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Awards COLLEGE MERRILL PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS Mohamed Khairul Anwar (B.S. ’08); Christine Michelle Buffalow (B.F.A. ’08) CHARLES GOODWIN SANDS MEMORIAL MEDAL Fabiana Maria Alvear (B.Arch. ’08) (Architecture, Silver); Reilly O’Neil Hogan (B.Arch. ’08) (Architecture, Bronze); Lukasz Adam Szlachcic (B.Arch. ’08) (Architecture, Bronze); Yoon Sun Yang (B.Arch. ’08) (Architecture, Bronze); Jillian Maia Weiss (B.F.A. ’08) (Art, Bronze) DEGREE MARSHALS ARCHITECTURE David Delaney Gull (B.Arch. ’08); Kai Wing Kelvin Leung (B.Arch. ’08) ART Benjamin Slocum Shattuck (B.F.A. ’08); Tania Tumminelli O’Brien (B.F.A. ’08) CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING Danier Bouza (B.S. ’08); Jeannine Mary Altavilla (B.S. ’08) COLLEGE NAME BANNER BEARERS Daniel Lorens Budish (B.S. ’08); Katherine Maxim Richardson (B.Arch. ’08) COLLEGE SYMBOL BANNER BEARER Kenneth Lau (B.Arch. ’08)
ART MICHAEL RAPUANO MEMORIAL AWARD Benjamin Slocum Shattuck (B.F.A. ’08) JOHN HARTELL AWARD Lindsey Ann Glover (M.F.A. ’08); Raphael Alika Herreshoff (M.F.A. ’08)
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CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING THOMAS W. MACKESEY PRIZE Claiborne Ellis Walthall (M.R.P. ’08) AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PLANNERS OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARD Kate Arting McConnell (M.R.P. ’08) JOHN W. REPS AWARD Kristen E. Vaughn Olson (M.A. ’08) URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Danier Bouza (B.S. ’08) KERMIT C. PARSONS & JANICE I. PARSONS SCHOLARSHIP Brian Dennis (M.R.P. ’08); Theresa Anne White (B.S. ’08) DEPARTMENT OF CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING GRADUATE COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD Marcel Ionescu-Heroiu (Ph.D. ’08) ROBERT P. LIVERSIDGE III MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD Sara Schwarzberg (M.R.P. ’08) PETER B. ANDREWS MEMORIAL THESES PRIZE Jessica Claire Daniels (M.R.P. ’07) UPSTATE N.Y. CHAPTER OF AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION STUDENT PROJECT AWARD “Strategic Conservation Planning”: Martha Nebelsiek Hertzberg (M.R.P. ’08); Evelyn J. Israel (M.R.P. ’08); Kate Arting McConnell (M.R.P. ’08); Michelle Striney (M.L.A. ’08); Kaustubh Tamaskar; Krisztian Gabor Varsa (M.R.P. ’08); Neha Verma (M.R.P. ’09); Abigail Erin Webb (M.R.P. ’08)
FACULTY MEDAL OF ART Jillian Maia Weiss (B.F.A. ’08)
URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD Stephen Dyer Miller (B.S. ’08)
DEPARTMENT OF ART DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Tania Tumminelli O’Brien (B.F.A. ’08)
PORTMAN GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD Jinwoo Kwon (M.R.P. ’09); Sarah Pressprich (M.R.P. ’09); Ross Pristera (M.R.P. ’09)
CHARLES BASKERVILLE PAINTING AWARD Elizabeth Mary Schneider (B.F.A. ’08); Raphael Alika Herreshoff (M.F.A. ’08) ELSIE DINSMORE POPKIN PAINTING AWARD Christopher Chiwan Cheung (B.F.A. ’08) MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO COMPETITION Lindsey Ann Glover (M.F.A. ’08)
ARCHITECTURE ALPHA RHO CHI MEDAL Siobhan Francois Rockcastle (B.Arch. ’08); Kristen Bryce Distefano (M.Arch. ’08) AIA HENRY ADAMS MEDAL & CERTIFICATE OF MERIT Kristen Bryce Distefano (M.Arch. ’08); David Delaney Gull (B.Arch. ’08)
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
AIA CERTIFICATE OF MERIT Craig Adam Sobeski (M.Arch. ’08); Kai Wing Kelvin Leung (B.Arch. ’08)
E. GORDON DAVIS TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP Matthew MacLeod (M.L.A. ’08)
WILLIAM S. DOWNING PRIZE Alana Rose Anderson (B.Arch. ’08)
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AWARD OF HONOR Stacy Day (M.L.A. ’08); Joseph Kubik (M.L.A. ’08); Kasey Toomey (M.L.A. ’08); Lacy Swanson (M.L.A. ’08)
CLIFTON BECKWITH BROWN MEMORIAL MEDAL Reilly O’Neil Hogan (B.Arch. ’08) AWARD FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Craig Adam Sobeski (M.Arch. ’08)
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AWARD OF MERIT AWARD FOR BEST THESIS Bonnie Kim (M.L.A. ’08); Matthew MacLeod Javier Galindo (M.Arch. ’08) (M.L.A. ’08); Jennifer Ng (M.L.A. ’08); Michael ROSE MENDEZ SCHOLARSHIP Alexei Panich (M.L.A. ’08) Justin Chu (M.Arch. ’08)
NEWS Danier Bouza
