Awards and Honors
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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