Sameer Ahmed

Sameer Ahmed is a biology major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Sameer is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, the Ho-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society, and the Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Medical Honor Society. He is a New Jersey Governor’s School Scholar, a National Merit Commended Scholar, and an Edward J. Bloustein Scholar. Sameer has received several research fellowships and has conducted research at the McCobb Research Lab at Cornell and the W.M. Kec Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University. He is president and founder of the Cornell Undergraduate Society for Neuroscience, a Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Peer Advisor, and a member of the Cornell Engineering Medical Initiative. He is a New York State licensed emergency medical technician and volunteers with Cornell University Emergency Medical Services. As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Clinical Internship Program, he observed a urologist and conducted clinical research; with the Cornell Pre-Medical Community Mentorship Program, he observed neurosurgery and cardiology physicians at Cayuga Medical Center. Following graduation and neurophysiology lab work, Sameer will enter medical school.

Sameer has chosen to honor:
David P. McCobb
Associate Professor
Neurobiology and Behavior
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Johanna C. Stohler
English
Edison High School
Edison, New Jersey

Christopher J. Bordoni

Christopher J. Bordoni is a scholar in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is a Bristol Scholar and a Merchant Scholar, and has won Dean’s List. Christopher spent last summer serving as a human resources analyst with the Deutsche Bank, and in the summer of 2005 he had a human resources internship with APCO Worldwide in Washington, D.C. He is a member of Chi Psi Fraternity and has served as InterFraternity Council representative. Christopher will be working as a business analyst–Strategy and Operation with Deloitte Consulting following graduation.

Christopher has chosen to honor:
George R. Boyer
Professor
Industrial and Labor Relations
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Donna Oppedisano
Government
Jamesville DeWitt High School
DeWitt, New York

Joseph M. Clark

Joseph M. Clark is a policy analysis and management major in the College of Human Ecology. He is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, was nominated for the Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society, and won Dean’s List every semester. The New York State Assembly has nominated Joseph’s research paper “Origins of the New York State Tax” for publication. He is a writer for the Cornell American, volunteered for Judge Joe Spinola, and interned in the New York State Assembly in Albany. Following graduation, Joseph will attend law school.

Joseph has chosen to honor:
Bill Rosen
Senior Lecturer
Policy Analysis & Management
College of Human Ecology
John Boglioli
History
Holy Trinity High School
Hicksville, New York

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Marcus Jonathan Cohn

Marcus Jonathan Cohn is an anthropology/archaeology major in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has won Dean’s List and is in the Golden Key International Honour Society. Marcus is a research assistant in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and has received a Tingley Scholarship for Independent Research. He is the co-founder of the Cornell Bridges to Community and is a member of the Society for Natural Resources Conservation and Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm, as well as a member of the Senior Honor Society of Quill and Dagger. Marcus has worked as an assistant trench supervisor for the Roman Gask Project (archaeological excavation) in Sterlingshire, Scotland, and as a trip leader on 13 service-learning trips through Bridges to Community in Nicaragua. Following graduation he plans to do sustainability consulting in New York City or work for an NGO in Washington, eventually attending a graduate or business program.

Marcus has chosen to honor:
Robert F. Young
Professor
City and Regional Planning
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Michael Terlizzi
Environmental Science
The Fox Lane High School
Bedford, New York

Kelly N. Conway

Kelly N. Conway is a computer science major in the College of Engineering. Kelly has won Dean’s List, received the Cornell Society of Women Engineers class scholarship and the Doney Award for Excellence, and was an honorable mention for the 2007 Computing Research Association Outstanding Female Undergraduate Award. She has performed independent research with the computer science department on human performance on machine learning tasks and in the psychology department on eye tracking and the integration of visual and linguistic input. Kelly is the webmaster for Mu Sigma Tau (the co-op society), the Girl Scout SciFair coordinator/mentor for the Cornell Theory Center, and the co-director of outreach for the Society of Women Engineers. Her work experiences include software development at Lutron Electronics in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, and course consulting in the Cornell computer science department. She was also a civil engineering intern with the Town of Ithaca. Following graduation, Kelly will be working for Google in Pittsburgh as a software engineer.

