Students and faculty honored for their achievements

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 Class of 1999 Degree Marshals are Amanda Itzkoff and Matthew Willmann; Class of 1999 Banner Bearers are Daniel Smith, Anthony Zuba and Scott Showalter.

The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence went to Amanda Itzkoff, Meghan McCamey, Valerie Mignone, Jennifer Sitts and Matthew Willmann.

The award for Academic Excellence was presented to the top scholar in each of the college's 16 majors. They were awarded as follows: agricultural and biological engineering -- Pamela Akinwale and Leon Out; applied economics and business management -- Amanda Itzkoff; animal science -- Shannon Lacy; biological sciences -- Daniel Smith; biometry and statistics -- Valerie Mignone; communication -- Anthony Zuba; Education -- Christopher Kelly; Entomology -- Alison McLennan, food science -- Sage Chaiyapechara; general studies -- Andres Choussy; landscape architecture -- Jennifer Sitts; natural resources -- Quinn Caldwell, nutrition, food and agriculture -- Jonathan Berg; plant sciences -- Matthew Willmann; rural sociology -- Simeon Wiehler, soil, crop and atmospheric sciences -- Karen Wynne.

Laura Knights and Harriet Pimm shared the Senior Service Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, based on voluntary activities beyond undergraduate academic requirements.

Tony Quach and Daniel Smith shared the Paul Schreurs Memorial Award to recognize excellence in undergraduate research and service to the community, sponsored by the college's honor society, Ho-Nun-De-Kah.

This year's Outstanding Student Employee award went to Laura Knights, and the Perseverance Award went to Richard Erickson.

Three Student Organization Awards of $150 were given to ALS Ambassadors for leadership development, Hortus Forum for creative fund-raising and the Ho-Nun-De-Kah honor society for community service.

The Professor of Merit award, voted by the senior class, was awarded to Barbara "Bobbi" Peckarsky, professor of entomology. Also by the senior class, the Donald C. Burgett Distinguished Adviser Award recipient is Margaret "Marge" Hubbert, senior lecturer in agricultural, resource and managerial economics.

The Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award recognizes outstanding teachers in the first five years of their teaching appointment in CALS. James Hagen, assistant professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics, was selected. Another teaching award given by the college, the Innovative Teacher award for developing new approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, went to Deborah Streeter, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics.

The NACTA Teaching Award of Merit, given by the National Association for College Teachers of Agriculture, went to Barbara Knuth, associate professor of natural resources.

The Chancellor's Awards from the State University of New York were presented to George Casella, professor of biometrics, and Syed Rizvi, professor of food science, for Excellence in Teaching. The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service recipient is James Tette of Geneva Cooperative Extension. Howard Raskin received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship.

The Cooperative Extension and Outreach awards were presented to Bill Pardee, professor of plant breeding, and the Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources Youth Program Team -- Marianne Krasny, Steve Brown, Bill Carlsen, Christine Cunning-ham, Nancy Trautmann, Jeannie Barbara and Susan Hopkins.

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 Gene German, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics.

Seniors Amanda Itzkoff, Laura Knights, Violetta Ostafin and Mileen Patel received awards of $500 from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, which recognizes academic performance of students specializing in applied economics and business management.

Cami Holtmeier and M. Brian Traw 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 Maydianne Andrade for her presentation "Sexual Sacrifice as an Adaptive Male Behavior: Constraints on Male Mating Success in Redback Spiders" and to Cami Holtmeier for "Morphological Diversification and Developmental Variation in a Pupfish Species Complex."

The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award for the best paper given by a beginning graduate student at the January Graduate Symposium went to Jennifer Fox for her paper "Genetic Structure of Coexisting Sexual and Asexual Subpopulations of a Freshwater Snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum)."

Joshua Drennen is the recipient of the Edwin J. Dietz Award for scholarship assistance.

The Frederick F. Horton Fund Award, based on academic ability, character, need for financial assistance and promise of future leadership, went to Steve Munson.

The Alfred C. Hottes Amateur Gardening Fund Award, based on academic record, character, activities and promise of advancing floriculture and ornamental horticulture as an amateur activity, went to Catherine Arndt and Sadie Puglisi.

Erin Cannon won both the King/Douglas Scholarship, given to a woman in CALS who has achieved high standing, and the Wilhelmine Lind Memorial Fund Award. Other winners of the Lind Award were Kristina Slater, Leigh Macdonald and Andreya Daubman.