(M.R.P. ’08) received the City and Regional Planning/Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achievement Award for having the highest undergraduate GPA within his major of study and was also given the First Degree Marshal Commencement Award for the same department in May 2008. Further, the undergraduate degree Cornell conferred on his behalf was Bachelor of Science with Honors. Victoria Bredt (U.R.S. ’10) interned with the City of Cleveland Division of Water’s Office of Sustainability working on rain gardens and rain barrel projects. Participants in the Cleveland Summer Youth Program constructed, delivered, and installed 280 rain barrels in seven neighborhoods around the city and created four rain gardens on city property. Bredt presented her paper “No Lawn Mowers on the Bus: Regulating Passenger Behavior in Small- and MediumSized Communities” at the 11th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small- and Medium-Sized Communities. Final projects from Professor Greg Halpern’s “Digital Capture: Photographing Place” have been published online at www.cornell-photo.com. Matthew Hendren (M.R.P. ’08) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Tunisia in Urban Development and Planning. Hendren will be there for approximately one and a half years, continuing in his Arabic study that he began at Cornell and initiating participatory design and neighborhood planning of water reclamation projects for urban agriculture and gardening. Hendren said, “The ultimate hope is through these projects to suggest urban and national code revisions which are more supportive of urban agriculture.” Elliot Hess (M.F.A ’08) had an installation in Tjaden Gallery called “Pulpy Products/Intensive Processes.” The show consisted of sculpture and works on paper.AAP
DRAGON DAY 2008 INVADES CORNELL ARTS QUAD Dragon Day. March 14. Under grim skies the phoenix, a vivid red creature with black eyes, yellow beak and accents of gold and yellow, rises from the ashes of Cornell history. “Awesome,” onlookers declare. Armand Awad ’11 and his all-freshman team of designers and builders with obvious delight resuscitated engineering’s response to architecture’s dragon, the product of the two schools’ decades-long “friendly rivalry.” “We’ve heard tales from the past of how great the phoenix was, and that it had existed for years and years and years,” Awad said. “Long ago, engineering students decided they had had enough of the architecture students having their own holiday.” Meanwhile, the dragon, in a stark departure from the minimalist exoskeletal 2007 version, was distinctly anthropomorphic, with an animated jaw, flapping “hands” and wings atop poles, along with undulating scales of foil and wood. Draped over a wooden frame was the dragon’s skin of translucent, loose-woven cloth panels of green, gold, and russet; its chest scales, made of cut-up yellow coffee cups, accented with a color scheme reminiscent of medieval coats of arms. On the parade route, noisy with drummers and youthful whooping, students in costumes included the Spy vs. Spy cartoon characters; three young men dressed as sperm accompanied by students dressed as an egg and, in a nod to safe sexual practice, a young man encased in a double-layer condom; and the usual assortment of face-painted, unplaceable, vaguely bacchanalian figures. Students sporting grass beards and other wearable flora periodically shouted, “Landscape architecture! Yeah!” “We just want to represent the engineering school and say, ‘We are here,’” asserted Awad, who with classmates has been designing the mythological bird since the fall semester. “The phoenix is traditionally not burned. It will be dismantled. We’re going to try to save the head and put it up in Duffield.” During the brief but strangely intense clash of the two creatures at the Engineering Quad entrance, the dragon seemed to try to nip at, or perhaps smooch, the phoenix. The two titans parted after a few awkward moments. Later, on the Arts Quad, its barren trees strewn with toilet paper and students, screams of “Burn it! Burn it!” filled the air. Torches lit the hapless dragon, onto which had been heaped debris from floats and costumes from the parade route. Amid much roaring, red flames and black smoke shot into the sky as a wave of heat hit the crowd lining the cordoned-off immolation. Remarked one awestruck student, in an apparent reference to a funeral pyre, “It’s like being in India, dude!” Hundreds of cell phones and cameras held overhead snapped the fiery tableau.AAP See an online photo gallery from Dragon Day 2008 at www.aap.cornell.edu/events/ dragonday2008.cfm
STUDENTS IN HAUD PROGRAM NET GRANTS Three Ph.D. students in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program have received prestigious research grants for the year. Chad Randl has received a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies Program) grant to study advanced Polish in preparation for his dissertation research into Modernist Polish architectural history. Lawrence Chua has received a SSRC (Social Science Research Council) grant to conduct archival work in Thailand on 20th-century leisure spaces. Richard Guy will be a fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell working on his dissertation on the Dutch East India Trade company.AAP