2025-26
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
The 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Conference Travel Grants went to Henry Cheng, Stephanie Sang and Nic Vigilante.
CAPS (THE BRITTANY AND ADAM J. LEVINSON PROGRAM IN CHINA AND ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES)
The Sherman Cochran Prize was awarded to Genevieve Moore and Emily Shen.
CORNELL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY & MATERIAL STUDIES
Hirsch Undergraduate Archaeological Research and Travel Grants were awarded to Esther Brenner, Claire Clifford-Langenek, Madelyn Funk, Sana Ghauri, Elizabeth Hall, Zacharie Henningsen, Grace Liu and David Suh.
Lewin Undergraduate Research and Travel Grants were awarded to Esther Brenner, Claire Clifford-Langenek, Madelyn Funk, Elizabeth Hall and Grace Liu.
The CIAMS Undergraduate Conference Travel Award went to Zacharie Henningsen.
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
The Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology was awarded to Maddox Feldbaum and Madelyn Funk.
DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
The Asian Studies Summer Study, Research, and Service Travel Grants went to Matthew Wang (Taiwan), Madeline McGee (Taiwan), Violet Bohler (China), Molly Murray (Korea), Thai Koehnie (Vietnam) and Troy Carrillo (Indonesia).
The Robert J. Smith/Russell Mann Gift for top intermediate Japanese language students was awarded to Tingyu Li.
The Japanese Language Program Robert Sukle Award for three years of outstanding work went to Zentaro Fujii.
The Korean Language Program Award for three years of outstanding work went to Clara Alcolea Vila, Luke Chang and Isabela Wilson.
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Graduate Research Award, given to a graduate student to recognize outstanding accomplishment in astronomical research, went to Elija Mullens.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, given to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance as a teaching assistant, went to Abby Boehm.
The Eleanor York Prize, given to a graduate student to reward service to the community as well as academic achievement, went to Aiden Zelakiewicz.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley prize for Undergraduate Research went to Ian Branigan.
The West Undergraduate Fellowship went to Jerry Wang ’28, and Treyton Grahn ‘27.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant for students majoring in comparative literature, to support intensive language study outside the U.S., was awarded to Jack Clauss to travel to Dakar, Senegal to study French at the Baobab Center, and to David Suarez to travel to Ciudad de México, México to study Spanish at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Xinyu H. Zhang was awarded the Department of Comparative Literature Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of excellence in undergraduate pedagogy.
Dror Birger was awarded the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Essay Prize.
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
The Robert H. Whittaker award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation made by a graduate student at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, was presented to Jackson Phillips.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation by a beginning ecology and evolutionary biology department/field graduate student at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, went to Rachael Shippee.
The Lamont Cole Award, given for an outstanding paper by a graduate student of a Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology faculty member or joint appointee, was presented to Bryce Robinson.
The Department TA Award for excellence in teaching was given to Jarrod Fyie.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
The following graduating seniors are receiving Excellence in Economics in Memory of Tapan Mitra awards: Olivia Kim, Jeronimo Martin Duque, Karen Petrosyan, Brandon Shapiro, Caroline Smiltneks and Timmy Xi.
The Frank H. Vedder Award for best paper in an economics course is awarded to Liam Daly.
The Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ta-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, which funds graduate student tuition, stipend and health insurance for one semester, was awarded to graduate students Yaling Xu and Zebang Xu.
The Labor Economics Small Grant Awards went to graduate students Lexin Cai, Senan Hogan-Hennessey, Kalie Pierce and Vaios Triantafyllou.
The L.R. "Red" Wilson M.A. '67 Excellence in Economics Award to support thesis proposal, research, and writing was awarded to graduate students Edoardo Bollati, Senan Hogan-Hennessy, Gautier Lenfant and Leonardo Peñloza-Pacheco.
The Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ta-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, which funds graduate student tuition, stipend and health insurance for one semester, was awarded to graduate student Lexin Cai.
The Labor Economics Small Grant Awards went to graduate students Emiliano Harris, Julia Hewitt, Gautier Lenfant, Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco, Ming Wei Adelson Teh and Saloni Vadeyar.
The Howard and Abby Milstein Graduate Teaching Assistantship went to graduate students Aupamik Chakraborty and Ngoc Phuong Linh Nguyen.
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
The Goethe Prize is awarded annually for the best essays on any topic connected with German literature or culture. In the Freshman/Sophomore Category, first prize went to Jolene Cai for “Freud on Civilization and the Manufacture of Guilt” and to Elise Clifford for “The Irony of Civilization: Freud and the Normalization of Repression.” In the Graduate Category, first prize was awarded to Adam Rahl for “Hegel’s Aesthetics and Little Women: Toward a Women’s Epos.”
The 2025 Peter Uwe Hohendahl Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory went to Wei Wang for “From the Sublime to the Colossal: Rethinking the ‘Kantian Subject.’”
The Simmons Award in German is given to the student who has done the “best work in German” in the College of Arts & Sciences. This year’s recipient was Niamh Gunning.
German Studies has a direct exchange program with the University in Heidelberg, and this year that scholarship was awarded to Emma Kennett and Martina Villalobos.
German Studies has a direct exchange program with Humboldt University of Berlin, and this year that scholarship was awarded to Nicolau Spadoni.
Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. The recipients were Sophia Barchard, Alessandra Boncaldo, Hua Cui, Phoebe Deimler, Sage Geubtner, William Howard, Marie Meredith, Anna Misina, Catherine Mong, Alice Nie, Matthias Patyi, Saavan Sha, Eva Spak, Naisha Srivastava, Rafferty Perez, Lena Pfeiffer, Marcello Popelka, Zane Rubenstein, Anastasiia Ryshytiuk, Maya Schmaling, Sabine Shaepers-Cheu, Emma Yuan Wang, Viven Webster, Sebastian Wellenstein, Philip Worgall and Olivia Yu.
The Language Certificate in German Language Study for having achieved an advanced level of language competence through course work at the 3000-level corresponding to the criteria set by The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level B2+) was awarded to Hua Cui, Niamh Gunning, Annie Koch, Julia Kundu, Nina Maurer, Dante de la Pena, Anna-Sophie Schaldenbrand, Sonia Shneyerson, Leo Sterz and Tianyi Wang.
DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, given to an outstanding student with a major in government, was awarded to Seth Berman.
The Sherman-Bennett Prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was awarded to Annina Bradley.
The Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize for the best essay on the problems of securing peace in the world was awarded to Masha Gerashchenko.
The Lieutenant David Chrystall Prize for the best essay or treatise dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace was awarded to Zilala Malat.
The Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Undergraduate Prize for outstanding undergraduate scholarship was awarded to Jillian Shaw.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
The 2026 Undergraduate Messenger Chalmers Prize for best thesis essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Danny Alonso and Mia Battistella.
The Cornelius W. DeKiewiet Prize to the outstanding history major (junior) who demonstrated unusual promise and excellence in the field was awarded to Tomas Comesana.
The Clyde A. Duniway Book Prize for the best junior in the College of Arts & Sciences was awarded to Emma O’Leary and Emily Spans..
The Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for the best honors thesis in U.S. history or American studies was awarded to Aitan Avgar.
The Anne Macintyre Litchfield Prize to an outstanding woman graduating with a major in history was awarded to Ciara Flaherty.
The George S. Lustig Prize, awarded to the outstanding senior who intends to continue the study of history at the graduate level, went to Nicholas Vega.
The 2026 Messenger Chalmers Graduate Prize for best dissertation essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Jeremy Goodwin and Darren Wan.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND VISUAL STUDIES
The Sampson Fine Arts Prize, given to the members of the senior class who have consistently demonstrated academic excellence, commitment, and achievement, particularly in the field of the history of art, was awarded to Olivia Kim.
The Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, given to a member of the senior class who in her or his time as a major has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the field of history of art, was awarded to Ashley Kim.
The Annetta Alexandridis Award for Advancing the Discipline of Art History, given to a member of the senior class who has advanced the discipline of art history through innovative research and creative projects, was awarded to Audrey Hanjie Hua.
JOHN S. KNIGHT INSTITUTE FOR WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
Spring 2025 Awards
The Adelphic Award went to Archawin Kittirattanapaiboon for “Undoing Un-Thainess: Portraying Isaan ‘Hired Wife’ (Mia Chao) in Thai Cold War Songs.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize was awarded to Tamana Ghaznawi for “Miscommunication and Medical Power: The Limits of Cultural Competency After the Afghan Evacuation.” Honorable mentions went to Max Guan for “Rethinking the RAISE Act: Protecting Texas’s Labor Market and Economic Stability” and Audrey Lovell Stavrand for “RNAi Knockdown of Olfactory Receptors Alters Callosobruchus maculatus Mating Behavior.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Paulina Delgado for “Slamming the Door on Conversion Therapy” and Anton Nazarenko for “The Role of Sense in Song (and Poetry).”
The English 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Muna Mohamed for “Of Gods and Melanin: Theorizing the Resistance to Black Bodies in White Imaginative Spaces.” Honorable mention went to Rma L. Polce for “The Price of Pain: How True Crime Media Commodifies Trauma.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors went to Katie Soltis, student, and Anna Koshcheeva, instructor, for “Portfolio: Investigating Cultural Transition and Gender through Cold War Cultural Objects.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Lars Johnson for “Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Creation and Analysis.” Honorable mention went to Yue Zhao for “Making a Voice: The Art of Persuasive Writing Through an Op-ed.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Simon Cui for “Unmasking Pandemic Legacies: Domestic Violence.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Nic Vigilante for “To Be Or Not To Be: Writing Active Prose.”
Fall 2025 Awards
The Adelphic Award went to Uliana Doroshenko for “Impact of the war in Ukraine on smart textile innovation in military applications.” Honorable mention was awarded to Jianxi Wu for “Universal Language or Just a Tool: The Impact of Emojis on Digitalized Communication.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors was awarded to Katherine Zhao, student, and Chiara Visentin, instructor, for “Power in Medieval Paris: Causes, Conduits, and Contradictions.” Honorable mention went to Shabana Mahdis, student, and Tanner Crunelle, instructor, for “To Write is to Resist: Feminist Solidarity Across Borders.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize went to Jaxon Jacobs for “Revelation Without Revelation: The Intelligence Apocalypse.” Honorable mention went to Rylee Landau for “Quiet Symptoms with Loud Consequences: How Gender Norms Shape ADHD Diagnosis in Girls.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Max Greene for “The Persistence of Vaccine Hesitancy: What It Says About Trust in Institutions” and Lionel Hearon for “What I Learned as Prey.” Honorable mention went to Cassidy Takeuchi for “Material Resonance: Embodiment, Gender, and the Acoustic Guitar.”
The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize went to Sean Li for “Fica! Automobility and Infrastructure in Post WWII Yugoslavia.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Brenna Lucio-Belbase, student, and Jingya Guo, instructor, for “Debate of the Inner Chambers of the Bound Lotus.” Honorable mention went to Justin Chen, student, and Lanxin Shi, instructor, for “On Existentialist’s analysis of anxiety.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Ryanne Berry for “Writing Like a Medieval Visionary: Visual Analysis, Creative Writing, and the Johnson Museum Collection.” Honorable mention went to Becca Ames for “From Personal Narrative to Analytical Argument: Mining Spatial Experience for Meaning.”
The Buttrick-Crippen Assistantship was awarded to Liam Packer for “Mathematics and Social Justice.” Honorable mentions went to Luc Barrett for “Writing the Universe: Science Communication in Physics & Astronomy” and Mark Mahoney for “Jazz Fictions.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Nathan Speert for “Are States Like Clubs?”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Charlie Tebbutt for “Critical Essay Evaluation for Reflection on Writing and the Use of AI.” Honorable mention went to Kim Phung Nguyen for “Peer-Review Activity: Sentence/ Paragraph Puzzle, Bingo card, and Reverse Outline.”
LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
The Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award, recognizing a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language as part of the Shared Course Initiative, went to Evelyn Elmer Fettes.
LATINA/O STUDIES PROGRAM
The Latina/o Studies Program award for outstanding work in the Latina/o studies undergraduate minor, community engagement and academic achievements went to Gio Rodriguez ‘26.
The Latina/o Studies Program Student Success Office certificate of appreciation recognizing outstanding dedication and service to Cornell's Latinx student community was awarded to Ximena Toxqui '26 and Shaunjae Suarez '26.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER STUDIES PROGRAM
The Undergraduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies went to Luke Knight for “’The Whole World Was Out to Kill You Both’: the Role of Queer Betrayal in Intimate Partner Violence.”
The Biddy Martin Graduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender studies went to Moira de Kok for “Making Queer Kinship with Music: Listening to Songs ‘From the Bathroom at a Party.’” And to Ariel M. Dela Cruz for “The Power of Two Tomboy Celebrities: The Transing Performances of Ice Seguerra and Jake Zyrus.”
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Teaching Awards
The Shin Yong-Jin/Harry Falkenau Graduate Teaching Fellowship, for demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching, was awarded to Maria Al-Raes for the 2026-27 academic year.
The Joseph F. Martino '53 Lectureship in Undergraduate Teaching, which supports English undergraduate student seminars offering some form of a literary historical survey in the framework of a writing course, will be held by Margaux Delaney for the 2026-27 academic year.
Undergraduate Thesis Awards
The winners of the M.H. Abrams Undergraduate Thesis Prize, established in memory of the late Meyer H. “Mike” Abrams, Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1945, are Christina Bonarti for “Desire on the Menu: The Paradox of Appetite in the Middle Ages” and America Casanova for “Si Yo Pudiera, Yo Lo Hiciera: Co-Illegality and Mother-Daughter Bonds in ‘Their Dogs Came with Them.’”
The winners of the Guilford Thesis Prize, established in 1988 in memory of J. P. Guilford ’21 and awarded to undergraduates who display excellence in English prose, are Sarah Mittleman for “The Dark and Doubtful Way of the Law: Prosecuting Women’s Oppression through Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’” and Olivia Weeldreyer for “The Childhood Sublime: Architecture, Memory, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson's Haunted Houses.”
Creative Writing Prizes
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction graduate student winners are: 1st place, Otis Fuqua for “Two Stories”; 2nd place, Habiba Dokubo-Asari for “Arboretum and Abecedarian”; and 3rd place, Nicholas Kimble for “Whispers from the Shores.”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Laura Lee for “Definitions”; 2nd place, Addison Smith for “Cherry Tomato,”; and 3rd place, Noor Jehan Ahmad for “Shanzai.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction graduate student winners are: 1st place, Miklos Mattyasovszky for “My Father Before the Cardinal”; 2nd place, Fia Zhang Swanson for “Two Stories: Foreigner and Little Bug”; and 3rd place, Zibusiso Mpofu for “Reimagining What My Mother Would Have Done If She'd Had The (EYE).”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Conner Smith for “The Eidolon”; 2nd place, Luke Dennis for “Our House of Animals”; and 3rd place, Leena Jalees for “The Gravemist.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry graduate student winner is Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias for “Pornstar Martini.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry undergraduate winner is Dylan Drongesen for “Strange Fruits.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize graduate student winners are: 1st place, Timi Sanni for “7 Poems” and 2nd Place, Samantha Samakande for “Rim of Dissolve.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Shuwen Ding for “Reading Films” and 2nd Place, Iman Jumabhoy for “The Weight of One Hundred Skyscrapers.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize graduate student winners are: 1st place, Anne Marie Zidek for “Plausible Maternity” and 2nd place, Bridget Huh for “Eight Poems.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Defne Su Yucesir for “The Feminine Form” and 2nd place, Nadia Choophungart for “Entanglements.”
The Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize was awarded to undergraduate student Zoe Reay-Ellers for “Poetry Packet.”
Essay Prizes
The George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature was awarded to undergraduate student Christina MacCorkle for “The Limits of the Liberal Imagination: Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin and the Failure of Interiority in Early Cold War Literary Politics.”