Kelly has chosen to honor:
Thorsten Joachims
Associate Professor
Computer Science
College of Engineering
Francis J. McGouldrick
Mathematics
Allentown Central Catholic High School
Allentown, Pennsylvania

Kelsey Ann DeBriyn

Kelsey Ann DeBriyn is an applied economics and management/communication major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Kelsey has won the Dean’s List, is a member of the 400 Club, a Doherty Award winner for Cornell Crew, and is a 2004 Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges silver medalist. She is the vice president of the Ho-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society, an associate analyst for the Mutual Investment Club of Cornell, and a coxswain for Cornell women’s rowing. Her internships include an analyst position with Goldman Sachs, a corporate relations position with CoBank, and an account service position with Colle+McVoy. Following graduation, Kelsey will work for Goldman Sachs in New York City in the Investment Banking Division, Consumer Retail Group.

Kelsey has chosen to honor:
Kathy Berggren
Senior Lecturer
Communications
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Elizabeth Jaeger
English
Hill-Murray School
Maplewood, Minnesota

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Graham John Dow

Graham John Dow is an ecology and evolutionary biology/biological sciences major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Graham has won the Dean’s List, was a Canadian Rhodes Scholarship finalist, and was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Cornell Undergraduates. He is also member of the 400 Club. He received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Award for research in the Forestry Genome Laboratory and Plant Genetics Laboratory at the University of British Columbia. A four-year letter winner for Cornell men’s varsity basketball, Graham is the captain and starting point guard. He is also a Cornell basketball camp counselor. Following graduation, Graham will travel before pursuing a PhD in the field of plant ecology and genetics.

Graham has chosen to honor:
Peter J. Davies
Professor
Plant Biology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Tony Bright
English
Nelson High School
Burlington, Ontario, Canada

John J. Erickson

John J. Erickson is a double major in civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering.  He won Dean’s List and has conducted outdoor field research as well as completed an independent project surveying vegetation in oak savanna at the Cedar Creek Natural History Center in Bethel, Minnesota. John is the vice president for finance for the Cornell Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World and the co-captain of the Cornell Nordic Ski Team. He has completed internships with the City of Plymouth Engineering Department in Plymouth, Minnesota, and in Nicaragua with Engineers for a Sustainable World promoting renewable energy and researching the solar coffee-roasting process. Following graduation John will travel to Honduras to spend a year working on the designing and upgrading of a water treatment plant, as well as work on the Aqua Clara project.

John has chosen to honor:
Monroe Weber-Shirk
Senior Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Joan Brinkman
Gifted and Talented
St. Louis Park High School
St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Ji Gu

Ji Gu is an operations research and engineering major in the College of Engineering. She has completed her degree requirements in just three years and is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, the Golden Key International Honour Society, the Omega Rho Honor Society, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Ji is the recipient of the Cornell International Student and Scholar Office Book Award. She has served as the president of the CU International Student Program Board and the treasurer of both the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the Cornell Singapore Student Association. She is also a member of the Cornell Student Library Advisory Board. Internships include working for the Lian He Evening Post and the Shin Ming Daily paper, and at Bank of America Securities. Following graduation Ji will work for UBS in New York City.

Ji has chosen to honor:
David Ruppert
Professor
Operations Research and Engineering
College of Engineering
Yi Wu
Chinese
Suzhou Middle School of Jiangsu Province
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

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Lydia Z. Hao

Lydia Z. Hao is a hotel administration major in the School of Hotel Administration. Lydia is currently working on her senior honors thesis in finance, entitled “Behavioral Finance in Emerging Equity Markets,” and has won the Dean’s List. She is the director of finance and portfolio manager for the Mutual Investment Club of Cornell and a teaching assistant for Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Finance, Financial Accounting, and Marketing Management. Lydia has interned with UBS Investment Bank as a mergers and acquisitions analyst, with FA Technology Ventures as an analyst, and with Starwood Hotels and Asia Pacific Hotels and Resorts Pte. Ltd. in development and acquisitions. She is also a principal consultant and founding member of CHC Hospitality Consultants. Lydia will work for UBS Investment Bank as an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group.