Kelly Hennigan, Angela Yu and Leigh Macdonald won the Marvin L. Lindner Award.

The Professor Alfred M.S. and Mrs. Alice Read Pridham Scholarship Fund Award went to Benjamin Pattison.

Michele Wurm received the William F. Dreer Fund Award, which provides an opportunity for study abroad related to the field of floriculture and ornamental horticulture.

Jason Field won the Kenneth Post Award, given annually to an outstanding senior.

The New York State Flower Industries Research and Education Fund gave a number of awards. Recipients were: Kelly Hennigan, Kathleen Prestemon, Kristina Slater, Donna Vasiloff, Betty Won and Aaron Edwards.

Matthew Willmann was named the Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Horticulture from the American Society of Horticulture Science.

The H.R. Schenkel Sr. Memorial Fund Award for exceptional academic achievement went to Allison Marusic.

Arthur Thomas Memorial Horticultural Fund Awards went to Shana Behan, Ryan Case, Mieke Damaske, Joshua Drennen, Carla Hetzel, Robert Mooney, Benjamin Pattison and Matthew Willmann.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award went to Leslie Katzman.

Outstanding Teaching Assistants were Michelle Beesten and Teresa Sobieszcyzk.

Priya Sharma received the Olaf F. Larson Merit Award, which recognizes academic achievement among juniors.

The Dwight Sanderson Excellence Award, recognizing an outstanding graduating senior, went to Simeon Wiehler.

Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, recognized four faculty members: Excellence in Teaching -- Barbara Knuth, associate professor of natural resources; Excellence in Research -- Timothy Mount, professor of agricultural, resource and managerial economics; Excellence in Extension and Public Service -- William Pardee, professor of plant breeding; and Excellence in Administration -- Glenn Applebee, assistant director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Three students were recognized as the highest ranking sophomores in their respective colleges: Alexa Cox, Veterinary Medicine; Cory Polonetsky, Human Ecology; and Raymond Mak, Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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 Chee Song Chern, medal, and Carlin MacDougall, certificate.

Meghan Brown 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 The Ellis Island Stabilization Project; Mark Rodman and Kathleen Foley, team leaders.

Anna Plesset 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.

John Nicholas Glase received the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, awarded to the graduating student who has attained the highest cumulative average in architectural design.

The William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design, went to John Nicholas Glase and Luis Fernandez.

Lisa Schlichtemeier 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.

Elisabeth Clemence 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 William Stark.

The Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal is awarded on the basis of exceptional merit to architecture students in architectural design and to art students in sculpture or painting and composition. Selin Maner won a silver medal, and Luis Fernan-dez, Michael Knauff and Chris King won bronze medals.

Kathryn Cogan received the Suzanne Sheng Memorial Prize, for an architecture student demonstrating design excellence.

The Richmond Harold Shreve Award, for architectural design, architectural science or architectural history students for excellence and originality in their graduate theses, went to Corey Toler.

The Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achievement Award, for the highest academic average after seven semesters at Cornell in that program, went to Samuel Zimmerman-Bergman.

The 1999 Degree Marshals and Banner Bearers are Daniel Gardner, Michael Geary, Betsy Ostrov, Phillip Pian and Mukund Thattai.

Professors Christopher Collins, linguistics, and Timothy Vogelsang, economics, received Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists.

The Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising went to Davydd Greenwood, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthroplogy.

Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards went to Douglas Weibel, teaching assistant, chemistry and chemical biology; Steven Squyres, professor of astronomy; and Thomas Gilovich, professor of psychology.

John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards went to lecturers in the Department of English Manual Muñoz and Brennen Wysong and the following teaching assistants: Maydianne Andrade, neurobiology and behavior; Antonia Losano, English; Mingus Mapps, government; Horace Stoica, physics; and Gilman Toombes, physics.

The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded:

ACS Analytical Prize to Sarunya Bangsaruntip. American Institute of Chemists Medal to Joshua Willey. CRC Press Chemistry Achievement Award to Pakorn Kanchanawong and Mike Walton. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Kurt Melstrom and David Metzger. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to Susan Crown. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes to Sabiha Barot, Daniel Frenkel and Kristin Vyhnal. Hypercube Scholar to Lawrence Low. Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Oren Scherman. Merck Index Awards to David Lee and Hyung-Song Nam.