The Moses Coit Tyler Award, for the best essay by a graduate or undergraduate student in the fields of American history, literature, or folklore, was awarded to graduate student John Undaloc for “(Self-)Portraiture at Play in Harry Fonseca's Paintings of ‘Coyotes’" and undergraduate student Olivia Weeldreyer for “No Place at All: Domestic Space, Female Dispossession, and the Uncanny in Shirley Jackson.”
Writing Prizes
The Collected Writings Portfolio Award was awarded to Mairead Clas (co-winner Honorable Mention for Best Portfolio, co-winner Citation for Criticism); Sophia Friedman (co-winner Citation for New Media Composition); Madeleine Kapsalis; Angela Lloyd-Jones; Raina Lockwood (co-winner Citation for Criticism, winner Citation for Critical Reflection on Rhetoric and Composition); Isabel Macedo (co-winner Honorable Mention for Best Portfolio); Camila Morata; Sophia Romanov Imber; Jasmin Sin (co-winner Best Portfolio, winner Citation for Public Writing); Hazel Tjaden; and Defne Yucesir (co-winner Best Portfolio, co-winner Citation for New Media Composition).
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Department teaching awards, which recognize the importance of faculty and graduate students in the teaching and learning of mathematics, were awarded to graduate students Moriah Elkin, Mark Schachner and Katerina Tang.
The Robert John Bättig Graduate Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics was awarded to Emil Graf and Xuanyu Li.
The Eleanor Norton York Award for achievements to date in mathematics went to graduate students Juliet Aygun and Zachary Couvillion.
The Hutchinson Fellowship for outstanding work as teaching assistants or as students in the graduate program was awarded to Yibo Ji and Chase Vogeli.
The Torng Prize for outstanding work as a teacher was awarded to graduate student Aria Beaupre.
Winners of the First-Year Prize Exam are Derek Li (first place), Jiayan Ni (first place) and David Rodriguez (third place).
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics majors Kevin Chen, Jiucheng Dai and Eugene Gonzalez.
The Transcendence Award in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics major John Veliz.
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award was awarded to Nicolas Vergara Ruiz.
The George P. Hess Travel Award was awarded to Akshayakeerthi Arthanarisami.
The Rita and Joe Calvo Graduate Student Teaching Award went to Ben McCormick.
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Awards were awarded to graduate students Elaina Johnson and Serena Teh.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
The Ellen Gussman Adelson Prize, which rewards and encourages outstanding Cornell students excelling in instrumental music performance, went to Turner Aldrich and Isaac Dorio.
The John James Blackmore Prize, which assists undergraduate and graduate students studying music, was awarded to Arthur Li, Ariel Mo, Abigail Gabalski, Cole Laudenslager and Seare Farhat.
The H.A. Falconer Memorial Scholarship, which assists talented undergraduates in studying voice, went to Pedro Villa-Forte and Anya Packard.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, which honors a graduate composer for excellent work, went to Eliot Burk.
The Barbara Troxell Vocal Music Award, for outstanding vocal students who evidence professional musical interests, went to Beyanca Guilme and Joseph Wolff.
The Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, for recognition of exceptional dissertations, went to Cibele Moura.
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Language Awards for excellence in Arabic went to Evan Sun Wu, Sophie Mei McAtee, Ahmed Syed Arif, Aleena Naeem, Brian Hoff, Ava Tafresh and Sadaqat Omar.
The Language Award for excellence in Persian went to Lily Ehsan.
Language Awards for excellence in Hebrew went to Cooper Sherman, Henry Brockman, Estelle D’Alessio, Levi Miller and Israel Gootin.
The Language Award for excellence in Turkish went to Matt Can and Hayden Krushel.
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
The Robert R. Capranica Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology went to Laura Lee (laboratory of Alexander Ophir).
The Miriam M. Salpeter Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neurobiology went to Jeffrey Ho (laboratory of David M. Smith).
The Cynthia Kagarise Sherman Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in behavior went to Brian Hofstetter (laboratory of Mike Webster).
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award went to Maximiliano Zuluaga Forero for BioNB 4910/5910: Principles of Neurophysiology.
DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS
The Elizabeth D. Worman Fund for Graduate Students awarded a grant to Ph.D. student Syeda Hira Mahmood.
The Elizabeth D. Worman Undergraduate Award was given to Oswaldo Grajeda.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
The Yennie Prize in Physics, for a senior student majoring in physics who shows unusual promise for future contributions to physics research and who intends to earn a doctorate, went to Atlas Bailly.
The Kieval Prize in Physics, awarded to senior physics students who demonstrate unusual promise for future contributions to physics research, went to Abra Geiger.
The Erik Cassel ’90 Prize, awarded to an undergraduate physics major who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and promise in applying computer programming to a project in physics or related fields, went to Albert Zhou.
The Hartman Prize in Physics went to Evan Navar Root.
The Boochever Fellowship from the Boochever family went to Steven Ferrante for Fall 2025 and Guglielmo Papiri for Spring 2026.
DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE STUDIES
The Carolina Corson French Prize for the most distinguished essay on a subject in either French philology or French literature was awarded to undergraduates Celine Chauviere and Evan Liberman and to graduate students Mathilde Mottet and Judith Tauber.
The J.G. White Prize for Excellence in Spanish was awarded to Jordan Sang,
Aaron Salit, Analia Buitron and Melody Qian.
The Juliette MacMonnies Courant Memorial Prize, for a senior female French major who has excelled in her four years with special reference to facility of expression in French, was awarded to Annina Bradley.
The Romance Studies Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award went to Riccardo Sama, Daniel Rosa Hunter and Jack Astacio.
The Ted Morris Prize for the most promising freshman or sophomore student in French was awarded to Ryan Chiew.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
The Sheila Jasanoff Prize for Academic Excellence in Science & Technology Studies is awarded each spring to a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in STS for the best paper written in the previous three semesters. The 2026 prize was awarded to Yue Zhao for her paper “Science in Gestation: Potential Science and the (Re)production of Creativity in Reform Era China.”
The Abraham “Zito” Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student for outstanding teaching as a teaching assistant and/or as the sole instructor for a Freshman Writing Seminar. The 2026 award went to Hai Ri (Sophia) Jeon.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
The Robert Wertheimer Award honors the continuing contributions of former sociology major Robert Wertheimer and is for the best thesis outside the field of social psychology. The award goes to Jacob Weinstein for “The Valley of Opportunity: A Social History of Endicott, New York, 1900-1929.”
The Leo Meltzer Award, celebrating the contributions of former Professor Leo Meltzer, is for the best undergraduate thesis in the field of social psychology, broadly defined. The award goes to Louisa Howe for “The Hidden Curriculum of College Sex: Student Perceptions of Sex and Sexual Assault.”
Katharina Geppert and Eliza Mahoney are the winners of the department’s award for excellence in teaching for their work as Teaching Assistants.
The Robert McGinnis Best Paper Award is given to graduate students whose papers demonstrate excellence in methodological innovations, offering the best contributions to methodological literature. The McGinnis Award honors the pioneering methodological scholarship of Robert McGinnis, developer of the Cornell Mobility Model, founder of The Sociological Methods & Research Journal, and the first director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research. The award goes to Wesley Stubenbord for “Silver Spoons, Bootstraps, and Billionaires: The Social Origins of the Contemporary American Economic Elite” and Ruiling Li for “Leaving, but Not Escaping: Corporate Residue and the Limits of Exit.”
The Robin M. Williams Jr. Best Graduate Student Paper Award honors the memory of Robin M. Williams Jr., a longtime Cornell faculty member, distinguished researched of Racial and Ethnic Relations and former President of the American Sociological Association. The award goes to Edoardo Di Vincenzo for “When Climate Change Enters the Market: California Wildfires and the Homeowners Insurance Crisis.”
The Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for Best Paper on Race and Ethnicity is given to a graduate student whose paper examines issues related to race and/or ethnicity, including racialization, racial or ethnic inequality, immigration, segregation and inclusion. This award commemorates Williams’s research on race relations and school desegregation during the Civil Rights Era and supports graduate students’ research on topics relevant to our current national reckoning on racism and xenophobia. The award goes to Nathan Ly for “The Administrative Paradox and the Bureaucratic Politics of Migration Policy.”
2024-25
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
The 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Conference Travel Grants went to Paige Chung and Stephanie Sang.
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
The Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology was awarded to Emma Dalla Costa, Remy Kageyama, Sayuri Pfeiffer and Yvette Reyes.
DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
The Asian Studies Summer Study, Research, and Service Travel Grants went to Siena Fershtman (Taiwan), Sharon Liu (Taiwan), Luke Chang (Korea), May Tun (Thailand), Isaac Bloomgarden (China) and Jennifer Ayala Guzman (Taiwan).
The Tina Han Su Cooper ’66 Award in support of outstanding undergraduate engagement in the study of Chinese cultural areas went to Nicholas Vega.
The Robert J. Smith/Russell Mann Gift for top beginning and intermediate Japanese language students was awarded to Brodie Raj, Angelina Zhou and Adelynn Wu.
The Korean Language Program Award for three years of outstanding work went to Dara Gonzalez, Jane Jennings, Sabrina Raichoudhury and Lindsay Tyler Williams.
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Graduate Research Award, given to a graduate student to recognize outstanding accomplishment in astronomical research, went to Charlie Detelich.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, given to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance as a teaching assistant, went to Elijah Mullens.
The Eleanor York Prize, given to a graduate student to reward service to the community as well as academic achievement, went to Alexia Kubas.
The Professor Yervant Terzian Scholarship Award went to Laine Havens ’25.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley prize for Undergraduate Research went to Abra Geiger and Abigail Bohl.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship went to Abra Geiger.
The West Undergraduate Fellowship went to Ian Branigan.
CAPS (THE BRITTANY AND ADAM J. LEVINSON CHINA AND ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES PROGRAM)
The Sherman Cochran Prize was awarded to Michelle Song and Waverly Shi.
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award was presented to Ryan Pinard.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Cornell Section Undergraduate Research Award was presented to senior Zayim Jamil.
The Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Academic Excellence was presented to seniors May Cayzer and Jack Nothnagel.
The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award was presented to senior Cameron Muniz.
The ACS Cornell Section Graduate Teaching Awards were presented to Phuong Nguyen, Madison Neukirch, Isobelle McClements, Joseph McAuliffe and Minh Triet Vu.
The ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award was presented to senior Lewis Sisler.
The Bauer Scholarship Award was presented to Bayu Ahmad, Reagan Dreiling, Yihuan Lai, Emma Lueders, Tianzhang Qiao, Zhoufan Shen, Leslie Trigoura, Jason Wu, Samson Zacate and Ju-an Zhanga.
The George C. Caldwell Prize was awarded to seniors Jinwoo Jung and Megan Xu.
The GSR Catalyst Safety Prize was awarded to Julian Kellner-Rogers.
The Darryl H. Wu Memorial Prize was presented to junior Tyler Huang.
The A.W. Laubengayer Prize was presented to Jing Wu (CHEM 1560), Christopher Lekaj (CHEM 2070), Nicholas Letendre (CHEM 2090) and Sophie McAtee (CHEM 2150).
The Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize for juniors was presented to junior Ruchira Hariharan.
The Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize for seniors was presented to seniors Clea Crane and Julia Pitolaj.
The Chemistry Department Fellowship was presented to Anja Minty.
The Frank and Lynnet Douglas Fellowship was presented to Yafet Negash.
The Gerald and Kathleen Hill Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was presented to sophomore Oliver Lambert.
The J. Emery Morris Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was presented to senior Nicole Yatskar and junior Daniel Salter.
The Robert Work Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was presented to junior Abbey Robinson.
The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for graduate students was presented to Siyu Bu and Kiser Colley.
The Tunis Wentink Prize for graduate students was presented to David Bain, Kaitlyn Keasler, Julian Kellner-Rogers, Mihail Krumov, Tristan Pitt and Robert Voland.
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
The Classics Department Book Prize went to classics honors seniors Charlotte Behrend, Julia Fritsch, Cristina Kiefaber and Sarah Stephenson.
The Fred Ahl Prize for undergraduate achievement was awarded to Julia Fritsch ’25.
The 2025 recipient of the Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship is Esther Brenner ’26. She will travel through France and Italy to develop a collection of creative responses to classical art.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant for students majoring in comparative literature, to support intensive language study outside the U.S., was awarded to Sophie Gross to travel to France to study French with the Alliance Française and to Cristobal Ramirez to travel to Mexico to study Spanish at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
The Department of Comparative Literature Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of excellence in undergraduate pedagogy was awarded to Tianyi Shou.
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Essay Prize was awarded to Xinyu H. Zhang.
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
The Robert H. Whittaker award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation made by a graduate student at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, was presented to Jackson Phillips.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation by a beginning ecology and evolutionary biology department/field graduate student at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, went to Moey Rojas.
The Department TA Award for excellence in teaching was given to Hannah Monti.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
The following graduating seniors are receiving Excellence in Economics in Memory of Tapan Mitra awards: Vidya Balaji, Matt Chin, Emily Hong, Kevin Lu, Sophie Monroe and Sara Yoo.
The Frank H. Vedder Award for best paper in an economics course is awarded to Emily Hong and Sophie Monroe.
The Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ta-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, which funds graduate student tuition, stipend and health insurance for one semester, was awarded to graduate students Yaling Xu and Zebang Xu.
The Labor Economics Small Grant Awards went to graduate students Lexin Cai, Senan Hogan-Hennessey, Kalie Pierce and Vaios Triantafyllou.
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
The Goethe Prize is awarded annually for the best essays on any topic connected with German literature or culture. In the Freshman/Sophomore Category, first prize went to Yuhan Huang for “A Comparison of Immanuel Kant and Johann Fichte’s Accounts on the Immorality of Suicide”; second prize went to Maia Schlesiger for “A Student’s Take on Everyday Life and Gender in People on Sunday.” In the Junior/Senior category, first prize went to Myka Melville for “Mord, Manipulierung und Methoden: Eine Analyse der Methoden von Kommissär Bärlach in Der Richter und sein Henker” and to Rafaela Uzan for “‘Aimée und Jaguar‘: ein Film über die deutsche Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.” In the Graduate Category, first prize was awarded to Willow Ulrike Groundwater-Schuldt for “Mystery and Mourning: Hölderlin’s ‘Empedokles’ Project and the Mechanism of Tragedy”; second prize went to Tianyi Shou for “Kafka, Minor Literature, and Many Chinas: Remoteness as Modernist Method” and to Wei Wang for “Colossal Illusion — Problematizing the Necessity of Illusion with Kafka’s ‘Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer’ and the Kantian Colossal.”
The Simmons Award in German is given to the student who has done the “best work in German” in the College of Arts & Sciences. This year’s recipient was Olivia Kim.
German Studies also has a direct exchange program with the University in Heidelberg and this year that scholarship was awarded to Myka Melville.
Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. The recipients were Celina Xu, Judah Alexander Mintz, Serin Myung, Aareeb Jamil, Daniel Zelich, Jared Viani, Charlie Rogers, Nia Jikia, Emma Pellecer, Kasper Atkinson, Harry Yu, Annie Koch, Angela Chang, Nina Maurer, Franklin Zheng, Grant Smith and Isabelle Braden.
The Language Certificate in German Language Study for having achieved an advanced level of language competence through course work at the 3000-level corresponding to the criteria set by The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level B2+) was awarded to Isabelle Braden, Grant Smith and Franklin Zheng.
DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, given to an outstanding student with a major in government, was awarded to Jimmy Cawley.
The Sherman-Bennett Prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was awarded to Willow Maisel.
The Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize for the best essay on the problems of securing peace in the world was awarded to Molly Goldstein.
The Lieutenant David Chrystall Prize for the best essay or treatise dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace was awarded to Fatima Al-Sammak.
The Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Undergraduate Prize for outstanding undergraduate scholarship was awarded to William Remoundos.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
The 2025 Undergraduate Messenger Chalmers Prize for best thesis essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Brando Sell and Rachel Sulciner.
The Cornelius W. DeKiewiet Prize to the outstanding history majors (junior) who have demonstrated unusual promise and excellence in the field was awarded to Ciara Flaherty and Nicholas Vega.
The Clyde A. Duniway Book Prize for the best junior in the College of Arts & Sciences was awarded to Aitan Avgar.
The Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for the best honors thesis in U.S. history or American studies was awarded to Rachel Sulciner.
The Anne Macintyre Litchfield Prize to an outstanding woman graduating with a major in history was awarded to McKinley Copenhaver.
The George S. Lustig Prize, awarded to the outstanding senior who intends to continue the study of history at the graduate level, went to Kate Sullivan.
The Benard E. West Prize, awarded competitively to the most promising undergraduate research scholar specializing in American history, went to Kate Sullivan.
The 2025 Messenger Chalmers Graduate Prize for best dissertation essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Emilio Ocampo and Sarah Meiners.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART
The Sampson Fine Arts Prize, given to the members of the senior class who have consistently demonstrated academic excellence, commitment, and achievement, particularly in the field of the history of art, was awarded to Ashley Koca.
The Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, given to a member of the senior class who in her or his time as a major has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the field of history of art, was awarded to Leah Han.
The Departmental Award for Advancing the Discipline of Art History, given to a member of the senior class who has advanced the discipline of art history through innovative research and creative projects, was awarded to Audrey Yin.
JOHN S. KNIGHT INSTITUTE FOR WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
Spring 2024 Awards:
The Adelphic Award went to Hedy Song for “Chaozhou Theatre Reform and China’s Cultural Diplomacy During the Cold War.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize was awarded to Valerie Hu for “Gentrification and Housing Inequality in the Land of Unicorns.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Ian Branigan for “Causation and Dōgen’s Uji.” Honorable mention went to Ashley Ong for “Abortion and the Southern Baptist Church.”
The English 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Alexis Huang for “A Criticism on Research on the Role of Women in Insurgent Movements in the MENA Region.” Honorable mentions went to Emily McFadden for “A Lens Into the Life of a 19th Century Housewife: Exploring a copy of The American Frugal Housewife” and Jade Melendez for “Oriens.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Itunu Adejare, student, and Rejoice Abutsa, instructor, for “Igwebuike: The Idea of Sisterhood and Women’s Narratives in Nollywood.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors went to L.C. Relleke, student, and Charline Jao, instructor, for “Spring 2024 Portfolio.” Honorable mention went to Farah Achouri, student, and Sarah Then Bergh, instructor.
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Charline Jao for “The Spectator-Passenger Assignment Sequence.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Riya Mittle for “The Caste System: An Analysis of Multiple Milennia of Marginalization.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Sang-O Kim for “Writing Workshop-Audience Awareness.” Honorable mention went to Savannah Emmons for “Formality and Style Practice.”
Fall 2024 Awards:
The Adelphic Award went to Matthew Chen for “Writing Assignment 3: Mock Amicus Brief.” Honorable mention was awarded to Kevin Feng for “Constructing a Model for Food Choices: From Theory to Reality.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors was awarded to Rachel Adam, student, and Nic Vigilante, instructor, for “Welcome to the Plastic Beach.” Honorable mention went to Addison Morgenstern, student, and Connor Rechtzigel, instructor, for “Spencer Portfolio.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize honorable mentions went to Lea Hostetter-Habib for “Five Years Later: Assessing the Impact of China’s 2018 Ivory Ban on Illegal Trade” and Ho’ohila Kawelo for “Kawahaookamanō; Wahi Pana.”
The ENGL 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Helen Ge for “CUT UP WORDS ALL STRUNG UP NOX.” Honorable mention went to Caleb Suh for “The Cost of Happiness: Moral Compromise and Social Responsibility.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Hawon Park, student, and Nic Vigilante, instructor, for ‘Musical Layers of “Love Wins All.’” Honorable mention went to Ava Kumar, student, and Nikky Suarez, instructor, for “Arranged Marriages Within Celestial Bodies: Analyzing the Cognitive Dissonance They Produce.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Nic Vigilante for “The Story of a Song.” Honorable mention went to Alice Wolff for “History of an Ingredient: Introduction to Primary Source Analysis.”
The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship was awarded to Alix Choinet in Romance studies.
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Taeyoung Kim for “The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Good Intention Account.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Rajvi Thakore for “Close-viewing Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987).” Honorable mention went to Aaron Childree for “Drafting vs. Revising Lesson and Handout.”
LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
The Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award, recognizing a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language, went to Mahnoor B Cheema.
LATINA/O STUDIES PROGRAM
The Latina/o Studies Program award for outstanding work in the Latina/o studies undergraduate minor, community engagement and academic achievements was awarded to Isabella Riano.
The Latina/o Studies Program Student Success Office certificate of appreciation recognizing outstanding dedication and service to Cornell's Latinx student community was awarded to Ricky Boche, Assistant Dean of Students, Office of the Dean of Students, Student Support and Advocacy Services.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER STUDIES PROGRAM
The Undergraduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies went to Emileen Flores for writing “Navigating Queerness and Education” and to Nic Oke for writing “Cradle Controversies: Examining Italy’s Surrogacy Ban via Feminist Theory.” Honorable mention went to Anya Sudershan Khanna for writing “Gender Abolition: A Beauvoirian Argument for Discursive and Social Gender Expansion.”
The Biddy Martin Graduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender studies went to Waleska Solórzano for “La Rumba Remains: Lexi Parra Photographs the House of Fantasy and Venezuela’s Rising Ballroom Scene.”
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Teaching Awards
The Shin Yong-Jin/Harry Falkenau Graduate Teaching Fellowship, for demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching, was awarded to Alyiah Gonzales for the 2025-26 academic year.
The Joseph F. Martino '53 Lectureship in Undergraduate Teaching, which supports English undergraduate student seminars offering some form of a literary historical survey in the framework of a writing course, will be held by Susannah Sharpless for the 2025-26 academic year.
Graduate Research Awards
The David L. Picket '84 Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing was awarded to graduate students Matthew Bettencourt, Susanna Cupido, Mai Mageed, Jayden McClam, Ngoc Pham, Sean Sam, Em Setzer and Hana Widerman.
The James McConkey Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Award for Summer Support, established by his enduringly grateful student Len Edelstein '59, was awarded to graduate student Matthew Bettencourt.
Undergraduate Thesis Awards
The winners of the M.H. Abrams Undergraduate Thesis Prize, established in memory of the late Meyer H. “Mike” Abrams, Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1945, are Jasmine He for “Beyond Time: The Otherworldly Aesthetics and Ethical Dilemmas in Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’” and Zoe Zechar for “Punctuation That Speaks: The Narratives Punctuation Affirms in Wyatt and Donne.”
The winner of the Guilford Thesis Prize, established in 1988 in memory of J. P. Guilford ’21 and awarded to undergraduates who display excellence in English prose, is Parker Piccolo Hill for “The Evolution of Metamorphosis from Ovid to Calvino to Rushdie: A Literary Transformation.”
Creative Writing Prizes
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction graduate student winners are: 1st place, Zibusiso Mpofu for “August”; 2nd place, Mai Mageed for “Heaven in the Afternoon”; and 3rd place, Otis Fuqua for “Dear Grandpa.”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Miriam Alex for “Family Simulator”; 2nd place, Isabella Lee for “Theater of Borrowed Skin,”; and 3rd place, Violet Gooding for “Dilettantes.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction graduate student winners are: 1st place, Mai Mageed for “Kissing the Mirror”; 2nd place, Miklos Mattyasovszky for “Tenants”; and 3rd place, Mengyang Zeng for “Siyuan.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Ava Zhang for “After Eclipse”; 2nd place, Kaia Lucas-Retherford for “Prayers to a Deaf God”; and 3rd place, Carrie Kim for “November Snow.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry graduate student winners are: 1st place, Hana Widerman for “Office Work”; 2nd place, Gerardo Iglesias for “The Muse’s Visit”; and 3rd place, Bridget Huh for “Ode.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry undergraduate 1st place student co-winners are Caidan Pilarski for “Beneath a Tree on the Arts Quad, 14 March 2025” and Zoe Zechar for “Tummies Full of Regret.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize graduate student winners are: 1st place, Tanner Crunelle for “N., Decomposing”; 2nd Place, Aishvarya Arora for “golden temple”; and 3rd Place, Ella Shively for “The Dreaming Deep.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize undergraduate student winner is Katelyn Ge for “There are stones growing.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize graduate student winners are: 1st place, Amir McClam for “Ghazal by the Riverside” and 2nd place, Samantha Samakande for “Samples.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Fatou Diaw for “Mother Tongue”; and 2nd place, Enya Goonetilleke for “One With the City.”
The Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize was awarded to undergraduate student Sofia Bonilla for “Our Father.”
Essay Prizes
The Barnes Shakespeare Prize undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Victoria Baker for “Uneasy Lies the Head that (Advises) the Crown: Queenly Politics in Shakespeare's Cymbeline”; and 2nd place, Lauren Vergos for "Racial Intimacies: How Racism and Sexuality Shape Othello’s Downfall."
The George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature was awarded to undergraduate student Jasmine He for "The Elusive Lolita: Ethical, Aesthetic, and Metaphysical Ambivalence in Nabokov’s ‘Lolita.’”
The George Harmon Coxe Dissertation Prize was awarded to graduate student Jennifer Rabedeau for “Cathedrals of Memory: Preservation, Temporality & Victorian Literary Culture.” Honorable Mentions were awarded to Charline Jao for “Early Lost: Child Death and Separation in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing”; Kathryn Harlan-Gran for “Pop Potentiality: Renegotiating Networks of Power and Relation Through Contemporary Speculative Fiction”; and Sara Stamatiades for “The Theater of Discovery: (Un)making the World on the Early Modern Stage.”
The Moses Coit Tyler Award, for the best essay by a graduate or undergraduate student in the fields of American history, literature, or folklore, was awarded to graduate student Richard Thomson for “The Evolution of Montage in Langston Hughes’s Screenplays.”
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Department teaching awards, which recognize the importance of faculty and graduate students in the teaching and learning of mathematics, were awarded to graduate students Amit Harlev, Colby Kelln and Gabriella Torres Nothaft.
The Robert John Bättig Graduate Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics was awarded to Xingzhe Li and Alekos Robotis.
The Eleanor Norton York Award for achievements to date in mathematics went to graduate students Brian Chao and Conan Gillis.
The Hutchinson Fellowship for outstanding work as teaching assistants or as students in the graduate program was awarded to Hanul Jeon.
The Torng Prize for outstanding work as a teacher was awarded to graduate students Esther Gallmeier and Alex Vidinas.
Winners of the First-Year Prize Exam are Derek Xu and Evan Yang. Honorable mentions went to Henry Ji, Caleb Shim and Tyler White.
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics majors Rowan Hess, Nilay Patel and Songyu Ye.
The Transcendence Award in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics major Richard Zhu.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES PROGRAM
The Tom Hill Graduate Essay Award for the best graduate essay in any area of Medieval studies was awarded to Willow Groundwater-Schuldt (German studies) for “The Hysteric Kriemhild.”
The Carol Kaske Prize for the best undergraduate essay on a Medieval or Renaissance topic was awarded to Sophia Gottfried for “We’re Off to the Wild Woods: A Phenomenological Investigation of the First Branch of the ‘Mabinogi.’”
MILSTEIN PROGRAM IN TECHNOLOGY & HUMANITY
This year’s $7,500 Venture Prizes for graduating Milstein seniors were awarded to Kay McIlhenny and Ming DeMers.
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award was awarded to Yanru Liu.
The George P. Hess Travel Award was awarded to Mateusz Wagner.
The Rita and Joe Calvo Graduate Student Teaching Award went to Claire McNally.
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Awards were awarded to graduate students Jillian Breault and Mateusz Wagner.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
The Ellen Gussman Adelson Prize, which rewards and encourages outstanding Cornell students excelling in instrumental music performance, went to Jack Dobosh, Hannah Friedman and Derek Thompson.
The John James Blackmore Prize, which assists undergraduate and graduate students studying music, was awarded to Claire Wang, Thomas Feng, Jack Yarbrough, Anthony Washington and Olivia Penick.
The H.A. Falconer Memorial Scholarship, which assists talented undergraduates in studying voice, went to Seamus Gillis.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, which honors a graduate composer for excellent work, went to James Parker.
The Barbara Troxell Vocal Music Award, for outstanding vocal students who evidence professional musical interests, went to Alice Roberts and Summer Seward.
The Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, for recognition of exceptional dissertations, went to Thomas Cressy and Morton Wan.
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Language Awards for excellence in Arabic went to Sophie Moretti Reed, Aiman H Sabaawy, Caroline Crawford Kelly, Sharon Sun, Ashley Kay Koca, Osita Mark Achufusi and Zainab Talha.
The Language Award for excellence in Persian went to Lily Ehsan.
Language Awards for excellence in Hebrew went to Lauren Gabrielle Chase, Ethan Yang, Yael Leah Spector, Ari Levi Kapelyan and Alex Judah Lebowitz.
The Language Award for excellence in Turkish went to Sharon Sun.
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
The Robert R. Capranica Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology went to Shelly Dong (laboratory of Nozomi Nishimura).
The Miriam M. Salpeter Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neurobiology went to Anthony Ippolito (laboratory of David Deitcher).
The Cynthia Kagarise Sherman Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in behavior went to Joshua Sokol (laboratory of Katherine Tschida).
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award went to Sarah Campbell for BioNB 4720 Visual Ecology.
DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS
The Marvin Carlson Award for 2024 was given to Nic Vigilante for the essay “Salty, Sweet, and Spicy: Ingestion and Immersion in Queer Asian American Nightlife.”
The Elizabeth D. Worman Fund for Graduate Students awarded a grant to Ph.D. student Gina De La Rocha Goico.
The Elizabeth D. Worman Undergraduate Award was given to Benjamin Mehler.
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
The Program on Ethics and Public Life has awarded the 2024 Robert S. Hatfield Award for Study of Ethics in Business and Organizations to Vrinda Kapoor and Yemima Yoon.
Edvard Meza, Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, is the winner of the Sadov Graduate Student Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela, Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, has been awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
The Yennie Prize in Physics, for a senior student majoring in physics who shows unusual promise for future contributions to physics research and who intends to earn a doctorate, went to Aastha Bagree and Raghav Sarangi.
The Kieval Prize in Physics, awarded to senior physics students who demonstrate unusual promise for future contributions to physics research, went to Qianchi Liu and Julian Turner.
The Erik Cassel ’90 Prize, awarded to an undergraduate physics major who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and promise in applying computer programming to a project in physics or related fields, went to Sabrina McDowell and Owen Wetherbee.
The Hartman Prize in Physics went to Sarah Gates.
The Boochever Fellowship from the Boochever family went to Jeevan Chandra Namburi for Fall 2024 and Jooheon Yoo for Spring 2025.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
The Sheila Jasanoff Prize for Academic Excellence in Science & Technology Studies is awarded each spring to a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in STS for the best paper written in the previous three semesters. The 2025 prize was awarded to Donny Persaud for his paper “Extra-Terrestrial Broadband: Negotiating the Seams of Starlink Satellite Internet Infrastructure,” submitted to the COMPASS ACM conference.
The Abraham “Zito” Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student for outstanding teaching as a teaching assistant and/or as the sole instructor for a Freshman Writing Seminar. The 2025 award went to Yue Zhao.
