Awards and Honors

Richard Evans, the Robert N. Noyes Director of the Engineering Communications Program, has been appointed senior lecturer emeritus effective upon his retirement on June 30, 2023.

Megan Holycross, assistant professor (EAS), has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her research into the origins of the Earth’s continental crust.

Christina Lee Yu, assistant professor (ORIE), received a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for her project "Efficiently Exploiting Structure for Causal Inference in the Presence of Network Interference."

Patrick Reed, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering (CEE), co-authored a paper, which was selected as the top contribution and finalist from Italy published in 2022 in the Frontiers Planet Prize competition, sponsored by the Frontiers Research Foundation.

Uli Wiesner, Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering (MSE), was an Israel Pollack Distinguished Lecturer at The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he gave a series of four lectures in early April.

Julia Dshemuchadse, assistant professor (MSE), received the Faculty Champion Award-Junior Faculty at Cornell's 2023 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration on May 16.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering (CBE, Systems), had a paper selected for the front cover of the May 1 issue of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, and a second paper selected for the front cover of the April 2023 issue of Environmental Science & Technology.

Uli Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering (MSE), has been named the recipient of the Charles G. Overberger International Prize for Excellence in Polymer Research. A half-day symposium will be held in his honor at the fall 2023 American Chemical Society National Meeting.

C. Thomas Avedisian, professor (MAE), was elected a member of the 2023 cohort of Fellows of the Combustion Institute “for pioneering experiments on droplet combustion that have informed detailed numerical modeling of combustion of liquid transportation fuels.”

Michael Clarkson, senior lecturer (CS), received the 2023 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award given each year by the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association to recognize exemplary teaching and commitment to students.