Jamila Cutliff, a senior in the College of Engineering, has been awarded a 1999 Samuel Huntington Public Service Award.
Cutliff, who is an employee of the Cornell Public Service Center, will use the grant to continue work with Encourage Youth Educate Society (EYES), a nonprofit organization she founded in the fall of 1996.
Based in Westborough, Mass., the Samuel Huntington Fund was established in memory of the late businessman and philanthropist. The award provides an annual stipend of $10,000 for a graduating senior to pursue public service anywhere in the world.
Cutliff, a materials science and bioengineering major, is director of EYES, a community service organization that allies disadvantaged children in New York state school districts with Cornell engineering students and faculty who teach them math and science skills through hands-on, interactive projects. The Huntington Award will help enable Cutliff to expand the program beyond New York state.
A Rice Scholar and Cornell Tradition fellow, Cutliff has been the winner of several awards, including the Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award and the Howard R. Swearer Humanitarian Award.
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