The Trenchard Prize for Undergraduate Research, awarded to a student who has applied to do an honors thesis of exceptional promise, went to Emmy Kanarowski, a rising senior in Science & Technology Studies, for her thesis proposal entitled “The Miracle Cure: An Ethnographic Research Study of Accelerated Resolution Therapy and its Interactions with Scientific Institutions.”
The Margaret W. Rossiter Award for Women in Science went to Gizem Ozturk ‘25 for there paper entitled “Techno-Worlds: Exploring Techno-Pessimism and Techno-Optimism” written for STS 4440 for the Spring semester 2025. The Margaret W. Rossiter award is given to an advanced student in the S&TS or BSoc major for a paper written on any issue regarding women in science and is graciously funded by a gift from Lisa Prosser.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
The Leo Meltzer Award, celebrating the contributions of former Professor Leo Meltzer, is for the best undergraduate thesis in the field of social psychology, broadly defined. The award goes to Kayla Knupfer for “Case Closed: How Legal Rigidity Undermines Trust, Fairness, and Effective Counsel in Capital Trials.”
Austen Mack-Crane and Haowen Zheng are the winners of the department’s award for excellence in teaching for their work as teaching assistants.
The Robert McGinnis Best Paper Award celebrates excellence in methodological innovations, broadly defined. The award goes to Brian Haggard for his paper “Gatekeepers or Conduits? Christian Ministers’ Relationship with Mental Health Professionals in an Age of Polarization.”
The Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for best graduate student paper goes to Hyo Joo Lee for her paper “Educational Assortative Mating and Parental Financial Investment in Children” and Zhipeng Zhou for his paper “Sectoral Differences in Employment Precarity and Labor Income Inequality: The Effect of Market Transition in China.”
The Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for best graduate student paper on race and ethnicity goes to Hao Liang for his paper “Gender Imbalance, Intermarriage, and Ethnic Residential Segregation.”
2023-24
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
The Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology was awarded to Devyn Francis Bryant and Anna Rose Marion.
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
The inaugural 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Conference Travel Grants went to Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, Ariel Monzon Dela Cruz and Saomai Nguyen.
DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
The Asian Studies Summer Study, Research, and Service Travel Grants went to Nancy Cao (Japan), Kasey Gray (Korea), Yuki Li (Korea), Sharon Liu (Japan), McKenna Norton (Taiwan), Khadija Rashid (Pakistan and Indonesia), Mutty Un (Cambodia) and Zhijia Ye (Japan).
An award from the Diversity Research Grants Program in support of Asian Studies-related undergraduate research went to Sabrina Raichoudhury.
The Tina Han Su Cooper ’66 Award in support of outstanding undergraduate engagement in the study of Chinese cultural areas went to Tianran Song.
The Robert J. Smith/Russell Mann Gift for top beginning and intermediate Japanese language students was awarded to Beilin Liu, Waverly Phillips and Emily Shen.
The Japanese Language Program Robert Sukle Award for three years of outstanding work went to Nancy Cao.
The Korean Language Program Award for three years of outstanding work went to Nicole Dreier, Seokyoung Hong and Chelsea Tenezaca.
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Graduate Research Award, given to a graduate student to recognize outstanding accomplishment in astronomical research, went to Lukas Wenzl and Christopher O’Connor.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, given to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance as a teaching assistant, went to Bugao Zou.
The Eleanor York Prize, given to a graduate student to reward service to the community as well as academic achievement, went to Madeline Pettine.
The Professor Yervant Terzian Scholarship Award went to Benjamin Jacobson-Bell.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley prize for Undergraduate Research went to Maggie Li.
CAPS (THE BRITTANY AND ADAM J. LEVINSON CHINA AND ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES PROGRAM)
The Sherman Cochran Prize was awarded to Nicole Kristen Mah.
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Cornell Section Undergraduate Research Award was awarded to senior Shamitri Bandyopadhyay.
The Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Academic Excellence was awarded to seniors Isabelle Goodrow and Ariana Wanvig Dot.
The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award was awarded to senior Eve Fantozzi.
The ACS Cornell Section Graduate Teaching Awards, given to graduate students in recognition of their performance as teaching assistants, were awarded to George Du Laney, Alexandra Lim, Rana Lomlu, Daniel Nakamura, Elizabeth Ryan and Ju-An Zhang.
The ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award was awarded to senior Beatrice Pence.
The Bauer Scholarship Award was awarded to David Bain, Amy Katherine Bracken, Kaitlyn Keasler, Julian Kellner Rogers, Kaining Mao, Robert Miller and Tristan Pitt.
The George C. Caldwell Prize was awarded to seniors Elena Chen and Darren Langer.
The GSR Catalyst Safety Prize was awarded to Hales Rugh.
The Darryl H. Wu Memorial Prize was awarded to junior Julia Pitolaj.
The A.W. Laubengayer Prize was awarded to Kaitlyn Varriale (CHEM 1560), Aditya Bakshi (CHEM 2070), Kiefer Kleist (CHEM 2090) and Lyndon Hess (CHEM 2150).
The Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize for juniors was awarded to junior Ryan Pinard.
The Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize for seniors was awarded to seniors Yichen Qiu and Rina Wang.
The Frank and Lynnet Douglas Fellowship was awarded to junior Anthony Lara and first-year student Daniel Salter.
The Gerald and Kathleen Hill Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to sophomore Haein Kim.
The J. Emery Morris Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to juniors Clea Crane and Tatiana Solodova.
The Robert Work Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to junior Zayim Jamil.
The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for graduate students was awarded to Paul Padgett and Ju-An Zhang.
The Tunis Wentink Prize for graduate students was awarded to Udit Kumar Chakraborty, Jaehwan Kim and Jonas Rein.
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
The Classics Department Book Prize went to Classics honors seniors Emma Glaser, Austin Manning, Kim Montpelier and Grace Ryan.
A fellowship for summer ancient language study was awarded to Grace Liu ’27; she will be participating in the Greek Workshop at University of California, Berkeley.
The 2024 recipients of the Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship are Julia Fritsch ’25, Cristina Kiefaber ’25 and Ashley Koca ’25. Their travels will take them to Italy, Greece and the British Museum in London, respectively.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant for students majoring in comparative literature, to support intensive language study outside the U.S., was awarded to Nina Davis to travel to France to study French with the Alliance Française, to Giuliana Keeth to travel to France to study French with the EDUCO program, and to Alice Roberts to travel to France to study French at the Sciences Po Summer School.
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Essay Prize was awarded to Yidan Wang.
The Department of Comparative Literature Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of excellence in undergraduate pedagogy was awarded to Oliver Aas.
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
The Robert H. Whittaker award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation made by a graduate student at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, was presented to Ethan Duvall.
The LaMont C. Cole award is given for an outstanding paper in a particular year by a graduate student of an EEB faculty member or joint appointee. This year, it was awarded to Ethan Bass for his paper “Associational Effects of Desmodium Intercropping on Maize Resistance and Secondary Metabolism” published in The Journal of Chemical Ecology in 2024.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation by a beginning ecology and evolutionary biology department/field graduate student at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, went to Sarah Arnold and Hannah Monti.
The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was given to Ethan Bass.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
The following graduating seniors are receiving Excellence in Economics in Memory of Tapan Mitra awards: Adelyn Carney, Jessica Chen, Sophia Giarusso, Nicole Kimmel, Qianyi Liu and Yicheng Yang.
The L.R. "Red" Wilson M.A. '67 Excellence in Economics Award to support thesis proposal, research and writing was awarded to graduate students Zebang Xu and Sen Zeng.
The Tapan Mitra Memorial Prize went to graduate students Yiqi Liu and Yaling Xu.
The Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ta-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, which funds graduate student tuition, stipend and health insurance for one semester, was awarded to graduate students Yiqi Liu and Yu Wang.
The Labor Economics Small Grant Awards went to graduate students Yaling Xu, Kalie Pierce, Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco and Vaios Triantafyllou.
The Louis Walinsky Fund in Economics Outstanding Teaching Award in Honor of Professor Herbert Joseph Davenport went to graduate students Patrick Ferguson and Yiwei Sun.
The Ernest Liu Family Outstanding Teaching Award went to graduate students Enjie (Jack) Ma and Yu Wang.
The Howard and Abby Milstein Graduate Teaching Assistantship went to graduate students Deborah Doukas and Zebang Xu.
The Anindya (Bappu) Majumder '98 Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching was awarded to graduate student Brenda Prallon.
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
The Goethe Prize is awarded annually for the best essays on any topic connected with German literature or culture. In the Freshman/Sophomore Category, first prize went to Xianyi (Zoey) Zhou for “Marx and Mao.” In the Junior/Senior category, first prize went to Emily Hong for “Instant Commodities: Time-Space Compression and Commodification in Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project and the US Consumer Credit Market”; second prize went to Rafaela Uzan for “Stasi files and Vergangenheitsbewältigung in The Lives of Others: An Accurate Portrayal?” In the Graduate Category, first prize was awarded to Luke Witchey for “Resistance to Signification: Rhetoric and Genre in Hofmannsthal’s ‘Ein Brief.’”
The Simmons Award in German is given to the student who has done the “best work in German” in the College of Arts & Sciences. This year’s recipient was Myka Melville.
Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. The recipients were Erin Hoskins, Sebastian Mostek, Lara Murray Palma, Maliha Aamir, Michael Yin, Jacob Hagen, Angela Chang, Hannah Whang, Ilma Ljubovic, John Roemer, Adriana Isabella Palmieri, Sam DeLisa, Jack Chaney, Jason Liu, Petar Teodorovic, Nina Mitin, Olivia Kim, Anja Minty, Franklin Zheng, Anna-Sophia Schaldenbrand, Leo Sterz and Grant Smith.
The Language Certificate in German Language Study for having achieved an advanced level of language competence through course work at the 3000-level corresponding to the criteria set by The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level B2+) was awarded to Emir Erkenkalkan, Marc Foley, Emily Hong, Mingjia (Lindy) Liu, Myka Melville, Gabriel Montalvo-Zotter, Rafaela Uzan and Peter Wenger.
DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, given to an outstanding student with a major in government, was awarded to Richard Li.
The Sherman-Bennett Prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was awarded to Elizabeth Rene.
The Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize for the best essay on the problems of securing peace in the world was awarded to Court Hyken.
The Lieutenant David Chrystall Prize for the best essay or treatise dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace was awarded to Penelope Day.
The Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Undergraduate Prize for outstanding undergraduate scholarship was awarded to Neva Peltz.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
The 2024 Undergraduate Messenger Chalmers Prize for best thesis essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Mayanka Dhingra and Katherine Esterl.
The Cornelius W. DeKiewiet Prize to the outstanding history majors (junior) who have demonstrated unusual promise and excellence in the field was awarded to Abigail Hammarlund and Lindsay Williams.
The Clyde A. Duniway Book Prize for the best junior in the College of Arts & Sciences was awarded to Feifei Hung.
The Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for the best honors thesis in U.S. history or American studies was awarded to Maggie Sandler.
The Anne Macintyre Litchfield Prize to an outstanding woman graduating with a major in history was awarded to Mayanka Dhingra.
The George S. Lustig Prize, awarded to the outstanding senior who intends to continue the study of history at the graduate level, went to Katherine Esterl.
The Benard E. West Prize, awarded competitively to the most promising undergraduate research scholar specializing in American history, went to Katherine Esterl.
The 2024 Messenger Chalmers Graduate Prize for best dissertation essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Aparajita Majumdar and Daniela Samur.
JOHN S. KNIGHT INSTITUTE FOR WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
Spring 2023 Awards:
The Writing in the Majors Prize honorable mention went to Noah Courtney for “Lifespan: An Overview of Contributing Factors.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Rafaella Gonzalez for “Beauty Behind Machinery: The Ascent of Formula 1 Photography as a Fine Art” and Madison Zunder for “Humanity on Display: The Politics of Looking in Tiger Bay.” Honorable mentions went to Maryam Albakry for “How the Body Measures Growth,” Landon Le for “Why Aid to Ukraine is The Deal of The Century,” and Drew Wilenzick for “Megascript: Writing About Writing About Writing.”
The English 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Samantha Heller for “Will Prescribing Weight Loss Solve the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?” Honorable mention went to Eleanor Zweber for “Cornell’s Student-Athletes: A Mental Health Crisis, Overlooked.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Rowan Lopez, student, and Gina Goico, instructor, for “Perseverance Through Art: Identity, History and Resistance in Yelaine Rodriguez’s Mal De Ojo.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors went to Nicole Loy, student, and Sara Stamatiades, instructor, for “Gertrude Spencer Portfolio - ENGL Voices.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Rachel Horner for “Written Approaches to Festival, Ritual, and Carnival.” Honorable mention went to Asey Koh for “Learning to Close Read: Literary Analysis as Process.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Eleanor Zweber for “Legislating Morality: The Conservative Christian Effort to Ban Drag.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Tianyi Shou for “The Pros and Cons of “Cosmopolitanism”: Toward a Comparative Argumentative Essay.”
Fall 2023 Awards:
The Adelphic Award went to Flora Meng for “The Ivory Tower: Why should we still consider a legal ivory trade for elephant conservation?” Honorable mention was awarded to Kevin Feng for “The Role of Social Media in the Development of a Social Controversy: A Case Study.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors was awarded to Evie Grossman, student, and Alexandra Cooperstock, instructor, for “The Paradox of American Meritocracy: An Exploration of Inequalities in U.S. Public Education.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize went to Shivani Shroti for “Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Martha Van Rensselaer Commons.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Jasmine Li for “’Space Odyssey’ Made Real? Interrogating the Moral Bounds of the AI-Human Friendship through Aristotelian and Confucian Frameworks” and Mackenzie Thompson for “The PTA, Christian Education, and Parental Rights: The Historical Implications of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” 1950-2022.” Honorable mention went to Ayah El-Hardan for “The Glass Shard.”
The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize went to Ian Branigan for “Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Annexation of Ryukyu.”
The ENGL 2880, Expository Writing Prize went to Tracy Zeng for “"Ogres of East Africa" and "DNA": Navigating Racial Identity.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Varija Mehta, student, and Maria Al-Raes, instructor, for “Family Ties Unraveled: Navigating Isolation and Responsibility in ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw.’” Honorable mention went to Krystlove Yeboah, student, and Alexandra Cooperstock, instructor, for “Unlocking Education’s Divide: Navigating the controversy of school voucher programs.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Joseph Lasky for “Cartographic Essay.”
The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship was awarded to Francine Barchett for “How can we save our planet without preaching to the choir?” Honorable mentions went to Sophia Taborski for “Are You Not Entertained?: Gladiators in Roman and Contemporary Society” and Nora Siena for “From Boccaccio to ChatGPT: How Short Forms Influence our World.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Yiyi Wu for “The Impact of the CCP's Cultural Policies on China's Ethnic Minority Music.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Abigail Brown for “Writing in Style.”
LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
The Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award, recognizing a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language, went to Avneet Kaur Mehr.
LATINA/O STUDIES PROGRAM
The Latina/o Studies Program award for outstanding work in the Latina/o studies undergraduate minor, community engagement and academic achievements was awarded to Olivia Ochoa.
The Latina/o Studies Program Student Success Office certificate of appreciation recognizing outstanding dedication and service to Cornell's Latinx student community was awarded to Juliette Corazón, academic advising dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and former advisor for the LSP Student Success Office in Latina/o Studies.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER STUDIES PROGRAM
The Undergraduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies went to Jennifer Xin He Zhang for writing, “Queerness and Boundaries, Disruption and Transversality in ‘Funeral Parade of Roses.’” The second place prize went to Gwendolyn Harth Klein for writing, “The Pen is my Sword: Rhetorical Techniques of Gay and Transgender People Responding to Bigotry.”
The Biddy Martin Graduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender studies went to Du Fei, Ph.D. candidate, for his essay, “Thinking with Kulthūm Nana: Gendering Knowledge in Islam.” The honorable mention went to Jessie Taieun Yoon, Ph.D. candidate, for their essay, “Disaffected Fatigue of Asian Camp and its Affective Dissonance."
