Awards for 2026
February 2026
, associate professor of physics, has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science .
, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science .
Katrina Greene 鈥27 was named a John Robert Lewis Scholar, an award given by the Faith and Politics Institute.
, Richards Family Assistant Professor of astronomy, has been named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a .
Xiaomeng Liu, assistant professor of physics, has won a 2026 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
, senior lecturer of mathematics, has received a .
Ahan Mishra 鈥27 received the 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award from the Computing Research Association.
, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, has received a .
and have won the 2026 Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their article, 鈥淒urably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues With AI.鈥
Qiqi (Kiara) Shan 鈥26, Ruihao (Ray) Lin, J.D. 鈥24, and Isaac McCurdy 鈥21 have been named for the 2026-27 academic year.
, assistant professor of mathematics, has won a 2026 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, has the Pilot Award from the National Disease Research Interchange鈥檚 (NDRI) Human Tissues and Organs for Research Resource (HTORR) program.
, professor of physics, received an honorable mention in the Creative Teaching Award: Taking Learning Outside the Classroom competition for his class, Physics of Sailing, from the Office of the Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation.
, professor of linguistics, has received a .
, the Herbert Gussman Professor of Music, has been named a .
January 2026
, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology , is a member of a team that鈥檚 won funding from the inaugural Scialog Award focused on Quantum Matter and Information.
'86, the Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, SC Johnson College of Business, and professor of philosophy, has received the 2025 Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Philosophical Association for his book 鈥淐haracter Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality.鈥
, assistant professor of astronomy, has been awarded the 2026 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize by the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
, the Tisch University Professor in chemistry and chemical biology, has received the 2025 Snapdragon Prize for Innovation in Chemistry Technology.
, professor of performing and media arts, has been named a United States Artists Fellow for 2026.
Awards for 2025
December 2025
, professor of classics, and Jennifer Carrington, Ph.D. 鈥19, have been awarded the 2026 James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America for their co-edited book, 鈥淗ouseholds in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.鈥
, assistant professor of Asian studies in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, has received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies from the Modern Language Association of America for his book 鈥淓xpanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media.鈥
, associate professor of mathematics, has been elected as a 2026 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Kylie Williamson 鈥26 has been named by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) system.
November 2025
, the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. is the winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry from the Franklin Institute. He was also named a by the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.
, professor of Romance studies, has been awarded the Anne Lake Prescott Prize for exceptional mentorship from the Sixteenth Century Society.
, John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics Emeritus, has received the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize.
Vivian Zhang, a doctoral candidate in psychology,, was the 2025 recipient of the John S. Knight Institute鈥檚 Teaching Portfolio Award.
October 2025
, M.F.A. 鈥10, assistant professor of literatures in English, is the winner of the Best of Caine Award for her short story "Hitting Budapest," which won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011.
, the Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 (A&S) is the winner of the 2026 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN).
, professor in the Department of Physics, has been elected as (APS).
, senior lecturer of science and technology studies, has been named a by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, has been named a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering.
, associate professor of psychology, has been named the Dorothy and Ariz Mehta Faculty Leadership Fellow for 2025-2030.
Cornell physicist has been named a 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Inbal Ravreby, Klarman postdoctoral fellow, received an Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership from Cornell.
, professor of physics, has been named the 2025 recipient of the from the American Physical Society (APS).
Zhilei Zhao, postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology and behavior, has received a 2025 from the Simons Foundation.
September 2025
, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a Schmidt Polymath by Schmidt 麻豆视频.
Judith Byfield, Stephen 鈥59 and Madeline 鈥60 Anbinder Professor in the Department of History, has been selected as a for the 2025鈥26 academic year.
, the Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor, has won the World Laureate Association Prize in Life Science or Medicine.
Wicia Fang, a doctoral candidate in psychology, was awarded a 2025 .
, Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow/Tisch University Professor of chemistry and chemical biology, is a finalist for the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
Six 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频 students received : Gabriel Godines '23, Tenzin Kunsang '25, Tiffany Liu '22, Caitlyn Sams '25 and Miguel Soto Tapia '20.
Co-curators , Distinguished Professor of Arts and 麻豆视频 in Anthropology and Arnav Tandon, Masters student in archaeology, received an Historic Ithaca Preservation Award for their "Sacred Ground: Excavating Black History at Ithaca鈥檚 Freedom Church."
August 2025
, a doctoral candidate in philosophy, has been selected for the Robert M. Adams 鈥 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in Philosophy.
, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life 麻豆视频 in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, has been named a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
, associate professor of astronomy, has received the Carl Sagan Medal by the Division for Planetary 麻豆视频 (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society.
July 2025
, a doctoral candidate in philosophy, has been selected as a recipient of the Robert M. Adams 鈥 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship in Philosophy.
, doctoral candidate in history, was named an AAUW International Fellow.
, Ph.D. student in government, was appointed a fellow of the American Political Science Association .
