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The 2025 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients, left to right: Heather Kim, Jennifer Grauer, Adam Beard, Shawna Cook, Inbal Ravreby, Bryan MacNeill, Lucinda Li, Bailey Flynn, and Bec (Rebecca) Schmitt.
Selected from a highly competitive pool of nominees, nine postdoctoral scholars were honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards during Cornell’s celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week Sept. 15-19.
Cornell employs more than 700 postdoctoral scholars across nearly 90 departments where they contribute to the university’s research, teaching, and extension missions.
The Postdoc Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have made contributions to the Cornell community and show a commitment to promoting inclusion at Cornell and in society. Winners were nominated and endorsed by faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students in one or more categories.
The 2025 award recipients are:
Achievement Award for Excellence in Community Engagement: Bailey Flynn (Brooks School), Jennifer Grauer, Ph.D. ‘24 (natural resources and the environment), and Heather Kim, Ph.D. ‘23 (mechanical and aerospace engineering)
Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership: Lucinda Li (School of Integrative Plant Science), Inbal Ravreby (psychology, Klarman Fellow), and Bec (Rebecca) Schmitt (molecular medicine)
Achievement Award for Excellence in Mentoring: Adam Beard (population medicine and diagnostic sciences), Shawna Cook (Baker Institute for Animal Health), and Bryan MacNeill (ecology and evolutionary biology)
Award recipients were recognized during a Postdoc Appreciation and Awards Reception, held on Sept. 18.
“Postdocs are an integral part of the campus community,” said Christine Holmes, director of postdoctoral studies. “They play an important role in every aspect of Cornell’s mission, and these awards are one way we like to recognize and celebrate them each year.”
Simon Wheeler, Cornell University
Cornell Provost Kavita Bala speaking with Kalaniyot Sabbatical Scholar Naomi Havron at the Kalaniyot reception Oct. 19. In the background, Kalaniyot Fellow Eden Eran Nagar speaks with Fellow Shachar Yerushalmi.
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Seidenberger built Hopper from scratch so students can see the logic on which it is built and play a role in developing it and improving it over the course of his class.
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The 2025 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients, left to right: Heather Kim, Jennifer Grauer, Adam Beard, Shawna Cook, Inbal Ravreby, Bryan MacNeill, Lucinda Li, Bailey Flynn, and Bec (Rebecca) Schmitt.
