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Awards and Honors

Gunhild Lischke wins Sophie Washburn French Instructorship

6/14/2018 A&S Communications

Gunhild Lischke, Senior Lecturer, Language Program Director, and Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of German Studies, has been named the winner of the 2018-19 Sophie Washburn French Instructorship. The award, named in honor of Sophie Washburn French, is given annually to recognize excellence in language instruction among lecturer faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences. The awardee holds the instructorship for one academic year.

Near Eastern Studies

Salma Shitia honored with Kennedy award

6/14/2018 Cornell Public Service Center

Salma Shitia ’18, a Near Eastern Studies major in the College of Arts& Sciences, was recognized at the Public Service Center’s End of Year Celebration as the recipient of this year’s John F. Kennedy Memorial Award. The Class of 1964 established the John F. Kennedy Memorial Award to encourage well-qualified Cornell students to enter careers in government or public service.

Alumni adventures

‘True Cornellian’ ends 10,000-mile cycle tour at Reunion 2018

6/14/2018 Cornell Chronicle

For Reunion 2018, Cornell alumni came back to campus in various ways. Some arrived by bus from New York City, and some came by plane from overseas. Some caught shared rides from other states, and some attended virtually, thanks to live stream. One young alumnus came back by bicycle – and he came a very long way.

Reunion 2018

Reunion 2018 innovates on the tradition of coming back

6/13/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Reunion drew more than 7,500 alumni, family members and friends back to the Ithaca campus June 7-10. And with more than 5,400 alumni in attendance, 2018 was the most highly attended Reunion in Cornell’s history.“Cornellians are coming home in record-breaking numbers,” Paul Cashman ’73, president of the Cornell Association of Class Officers, said at Cornelliana Night, the raucous, song-filled culmination of the weekend.

Alumni

Justice Debra James calls on alumni to be ‘ever more engaged’

6/12/2018 Cornell Chronicle

In an era that swirls with government distrust, national political cynicism and questions of character among authorities, public service can rescue us, said New York State Supreme Court Justice Debra James ’75, J.D. ’78, at the June 8 Olin Lecture in Bailey Hall during Reunion Weekend.

Chemistry

Harold Scheraga receives honorary degree from City College of New York

6/12/2018 A&S Communications

For the last seven decades, Harold Scheraga has been doing research at Cornell, with over 1,300 scientific papers to his name – five so far in 2018. So when his alma mater decided to present him with an honorary degree and he couldn’t get to New York City, the president of City College of New York (CCNY) and numerous CCNY faculty came to Ithaca instead.

Student internships

Student uses summer experience grant for music industry internship

6/12/2018 A&S Communications

Helping his supervisors brainstorm ideas on how to brand and promote artists such as Drake, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj is among the list of things Tristan Magloire ‘20 is up to this summer.A government major, Magloire received a Summer Experience Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences, which has helped him to take on the position of social media and digital marketing intern at The William Morris Digital Agency (WMA) and Republic Records in New York City.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein program names faculty director at Cornell Tech

6/12/2018 A&S Communications

Tapan Parikh’s research focuses on human computer interaction and the design and evaluation of information technologies for education, civic participation and international development.

Faculty-student mentoring

Carpenter Advising Awards presented to four faculty members

6/9/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising. The awards were established by Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, in honor of his adviser, Kendall S. Carpenter, a professor of business management at Cornell from 1954 until his death at the age of 50 in 1967.

Astronomy

Mars is suddenly more interesting

6/9/2018 CNN

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of Cornell’s Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, discusses recent discoveries on Mars in this CNN Online story.

Faculty trustees

Eight new trustees elected to Cornell board

6/9/2018 Cornell Chronicle

At its May 26 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected three new trustees to four-year terms: Ooi Lee (William) Lim ’80, MAR ’82; Aryan Shayegani ’88, M.D. ’92; and Bradley H. Stone ’77.

Outreach

Prison education program graduates 16 at Five Points

6/7/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The first graduating class of Five Points Correctional Facility inmates in the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) received their degrees to congratulations and cheers at a recent ceremony.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Catalysis—Focusing in to see the action

6/7/2018 Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on the work of Rong Ye, one of the first Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows, who is working in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Economics

How can societies become law-abiding? Kaushik Basu has some suggestions

6/7/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The book offers an analytical structure with which to analyze laws and understand why they get poorly implemented.

Alumni support

Grant supports student’s research in Germany

6/6/2018 A&S Communications

With the help of a Summer Experience Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences, Rachel Diao ‘19 will be able to take advantage of a research opportunity in Cologne, Germany this summer. Diao, a biological sciences major, is working with Dr. Adam Antebi, managing director of a lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.

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