Ahuja received a German Bundestag Fellowship.
Eliina Clark and Liisa Clark received Cornell-Heidelberg Exchange Fellowships.
The co-winners of the $500 Moses Coit Tyler Prize, awarded for the best essay in the fields of American history, literature or folklore, were Hunt Howell for "The Whisperer in Darkness: Eugenics and the Works of H.P. Lovecraft" and Greg Umbach for "Tough Men and Tender Chickens: Technology, Gender and Poultry Production in the United States, 1765-1965."
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics, awarded to outstanding graduating senior mathematics majors, went to Daniel Klein and Chow Ying Lee.
Donald J. Grout Memorial Scholarships went to Geoffrey Burgess and Nils Nadeau.
Steven Burke received the Robbins Family Composition Prize.
John James Blackmore Prizes went to Peter Savli, Paul Osterfield, Patricia Bolen, Garth Sundem, William Chung and the Cascadilla Quartet (Daniel Kim, Victor Lin, Tracy Decker and Victor Spain). The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize went to Doug Huang and Dennis Chang.
Barbara Troxell Awards went to Vineet Shende, Alex Brose, Gary Moulsdale and Brian Chu.
Tim Fuller received the Martha Jane Dale Award.
The Harold A. Falconer Memorial Award went to Rebecca Plack and Arsenia Soto.
The Corson French Prize in the Graduate Student Category ($500) went to Carole Allamand for her essay "L'etre que jlle moi': Marguerite Yourcenar et l'autobiographie," and senior Philip Debush won in the Undergraduate Student Category ($350) for "La lutte éternelle."
The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize, which awards $250 to a graduating senior woman majoring in French who made the best record for four years with excellent performance in the French language, went to Rita Futerman and Gena Lavallee.
The winners of the J.G. White Prize and Scholarship competitions were: J.G. White Scholarships to Stephen Bocskay and Mary Beth Constantino; Prize for Excellence in Spanish by an Engineering Student to Roslyn Gonzalez; Prize for Excellence in English to Eun Ha Choi; and Prize for Excellence in Spanish to Kathrin Petzold.
Douglas Haith, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, received the Tau Beta Pi and Cornell Society of Engineers 1997-98 Excellence in Teaching Award, voted on by the engineering student body.
Frederic Conger Wood Fellowships for undergraduate students went to Ron Davidson, School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Charles Keith, College of Arts and Sciences; and Amy Stewart, Arts College.
Michele Sicca Summer Research Grants went to: from the Arts College, Michele Bocquillon, Benjamin Claude Brower, Shobita Parthasarathy, Jessie Saul, Beate Sissenich and Jennifer Welsh, and from the ILR School, Nathan Lillie.
Carol Acree-Cavalier, Arts College, received the Manon Michels Einaudi Travel Grant.
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships went to Rachel Epstein and Tracie Matysik, both of the Arts College.
David Rueda, Arts College, received a Mario Einaudi Graduate Fellowship.
Class Marshals and Banner Bearers: Amit Kiesel, Jennifer Croce, Kristin Little, Sylvia Scherer and Muriel Mathieu.
Dori Berlin and Christopher McFerran received the R.C. Kopf Student Achievement Award.
The Dean's Awards went to the following students: Freshman Award of $250 to Sean Smatt; Sophomore Award of $250 to Stacy Lee Stepnowski; Junior Award of $500 to Robert Springer; and Senior Award of $500 to Amit Kiesel.
The $15,000 Joseph Drown Prize went to Jennifer
Croce. Winners of $1,000 were Karen Donnelly, Lukas
Kovalcik, Jennifer Brooke
Smith and George Voyiatzis.
MMH Honors Monograph awards went to Ursula Kriegl, Sid Narang, Padma Patil and Neil George Konthiamadom.
The following students received Undergraduate Research Awards: Meghan O'Sullivan and Darren Scott, split $200, Sophie Shive, $200; and Kim Streifel and Antonio Uceda Velez, both honorable mentions.
The following faculty awards, which are voted on by the students and have a prize of $2,000 cash plus $1,000 for the class improvement fund, were given: Freshman/Sophomore Awards to Florence Berger and Melanie Lankau; Junior/Senior Awards to Jack Corgel and Bruce Tracey; Graduate Awards to Jan de Roos and Chris Muller; and the Overall Teaching Award, which includes a cash prize of $4,000 plus $2,000 for class improvement, to David Sherwyn.
The Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communication went to: first prize to Julia Brauer; second prize to Nazaneen Grant; third prize to Rachel Suchof; fourth prize to Deborah Baker; and fifth prize to Michelle Blacksberg.
Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: seniors Anna Herbig and Amy Gargrave, juniors Sara Best and Rachel Harris, and sophomores Scott Weiss and Andrew Wong.