The following graduate prizes have been awarded:

DuPont Teaching Prizes to Emily Baird, Matt Gronquist, Anthony Michaud, Christopher Hoffman, Darrell Hurt and Cheng Lin. Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium to Garegin Papoyan, Peter Willis and Min Wu.

The Richard Evans for Excellence in Teaching award went to Vance Breakwell.

The 1999 winners of the Arthur Lynn Andrews Prizes for Fiction went to graduate student Jacqueline Dowdell and undergraduates Bernell Downer, first place, and Rattawut Lapcharoensap and Lydia Peelle, second place.

The following poetry prizes were awarded for the submission of a total of at least 100 lines of verse: the Corson-Bishop Prize of $325 each to graduate students Gabriel Gudding and Jennifer Scott; the Robert Chasen Prize of $250 each to graduate students Crystal Williams and Jenie Pak; and the $150 Dorothy Sugarman Prize to Philip Ciampa. Bernell Downer won an honorable mention.

Michele Sicca Summer Research Grants went to Chara Armon, history; Tansel Erbil, city and regional planning; Adelheid Voskuhl and Javier Lezaun, science and technology studies; Sydney Van Atta and Aleksander Lust, government; and Jaimey Fisher, German studies.

Stacy Kaplan, history of art, received the Manon Grant for Summer 1999.

Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships went to Leigh Anne Eubanks, history; and Geoffrey Woodley, sociology.

FLAS Fellowships for the Academic Year went to Theodore Eisenman and Richard Taylor, city and regional planning; Shobita Parthasarathy, science and technology studies; and Kai Arthur Schafft, rural sociology.

FLAS Fellowships for Summer 1999 went to James Mitchell, Romance studies; Gabrielle Sandor, communication; Gary Tsifrin, history; and Richard Taylor, city and regional planning.

The Simmons Award in German, which goes to the student who has done the best work in German, went to senior Amy Emm.

Jeffrey N. Hyson has received the $500 Moses Coit Tyler Prize for the best thesis or dissertation in American history or literature.

The Anne MacIntyre Litchfield Prizes, $275 in books awarded to two outstanding women seniors majoring in history, went to Tamar Kraft-Stolar and Molly Warsh.

The George S. Lustig Prize, $200 awarded to the outstanding senior who intends to continue the study of history at the graduate level, went to John Hyland.

Charles Keith and Armando Rosquete won the Duniway Prize for the outstanding graduate in history and will share $275 worth of books.

The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics, awarded to outstanding graduating senior mathematics majors, went to Harold Fox.

Joseph Phibbs received the Robbins Family Composition Prize.

The Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize went to D. Boyd Pomeroy.

The Barbara Troxell Vocal Award went to Joseph Gregorio and Arsenia Soto.

The Harold A. Falconer Memorial Voice Scholarship went to Gary Moulsdale and Rebecca Plack.

The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize went to Noah DeGarmo.

John James Blackmore Prizes went to Kuei-Chuan Chang, Douglass Huang, Daria Kwiatkowska, Damon Lee, Marc Olin, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Peter Savli, Dmitriy Shapovalov and Vineet Shende.

The Corson French Prize in the Graduate Student Category ($500) went to Amy Staples for her essay "Sganarelle," and senior Bradley Schwack won in the Undergraduate Student Category ($350) for "La poésie dans les chansons de Gainsbourg."

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 Katherine White.

The winners of the J.G. White Prize and Scholarship competitions were: J.G. White Scholarships to Eun Ha Choi, Awymarie Riollano and Colbert Valdez; Prize for Excellence in Spanish by an Engineering Student to Benjamin Bursae; Prize for Excellence in English to Gonzalo Melchor; and Prize for Excellence in Spanish to Mara Goldwin and Erika Rodriguez.

1999 Melville Shavelson Film Awards went to Caleb Johnson, Ryan Cook, Miguel Lau and Alex Kreuter.

The Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award went to Terrence Fine.

Jonathan Makela won the William S. Einwechter Award, presented to a senior who has a distinguished record of service to the school, the college and the university.

Antonio Cuadra won the John G. Pertsch Prize, presented to an outstanding student who has achieved the distinction of ranking first in his or her third year of study.

Jackson Lee won a 3M Engineering Scholarship.