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
TEACHING AWARDS
The Shin Yong-Jin/Harry Falkenau Graduate Teaching Fellowship, for demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching, was awarded to Oona Cullen for the 2024-2025 academic year.
The Joseph F. Martino '53 Lectureship in Undergraduate Teaching, which supports English undergraduate student seminars offering some form of a literary historical survey in the framework of a writing course, will be held by Sara Stamatiades for the 2024-25 academic year.
GRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS
The David L. Picket '84 Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing was awarded to graduate students Aishvarya Arora, Natasha Ayaz, Derek Chan, Meredith Cottle, Samantha O'Brien, Imogen Osborne, Jiachen Wang, and Charity Young.
The James McConkey Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Award for Summer Support, established by his enduringly grateful student Len Edelstein '59, was awarded to graduate student Imogen Osborne.
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS AWARDS
The M.H. Abrams Undergraduate Thesis Prize winners were Rebecca Sparacio for "Trauma, Testimony, Translation: Tracing Untranslatability In Shoshana Felman’s 'A Ghost In The House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law,' Claude Lanzmann’s 'Shoah,' and M. NourbeSe Philip’s 'Zong!'" and Amy Wang for "Laughing Corpses, Heartsore Clowns: Carnival and its Limits in Poe and Wilde."
CREATIVE WRITING PRIZES
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction graduate student winners are: 1st place, Mai Mageed for “Three Stories: ‘Signs of Intelligent Life,’ ‘Fizz,’ & ‘11:00 Bus’”; 2nd place, Maz Do for “The Collector”; and 3rd place Susanna Cupido for “Her Better Half,” “Immaculate,” and “O Ephraim.”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Carl Chen for “Heading Upstate”; 2nd place, Claire Yun for “Bouldering and Belaying,”; and 3rd place Violet Gooding for “Naptime” and “No Dry Clean.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction graduate student winners are: 1st place, Sean Sam for “The Frontier and Other Stories”; 2nd place, Julia Spande for “On Bodies” (Excerpt) and “The Window Mother”; and 3rd place, Imogen Osborne for “Three Stories.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Kaylani Williams for “Southern Heat”; 2nd place, Sarah Mittleman for “Degenerate”; and 3rd place, Jasmine He for “Apple of the Eye.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry graduate student co-winners are: Hana Widerman for “9 Poems”; and Aishvarya Arora for “4 Poems.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry undergraduate student co-winners are: Julia Nagel for “Pieces of Me”; and Roman Trujillo for “Communion, Collapsed and Recycled.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize was awarded to graduate student Imogen Osborne for “WhatsApp Sequence” and “YouTube Sequence”; and undergraduate student Dunia Matta for “Lady Bird.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize graduate student winners are: 1st place, Derek Chan for “Self-Portrait as Ghost Finch and Fugue”; 2nd place co-winner, Veronika Tree for “Smiling at myself in the mirror,” “Tapping,” “A funny episode within a vertebrae,” and “A whisper network”; and 2nd place co-winner Ngoc Pham for “Portrait of the Poet as Magician.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize undergraduate student winners are: 1st place, Katelyn Ge for “A Return to Origins”; and 2nd place, Zoe Reay-Ellers for “Three Poems.”
The Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize was awarded to undergraduate student Maddie Fecio for “Upon Reflection.”
ESSAY PRIZES
The Barnes Shakespeare Prize was awarded to undergraduate student Tatiana Bustos for “Identity and Liminal Spaces in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature undergraduate students winners are: 1st place, Amy Wang for “Ghosts in the Machine: Haunted Automata and Instrumental Temporality in Melville, Dickinson, and Morrison”; 2nd place co-winner, Hannah Quigley for “‘Divine Liberation: Spiritual Mestizaje and Misotheism in Farmworkers’ Literature”; and 2nd place co-winner, Sophie Monroe for “Hamburger or Humburger?: ‘Lolita’ and Obscenity Standards”
The Guilford Essay Prize was awarded to graduate student Kyhl Stephen for “American Fiction and the Textual Basis of Corporate Personhood, 1871-1921.” Honorable Mentions were awarded to Kelly Hoffer for “Against the Transparency of the Word: Metaphor and Visuality in Contemporary American Poetry”; and Bruno M. Shirley for “A Study of Buddhism, Politics, and Gender in Early Second Millennium Sri Lanka.”
The Moses Coit Tyler Award, for the best essay by a graduate or undergraduate student in the fields of American history, literature, or folklore, was awarded to graduate student Richard Thomson for “Reel Change: Cinematic Mise-en-Page in American Modernist Literature”
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Department teaching awards, which recognize the importance of faculty and graduate students in the teaching and learning of mathematics, were awarded to graduate students Kimball Strong and MingYi Wang.
The Robert John Bättig Graduate Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics was awarded to Harry Fluck, Prairie Wentworth-Nice and Ruoqi Zhang.
The Eleanor Norton York Award for achievements to date in mathematics went to graduate students Emily Dautenhahn and Alex Vidinas.
The Hutchinson Fellowship for outstanding work as teaching assistants or as students in the graduate program was awarded to Xuan Yao.
The Torng Prize for outstanding work as a teacher was awarded to graduate student Chase Vogeli.
Winners of the First-Year Prize Exam are Andrii Nykyforchyn (first place), Rishi Gujjar (second place) and William Pan and Sergio Lopez (third place).
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics majors Yeuk Yin Lam, Bryan Lu and Zhenghui Zhang.
The Transcendence Award in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics major Tiffany Sarver and Zhenghui Zhang.
MILSTEIN PROGRAM IN TECHNOLOGY & HUMANITY
The inaugural Venture Prizes for graduating Milstein seniors were awarded to Pareesay Afzal and Andres Wu.
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award was awarded to Jonathon Thomalla.
The George P. Hess Travel Award was awarded to Shamar Wallace.
Rita and Joe Calvo Graduate Student Teaching Awards were awarded to Isaac Lamptey and Jaymee Palma.
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Awards were awarded to graduate students Connor Kean and Sabrina Leddy.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
The Ellen Gussman Adelson Prize, which rewards and encourages outstanding Cornell students excelling in instrumental music performance, went to Luke Ellis, Dean Zhang and Nanor Seraydarian.
The John James Blackmore Prize, which assists undergraduate and graduate students studying music, was awarded to Jack Yarbrough, Elisabeth Wang and Cheryl Tan.
The H.A. Falconer Memorial Scholarship, which assists talented undergraduates in studying voice, went to Arianna Regis and Jessi McGlashan.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, which honors a graduate composer for excellent work, went to Seare Farhat.
The Barbara Troxell Vocal Music Award, for outstanding vocal students who evidence professional musical interests, went to Anthony Washington and Adedayo Perkovich.
The Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, for recognition of exceptional dissertations, went to Samantha Heinle and Dani Hawkins.
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Language Awards for excellence in Arabic went to Shahabir Amin Sami, Valerie Yehan Hu, Simone Faith Green, Tahm Faraday Loyd, Willem Elliot Parent, Anees Mitri and Youssef Attia.
The Language Award for excellence in Persian went to Avery Lacon.
Language Awards for excellence in Hebrew went to Danielle Malloy, Alexis Morgan Cohen, Dylan Harrison Shenson and Matthew Irving Gonzalez.
The Language Award for excellence in Turkish went to Will Sarbinowski.
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
The Robert R. Capranica Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology went to Jiarui Fang (laboratory of David M. Smith) and Destiny Smith (laboratory of Katherine Tschida).
The Miriam M. Salpeter Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neurobiology went to Xiyu Mei (laboratory of David Deitcher).
The Cynthia Kagarise Sherman Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in behavior went to Daniel Chang Kuo (laboratory of Michael Sheehan).
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award went to Alicia Brunner for BioNB 2220 Neurobiology and Behavior II: Introduction to Neuroscience.
DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS
The Marvin Carlson Award for 2024 was given to PMA Ph.D. student Isabel Padilla Carlo for the essay “’Si Tu No Sabe Kokobalé’ and The Reclamation of Collective Memory as a Praxis of Liberation.”
The Elizabeth D. Worman Fund for Graduate Students awarded a grant to Ph.D. student Ariel Dela Cruz.
The Elizabeth D. Worman Undergraduate Award was given to Alex ArbitalJacoby.
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
The Program on Ethics and Public Life has awarded the 2024 Robert S. Hatfield Award for Study of Ethics in Business and Organizations to Randy T. Lee.
Edvard Meza, Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, is the winner of the Sadov Graduate Student Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
The Yennie Prize in Physics, for a senior student majoring in physics who shows unusual promise for future contributions to physics research and who intends to earn a doctorate, went to Brandon Li.
The Kieval Prize in Physics, awarded to senior physics students who demonstrate unusual promise for future contributions to physics research, went to Devisree Tallapaneni.
The Erik Cassel ’90 Prize, awarded to an undergraduate physics major who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and promise in applying computer programming to a project in physics or related fields, went to William Wang.
The Hartman Prize in Physics went to Andrew DiFabbio.
The Bethe Thesis Prize went to Maggie Li.
The Boochever Fellowship from the Boochever family went to Yik Chuen “Eric” San for Fall 2023 and Francisco Blanco for Spring 2024.
DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE STUDIES
The J.G. White Prize for Excellence in Spanish was awarded to Kathryn Cuneo, Tomas Comesana and Giuliana Keeth.
The J.G. White Prize for Excellence in English was awarded to Gabriel Muñoz.
The JG White Scholarship Award was awarded to Andrea Zarazua.
The Juliette MacMonnies Courant Memorial Prize, for a senior female French major who has excelled in her four years with special reference to facility of expression in French, was awarded to Samantha Surdek.
The Romance Studies Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award went to Paulo Fuentealba and Richard Gibbs.
The Ted Morris Prize for the most promising freshman or sophomore student in French was awarded to Elizabeth Gardner.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
The Sheila Jasanoff Prize for Academic Excellence in Science & Technology Studies is awarded each spring to a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in STS for the best paper written in the previous three semesters. The 2024 prize was awarded to Jason Ludwig for his paper “Upgrade and Uplift: The Automating State, Black Labor, and the Intermingled Revolutions of the Postwar United States,” the first chapter of his dissertation.
The Abraham “Zito” Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student for outstanding teaching as a teaching assistant and/or as the sole instructor for a Freshman Writing Seminar. The 2024 award went to Faridah Laffan.
The Trenchard Prize for Undergraduate Research, awarded to a student who has applied to do an honors thesis of exceptional promise, went to Christopher Ho Kim, a rising senior in Biology & Society, for his thesis proposal entitled “From Clinician to Congregant: How the practice of rural medicine impacts a physician’s religion/spirituality.”
The Margaret W. Rossiter Award for Women in Science went to Alexa Choy ‘24 for her paper entitled “Analyzing Structures of Biopower in Women's Health and Medical Practice” written for BSOC 3111 for the Spring semester 2024. The Margaret W. Rossiter award is given to an advanced student in the S&TS or BSoc major for a paper written on any issue regarding women in science and is graciously funded by a gift from Lisa Prosser.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
The Leo Meltzer Award, celebrating the contributions of former Professor Leo Meltzer, is for the best undergraduate thesis in the field of social psychology, broadly defined. The award goes to Tamara Frith for “Systemically Impoverished: The Role of the Criminal Justice System in the Experience of Persistent Poverty among Single Black Mothers.”
The Robert Wertheimer Award honors the continuing contributions of former sociology major Robert Wertheimer and is for the best thesis outside the field of social psychology. The award goes to Alicia González for “Museum Networks: Influence and Innovation in New York City Museums.”
Lili Dodderidge and Brian Haggard are the winners of the department’s award for excellence in teaching for their work as teaching assistants.
The Robert McGinnis Best Paper Award celebrates excellence in methodological innovations, broadly defined. The award goes to Zhonghao Wang for “Mismatch of Educational Expectations, Unequal Friendships, and Depression Symptoms of Adolescents.”
The Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for best graduate student paper goes to Haowen Zheng for “Competitive Trajectories: Gendered Income Dynamics Pre- and Post-Family Migration.”
The Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for best graduate student paper on race and ethnicity goes to Juhwan Seo for “‘Quotidian Homonationalism: Green Card Adjudication, Immigration Law, and Liberal Inclusion of Same-Sex Binational Marriages.”
2022-23
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
The Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology was awarded to Eunice Ngai.
DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
The Asian Studies Summer Study, Research, and Service Travel Grants went to Cassidy Cheesman (Japan), Arifa Mim (Japan) and Brennan OBrion (Japan).
The Robert J. Smith/Russell Mann Gift for top beginning and intermediate Japanese language students was awarded to Rebecca Lee, Akhil Fernando-Bell and Charlie Koncelik.
Two awards from the Diversity Research Grants Program in support of Asian Studies-related undergraduate research went to Alexis Jones and Joaquin Smith.
The Tina Han Su Cooper ’66 Award in support of outstanding undergraduate engagement in the study of Chinese cultural areas went to McKenna Norton.
The Japanese Language Program Robert Sukle Award for three years of outstanding work went to Miguel Amor.
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Graduate Research Award, given to a graduate student to recognize outstanding accomplishment in astronomical research, went to Stella Ocker.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, given to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance as a teaching assistant, went to Madeline Pettine.
The Eleanor York Prize, given to a graduate student to reward service to the community as well as academic achievement, went to Lukas Wenzl.
The Professor Yervant Terzian Scholarship Award went to Peter Levens.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley prize for Undergraduate Research went to Mitchell Indek.
The Roger and Mary Lou West Fellowship went to Maggie Li (Mentor: Anna Ho).
CAPS (THE BRITTANY AND ADAM J. LEVINSON CHINA AND ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES PROGRAM)
The Sherman Cochran Prize was awarded to Isaac Herzog.
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
The American Chemical Society Cornell Section Undergraduate Research Award was awarded to senior Michael Norinskiy.
The Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Excellence was awarded to seniors Isabel Dhar and Erica Debley.
The American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award was awarded to senior Thomas Hicks.
The ACS Cornell Section Graduate Teaching Awards, given to graduate students in recognition of their performance as teaching assistants, were awarded to Hanning Jiang, Julianna Koehl, Paul Padgett, Cristina Preston-Herrera, Amy Vonder Haar and Jason Wu.
The ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award was awarded to senior Samuel Pavelites.
The Arkema Fellowship Award was awarded to Bayu Ahmad.
The Bauer Scholarship Award was awarded to Weiyang Guan, Jesse Hsu, Mihal Krumov, Zhipeng Lu, Jaehwan Kim, Ruth Mandel, Michael Peterson, Jonas Rein, Robert Voland and Bingsen Zhang.
The George C. Caldwell Prize was awarded to seniors Nina Suss and Sarah Zhang.
The Catalyst Safety Prize was awarded to Liat Kugelmass and Andrés Molina Villarino.
The Darryl H. Wu Memorial Prize was awarded to sophomore Ryan Pinard.
The A.W. Laubengayer Prize was awarded to Owen J. Chen (CHEM 1560), Michael-David Nguyen (CHEM 2070), David Wang (CHEM 2090) and Aaryan Pugazendhi (CHEM 2150).
The Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize for juniors was awarded to junior Minh Le.
The Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize for seniors was awarded to seniors Pasa Suksmith and Dea Fackovic Volcanjk.
The Frank L. and Lynnet Douglas Fellowship was awarded to sophomore Anthony Lara.
The Gerald A. Hill and Kathleen Holmes Hill Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to sophomore Kelly Huang.
The J. Emery Morris Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to sophomore Cameron Muniz and junior Amaury Jousset Drouhin.
The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for graduate students was awarded to David Bain and Sutanuka Manna.
The Tunis Wentink Prize for graduate students was awarded to Melissa Bollmeyer, Keri Steiniger, Darren Xu and Mary Zick.
