Awards and Recognition

William “Bill” White, professor emeritus, has been awarded the Harry H. Hess Medal by the American Geophysical Union, recognizing his contributions to understanding the chemical evolution and dynamics of the Earth.

Jae-sun Seo, associate professor, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America Mid-career Faculty Award (K-MFA). Seo will give an invited talk at the symposium to share his research with the KOCSEA community.

Geoffrey Abers, the William and Katherine Snee Professor in Geological Sciences in Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been selected by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to deliver the 2026 Beno Gutenberg Lecture, an annual honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of seismology.

Andreas Malikopoulos, professor, received the 2026 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award for pioneering and commercially deployed decentralized control technologies that improve the energy efficiency and sustainability of connected and automated vehicles.

John Albertson, professor, has won the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Boundary-Layer Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society.

Eve Donnelly, associate professor, will receive the Adele L. Boskey Award at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting in October.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor, had his research featured on the July 2026 front cover of Chemical Science for the paper “Rethinking Peptide Developability with Sequence-Only Models: Interpretable Screening of Microplastic-Binding Peptides with Gated Query Pooling.”

Kenji Yasuda, assistant professor, received the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Early Career Scientist Prize in Semiconductors, recognizing the impact of Yasuda’s contributions to semiconductor and quantum materials physics.

Khurram Khan Afridi, professor, Judy Cha, the Rick and Betty Tsai Ph.D. 1981 Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Damian E. Helbling, professor, and Sriramya Nair, assistant professor, are among several Cornell faculty to receive 2026 Academic Venture Fund grants from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering, has been selected as the winner of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ 2026 Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education.