The Lockheed Martin Engineering Scholars Award, presented to outstanding sophomores, went to Jason Adaska, Sean Breheny, Andrew Lee, Alan Nawoj and Jeffrey Tyhach.

The $1,000 Chester Buchannan Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding senior geology major, went to Jacek Lupa.

Elyssa Palmer won the $1,000 Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize, awarded to an outstanding senior geology student who has proved "adept in other liberal arts fields as well as geology -- a student of the world."

Class Marshals and Banner Bearers: Stuart Rosen, Tracey Gamble, Attila Harai, Undine Engelmann, Marjorie Kulak, Andrew Schleimer and Mark Agnew.

Peter Karpinski received the R.C. Kopf Student Achievement Award.

The Dean's Awards went to the following students: Freshman Award to Meaghan Mahoney; Sophomore Award to Florence Tsui; Junior Award to Svetlin Ganchev; and Senior Award to Undine Engelmann.

The $15,000 Joseph Drown Prize went to Julie Margolin. Winners of $1,000 were Sheldon Keens-Douglas, Tracey Gamble, Rachel White and Attila Harai.

MMH Honors Monograph awards went to Elyse Gould and Jamie Leveen.

The following students received Undergraduate Research Awards: Alyssa Paladino, Julie Dittmer, Kristen Gervinski, Stella Lin, Darren Scott and John Siedlicki.

The Statler Hotel Student Manager Recognition Award went to Robert Springer.

Winners of the Clyde E. Robinson Awards were: Elisha White-Marin, for academic excellence; Eris Sims, for leadership; Kenneth Fuller, for service; Regina Lee, outstanding freshman; and Sheldon Keens-Douglas, Dean's Award winner.

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: Freshman/Sophomore Award to Beth Chung and Bruce Tracey; Junior/Senior Award to Jack Corgel and Christopher Muller; Graduate Award to Jan de Roos and Gordon Potter; and the Overall Teaching Award, which includes a cash prize of $4,000 plus $2,000 for class improvement, to David Sherwyn.

Class Marshals and Banner Bearers: Elizabeth Kearns, Stacey Pauker, Maryann Delli Pizzi, Rachel Harris and Sara Best.

The Florence Halpern Prize, based on achievement in a community service project, went to Sakai Lee.

The Flora Rose Prize, awarded for promise for contributing to the growth and self-fulfillment of future generations, went to Irene Ryan.

The Elsie Van Buren Rice Awards in Oral Communication went to: first prize, Rachel Suchoff; second prize, Michael Pressman and Lashonne Watts; third prize, Michelle Blacksberg; and fourth prize, Katherine Frachetti.

Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excellence were: seniors Maryann Delli Pizzi and Stacey Pauker; juniors Sasha Aschenbrand and Scott Weiss; and sophomores Cory Polonetsky and Doreen Toskos.

The following students were named Outstanding Seniors: Francesca Balada, Michelle Blacksberg, Kathryn Carlson, Maryann Delli Pizzi, John "T.J." Duane, Joyce Fung, Rema Hanna, Georgia Jones, Sakai Lee, Sara Sinha and Carl Winter.

The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement in Consumer Economics and Housing and Policy Analysis went to Nathaniel Dorfman.

The Ruthanna Wood Davis Award for Academic Achievement in Nutritional Sciences went to Andrew Wong.

The Gamma Sigma Delta Sophomore Academic Achievement Award went to Cory Polonetsky.

The Kappa Omicron Nu Achievement Award went to Rion Weideman.

Alex Ko received the Hillier Interior Design Award.

Michaela Chlouba received the Steelcase University Design Fellowship.

Sara Best won the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

The Human Ecology Alumni/Kappa Omicron Nu Advising Award went to Jeffrey Haugaard.

The Halpern Prize for Extension/Outreach went to Kathy Castania.

The MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching went to Jefferson Cowie.

The General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching went to John Bunge.

The General Mills Foundation Award for Innovation in Instruction went to Robert Smith.

The Daniel Alpern Award went to H. Ron Davidson and Catherine Ellison in recognition of their scholarship and service to the school.

Adam Forchheimer won the James Campbell Award, presented to the senior selected as best representing the qualities of character and personality exemplified by Professor Campbell.

Michael Blitzer received the Irving M. Ives Award, given to the senior demonstrating "good faith, integrity, responsibility, cooperativeness and good will."