Lydia has chosen to honor:
Charles Chang
Assistant Professor
Hotel Administration
School of Hotel Administration
Jacob Wall Martens
Physics
Gladstone Secondary School
Vancouver, Canada

Karyn Ann Hartz

Karyn Ann Hartz is a human development major in the College of Human Ecology.  She is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society; Psi Chi, the psychology honor society; and Kappa Omicron Nu. She also received the Robinson Award for Excellence. Karyn’s work as a research assistant includes collecting data and data analysis in a study on children’s false memories. She is a member of Cornell Minds Matter and Big Brothers Big Sisters, and interned with the Children’s Village last summer. Karyn plans to work at a human services agency and ultimately pursue a graduate degree in child psychology.

Karyn has chosen to honor:
Judy Ross-Bernstein
Senior Lecturer
Human Development
College of Human Ecology
Adam Heck
Physical Education
Lansing High School
Lansing, New York

Kathleen C. Hawkes

Kathleen C. Hawkes is a fine arts major in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She has won the Dean’s list and the Cooper Union Dean’s List all semesters. Kathleen received both the Bean Prize in Fine Art and the Brady Prize in Printmaking in 2005, and was a Cornell Council for the Arts grant recipient in 2006. Her extracurricular activities include being the Cornell in Rome show curator, a class representative for Student Council, and an AAP student representative for the Academic Integrity Board. Kathleen has worked as the darkroom manager, a laser cutter technician, and a print shop monitor for the Cornell University Department of Art, and has held internships at The Ink Shop & Olive Branch Press in Ithaca and in the Cornell in Rome program. After graduation, Kathleen plans to obtain a master’s degree in fine arts.

Kathleen has chosen to honor:
Elisabeth Meyer
Associate Professor
Art Department
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
David Lehman
Principal
Lehman Alternative Community School
Ithaca, New York

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Julia Rose Hoffman

Julia Rose Hoffman is an industrial and labor relations major in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Julia has won the Dean’s List and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. She is a Cornell Club Tennis player, the head of operations for Cornell Big Brothers Big Sisters, and an Ithaca Youth Bureau volunteer. She has been a teaching assistant at Trinity College, a mentor for the Rising Stars Mentoring Program in Hartford, Connecticut, and the head of tennis at Camp Onaway in Hebron, New Hampshire. She worked with Weingarten, Reid, & McNally, LLC, in Albany, N.Y., as a legislative intern. Upon graduation, Julia will relocate to Boston, with eventual plans to attend law school.

Julia has chosen to honor:
Clete E. Daniel
Professor
Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, Labor History
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Anne Peterson Conolly
English
Albany Academy for Girls
Albany, New York

Yoon-Hee Hong

Yoon-Hee Hong is a human biology, health, and society major in the College of Human Ecology. She won Dean’s List all semesters and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Kappa Omicron Nu National Honor Society. During the summer of 2005 Yoon-Hee completed an internship with Justice for Children International in New Haven, Connecticut. Her work as a research assistant for Cornell Cooperative Extension last summer centered on several aspects of a childhood obesity prevention pilot program. Yoon-Hee will attend medical school upon graduation.

Yoon-Hee has chosen to honor:
Richard Canfield
Senior Research Associate
Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
Louise Hull
English
Tabernacle Christian Academy
Poughkeepsie, New York

Kevin Y. Hwang

Kevin Y. Hwang is a biological sciences and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has received many awards and honors, including selection in 2006 as one the top 20 undergraduates in the United States featured in USA Today. He is a recipient of the National Pi Delta Psi Academic Achievement Award, the Robert S. Hatfield Award for Ethics in Business, and the Cornell University Distinguished Leadership Award. Kevin is a Meinig Cornell National Scholar as well as a member of the Quill and Dagger honor society.
Kevin founded The Triple Helix, Inc., the world’s largest completely student-run non-profit corporation, and grew it to involve 28 chapter universities and 900 volunteer student staff worldwide. After graduation Kevin will be working as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, with plans to enter Harvard Business School for his MBA in 2009.

Kevin has chosen to honor:
John D. Hellman
Professor
Microbiology
College of Arts and Sciences
Richard Hartzell
English
The Harker School
San Jose, California

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Jacqueline C. Kelly

Jacqueline C. Kelly is a history major in the College of Arts and Sciences. She has won Dean’s List and has received a Marcham Scholarship and a Mary Noll Federal Scholarship, as well as an Undergraduate Grant for Independent Research in the history department. She is in the history honors program, is the student chair for the Cornell Women’s Alumni Networking Committee, and is a member of the Society for Women and Law and the Cornell Democrats. She has been an intern at the Health Planning Council of Ithaca, where she coordinated the Urgent Rx pilot program, which provides urgent care and prescription drugs to uninsured county residents. Jacqueline also completed internships at the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington, D.C., and in Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s D.C. office. Upon graduation, Jacqueline will be working as a legal assistant at Covington & Burling LLP in New York City, with plans to eventually attend law school.

