academics
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Byers wins Jack Kent Cooke scholarship for graduate school
J.R. Byers ’14 was awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Continuing Scholar Graduate Award to pursue a master’s degree in Russia.
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McAuliffe chosen as Dana Fellow
Shena McAuliffe has accepted the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellowship with Cornell College’s Center for the Literary Arts.
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Grant provides new science equipment
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has given Cornell College a $200,000 grant toward the purchase of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, an advanced piece of scientific equipment that will allow students perform more in-depth, hands-on research.
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Mellon grant will fund summer research institute
Cornell College has received a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a summer research institute and to expand its digital liberal arts efforts.
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Two student groups win funding from UI startup accelerator
Two groups of Cornell College students were accepted into the the University of Iowa’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center Student Accelerator program for the summer.
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Sociology major wins award for paper
Cornell junior Rose Reed-Maxfield won the prestigious Manford Kuhn Award for best Junior-Senior paper at the Iowa Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting.
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Schuster-Craig earns summer fellowship in Germany
Johanna Schuster-Craig, assistant professor of German, has accepted a Fulbright/DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Summer Fellowship for participation in the Summer Academy in Leipzig for American Faculty in German this June.
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Hoobler one of NerdScholar’s 40 Under 40
Ellen Hoobler, assistant professor of art history, was named one of the 40 professors under 40 by the college financial literacy website NerdScholar.
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Monreal earns Fulbright to South Korea
Tiffany Monreal ’14 will teach English in South Korea as part of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program. She is the ninth Cornellian in nine years to earn a Fulbright.
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2013-14 Academic Awards
Each year Cornell College recognizes student achievement with an awards celebration. Dozens of students were honored at this year’s ceremony.
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Wenger earns Fulbright
Emily Wenger, a Cornell College senior double-majoring in English and creative writing and theatre, has earned a Fulbright Award and will spend 9 months in Turkey.
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Stavreva is NEH summer scholar
Kirilka Stavreva, Professor of English and creative writing at Cornell College, has been selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar.
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Cornell College offering online education courses
This summer Cornell College will offer its first online-only courses: Foundation of Literacy and Literacy in the Content Areas—Elementary, taught by Professor of education Kerry Bostwick, and History of American Education taught by Assistant Professor of education Kate Kauper.
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Twelve elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Twelve Cornell College seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the country’s oldest and most respected academic honor society.
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Cooke taking part in Heritage Foundation internship
Junior Thomas Cooke has landed a spot in the extremely-competitive Heritage Foundation summer internship program in Washington D.C.
McAuliffe chosen as Dana Fellow 
Grant provides new science equipment 
Mellon grant will fund summer research institute 
Sociology major wins award for paper 
Schuster-Craig earns summer fellowship in Germany 
Hoobler one of NerdScholar’s 40 Under 40 
Monreal earns Fulbright to South Korea 
Wenger earns Fulbright 
Stavreva is NEH summer scholar 
Cooke taking part in Heritage Foundation internship