The Cook Awards honor Cornell students, faculty, and staff members for their commitment to women’s issues and for improving the climate for women at Cornell. The awards are named in honor of the late Constance E. Cook, Cornell’s first woman vice president, and the late Professor Emerita Alice H. Cook, founding member of Cornell’s Committee on the Status of Women.
2017 Cook Awardees
Smaranda Sandu, President
Lila Greco, Vice President
James Barnes, Treasurer
Tara Holm, Faculty Advisor
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Cornell Chapter
Elizabeth Brundige
Assistant Dean for International Programs, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, and Jack G. Clarke Executive Director of International and Comparative Legal Studies, Law School
Cynthia Leifer
Associate Professor of Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
Nozomi Nishimura
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Poornima Padmanabhan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Engineering
Anna Waymack
Ph.D. Candidate in Medieval Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Agi Csaki, Co-President
Harini Kannan, Co-President
Nikita Gupta, Vice President
Vinisha Mittal, Treasurer
Eva Tardos, Faculty Advisor
Women in Computing at Cornell (WICC)
Jenny Wurster
Teaching Support Specialist in Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Laura Weiss
Associate Dean of Students, Student and Campus Life
Attendance is by invitation only.