Jacqueline has chosen to honor:
Mary Beth Norton
Professor
History
College of Arts and Sciences
Ellen Anderson
Social Studies/American History
Our Lady of Lourdes High School
Poughkeepsie, New York

Lenni Kimawati

Lenni Kimawati is a food science major and applied economics and management minor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Lenni has won the Dean’s List and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She has received the Institute of Food Technologists Undergraduate Scholarship, the Cornell Institute of Food Science Advisory Council Scholarship, and the National Starch and Chemical Award. She was the president and treasurer of the Cornell Indonesian Association and a member of the Food Science Product Development Team, the Cornell Undergraduate Consulting Club, and the Society of Women in Business. Her internships include an administration/finance position with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell and a research position with the New York State Agricultural Experimentation Station. Following graduation, Lenni would like to work in management/strategy consulting and eventually pursue an MBA degree.

Lenni has chosen to honor:
Janice Brown
Senior Lecturer
Food Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Lee Kiaw Lucy Ng
Mathematics
Crescent Girls’ School
Singapore

Zachary Sadoff Launer

Zachary Sadoff Launer is an economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences. He won Dean’s List and is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the Golden Key International Honour Society, Omicron Delta Epsilon (international economics honor society), and Phi Beta Kappa. His work on the simulation of the Great Plains low level jet in the AR4 coupled models was presented at the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Conference in San Francisco. Other research accomplishments include receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his work in climate modeling. Zachary is an editor and research assistant for Professor Kerry Cook in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and is an intern at Barnett Associates in Minneapolis, specializing in environmental law. Following graduation Zachary will be attending law school, with plans to practice environmental law.

Zachary has chosen to honor:
Kerry Cook
Professor
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Andrea Jule Sachs
History
St. Paul Academy and Summit School
St. Paul, Minnesota

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Jennifer M. Martinez

Jennifer M. Martinez is a biological sciences major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Jennifer has won the Dean’s List, is a member of the Ho-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and was a recipient of a Mayo Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Scholarship. She is the recipient of the President’s Council for Cornell Women Undergraduate Pipeline Grant and the Outstanding Excellence in Research Award for her work on Cryptosporidium parvum, and is currently writing an analysis on the subject for submission to Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Jennifer is a Cornell Club Tennis team member and an intramural bowling and volleyball player. She has worked as a research assistant and completed a summer fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. After graduation, Jennifer will attend medical school at the Mayo Clinic on a full merit scholarship.

Jennifer has chosen to honor:
William C. Ghiorse
Professor
Microbiology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Gary G. Podsiedlik
Mathematics
Homer Senior High School
Homer, New York

Eric A. Mihelc

Eric A. Mihelc is an applied economics and management major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Eric has won the Dean’s List and received the International Business Machines T.J. Watson Scholarship. He is a member of the Cornell University Financial Management Club and has been a teaching assistant for finance. Eric has worked as an athletic coordinator for Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a monitor and interviewer for Cornell Fitness Centers, and a freshman orientation leader. His internships have been with Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, and Time Warner. Upon graduation, Eric will be employed with Goldman Sachs in New York City as an equities trader.

Eric has chosen to honor:
Richard Curtis
Senior Lecturer
Finance
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Shane Hurd
History/Government
Union-Endicott High School
Endicott, New York

Emily Tilson Ranii

Emily Tilson Ranii is a theatre arts and English major in the College of Arts and Sciences.
She won Dean’s List, was selected as one of the top 25 most influential Cornellians in 2005–2006, and is the recipient of the Robert C. Boyd Scholarship 2003–2007 and the Charles B. Moss Scholarship 2005–2007. An actor, Emily has held roles in The Glass Menagerie and Romeo and Juliet at the Kitchen Theatre Company, Othello at The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Einstein’s Dreams at the Burning Coal Theatre Company, and The Notebook of Trigorin at the Raleigh Ensemble Players. In addition to acting at the Schwartz Center, Emily has held positions as a director, assistant director, lighting designer, and stage manager. After graduation, Emily will direct a play for the Burning Coal Theatre Company’s main stage season, and will eventually pursue a master of fine arts degree in directing.