The following students were named Outstanding Seniors: Stephanie DiPerna, Christine Gandolfo, Nazaneen Grant, Matthew Hollander, Cleo Jacobs, David Levinthal, Lisa Marzolf, Rebecca Pinchoff, Matthew Semino, Wendy Sponaugle, Aaron Tax and Ho-Shyuan Wu.
The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement went to Jeremy Herz.
The Kappa Omicron Nu Achievement Award, to Cara Auletto.
Su-Lyn Tan received the Hillier Interior Design Award.
The General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching went to Rosemary Batt, John Boudreau and Harry Katz.
James McPherson and Lowell Turner received the Schering-Plough Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Teaching.
The Daniel Alpern Award went to Derek Dorn and Cory Mason in recognition of their scholarship and service to the school.
The John O'Donnell Prize for Outstanding Performance in Undergraduate Labor and Employment Law went to Micaela Grill.
Meredith Chaiken won the James Campbell Award, presented to the senior selected as best representing the qualities of character and personality exemplified by Professor Campbell.
Renee Phillips received the Irving M. Ives Award, given to the senior demonstrating "good faith, integrity, responsibility, cooperativeness and good will."
Gideon Lin 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 Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence went to James MacLeod, assistant professor of molecular genetics.
The Norden Distinguished Teacher Award went to Dorothy Ainsworth, associate professor of medicine.
The Prize of the Auxiliary of the American Veterinary Medical Association went to Pamela Corey.
John MacGregor received the Gary Bolton Memorial Cardiology Award.
Dawn Nolte received the Charles Gross Bondy Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Prize.
Bharathi Ranjithan won the John F. Cummings Memorial Award.
Christopher Byron won the A. Gordon Danks Large-Animal Surgery Award.
The Donald D. Delahanty Memorial Prize for exceptional proficiency in equine practice went to Gita Kumar.
The Hugh Dukes Prize in Experimental Physiology went to Julie Fixman.
The Gentle Doctor Award for enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to excellent patient care went to Joseph Consigli. Consigli also received the American Animal Hospital Award.
Joseph Wakshlag won the Hill's Buddy Award for Proficiency in Animal Nutrition and the Jacob Traum Award.
The Iams and Veterinary Emergency Critical Care Society Award went to Daniel Chan.
The Merck Manual Awards for graduating in the top 10 percent of the class went to Adrienne Bentley, Elizabeth Edmunds, John MacGregor, Lenore Menger-Anderson, Dawn Nolte, Morna Pixton, Amy Sachs and Paul Virkler.
Sara Sanders won the Malcolm E. Miller Award.
The Leonard Pearson Veterinary Prize for Professional and/or Academic Leadership went to Christine Petersen.
The Col. Floyd C. Sager Equine Obstetrics and Pediatrics Award went to Karen Laidley.
The Upjohn Clinical Award for Proficiency in Large Animal Medicine went to Elizabeth Edmunds. Edmunds also won the Horace K. White Prize, presented to the student with the highest academic record, and the Myron G. Fincher Prize.
The Upjohn Clinical Award for Proficiency in Small Animal Medicine went to Cheryl Balkman.
The American Association of Feline Practitioners Award went to Amy Sachs.
The American College of Veterinary Radiology Prize went to Matthew Winter, and Winter also received the Dermatology Service Award.
Carol Ceglowski won the American College of Veterinary Surgeons Award for Large-Animal Surgery, and Garrett Davis won for Small-Animal Surgery.
Christopher Byron received the James Gordon Bennett Prize.
The Anne Besse Prize went to Paul Virkler and Thomas Allegrezza.
Allegrezza also won the Frank Bloom Pathology Award.
The Grant Sherman Hopkins Prize went to Morna Pixton and Julie Fixman.
The New York State Veterinary Medical Society Prize for outstanding seminar presentations went to Joseph Consigli and Emily Pershing, with honorable mention awards to Fred Levy, Jennifer Rawlinson and Paul Virkler.
Laura Delia received the E.L. Stubbs Award.
The Wild Bird Research and Rehabilitation Award went to Margaret Catherine Piwonka.
Christina Cable received the Outstanding Clinical Resident Award for large-animal surgery, and Todd Deppe won for small-animal medicine.
Lenore Menger-Anderson received second place in the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and Bayer Corp. 1998 Manuscript Award.
Marc Kramer won the Comparative Anatomy Award.
Ann Marie Schaivetta received the Ettinger Incentive Award.
Sara Childs and Dawn Tornusciolo received the P. Philip Levine Prize in Avian Medicine.
The Jane Miller Prize went to Dennis Bailey.
Michael Capel received the Mary Louise Moore Prize.
The Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Award, to Ryan Storey.
First place in the Philotherian Photographic Prize went to Marc Kramer and Shana Silverstein; second place, Tara Kipp and George Teague; and third place, Alejandro Aguirre.
Dennis Bailey won the Phi Zeta Award.
Anna Olafson Sussex Pathology Award, to Tristan Weinkle.
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