FSAD students honored
Department: FSAD
Five students in Fiber Science & Apparel Design have received awards recognizing their talent and hard work this year.
Senior Jessie Fair received The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in
Scholarship and Creative Activities. This award supports the pursuits
foundational to sustaining the intellectual growth of SUNY institutions by
recognizing consistently outstanding scholarly and creative productivity.
Jessie was one of two winners selected from all Human Ecology seniors. Check out these links for more on Jessie, Cornell Tartan Scarf, CCA Award, and her Eden Award.
Constanza Ontaneda received the Cornell Tradition Senior
Recognition Award, which recognizes outstanding service and leadership through
work and volunteer activities. Ontaneda and her business partner were also the
first runner-up in the Social Enterprise Track of the Big Ideas competition
sponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell. She has created a luxury line of women’s
clothing called Bernales & Goretti that helps support rural villages in
Alexandra Sonis won second prize at the 24th Annual Spring Research Forum organized by the Cornell University Research Board for her research on green composites, the topic of her honor’s thesis. Sonis also won second place in the Rice Public Speaking Contest, where she spoke about the research.
Junior Thomas Ellingham and his business partner won second place in the
Finding Solutions to the Bottled Water Controversy: Concept Competition run by
the
And senior Jeanne Lynn Douglass was selected to participate
in Project OR – a 48-hour-concept-to-prototype competition sponsored by Outdoor
Retailer and meant to inspire innovative summer outdoor fashions.
Congratulations to all for these well deserved awards.