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
The Classics Department Book Prize for excellent scholarly records went to seniors Aidan Ackerman, Lin Ai, Garrett Emmons, Lal Kosematoglu and Charlee Mandy.
A fellowship for summer ancient language study was awarded to Cristina Kiefaber ‘25; she will be participating in the online Intensive Summer Latin Program with the University of California, Berkeley.
The 2023 recipients of the Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship are Kim Montpelier ’24, Austin Manning ’24, and Shanzai Ikhlas ’24. Their studies will take them across Germany, Italy and Greece, respectively.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant for students majoring in comparative literature, to support intensive language study outside the U.S., was awarded to Shehryar Qazi, to travel to Amman, Jordan to study Arabic at the Qasid Institute; and to Aurora Yuan, to travel to Berlin, Germany to study German at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Essay Prize was awarded to Amrita Chakraborty and Tianyi Shou.
The Department of Comparative Literature Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of excellence in undergraduate pedagogy was awarded to Amparo Necker.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
The following graduating seniors are receiving Excellence in Economics in Memory of Tapan Mitra awards: Morgan Baker, Rucha Gharpure, Aryan Khanna, Collin Mattis, Grace Zhang and Steven Zhu.
The L.R. "Red" Wilson M.A. '67 Excellence in Economics Award to support thesis proposal, research, and writing was awarded to graduate students Wentong Chen and Isaac Cohen.
The Tapan Mitra Memorial Prize went to graduate students Lucia Casal and Yu Wang.
The Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ta-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, which funds graduate student tuition, stipend and health insurance for a full academic year, was awarded to graduate student Zihan Hu.
The Labor Economics Small Grant Awards went to graduate students Christa Deneault, Yujie Feng and Jenny Suh.
The Louis Walinsky Fund in Economics Outstanding Teaching Award in Honor of Professor Herbert Joseph Davenport went to graduate students Wentong Chen and Yiqi Liu.
The Ernest Liu Family Outstanding Teaching Award went to graduate students Ryan Dycus and Kalie Pierce.
The Howard and Abby Milstein Graduate Teaching Assistantship went to graduate students Francesco Billari and Hongyuan Xia.
The Anindya (Bappu) Majumder '98 Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching was awarded to graduate student Molly Ingram.
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
The Robert H. Whittaker Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation made by a graduate student(s) at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, was presented to David Frey.
The LaMont C. Cole award is given for an outstanding paper in a particular year by a graduate student of an EEB faculty member or joint appointee. This year, it was awarded to Anyi Mazo-Vargas for her paper “Deep cis-regulatory homology of the butterfly wing pattern ground plan,” published in Science in 2022.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Book Award, given in recognition of the best oral presentation by a beginning ecology and evolutionary biology department/field graduate student(s) at the Annual Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, went to Mario Molina and Cameron Coles.
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
The Goethe Prize is awarded annually for the best essays on any topic connected with German literature or culture. In the Freshman/Sophomore Category, first prize went to Rares-Stefan Bucsa for “The Power of Literature: Fighting Totalitarianism in German Literature and Beyond” and to Caitlin Sigda for “Stepmothers & Maidens & Werewolves, Oh My!: An Analysis of the Morality Assigned to Gender Non-Conforming Characters in Fairy Tales.” In the Junior/Senior category, first prize went to Hui Yuan for “Poetry after Auschwitz: Memory, Trauma, and Testimony in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz;” second prize went to Magda Kossowska for “Wallraffs (Alis) Doppelidentität in Ganz Unten” and to Lindy Liu for “Reconcile with Myself - Searching for “What is Real” and Human Nature in the World of Cinema and Arts.” In the Graduate Category, first prize was awarded to Nora Siena for “Parables and/as paradigms: The Role of Kafka’s Parables in Agamben’s Biopolitical Project.”
The Simmons Award in German is given to the student who has done the “best work in German” in the College of Arts & Sciences. This year’s recipient was Magda Kossowska.
Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. The recipients were: Hali Dietsche, Brendan Klein, Ryan Park, Jaylyn Tinker, Javier Villalpando-Hernandez, Emma Kennett, Zeke Lawrence, Alice Hu, Lulu Yuan, Adelyn Carney, Tenny Yin, Caleb Schmitt, Audrey Yin, Max Mandeville, Emily Hong, Alexander Joos, Zach Cheslock, Grace Hoedemaker, Sonia Talarek, Sonia Shneyerson, Phalguni Miraj, Mayumi Schaepers-Cheu, Naiqi Zhang, Grant Smith, Gabriel Montalvo-Zotter and Sofia Pereira.
The Language Certificate in German Language Study for having achieved an advanced level of language competence through course work at the 3000-level corresponding to the criteria set by The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level B2+) was awarded to Lucy Abrahamson, Fabio S. Cabrera, Emma K. Chase, Lukas Danforth, Sophia Dominique Tan Openshaw, Yvette Hung, Magda Kossowska, Sofia Pereira, Samuel Shagan, Tony Valencia, Qifan Wang and En Yu Zhang.
DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, given to an outstanding student with a major in government, was awarded to Alexandria Kim.
The Sherman-Bennett Prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was awarded to Alexandria Kim.
The Kasdan-Montessori Peace Prize for the best essay on the problems of securing peace in the world was awarded to Ainav Rabinowitz.
The Lieutenant David Chrystall Prize for the best essay or treatise dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace was awarded to Benjamin Schwab.
The Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Undergraduate Prize for outstanding undergraduate scholarship was awarded to Lynn Hong.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
The 2023 Undergraduate Messenger Chalmers Prize for best thesis essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Halle Livermore, Hal Reed and Zhiyuan Zhou.
The Cornelius W. DeKiewiet Prize to the outstanding history majors (junior) who have demonstrated unusual promise and excellence in the field was awarded to Katherine Esterl and Axaraly Ortiz.
The Clyde A. Duniway Book Prize for the best junior in the College of Arts & Sciences was awarded to Elizabeth Grosul.
The Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for the best honors thesis in U.S. history or American studies was awarded to Hal Reed.
The Anne Macintyre Litchfield Prize to an outstanding woman graduating with a major in history was awarded to Madeline Rosenberg.
The Benard E. West Prize, awarded competitively to the most promising undergraduate research scholar specializing in American history, went to Kelly Hoffer and Ann Nie.
The 2023 Messenger Chalmers Graduate Prize for best dissertation essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Yiyun Peng and Kelsey Utne.
JOHN S. KNIGHT INSTITUTE FOR WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
Spring 2022 Awards:
The Adelphic Award went to Anthony Huang for “The Grandeur of Obedience.” Honorable mention went to Zhu Liu for “Danimals Saving Animals? Yogurt Save Rhinos from Extinction!”
The Writing in the Majors Prize went to Natalia Pineros-Guerrero for “Estimating the Efficacy of Home Remedies to Control Fall Armyworm.” Honorable mention went to Sarah Kebaish for “Mango Bait for Nature’s Bloodsuckers: Anopheles Mosquitoes.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Jackson Feldman for “The Great Depression and Floridian Tourism: Becoming the Sunshine State” and Ria Panchal for “The Meaning of Meaninglessness.” Honorable mention went to Sasha Smalls for “Error 404.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Eunice Kang, student, and Bonnie Chung, instructor, for “Naked Desire.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Wanheng Hu for “The Politics of ‘Autonomous Vehicles’: A Collaborative Research Project Responding to a CFP.” Honorable mention went to Joseph Lasky for “Research Proposal Sequence.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Ria Panchal for “Are We Ready to Revisit Public Housing?”
Fall 2022 Awards
The Adelphic Award went to Wilson Kan for “The Egalitarian Debate of Immigration.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors was awarded to Skylar Bush, student, and Ksenia Pavlenko, instructor, for “Exploration in Female Portraiture in Photography.” Honorable mention was awarded to Daniel Merrell, student, and Kun Huang, instructor, for “Daniel Merrell Writing Portfolio.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize honorable mention went to Hannah Pryor for “Natural Selection and Speciation across Divergent Populations of the Yellow-rumped Warbler.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Allison Kwon for “The Queerness of Living as an Asian-American” and Kevin Liu for “The Ineluctable Shortcomings of Retributivism.”
The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize went to Lisa Li for “Justice and Power: A Flawed System.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Kate Thorpe, student, and Rachel Horner, instructor, for “Dissolution and Discovery at my First Apple-Fest in Ithaca.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Stephanie Sang for “Assignment Sequence for The Braided Essay.” Honorable mentions went to Valerie Bambha for “Playing to Learn Assignment Sequence to Establish Writing Skills for the Social Sciences” and Michael Kowalski for “Positive Sustainability: Building the Conversation.”
The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship was awarded to Kristie LeBeau for “Who Decides? Decision Making in the US Education System.” Honorable mentions went to Alexandra Cooperstock for “Education in the United States: Engines of Inequality, Ladders for Opportunity, and Striving for Change” and Stephen Fodroczi for “Ancient Underworlds, Fresh Hells.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Jasmine Gill for “Celebrating Sin: The Myth of Medusa and its Rose-Tinted Lens” and Ty Oshima for “Twilight Swim: The Shinnecock Indian and the Blonde Hamptonite.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Rachel Horner for “Showing and Telling.”
LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
The Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award, recognizing a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language, went to Kevin Kwong.
LATINA/O STUDIES PROGRAM
The Latina/o Studies Program award for outstanding work in the Latina/o studies undergraduate minor, community engagement and academic achievements was awarded to Claudia Leon.
The Latina/o Studies Program Student Success Office certificate of appreciation recognizing outstanding dedication and service to Cornell's Latinx student community was awarded to Mary K. Redmond, Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language, and Azucena (Zucy) Ortega, Events Coordinator/Program Assistant, Latina/o Studies/LSP Student Success Office.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER STUDIES PROGRAM
The Undergraduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies winner went to Laura Chang '23 for her essay, “Is it Okay to Be Gay?” The second place winner went to Mateo Valdillez '25 for his essay, “A Comparison of Machoism in Cuba." The honorable mention went to Sabiha Obaid '23 for her essay, “Queerness in South Asia."
The Biddy Martin Graduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender studies went to Jeff Iovennone, Ph. D. candidate, for his digital display essay, “Leslie Feinberg’s Buffalo." The honorable mention went to Akhil Kang, Ph. D. candidate, for their essay, “Queer Impossibilities of Inter-Caste Love."
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
The Shin Yong-Jin/Harry Falkenau Graduate Teaching Fellowship, for demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching, was awarded to Charline Jao for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The David L. Picket '84 Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing was awarded to graduate students Arpita Chakrabarty, Maz Do, Juan Harmon, Esther Kondo Heller, Sarah Iqbal, Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam, Sol X. Wooten and Winniebell Xinyu Zong.
The James McConkey Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Award for Summer Support, established by his enduringly grateful student Len Edelstein '59, was awarded to graduate student Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam.
The M.H. Abrams Undergraduate Thesis Prize winners were Ash Haq for “A Literature That Is Not Against Us: Rekindling Political Possibility in Anne Boyer’s ‘Garments Against Women’ and Fred Moten’s ‘All That Beauty”’ and Viola Yang for “‘Her Language Shall Be Holy As You Hear My Spell Is Lawful’: Act, Language, and Forgiveness in Shakespeare’s ‘Winter’s Tale.’”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize graduate student winners were: 1st place, Jiachen Wang for “Out Eating Japanese Food On Chunhui Road,” and 2nd place, Samantha O’Brien for “Juvenile Delinquent.” An honorable mention was awarded to Sol Wooten for “Pool Party” & “Shadow Objects.”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize undergraduate student winners were: 1st place, Laur Kim for “Animal,” and 2nd place, Rudy Beer for “Counterpoint.” An honorable mention was awarded to Sophia Gottfried for “Leave.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize was awarded to graduate student Derek Chan for “After August” and undergraduate student Isaac Salazar for “How to Coroner.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize was awarded to: 1st place, graduate student Aishvarya Arora for “I am not trying to be a man how”; 2nd place, graduate student Meredith Cottle for “More Relentless Than the Sun.”
The Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize was awarded to undergraduate student Allyson Katz for her poems entitled "stains of dirt and blood."
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Poetry was awarded to undergraduate students: 1st place, Miriam Tresa Alex for “Poetry Packet”; 2nd place, Lily Wass for “There are No Heirlooms”; and 3rd place, Jack Pickert for “Five Poems.”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction was awarded to undergraduate students: 1st place, Sam Weiler for “Daddy’s Boy”; 2nd place, Emily Park for “Notes From Paper & Ink”; and 3rd place, Brian Lu for “Moments of a Mother.” Honorable mention was awarded to Peyton Carpen for “Ferals.”
The Barnes Shakespeare Prize was awarded to undergraduate students: 1st place, Samantha Surdek for “Corporeality & Colonization: Analyzing Representations of the Female Body in Exploring Political Conquest in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V,’” and 2nd Place, Paley Arnone for “Prospero’s Mommy Issues: Analyzing the Gender and Sexual Politics in ‘The Tempest.’”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature was awarded to undergraduate students: 1st place, Emma Leynse for “‘We Were Infinite’: Trauma and ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’”; 2nd place, Hannah Drexler for “‘Which is the True Reading?’: A Study of the Morrisonian Historical Novel”; and 3rd place, Isaac Salazar for “‘[L]oneliness without despair’: (Re)reading a New (Mexican) Pastoral in Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s ‘We Fed Them Cactus.’”
The Moses Coit Tyler Award, for the best essay by a graduate or undergraduate student in the fields of American history, literature, or folklore, was awarded to graduate student Kelly Hoffer for “The Collage Poems of Susan Howe: 'Grid Logic' and the Rabbit Reader” and to undergraduate student Ann Nie for “Reexamining the Issue of Inconsistency in Gender-Based Asylum Adjudications 1995-2021.” Honorable mention was awarded to Hannah Drexler for “‘Which is the True Reading?’: A Study of the Morrisonian Historical Novel” and Madilyn Fulchiero for “The View Is Beautiful, but Where Are We? A Critical Analysis of Place, Space, and Movement in Disney's ‘Encanto.’”
The Guilford Essay Prize was awarded to Ben Fried (Literatures in English Ph.D. 2022) for “The Empire of English Literature: Editing the Global Anglophone, 1947-1993.”
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Department teaching awards, which recognize the importance of faculty and graduate students in the teaching and learning of mathematics, were awarded to graduate students Marissa Gee, Yun Liu, Gokul Nair and Nikhil Sahoo.
The Robert John Bättig Graduate Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics was awarded to Elena Hafner, Dexuan Hu, Sumun Iyer and Emmy Lewis.
The Eleanor Norton York Award for achievements to date in mathematics went to graduate students Rodrigo Delgado and Alekos Robotis.
The Hutchinson Fellowship for outstanding work as teaching assistants or as students in the graduate program was awarded to Kimoi Kemboi.
The Torng Prize for outstanding work as a teacher was awarded to graduate student Nicole Johnson.
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics majors Riley Guyett and Alejandro Maris.
The Transcendence Award in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics major Anna Asch.
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award was awarded to Jumana Badar.
The George P. Hess Travel Award was awarded to Saket Bagde.
Calvo TA Awards were awarded to Katrina Callan and Nathan Korson.
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Awards were awarded to graduate students Marena Minelli and Miwa Wenzel.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
The Ellen Gussman Adelson Prize, which rewards and encourages outstanding Cornell students excelling in instrumental music performance, went to Richard Zhu, Erika Katsumoto, Olivia Penick, Samantha Rubin, Hannah Robins and Tanvi Athavale.
The John James Blackmore Prize, which assists undergraduate and graduate students studying music, was awarded to Joshua Rosenheim, Brian Wang and Thomas Feng.
The H.A. Falconer Memorial Scholarship, which assists talented undergraduates in studying voice, went to Divya Reina and Emily Pollack.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, which honors a graduate composer for excellent work, went to Maria Bulla.
