Awards and Honors

Scott Coldren, assistant director of student services, M.Eng. Programs (Cornell Engineering), received the Richard Allmendinger​ Staff Inclusive Excellence Award at the Diversity Programs in Engineering Annual Awards Banquet for his impactful tenure as the ECE graduate field administrator.

Anna Scaglione, professor (ECE), was named the Stephen M. Ross/Related Companies Professor at Cornell Tech.

Eve Donnelly, associate professor (MSE), was recognized by the journal Veterinary Surgery for co-authoring one of its top 10 most-cited papers published since 2022.

Shaoyi Jiang, professor (BME), and his student had their research paper on zwitterionic materials featured on the cover of the May 15 issue of Bioconjugate Chemistry. Cover design by Rob Kurcoba, graphic designer for Cornell Engineering.

Liane Fitzgerald, director of engineering advising, is one of this year’s two Professional Staff Undergraduate Academic Advising Award winners.  Liane was selected from a group of 20 nominees that included a stellar group from Engineering:  Ashley Blank (MAE), Liane Fitzgerald, Nadine Porter (DPE), Sharon Kaplan (BME), and Nick Wagner (CEE).

Teresa Jordan, the J. Preston Levis Professor of Engineering Emerita (EAS), has been selected to receive the Leopold von Buch Plaque by the German Geological Association, given to one person each year to honor "outstanding overall achievements in the geosciences." The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the German Geological Society’s GeoSaxonia 2024, to be held in September in Dresden, Germany.

Emmanuel Giannelis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering (MSE), received the annual Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy Award for his support of the program while serving as Cornell's vice provost for research and innovation.

Zhiru Zhang, associate professor (ECE), Nikhil Garg, assistant professor (ORIE, Cornell Tech), and Rachee Singh, assistant professor (CS), have received Amazon Research Awards. Zhang’s research topic is “A Unified Approach to Tensor Graph Optimization.” Garg received his award for “Recommendation systems in high-stakes settings,” while Singh’s award was for “Accelerating collective communication for distributed ML.”

Shivaun Archer, senior lecturer (BME), has received the 2024 Outstanding Teacher Award from the St. Lawrence Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. The award recognizes Archer’s contributions in developing 28 innovative labs across the biomedical engineering curriculum and her deep caring for students.

Christina Lee Yu, assistant professor (ORIE), has received the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award for fundamental contributions at the interface of learning, control and information theory impacting a diverse set of applications.