Emily has chosen to honor:
Beth Milles
Assistant Professor
Theatre, Film, and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences
Lisa Covington
English
William G. Enloe High School
Raleigh, North Carolina

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Wen Rong Lim

Wen Rong Lim is a mechanical engineering major in the College of Engineering. He is the recipient of two Engineering Learning Initiatives Research Fellowships and has won Dean’s List all semesters. Wen Rong has a publication in preparation for Physics of Fluids entitled “Algorithms for Designed Vortex Generation for Energy Extraction From Fluid Flow,” and he received a bronze medal in the Asian Physics Olympiad. Internships were with Singapore Technologies Aerospace, where he analyzed and simulated fighter aircraft environmental cooling systems, and with the Singapore Armed Forces. Wen Rong is a member of the Singapore Armed Forces and obtained the rank of sergeant. Following graduation, Weng Rong will attend graduate school to pursue a doctoral degree.

Wen Rong has chosen to honor:
Charles Williamson
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
College of Engineering
Lih Sin Lee
Chemistry
Raffles Junior College
Singapore

Amy Janean Saltzman

Amy Janean Saltzman is a government major in the College of Arts and Sciences. She has won Dean’s List all semesters, is a Cornell Tradition Scholar, and received a Truman Scholarship Endorsement. She is the president of Telluride House, a member of the Cornell University Wind Band, an English as a Second Language tutor for the Friends of Farmworkers program, and a Tompkins County 4-H volunteer. Amy’s internships have been with the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the USDA Office of Community Development, and the Department of Defense Industrial Policy. Her work experiences on campus include research with the Community, Food, and Agriculture Program, and serving as the director of communication for GlamourGals Foundation and a program assistant for the Tompkins County Cooperative Extension. Amy plans to work in the public sector following graduation.

Amy has chosen to honor:
Gil Gillespie
Senior Research Associate
Development Sociology
College of Arts and Sciences
Steven Smyth
Instrumental Music
Lenox High School
Lenox, Iowa

Calvin Geoffrey Selth

Calvin Geoffrey Selth is a history and Spanish major in the College of Arts and Sciences. Calvin is a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellow, a Telluride Scholar, and a recipient of the J.G. White Prize for Excellence in Spanish. He is currently completing a Mellon paper on the negro ladino, a specific group of slaves in the early colonial period, as well as a broader senior honors thesis on 16th-century Spanish colonial slavery policy. As part of his honors thesis research, he studied at the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain. For the Student Assembly he has been the LGBT representative and the liaison to the provost. After graduation, Calvin will teach elementary school in Los Angeles with Teach for America.

Calvin has chosen to honor:
Karen Graubart
Assistant Professor
History
College of Arts and Sciences
Kristina Charles
French Language
Charter Oak High School
Covina, California

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Nathan William Skelley

Nathan William Skelley is a biology major in the College of Human Ecology. As a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar and a Human Ecology Scholar, he has also won Dean’s List for six semesters. Nathan holds memberships in Alpha Epsilon Delta and Kappa Omicron Nu, among others. His internships have focused on assisting hospital staff in facilitating patient care. He has a first degree black belt in Sho Tae Ryu karate and is also on the Cornell Club Tennis team. Nathan will attend medical school after graduation.

Nathan has chosen to honor:
Nancy Breen
Lecturer
Textiles and Apparel
College of Human Ecology
Susan Day
Guidance Counselor
Joplin High School
Joplin, Missouri

Peng-Wei Tan

Peng-Wei Tan is a hotel administration major in the School of Hotel Administration. He won the Dean’s List and is the president of Ye Hosts Honorary Society, is a member of the Quill and Dagger honor society, and was among the 25 Most Influential Cornellians in 2006. Peng-Wei is currently working on his senior honors thesis on behavioral investing in mutual funds, specifically focusing on performance flow relationships for young and small open-ended funds. He is the president of the Cornell Hospitality Consultants, treasurer and executive board member of Hoteliers Serving Society, and a teaching assistant for Financial Accounting, Finance, Finance Management, and Information Systems. Peng-Wei is the managing director and founder of CHC Hospitality Consultants and worked as an investment banking summer analyst for Lehman Brothers Consumer/Retail Group. Following graduation Peng-Wei will work in investment banking with Morgan Stanley.