The John O'Donnell Prize for Outstanding Performance in Undergraduate Labor Law and Employment Law went to William Adams.

Ty Chapman and Elena Redlich received the Edward M. Snyder Prize for "academic excellence, personal qualities and the achievement as a student and as a TA in statistics for which Ed Snyder is remembered."

The Salvatore Family Prize in American History went to Andrew Zuckerman.

The Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence went to Kenneth William Simpson, assistant professor of medicine.

The Norden Distinguished Teacher Award went to William Charles Rebhun, former professor of medicine and ophthalmology who died in September 1998.

Jacqueline Marie Bartol won the Outstanding Clinical Resident Award.

The American Animal Hospital Award went to Natacha Simpkins. Simpkins also received the Leonard Pearson Veterinary Prize.

Lori Bradshaw won the American Association of Feline Practitioners' Award.

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons' Award went to Bonny Scheck for large-animal surgery and to Tristan Karl Weinkle for small-animal surgery. Weinkle also received the Dermatology Service Award, the Wild Bird Research and Rehabilitation Award, the Isidor I. Sprecker Wildlife Medicine Award and the Jacob Traum Award.

Jennifer Paige Rose Graziano won the Prize of the Auxiliary of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

The James Gordon Bennett Prize, for the fourth-year student who shows the greatest humaneness in handling animals, went to Bharathi Ranjithan.

The Anne Besse Prize for best work in food-animal medicine went to Stacy Kenyon.

The Frank Bloom Pathology Award went to Gregory Voronin. Voronin also won the Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neurology Prize.

Sara Childs and Karin Wagner won the Gary Bolton Memorial Cardiology Award. Wagner also won the Hugh Dukes Prize in Experimental Psychology, and Childs received the E.L. Stubbs Award.

The Charles Gross Bondy Prize, for the best work by a student in the fourth year in courses in practical medicine and surgery of small animals, went to Ryan Storey. Storey also won the Horace K. White Prize, for the student with the highest academic record during veterinary training, as well as the IAMS and VECCS Award and the New York State Veterinary Medical Society Prize.

Kathy Chu received the Howard E. Evans Award in Comparative Anatomy.

Christopher Kennedy won the John F. Cummings Memorial Award.

The A. Gordon Danks Large-Animal Surgery Award went to Heather O'Leary.

The Donald D. Delahanty Memorial Prize, for a fourth-year student who shows an interest in equine practice, went to Jennifer Walker.

The Ettinger Incentive Award, for the second-year student who has made the greatest improvement in cumulative grade-point average, went to Stephanie Wolf.

Michael Jones received the Myron G. Fincher Prize, for a fourth-year student demonstrating the best work in courses dealing with large-animal obstetrics and reproductive disorders. Jones also received the Gentle Doctor Award, for a fourth-year student who exemplifies enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to the delivery of excellent veterinary patient care, as well as the Malcolm E. Miller Award

The Hills "Buddy" Award, for excellent problem-solving ability, knowledge and application of the principles of nutrition, went to Melissa Murray.

The Grant Sherman Hopkins Prize, for interest, ability, perseverance and performance in work in anatomy, went to Dawn Tornusciolo.

The P. Philip Levine Prize in Avian Medicine went to Marc Hubert Kramer.

Winners of the Merck Manual Awards were Sarina Hinsley, Karolina Antonia Jameson Jordan, Stacie Mary Lauren Minnier, Bonny Scheck, Natacha Simpkins, Ryan Storey, Keith Robert Weingardt and Karin Colby Wilson.

The Jane Miller Prize, awarded to a second-year student who has done the best work in veterinary physiology, went to Alexa Margaret Cox. Cox also received the Phi Zeta Award, for the second-year student with the best academic record upon completion of the first three semesters of study.

The Mary Louise Moore Prize went to Michael Benjamin Capel.

Dennis Burt Bailey won the Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Scholarship Award.

Rachel Beth Gardner and Ericka Alicia Mendez received the Philotherian Photographic Prize.

The Col. Floyd C. Sager Equine Obstetrics and Pediatrics Award went to Alison Kaufman.

The Dorothy Sullivan Prize went to Wendy Marie Breckenridge.

Joshua Weisberg won the Anna Olafson Sussex Pathology Award.

The Pharmacia and Upjohn Clinical Award for large-animal medicine went to Jeanette McCracken, and the award for small-animal medicine went to Bonny Scheck.