May 2025
Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences was awarded the 2025 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
Begüm Adalet, assistant professor of government, received the 2025 Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists.
Marcelo Aguiar, received the 2025 Morgan Chia-Wen Sze and Bobbi Josephine Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize.
Jeremy Braddock, associate professor of literatures in English, received the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.
Tracy Carrick, senior lecturer and director of the Writing Workshop & Graduate Writing Service in the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, received the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.
Alix Choinet, doctoral candidate in Romance studies, received the Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants.
Margaux Delaney, doctoral candidate in literatures in English, received the Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants.
David Freund, lecturer in mathematics, received the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.
Aleesha Mariya George, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, received an Exemplary Leadership and Service Award for Advanced Career Graduate Students from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
Iago Gocheleishvili, senior lecturer in Near Eastern studies, received the Sophie Washburn French Instructorship.
Sabrina Karim, associate professor of government, received a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
Nikta Khalilkhani, Ph.D. candidate in psychology, was named an Andrew Kohut Fellow by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
Alexandra Kleeman, associate professor of literature, received a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
Leonardo Santamaria Montero, doctoral candidate in history of art and visual studies, received the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship.
Burak Oney, doctoral candidate in linguistics, received the Sadov Graduate Student Fellowship.
Gugielmo Papiri, doctoral candidate in physics, received the Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants.
Zoe Learner Ponterio, manager of the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility (SPIF), has been awarded the inaugural Changemaker Award by the Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways.
Brad Ramshaw, associate professor of physics, has been named to the 2025 class of Brown Investigators.
Samantha Sheppard, associate professor of performing and media arts, received a Faculty Champion Award for Advanced Career Faculty from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
Netra Shetty ’25 received the the 2025 University Relations Campus Community Leadership Award.
Meejeong Song, senior lecturer in Asian studies, received the Sophie Washburn French Instructorship.
Helen Stec, doctoral candidate in neurobiology and biology, received an Exemplary Leadership and Service Award for Early Career Graduate Students from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
Leslie K. Trigoura, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, received an Exemplary Leadership and Service Award for Advanced Career Graduate Students from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
Claudia Verhoeven, associate professor of history, received the 2025 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising.
Nia Whitmal, doctoral candidate in anthropology, received the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship.
Lex Trinity Williams, doctoral candidate in science and technology studies, received the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship.
The following were named Merrill Scholars: Sara Abbasi ’24, Hannah Drexler ’24, Theodore Goldman ’24, Alicia González ’24, Sterre Hoogendoorn ’24, Andie Kim ’24, Eva Phair ’24, Yichen Qiu ’24 and Hui Yuan ’24.
April 2025
Eight faculty members in the College of Arts & Sciences were recently honored with endowed professorships approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees:
Oumar Ba, Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence
Laurent Dubreuil, A&S Distinguished Professor
Brett Fors, Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor
Rachana Kamtekar, Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar Professor
Eun-Ah Kim, Hans A. Bethe Professor
Jun “Kelly” Liu, Robert J. Appel Professor
Gordon Stacey, David C. Duncan Professor
Jorg Stoye, Ta-Chung Liu Professor
Karen Jaime, associate professor of performing and media arts, has received a Voices of Our Nations Arts fellowship.
Chen Jian, Hu Shih Professor of History, Emeritus, received an Award of Excellence from the American Historical Association’s Chinese Historians in the United States for "Zhou Enlai: A Life."
Sara Merker, doctoral candidate in classics, received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship.
Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, received the 2024 Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History from the American Historical Association for his book, "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War."
Salma Rebhi, doctoral candidate in Romance studies, was inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Beth Ryan, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, was chosen as a Young Scientist invited to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry.
Rafaela Uzan '25 was selected to join the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Matthew Velasco, assistant professor of anthropology, received the Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology.
Anna Whittemore, doctoral candidate in anthropology, has received the SAA Student Paper Award from the Society for American Archaeology for her paper, "Defining a 'Good Candidate' for Skull Surgery: A Comparison of Cranial Fractures with and without the Trepanation Treatment in the Ancient Andes (ca. 800–1200 CE)."
March 2025
Leslie Babonis, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award.
Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris 8.
Ziad Fahmy, professor of Near Eastern studies, has received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award.
Dan Rosenberg, senior visiting lecturer of literatures in English, has been named the 12th Poet Laureate of Tompkins County.
Jed Sparks, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, was elected a AAAS Fellow.
Barry Strauss ‘74, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus has won a 2025 Bradley Prize.
February 2025
Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager in the Department of Science & Technoogy Studies, has received the Employee Assembly’s 2024 George Peter Award for Dedicated Service.
Amiel Bize, assistant professor of anthropology, has received an Einhorn Center Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award.
Shami Chatterjee, research professor of astronomy, is part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Wave team that has received the Bruno Rossi Prize.
Peiwei Chen, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, has received the Larry Sandler Award.
James Cordes, George Feldstein Professor of Astronomy, is part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Wave team that has received the Bruno Rossi Prize.
Daniel Hirschman, associate professor of sociology, has been awarded a Cornell Center for Social Sciences fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
Anna Ho, assistant professor of astronomy, and team have won an inaugural Scialog: Early Science with the LSST award.
Nori Jacoby, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded a Cornell Center for Social Sciences fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, has received the Woitschach Prize for Ideology-Free Science.
Gabe Levin ’26 was recently named an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar for his reporting on the Israel-Gaza war with the newspaper Haaretz.
Rachel Sandwell, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a Cornell Center for Social Sciences fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
Casey Schmitt, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a Cornell Center for Social Sciences fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
Noah Tamarkin, associate professor of anthropology and science & technology studies, has been awarded a Cornell Center for Social Sciences fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year.
Michelle Wang, James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences in the Department of Physics, has been renewed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
January 2025
Héctor D. Abruña, Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, has received the Enrico Fermi Award from the U.S. government.
Peiwei Chen, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, has been named a Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, has been awarded a 2024 Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition Award.
Valentina Fulginiti, senior lecturer of Romance Studies, has won the 2024 Premio Bianciardi Inediti literary book prize for her novel, “Il dolore degli altri” (“The Pain of Others”).
Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award from the American Society of Overseas Research.
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