Peng-Wei has chosen to honor:
Charles Chang
Assistant Professor
Hotel Administration
School of Hotel Administration
Richard Shorter
Physics/Science
Winchester College
Winchester, United Kingdom

Thiti Taychatanapat

Thiti Taychatanapat is a physics and mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences. Thiti has won the Dean’s List and received the Donald R. Yennie Prize in Physics, the department’s highest honor, awarded to a graduating senior with accomplishments in study and research. He has conducted research in the laboratory of atomic and solid state physics in the Department of Physics. His publications include “Imaging Electromigration During the Formation of Break Junctions.” He has also contributed to a presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society on the same subject. Thiti has been accepted to Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara, at one of which he will do graduate work in physics.

Thiti has chosen to honor:
Daniel Ralph
Professor
Physics
College of Arts and Sciences
Wunnee Khisnachakrawat
Education
Watsuthiwararam School
Bangkok, Thailand

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Andrew Harris Tibbits

Andrew Harris Tibbits is a double major in computer science and electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering. Andrew is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society and the Golden Key International Honours Society, is in the electrical and computer engineering department honors program, and won Dean’s List.
He is completing an independent study in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering collaborating with the M3 Architecture Research Group. While working with Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, Texas, on software and research design, he was awarded co-op of the semester. He has also worked for Gold Country Communications in Auburn, California, doing technical support and web design, and is a teacher’s assistant in the computer science department. Following graduation, Andrew will work for Google and pursue his master’s degree part time at Stanford University.

Andrew has chosen to honor:
Jose Martinez
Assistant Professor
Computer Systems
College of Engineering
William Stanley Kurnett
Chemistry
Del Oro High School
Loomis, California

Matthew Alan Tucker

Matthew Alan Tucker is a linguistics major in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has won Dean’s List and has presented at the LinG Harvard Colloquium on the nature of Arabic spoken derivational reflexives; at the 1st Annual Cornell University Undergraduate Research Colloquium on the status of VSO-language subjects; and at the 1st Annual McGill University Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates on extra-vP object raising in Arabic. He is also the vice president of the Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Society, the UnderLings. Matthew has been a research assistant in the Cornell Phonetics Lab as well as in the government department. He served as a software engineer during an internship with American Tel-a-Systems, Inc., and has worked for Computer Science 100 as a consultant. After graduation, Matthew will enter a doctoral program in linguistics.

Matthew has chosen to honor:
John Whitman
Professor
Linguistics
College of Arts and Sciences
Mary Brink
English
Marshall High School
Marshall, Wisconsin

Nina Wong

Nina Wong is a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences. She won Dean’s List 2004–2006, is a Scholarship for America: Families of Freedom II Award recipient, received the Joseph Grannett Memorial Scholarship, and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Her research has included the co-authorship of a manuscript entitled “Prenatal Maternal Exposure to the Attacks of September 11, 2001 and Infant Temperament.”  Nina’s extracurricular activities include volunteer work at the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County, Family and Children’s Services, the City of New York Human Resources Administration, Cornell Adult University, and the Cornell Elderly Program. She is also a community services outreach coordinator for Cornell Minds Matter, a peer educator and treasurer for Sexual Awareness for Everyone HIV/AIDS, and the operations director and founding member of the Cornell chapter of Scholars to Leaders. Upon graduation, Nina will enter the University of South Florida’s PhD program in clinical psychology.

Nina has chosen to honor:
Richard Canfield
Senior Associate Professor
Nutritional Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Beth Malchiodi
Social Science
Brooklyn Technical High School
Brooklyn, New York

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Yuanyuan Zhang

Yuanyuan Zhang is a nutritional sciences major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She is an honors student and a member of the Ho-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society. Yuanyuan’s ongoing and honor thesis research is in the area of complementary feeding practices in China during the 1980s. Her summer research has been conducted at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Molecular Pathology Lab and at Hospital of the Municipal Government in China. Yuanyuan is the president of the Policy Study and Research Association of China Agriculture and a member of the Ho-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society. She is a student advisor for the Division of Nutritional Sciences and has volunteered for the China International Agriculture Trade Fair. Her internships have been with Yantai Tiangmao Edible Oil Company Ltd. and MicrosoftTech.edu. After graduation, Yuanyuan will conduct biomedical research and then apply for an MD/PhD program.