The Barbara Troxell Vocal Music Award, for outstanding vocal students who evidence professional musical interests, went to Guðrún Brjánsdóttir and Banafsheh Hussain.
The Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, for recognition of exceptional dissertations, went to Anna Steppler.
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Language Awards for excellence in Arabic went to Jack Factor Donnellan, Daria Kuzovkova, Lily Ella Nicholson, Macy Elaine Smith, Braeden Michael Thomson and Anabel Grace Witzke.
The Language Award for excellence in Persian went to Payman Ali Mahdi.
Language Awards for excellence in Hebrew went to Jordan Andrew Paraboschi, Glenn Michael Randall, Brandon Scott Shapiro and Alma Thaler.
The Language Award for excellence in Turkish went to Celia Hope Doherty and Vanessa Grace Shoenhalz.
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
The Robert R. Capranica Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology went to Amit Hanadari-Levy (laboratory of Alexander Ophir).
The Miriam M. Salpeter Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neurobiology went to Victoria Alkin (laboratory of David Deitcher).
The Cynthia Kagarise Sherman Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in behavior went to Julia Fan (laboratory of Valerie Reyna).
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award went to Raunak Sen for BioNB 1220 Freshman Writing Seminar.
DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS
The Marvin Carlson Award for 2023 was given to Ph.D. student Oona Cullen (Department of Literatures in English) for the essay “Black Queer Cosmologies, Sonic Geographies, and Embodied Entanglement in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays.”
The 2023 Heermans-McCalmon Awards went to Tatiana Bustos (first place, stage play) for “Kill Your Darlings”; Jo Bowman (first place, screenwriting) for “Girl Club”; Angel Katthi (second place, stage play) for “Girl Talk”; and Caleb Straayer (second place, screenwriting) for “The Seaglass Woman.”
The Elizabeth D. Worman Fund for Graduate Students awarded a grant to Ph.D. student Rejoice Abutsa.
The Elizabeth D. Worman Undergraduate Award was given to Adam Shulman.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
The Yennie Prize in Physics, for a senior student majoring in physics who shows unusual promise for future contributions to physics research and who intends to earn a doctorate, went to Reiley Dorrian.
The Kieval Prize in Physics, awarded to senior physics students who demonstrate unusual promise for future contributions to physics research, went to Yaoju Tarn.
The Erik Cassel ’90 Prize, awarded to an undergraduate physics major who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and promise in applying computer programming to a project in physics or related fields, went to Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro.
The Hartman Prize in Physics went to Roei Dery.
The Bethe Thesis Prize went to Alexander Albert.
The Boochever Fellowship from the Boochever family went to Christopher Wilson for Fall 2022 and Margarita Gavrilova for Spring 2023.
DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE STUDIES
The Carolina Corson French Prize for the most distinguished essay on a subject in either French philology or French literature was awarded to undergraduates Lila Schwab (first prize) and Kaila Hall (second prize) and to graduate student Alix Choinet.
The J.G. White Prize for Excellence in Spanish was awarded to Amy Escalante, Catherine Higareda and Crystal Arguelles.
The J.G. White Prize for Excellence in English was awarded to Sophia Torres Lugo.
The J.G. White Spanish Prize for an engineering student was awarded to Sam Cook.
The JG White Scholarship Award was awarded to Alyssa Koczan.
The Juliette MacMonnies Courant Memorial Prize, for a senior female French major who has excelled in her four years with special reference to facility of expression in French, was awarded to Natasha Aysseh.
The Romance Studies Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award went to Heftzi Vazquez Rodriguez and Gianluca Pulsoni.
The Ted Morris Prize for the most promising freshman or sophomore student in French was awarded to Amir bin Rafeeuddeen.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
The Sheila Jasanoff Prize for Academic Excellence in Science & Technology Studies is awarded each spring to a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in STS for the best paper written in the previous three semesters. The 2023 prize was awarded to Barkha Kagliwal for her paper “Women, Their Innovations, and Other Technological Omissions: A Historian of Technology Watches ‘The King, His Kitchen, and Other Stories,’” which has been accepted for publication in Technology and Culture.
The Abraham ‘Zito’ Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student for outstanding teaching as a teaching assistant and/or as the sole instructor for a Freshman Writing Seminar. The 2023 award went to Amanda Domingues.
The Trenchard Prize for Undergraduate Research, awarded to a student who has applied to do an honors thesis of exceptional promise, went to Valerie Hu, a rising senior in Biology & Society, for her thesis proposal entitled “Perspectives from Youth in Over-policed Communities: The Dichotomy of Anti-Police Sentiment and Pragmatic Need for Policing to Protect Against Violent Crime.”
SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES
The Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes for outstanding undergraduate essays on the intersection of religion and politics/society were awarded to Charlotte Rose Mandy '23, Isabelle Pappas '23, Imani Finkley '24 and Magda Smith '24.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
The Leo Meltzer Award, celebrating the contributions of former Professor Leo Meltzer, is for the best undergraduate thesis in the field of social psychology, broadly defined. The award goes to Isabella Ghafour for “The Visible and Invisible Elements of Religious Identity: A Qualitative Study on Cornell University’s Religious Communities.”
The Robert Wertheimer Award honors the continuing contributions of former sociology major Robert Wertheimer and is for the best thesis outside the field of social psychology. The award goes to Danika Cho for “Accessing Abortion in Post-Roe America: Censorship, Surveillance, and Network Collapse in States that Have Banned Abortion.”
Shiyu Ji and Hyo Joo Lee are the winners of the department’s award for excellence in teaching for their work as Teaching Assistants.
The McGinnis Award celebrates excellence in methodological innovations, broadly defined. The award goes to Cody Reed for “The relationship between Spatial Racial Structure and Movement Patterns across U.S. cities.”
The Robin M. Williams, Jr Award for best graduate student paper goes to Ben Rosche, for “Socioeconomic segregation in adolescent friendship networks: Prevalence and determinants of same- and cross-SES friendships in US high schools,” and Tianyao Qu, for “A bridge too far? Social Network Structure as a factor in depression in later life.”
The Robin M. Williams, Jr Award for best graduate student paper on race and ethnicity goes to Meaghan Mingo for “‘That camera sees everything and hears everything’ School Surveillance in the Rural American South.”
2021-22
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
The Freedman Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology recipients are David Ni, Mehria Nessar, Bianca Garcia and Laura Chang.
DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
The Asian Studies Summer Study, Research, and Service Travel Grants went to Sabrina Raichoudhury (Korea) and Elanor Chang (Taiwan).
The Robert J. Smith/Russell Mann Gift for top beginning and intermediate Japanese language students was awarded to Tim Wang, Olivia Penick and Pasa Suksmith.
Two awards from the Diversity Research Grants Program in support of Asian Studies-related undergraduate research went to Amisha Chowdhury and Jocelyn Tripoli.
The Japanese Language Program Robert Sukle Award for three years of outstanding work went to Yi Liu.
The Korean Language Program Award for three years of outstanding work went to Catherine Grace Carter, Cole Horvath, Hitomi Minamida, Gabriella Smith and Chengyin Tan.
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Graduate Research Award, given to a graduate student to recognize outstanding accomplishment in astronomical research, went to Yubo Su.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, given to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance as a teaching assistant, went to Olive Ross.
The Eleanor York Prize, given to a graduate student to reward service to the community as well as academic achievement, went to Chris O’Connor.
The Professor Yervant Terzian Scholarship Award went to Jonathan Gomez Barrientos.
The Cranson and Edna B. Shelley prize for Undergraduate Research went to Ze-Wen Koh.
The Roger and Mary Lou West Fellowship went to Roland Aristide (mentor: Alex Hayes) and to Noah Ring and David Wu (mentor: Saul Teukolsky).
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
The American Chemical Society Cornell Section Undergraduate Research Award for seniors was awarded to Chloe Cerione and Alexander Dasque.
The American Chemical Society Cornell Division Certificate of Excellence for seniors was awarded to Grace Dearden and Neal Vasireddi.
The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry was awarded to Brendan Parent.
The American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry was awarded to Jose Mondragon.
The American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry was awarded to Ashley Ahmed.
The ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry was awarded to Peiwen Shi.
The ACS Cornell Section Graduate Teaching Awards, given to graduate students in recognition of their performance as teaching assistants, were awarded to Sophie Bender, Jose De La Rosa, Kaitlyn MacMillan and Sarah Severson.
The Bauer Scholarship Award was awarded to Audrey Burnim, Liat Kugelmass, Jinjian Liu, Nathan Lui, Warrick Ma, Cheyenne Peltier, Andrés Molina Villarino, Mary Zick and Weixuan Xu.
The George C. Caldwell Prize was awarded to Cisco Espinosa and Aaron Li.
The Darryl H. Wu Memorial Prize was awarded to Darren Langer.
The A.W. Laubengayer Prize was awarded to Joyce Gan, Patrick Moore, Avrit Tung and Berk Gokmen.
The Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize for juniors was awarded to Nina Suss.
The Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize for seniors was awarded to Jonathan Meinhardt and Elijah Gallimore-Repole.
The Frank L. and Lynnet Douglas Fellowship was awarded to Emmanuella Adwoa Brewu-Sarpong.
The Gerald A. Hill and Kathleen Holmes Hill Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to Isabel Dhar.
The J. Emery Morris Fellowship for Undergraduate Research was awarded to Minh Le, Michael Norinskiy and Sarah Zhang.
The Robert W. Work Fellowship for Undergraduate Summer Research was awarded to Darren Langer.
The Tunis Wentink Prize for graduate students was awarded to Cara Gannett, Gregory George, Aohan Hu and Reika Tei.
The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for graduate students was awarded to Da Xu.
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
The Classics Department Book Prize, given to those students with excellent scholarly records, went to Max Buettner ’21 (fall), Jingkai (Steven) Liu ‘22 and Kostas Mantzavinos ‘22.
Christopher Chandra ’22 was awarded a Book Prize for his dedication to the Cornell Classics Society.
Funding fellowships for the study of ancient Greek were awarded to Claire Clifford-Langenek ’25, Christian Geramita ’25 and Jack Pickert ‘23.
Garrett Emmons '23 and Hannah Master '23 have each been awarded a Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Italy and Israel, respectively.
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant for students majoring in comparative literature, to support intensive language study outside the U.S., was awarded to Skylar Xu, to travel to Paris, France to study French at Sciences Po Summer School French Language; and to Hannah Feyen, to travel to Santiago, Chile to study Spanish at the Universidad de Chile.
The Department of Comparative Literature has awarded Kun Huang the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Award for her exceptional work over her graduate career as a teacher and mentor.
The winner of the 2022 Comparative Literature Graduate Student essay Prize is Praveen Tilakaratne, for his essay “Act and Anamnesis: An Historical Performance Between Psychoanalysis and Post-Buddhism” (Act I).
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
The Uri M. Possen Memorial Award for the best undergraduate honors thesis went to Victoria Healey.
The Tapan Mitra Economics Prize for Financial Economics went to Andres Almazan.
The Tapan Mitra Economics Prize for Economics and Law went to John Robinson.
The Tapan Mitra Economics Prize for Environmental Economics went to Ryan Thompson.
The Tapan Mitra Economics Prize for Experimental Economics went to Myles Winkley.
The Award for Excellence in Coursework went to David Yu.
The Award for Academic Excellence in Economics went to Anna McDougall.
The L.R. "Red" Wilson M.A. '67 Excellence in Economics Award to support thesis proposal, research, and writing was awarded to graduate students Pengfei Zhang and Tianli Xia.
The Tapan Mitra Memorial Prize went to graduate students Qiwei He and Luming Chen.
The Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ta-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, which funds graduate student tuition, stipend and health insurance for a full academic year, was awarded to graduate student Tianli Xia.
The Labor Economics Small Grant Awards went to graduate students Isaac Cohen and Wentong Chen.
The Louis Walinsky Fund in Economics Outstanding Teaching Award in Honor of Professor Herbert Joseph Davenport went to graduate students Hyuk-soo Kwon and Chenyang Li.
The Ernest Liu Family Outstanding Teaching Award went to graduate students Jisu Hwang and Luming Chen.
The Howard and Abby Milstein Graduate Teaching Assistantship went to graduate students Yujie Feng and Lucia Casal.
The Anindya (Bappu) Majumder '98 Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching was awarded to graduate student Ming Wei Adelson Teh.
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
The Goethe Prize is awarded annually for the best essays on any topic connected with German literature or culture. In the Freshman/Sophomore Category, first prize went to Emily Hong for “Politics of Pleasure: Sexual Power and Possession in Elfriede Jelinek’s 'The Piano Teacher'” and second prize went to Andrew Shim for “The evolution of self-expression in foreign environments: Applying Miguel Sicart’s ‘play’ into Amo’s life in Yoko Tawada’s ‘The Shadow Man.’” In the Junior/Senior category, first prize went to Viktoria Catalan for “Kant on Seeking the Unconditioned as a Transcendental Illusion: Is It Justified?” In the Graduate Category, first prize was awarded to Mariaenrica Giannuzzi for “Kleist in Italy: An Icon of Gendered Conflicts”; second prize went to Dennis Wegner for “Queer Constellations, Cosmic Contacts: Trans-Forming Greek Mythology and the Narrative of Europe in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s 'Meteoriten.'”
The Simmons Award in German is given to the student who has done the “best work in German” in the College of Arts & Sciences. This year’s recipient was Fabio Santiago Cabrera.
Book prizes are given to outstanding students nominated by their German instructors. The recipients were: Lulu Yuan, John Hanson, Urvashi Deshpande, Nicholas Bye, Patrick Cruz, Cody Petersen, Samuel Wong, Connor Stroth, Victoria Baker, Helen Garner, Sonia Shneyerson, Augustine Haquet, Sujin Moon, Pablo Ochoa-Andersen, Rodrigo Guzman Serrano, Flora Lechtreck, Andrés Aradillas-Fernandez, Rafaela Uzan, Gabriel Montalvo-Zotter, Julia Martens Morse and Sophia Dominique Tan Openshaw.
The Language Certificate in German Language Study for having achieved an advanced level of language competence through course work at the 3000-level corresponding to the criteria set by The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level B2+) was awarded to Katariina Alanko, Michael Cadogan, Juan Cancel, Viktoria Catalan, Samuel DeLorenzo, Yixiao Guo, Madison Keele, Johanna Keigler, Konstantin Kirovski, Alexander LaPorte, Julia Morse, Ryan Morton, Kate Siegel, Nicholas Sola, Lewis Wolf.
DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, given to an outstanding student with a major in government, was awarded to Katie Panczner.
The Sherman-Bennett Prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was awarded to Giancarlo Valdetaro.
The Lieutenant David Chrystall Prize for the best essay or treatise dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace was awarded to Jingkai Liu.
The Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Undergraduate Prize for outstanding undergraduate scholarship was awarded to Zelai Xu.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
The 2022 Undergraduate Messenger Chalmers Prize for best thesis essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Milo Gringlas, Jameson Rivera and David Sheng.
The Cornelius W. DeKiewiet Prize to the outstanding history majors (junior) who have demonstrated unusual promise and excellence in the field was awarded to Emily Chrisman and Zhiyuan Zhou.
The Clyde A. Duniway Book Prize for the best junior in the College of Arts & Sciences was awarded to Madeline Rosenberg.
The Bernard and Fannie Lang Prize for the best honors thesis in U.S. history or American studies was awarded to Milo Gringlas.
The Anne Macintyre Litchfield Prize to an outstanding woman graduating with a major in history was awarded to Michelle Kim.
The George S. Lustig Prize, awarded to the outstanding senior who intends to continue the study of history at the graduate level, went to Wesley Kang.
The Benard E. West Prize, awarded competitively to the most promising undergraduate research scholar specializing in American history, went to Clara Drimmer.