June 2025
Thirteen faculty members in the 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频 were recently honored with endowed professorships approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees:
, Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence
A&S Distinguished Professor
, Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor
, Dr. David Merksamer and Dorothy Joslovitz Merksamer Professor in Biological 麻豆视频
Andrew Grimson, Charles A. Alexander Professor in Biological 麻豆视频
r, Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar Professor
, Hans A. Bethe Professor
, Robert J. Appel Professor
, Dick and Dale Reis Johnson Dean鈥檚 Professor
, Frederic J. Whiton Professor in Liberal Studies
, Distinguished Professor of Arts & 麻豆视频
, David C. Duncan Professor
, Ta-Chung Liu Professor
, associate professor of Romance studies, received the 2025 Zinklar Award.
received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Isis Duarte Book Prize from the Haiti/Dominican Republic section of the Latin American Studies Association for 鈥淐hanneling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds.鈥
Chen Jian, Hu Shih Professor of History, Emeritus, received an from the American Historical Association鈥檚 Chinese Historians in the United States for his book 鈥淶hou Enlai: A Life.鈥
received the inaugural Award for the Advancement of Science Communication as a Professional Field from the International Network on Public Communication of Science & Technology.
received the 2024 from the American Historical Association (AHA) for his book, 鈥淭he Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.鈥
, Distinguished Professor of Arts and 麻豆视频 in Mathematics, received TED University鈥檚 Distinguished Honorary Award.
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Emerita, received the Centennial Medal from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and 麻豆视频.
, professor of government, was chosen for the program by the Centre for International Studies.
Beth Ryan, a graduate student in chemistry and chemical biology, was selected as a to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to chemistry.
, emeritus professor of neurobiology and behavior, was honored with the establishment of the in Conservation Bioacoustics at the Lab of Ornithology.
May 2025
, the 脡mile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 was awarded the 2025 by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
, assistant professor of government, received the 2025 Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists.
, received the 2025 Morgan Chia-Wen Sze and Bobbi Josephine Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize.
, associate professor of literatures in English, received the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.
, 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.
, doctoral candidate in Romance studies, received the Deanne Gebell Gitner 鈥66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants.
, doctoral candidate in literatures in English, received the Deanne Gebell Gitner 鈥66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants.
, lecturer in mathematics, received the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award.
Aleesha Mariya George, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, received an from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
, senior lecturer in Near Eastern studies, received the Sophie Washburn French Instructorship.
, associate professor of government, received a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
Nikta Khalilkhani, Ph.D. candidate in psychology, was named an by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
, associate professor of literature, received a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
, 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.
, doctoral candidate in physics, received the Deanne Gebell Gitner 鈥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.
, associate professor of physics, has been named to the 2025 class of .
, 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 鈥25 received the the 2025 .
, senior lecturer in Asian studies, received the Sophie Washburn French Instructorship.
, doctoral candidate in neurobiology and biology, received an from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
Leslie K. Trigoura, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, received an from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement.
, associate professor of history, received the 2025 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising.
, 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 : Sara Abbasi 鈥24, Hannah Drexler 鈥24, Theodore Goldman 鈥24, Alicia Gonz谩lez 鈥24, Sterre Hoogendoorn 鈥24, Andie Kim 鈥24, Eva Phair 鈥24, Yichen Qiu 鈥24 and Hui Yuan 鈥24.
April 2025
, associate professor of performing and media arts, has received a fellowship.
Chen Jian, Hu Shih Professor of History, Emeritus, received an Award of Excellence from the American Historical Association鈥檚 Chinese Historians in the United States for "Zhou Enlai: A Life."
Sara Merker, doctoral candidate in classics, received a Social 麻豆视频 and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship.
r, 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 .
Beth Ryan, doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology, was chosen as a 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.
, assistant professor of anthropology, received the Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology.
, 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鈥1200 CE)."
March 2025
, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received a National Science Foundation
, the Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris 8.
, 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.
, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, was elected a
鈥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鈥檚 2024 .
, assistant professor of anthropology, has received an Einhorn Center .
, research professor of astronomy, is part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Wave team that has received the .
Peiwei Chen, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, has received the .
, George Feldstein Professor of Astronomy, is part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Wave team that has received the .
, associate professor of sociology, has been awarded a for the 2025-26 academic year.
, assistant professor of astronomy, and team have won an inaugural Scialog: Early Science with the LSST award.
, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded a for the 2025-26 academic year.
, associate professor of astronomy, has received the .
Gabe Levin 鈥26 was recently named an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar for his reporting on the Israel-Gaza war with the newspaper Haaretz.
, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a for the 2025-26 academic year.
assistant professor of history, has been awarded a for the 2025-26 academic year.
, associate professor of anthropology and science & technology studies, has been awarded a for the 2025-26 academic year.
, James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical 麻豆视频 in the Department of Physics, has been renewed as a .
January 2025
, 脡mile 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).
, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life 麻豆视频 and assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, has been awarded a 2024 Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition Award.
, senior lecturer of Romance Studies, has won the 2024 Premio Bianciardi Inediti literary book prize for her novel, 鈥淚l dolore degli altri鈥 (鈥淭he Pain of Others鈥).
, Distinguished Professor of Arts and 麻豆视频 in Classics, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award from the American Society of Overseas Research.