Yuanyuan has chosen to honor:
Gretel H. Pelto
Visiting Professor
Nutritional Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Lifang Liu
Chinese Language
Yantai No. 2 Middle School
Shandong Province, China

Elizabeth B. Acker

Elizabeth B. Acker is an animal science major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She has won the Dean’s List, is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Ho-Nun-De-Kah Honor Society, and is the recipient of the American Society of Animal Science Scholarship Award. She is a teaching assistant for Domestic Animal Biology I. Elizabeth’s current research project is an ethics article to be submitted to a referred journal. Her extracurricular activities include the SUNY Morrisville IHSA Equestrian Team and tutoring freshman animal science students. She has worked as a riding camp assistant director at Krumkill Stable in Albany, New York, and as an assistant professor for Explorations Summer Program in New Haven, Connecticut. Her volunteer work has been as stable help with the North Country Stables and with the Mountain Top Equestrian Center. Following graduation, Elizabeth plans to complete a degree in veterinary technology.

Elizabeth has chosen to honor:
Debbie Cherney
Associate Professor
Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Marie Guagliardo-Day
French Language
Albany High School
Albany, New York

Patricia M. Brizzio

Patricia M. Brizzio is an architecture major in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and has won the Dean’s List all semesters. She has developed a prototype of a new dome for Nervi’s Palazzo dello Sport by arranging the sections according to their vision fields and latent sport courts.

Patricia has chosen to honor:
Ciro Najle
Visiting Critic
Architecture Department
Architecture, Art, and Planning
Mary Campbell
The British Schools
Montevideo, Uruguay

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Eugenia Shmidt

Eugenia Shmidt is a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a Cornell Presidential Research Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and has won Dean’s List.  Eugenia was a semifinalist for the Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award, nominated for the Distinguished Leadership Award given by Student Organizations Awards and Recognition, and served as the student representative of the College of Arts and Sciences on the Weiss Presidential Fellowship Nominations Committee. Eugenia has performed vascular disease research at Harvard Medical School and cancer research at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. Eugenia also started Teach to Reach, an organization of 100 Cornell students that provides free supplementary education to students in local under-resourced schools. After graduation, Eugenia plans to attend medical school.

Eugenia has chosen to honor:
Alice M. Isen
Professor
Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Nina Lavlinskaia
Biology
High Tech High School
North Bergen, New Jersey

Kevin L. Graf

Kevin L. Graf is an electrical and computer engineering major in the College of Engineering. He is the recipient of several scholarships, including the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship, the Cornell Alumni Scholarship, the Robert J. and Virginia P. Bauer Scholarship, and the Lacroute Family Scholarship in the College of Engineering. Kevin has won the Dean’s List every semester and has been inducted into Eta Kappa Nu, the ECE Honor Society, and the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society. His research is in the areas of equatorial spread-F, telemetry and command subsystems and propulsion subsystems, and he is a member of the Cornell University Satellite Project and the Humanoid Robotics Team. Internships include working in the electronics department at Arecibo Observatory and in the computational biology lab of NCI. After graduation Kevin will pursue a doctoral degree in the field of electrical engineering.

Kevin has chosen to honor:
David Lee Hysell
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Bob Sheffler
Mathematics
Middletown High School
Middletown, Maryland

Elizabeth Jean Marcil

Elizabeth Jean Marcil is a chemical and biomolecular engineering major in the College of Engineering. Elizabeth has received the Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award, the John McMullen Dean’s Scholarship, the James W. Spencer Scholarship, and the Byron W. Saunders Scholarship for outstanding academic performance. In her research she developed a phase plane model and formulated dynamical equations for an electro-osmotic droplet switch. She is the president of the Cornell chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity. While in the Cornell Co-op program she helped design a computer simulation study to test for drug interactions in pharmacokinetic studies for Merck & Co. After graduation Elizabeth will pursue a master’s degree in chemical engineering focusing on engineering management, business development, and applied math.

Elizabeth has chosen to honor:
Alfred Center
Senior Lecturer
Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering

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