The 2022 Messenger Chalmers Graduate Prize for best dissertation essay on research and thinking on human progress was awarded to Sean Cosgrove, Kaitlin Pontzer and Samantha Wesner.
DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ART
The Sampson Fine Arts Prize, given to the members of the senior class who have consistently demonstrated academic excellence, commitment, and achievement, particularly in the field of the history of art, was awarded to Sarah Knight and Kyle Castellanos.
The Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, given to a member of the senior class who in their time as a major has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the field of history of art, was awarded to Grace Tran.
JOHN S. KNIGHT INSTITUTE FOR WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES
Fall 2021 Awards:
The Adelphic Award went to Dingyan Huang for “Cheng Dieyi in Farewell My Concubine and Lacan’s Mirror Stage Theory.” Honorable mention went to Una Wu for “Cyberpunk Formations and Formulations in Postwar Japan.”
The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors honorable mention was awarded to Rory Haltmaier, student, and Andy Colpitts, instructor, for “Spencer Portfolio Award Writing Portfolio.”
The Writing in the Majors Prize went to Andreas Psahos for “Microscopic Impacts of Calcium Addition in Acid Depleted Northern Hardwood Forests.” Honorable mention went to Jae Haeng Rhee for “The Good that Finds Good and Makes Good: The Value of Knowledge According to Plato as an Intrinsic Instrumental Good.”
The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Jamie Jeong for “Surfing the Second Korean Wave: K-Dramas and Mukbang in Transnational Circulation” and Vindhya Kathuria for “Haribo Licorice: Not So Sweet.”
The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize went to Lucas McKamey for “On Neurodevelopmental Patient Autonomy and Neurodivergence.”
The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Leticia Pessoa, student, and Philippa Chun, instructor, for “The Objectification of Women in Pornography.”
The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Geethika Dharmasinghe for “Grant Proposal Assignment” and Kelly Richmond for “Close Reading Feminism & Pop Culture Essay Sequence.”
The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship was awarded to Senegal Mabry for “Science as The Greatest Good.” Honorable mentions went to Catalina Mejia for “Sustainability and the Human-Nature Relationship: an exploration through science, history, and personal experience” and Ewan Robinson for “How to change the world: Investigating social improvement projects.”
The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Laine Havens for “The Deceptive Agriculture Villain: Organic Produce Farming.”
The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Ewan Robinson for “Handout: Undertaking synthesis in your literature review.” Honorable mention went to Rebecca Ciribassi for “Deciphering Scholarly Articles.”
LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
The inaugural Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award, recognizing a student who excels in learning a less commonly taught language, went to Aliou K. Gresseau-Gambrél.
LATINA/O STUDIES PROGRAM
The Latina/o Studies Program award for outstanding work in the Latina/o studies undergraduate minor, community engagement and academic achievements was awarded to Alexis Fintland.
The Latinx Student Success Office certificate of appreciation recognizing outstanding dedication and service to Cornell's Latinx student community was awarded to Jessie Mancilla, Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Cindy Mosqueda, Associate Director of Diversity Programs in Engineering.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER STUDIES PROGRAM
The Undergraduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies went to Fabio Cabrera, for the essay “Queering Adorno.”
The Biddy Martin Graduate Prize for work on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender studies went to Alec Pollak, for the essay “Outing Lorraine.” Honorable mention went to Dennis Wegner, for the essay “Queer Constellations, Cosmic Contacts.”
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
The Joseph F. Martino '53 Lectureship in Undergraduate Teaching, which supports English undergraduate student seminars offering some form of a literary historical survey in the framework of a writing course, will be held by Seth Strickland for the 2022-2023 academic year.
The Martin Sampson Teaching Fellowship acknowledges the importance of one of the most vital parts of the profession of literature: the teaching of writing and reading to undergraduates. This year’s recipients are graduate students Victoria Baugh, Christina Fogarasi, Nathaniel Likert, Austin Lillywhite and Peter Shipman, as well as MFA Lecturer Kathryn Diaz.
The Shin Yong-Jin/Harry Falkenau Graduate Teaching Fellowship, for demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching, is awarded to Kathryn Harlan-Gran for the 2022-2023 academic year.
The Alan Young-Bryant Memorial Graduate Award in Poetry was awarded to Joseph Miranda.
A David L. Picket '84 Summer Grant was awarded to Nathaniel Likert.
The David L. Picket '84 Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing was awarded to graduate students Vivian Hu, Mackenzie Schubert Polonyi Donnelly, Mackenzie Berry, Courtney Michelle Raisin, Michael Lee, India Sada Hackle and Rogelio Juárez.
The James McConkey Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Award for Summer Support, established by his enduringly grateful student Len Edelstein '59, was awarded to graduate student India Sada Hackle.
The M. H. Abrams Summer Graduate Fellowship, which provides a summer stipend to support work towards completion of an English dissertation, was awarded to Jennifer Rabedeau.
The Truman Capote PhD Writer’s Award, providing summer fellowships for Ph.D. or Joint M.F.A./Ph.D. students in English who are also poets or fiction writers, was awarded to Shacoya Kidwell, Adam Sztela and Richard Thomson.
The M.H. Abrams Undergraduate Thesis Prize winner was Helena Brittain for “Something Akin to Freedom: Storytelling, Healing, and Crafting a Black Woman’s Public Voice in Harriet Jacobs’s ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.’” Honorable mention was awarded to Rachel Christopherson for “Reclaiming the Future: Queer Utopia and Eugenic Rhetoric.”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize graduate student winners were: 1st place, Sophia Veltfort for “Mare Liberum”; 2nd place, Sol Wooten for “Vien, Vien”; and an honorable mention was awarded to Rogelio Juárez for “Apostle.”
The Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize undergraduate student winners were: 1st place, Joseph Lang for “3 Stories”; 2nd place, Savannah Beck for “The Asteroid”; and an honorable mention was awarded to Kaylani Williams for “Ruptured Rainbows.”
The Corson-Browning Poetry Prize was awarded to graduate student Mackenzie Berry for “Rehearsing for Carnage” and undergraduate student Isaac Salazar for “I am Orphans of Aztlán.” An honorable mention was awarded to graduate student Sarah Iqbal for “Four Poems.”
The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize was awarded to: 1st place, graduate student India Sada Hackle for “Stacking Water”; 2nd place, undergraduate student Rachel Christopherson for “Emergent”; and an honorable mention was awarded to graduate student Winniebell Zong for “Six Thousand Miles to Tomorrow.”
The Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize was awarded to undergraduate student Anika Potluri for her poems entitled "8 poems."
The Barnes Shakespeare Prize was awarded to undergraduate students: 1st place, Stephanie Tom for “Mind Over Matter: The ‘Monstrous Birth’ of Iago's Duality in ‘Othello’”; and 2nd place, Greta Gooding for “Kingship and Power Struggles as an Art as Figured by Macduff in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth.’”
The George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature was awarded to undergraduate students: 1st place, Claire Deng for “Aggregate Person: Radical Narration in Jean Toomer’s Cane”; 2nd place, Jack Pickert for “Stevens, Emerson, Whitman: Three American Poets”; and 3rd place co-winners, Emily Park for “The Dialectic of Love in James Baldwin’s ‘The Fire Next Time’” and Maria Siciliano for “The Problem of Address: On ‘Citizen: An American Lyric.’”
The Moses Coit Tyler Award, for the best essay by a graduate or undergraduate student in the fields of American history, literature, or folklore, was awarded to graduate students Ben Fried for “The Most Sympathetic Reader You Can Imagine: William Maxwell’s ‘New Yorker’ and the Mid-Century Short Story”; Molly MacVeagh for “Reading the Grocery List: Epigenetics and Collectivity in ‘Future Home of the Living God’”; and Adam Szetela for “This Book is Dangerous! The Moral Crusade Over Literature for Young People.”
The Guilford Essay Prize was awarded to graduate students Sean Cosgrove (history Ph.D. candidate) for “In Terror of Jack the Clipper: Sexual Violence and New (Hetero) Sexual Desire in Turn-of-the-Century America”; Pichaya Damrongpiwat (literatures in English Ph.D. 2021) for “Fictions of Materiality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel”; Molly MacVeagh (literatures in English Ph.D. 2022) for “Maintenance Work: Climate Fiction and Process Biology.”
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Department teaching awards, which recognize the importance of faculty and graduate students in the teaching and learning of mathematics, were awarded to senior faculty members Adrian Lewis and Timothy Riley, junior faculty members Philippe Sosoe and Kathryn Mann, and graduate students Trevor Jones and Mark Walth.
The Robert John Bättig Graduate Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics was awarded to Brandon Shapiro and Nicole Magill.
The Eleanor Norton York Award for achievements to date in mathematics went to graduate students Rodrigo Horruitiner and David Mehrle.
The Hutchinson Fellowship for outstanding work as teaching assistants or as students in the graduate program was awarded to Andres Fernandez.
The Torng Prize for outstanding work as a teacher was awarded to graduate student Prairie Wentworth-Nice.
The Harry S. Kieval Prize in Mathematics was awarded to undergraduate mathematics majors Nikita Borisov, Catherine Li and Arthur Tanjaya.
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award was awarded to Jacqueline Copeland.
The George P. Hess Travel Award was awarded to Ryan Feathers.
Calvo TA Awards were awarded to Tyler Rozanitis and Hallie Sussman.
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Awards were awarded to graduate students Hui Ji and Will Comstock.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
The Ellen Gussman Adelson Prize, which rewards and encourages outstanding Cornell students excelling in instrumental music performance, went to Constantine Kenny, Thomas Reeves, Nanor Seraydarian, Anna McDougall and Hannah Robins.
The John James Blackmore Prize, which assists undergraduate and graduate students studying music, was awarded to Aditya Deshpande and Nic Vigilante.
The H.A. Falconer Memorial Scholarship, which assists talented undergraduates in studying voice, went to Banafsheh Hussain and Crystal Argüelles.
The Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, which honors a graduate composer for excellent work, went to Miles Friday.
The Barbara Troxell Vocal Music Award, for outstanding vocal students who evidence professional musical interests, went to Jenny Park and Adedayo Perkovich.
The Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, for recognition of exceptional dissertations, went to Lee Tyson and Becky Lu.
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Language Awards for excellence in Arabic went to Ebreez Hafiz Elbashir, Aishanur Aydin, Luke J. Mouracade, Iqra Yousuf, Margot June Treadwell, Osman Elmekki Osman and Tessa Mimi Walden.
The Language Award for excellence in Persian went to Salma El idrissi.
Language Awards for excellence in Hebrew went to Sara Stober, Matthew Philip Furman and Jack Factor Donnellan.
The Language Award for excellence in Turkish went to George Frederick Sarbinowski.
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
The Robert R. Capranica Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology went to Benjamin Costa (laboratory of Christiane Linster) and Ananya Jambhale (laboratory of David Deitcher).
The Miriam M. Salpeter Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neurobiology went to Yusol Park (laboratory of Chris Schaffer).
The Cynthia Kagarise Sherman Award for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in behavior went to Angelina Franqueiro (laboratory of Vivian Zayas).
The CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award went to Andrea Roeser for BioNB 2220 Neurobiology and Behavior II: Introduction to Neuroscience, BioNB 4910 Principles of Neurophysiology, and BioNB 1220 Freshman Writing Seminar.
DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS
The Marvin Carlson Award for 2022 was given to Ph.D. student Kriszta Pozsonyi for the essay “Aging Vocal Performance in Mae West’s Final Film, Sextette.”
The 2022 Heermans-McCalmon Awards went to Andrew Vincenzo Lorenzen (first place, stage play) for “Old Man and Boy”; Jack Muench (first place, screenwriting) for “(Don’t) Tell Danny”; Adam Fofana (first place, spoken word/solo performance) for “A Letter from a Runaway”; Emily Park (second place, stage play) for ”Waiting for The Dog”; and Phoebe Irene McKinley (second place, screenwriting) for “Smile.”
The Elizabeth D. Worman Fund for Graduate Students awarded a grant to Ph.D. candidate Kelly Richmond.
The Elizabeth D. Worman Undergraduate Award was given to Adam Shulman.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
The Yennie Prize in Physics, for a senior student majoring in physics who shows unusual promise for future contributions to physics research and who intends to earn a doctorate, went to Gauri Batra.
The Kieval Prize in Physics, awarded to senior physics students who demonstrate unusual promise for future contributions to physics research, went to Willow Martin.
The Erik Cassel ’90 Prize, awarded to an undergraduate physics major who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and promise in applying computer programming to a project in physics or related fields, went to Minyoung (Tucker) Hwang.
The Boochever Fellowship from the Boochever family went to Mitrajyoti Ghosh for spring 2022.
The Hartman Prize in Physics went to Lindell Williams.
The Bethe Thesis Prize went to Zachary Crispino.
DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE STUDIES
The Carolina Corson French Prize for the most distinguished essay on a subject in either French philology or French literature was awarded to undergraduates Macy Smith (first prize) and Hui Yan (second prize) and to graduate students Selma Rebhi (first prize) and Charlotte Sas (second prize).
The J.G. White Prize for Excellence in Spanish was awarded to Laura Chang and Madilyn Fulchiero.
The J.G. White Spanish Prize for an engineering student was awarded to Tiffany Chou.
The Juliette MacMonnies Courant Memorial Prize, for a senior female French major who has excelled in her four years with special reference to facility of expression in French, was awarded to Valerie Odonkor.
The Romance Studies Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award went to Alix Choinet and Arturo Ruiz Mautino.
The Ted Morris Prize for the most promising freshman or sophomore student in French was awarded to Margaret Jean Kops Kuveke.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
The Sheila Jasanoff Prize for Academic Excellence in Science & Technology Studies is awarded each spring to a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in STS for the best paper written in the previous three semesters. The 2022 prize was awarded to Jeffrey Mathias for his paper “On the Swimming Pool as Scientific Instrument,” a workshop paper based on his dissertation.
The Abraham ‘Zito’ Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student for outstanding teaching as a teaching assistant and/or as the sole instructor for a Freshman Writing Seminar. The 2022 award went to Jason Ludwig.
The Margaret W. Rossiter Women in Science Award for 2022 was awarded to Journey Wise, an STS major, for her paper “COVID-19 and the Perpetuation of Academia’s ‘Glass Ceiling,’" submitted as her final paper for STS 3011.
The Trenchard Prize for Undergraduate Research, awarded to a student who has applied to do an honors thesis of exceptional promise, went to Lorlei Boyd for her thesis proposal entitled “Talking to Robots: The Conscientious Union of Chat-Based AI and Social Infrastructures.”
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
The Leo Meltzer Award, celebrating the contributions of former Professor Leo Meltzer, is for the best undergraduate thesis in the field of social psychology, broadly defined. The award went to Catherine Zhang for “The Social Construction of Career Aspirations Among Cornell Undergraduates.”
The Robert Wertheimer Award honors the continuing contributions of former sociology major Robert Wertheimer and is for the best thesis outside the field of social psychology. The award went to Alexandra Gibbons for “Place, Race, and Punishment: A Spatial Analysis of Incarceration in New York State.”
Seokyoung Kim, Tianyao Qu and Abdullah Shahid are the winners of the department’s award for excellence in teaching for their work as Teaching Assistants.
The McGinnis Award celebrates excellence in methodological innovations, broadly defined. The award went to Yunsub Lee for “A Monte Carlo Approach to Measuring Centrality: How to Identify Influential Nodes within Context-Specific Network Flows.”
The Robin M. Williams, Jr Award for best graduate student paper went to Emily Sandusky for “Do Voters Respond to Local Economic Conditions? Examining Support for Raising the State Minimum Wage.”
The Robin M. Williams, Jr Award for best graduate student paper on Race and Ethnicity went to Meaghan Mingo for “’Stay in a Child’s Place’: Adult Authority in Schooling in the Black Belt.”