Human Centered Design Student Awards
Our students regularly enter, and are honored, in national and international competitions. Below are examples of recent student awards.
| Caleb Cambron, DEA Junior | Study Abroad Award |
| Aidan Collins, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Nadine El Nesr, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Ryan Greene, FSAD Senior | SUNY Chancellor's award for student excellence, FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Yuexing Hao, DEA Graduate Student | SIG CHI Gary Marsden Travel Awards, Nana Kirk Travel Scholarship, and Women Entrepreneurship (W.E) Cornell Summer Fund for Spring 2023. |
| Debbie Jung, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior |
| Min Jae Kim, DEA Senioer | Hillier Award |
| Yelin Ko, FSAD Graduate Student | First Place in The Fiber Society’s Graduate Student Paper Competition |
| Michael Kowalski, DEA Graduate Student | Honorable Mention , James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University |
| Kyra Kozin, DEA Senior and Sylvie Lane | Presented Senior Thesis work at the 2023 Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Annual Meeting |
| Mona Maher, FSAD Graduate Student | 2022 Paper of Distinction Award; Design/ Product Development Track, International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) |
| Maisie McDonald, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Ana Mocklar, FSAD Freshman | Recipient of funding from The Contribution Project |
| Sofia Ortiz, DEA Junior | Study Abroad Award |
| Kyuin Park, FSAD Graduate Student | Recipient of grant from The 2030 Project by Atkinson Center for Sustainability and a Best Poster Award from New York Nanotechnology Network (NNN) Symposium at CNF, Cornell |
| Aliza Saunders, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior, Best Poster at the BCTR Undergraduate Research Symposium |
| Devin Schneider, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Dorota Szlek, FSAD Graduate Student | Participant in the Advanced Graduate Teaching Cohort |
| Emme Wong, DEA Senior | Beyer Award |
| Heley Yang, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior |
| Nina Yang, DEA Senior | Hillier Award |
| Rebeca Boudet, FSAD Senior | FSAD Honors Thesis |
| Matthew Canabarro, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior Award |
| Caleb Cambron, DEA Junior | IIDA Hazel Siegel Scholarship, IIDA First Place Material Bank Palette Competition, IIDA Third Place SHIFT Student Conference Charrette |
| Juliana DaRoza, FSAD Senior | FSAD Honors Thesis |
| Annabelle Davy, DEA Senior | Hillier Award |
| Quinn Guthrie, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior Award |
| Nicholas He, DEA Senior | DEA Honors Thesis |
| Connie Hui, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior Award |
| Youngsook Kim, FSAD PhD Candidate | Alan D. Mathios Research and Service Grant Award |
| Jackson Kwon, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior Award |
| Jeyeon Jo, FSAD PhD Candidate | Winner, 2022 FSAD Graduate Student Speaking Competition Best Brief, 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '21), Association for Computing Machinery |
| Lauren Lee, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior Award Barbara L. Kuhlman Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Scholarship 2021 TRASH. Solo Exhibition FSAD Honors Thesis |
| Andrew Melissas, FSAD MA | Design for Society/Design for Social Impact European Product Design award Human Ecology Alumni Grant |
| Kyuin Park, FSAD MS | Best Poster Award, New York State Nanotechnology Network Symposium (NNN) |
| Alena Reed, FSAD Senior | FSAD Honors Thesis |
| Kat Roberts, FSAD PhD student | Charlotte Jirousek Fellowship Rural Humanities Microgrant American Studies Research Grant |
| Meghna Shroff, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior Award |
| Simone White, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior Award FSAD Honors Thesis |
| Bonny Wong, DEA Senior | Beyer Award |
| Lynda Xepoleas, FSAD PhD Candidate | 2022 College of Human Ecology Graduate Summer Archival Research Fellowship, Cornell University 2022, Richard Martin Exhibition Commendation Award, Costume Society of America (with Emily Hayflick) 2021-2022, Stella Blum Student Research Grant, Costume Society of America 2021, Intellect Books Research Award, International Textile and Apparel Association (with Denise Green) 2021, Rutherford Teaching Innovation Award, International Textile and Apparel Association (with Huiju Park) |
| Yan Yan, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior Award |
| Wenjia Zong, FSAD MA | Fall 2021 – CCA Exhibition Grant Spring 2022 - Indigo Design Award / Independent Designer / Gold & Silver Spring 2022 - Indigo Design Award / Team project / Gold & Silver Spring 2022 - Cornell Elevator Art Contest / Design |
| Matthew Canabarro, Nayeon Kwon, Heley Yang, & Nina Yang, Seniors and Juniors | Third place in 2022 IIDA (International Interior Design Association) student design competition |
| Sylvia Lane, Emme Wong, & Kyra Kozin, DEA Juniors | First place in the East Region in IDEC (Interior Design Educators' Council) competition, honorable mention in the National IDEC competition |
| Min Jae Kim, Karina Guo, Ha-Young Jessica Shin, DEA Seniors and Juniors | Second place in the East Region in IDEC (Interior Design Educators' Council) competition |
| Seh Eun Hong and Chloe Chen, DEA Juniors | Honorable mention, 2022 IIDA (International Interior Design Association) student design competition |
| Abby Brown, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence |
| Livia Caligor, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Lauren Forstenhausler, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Olivia Heim, DEA Senior | Hillier Award |
| Brandon Hoak, DEA Senior | Beyer Award |
| Min Jae Kim, DEA Sophomore | 1st Place, Futuristic Gas Station Development Hackathon, 2021 Seoul Smart Mobility Expo sponsored by Doosan & GS Caltex. |
| Annice Lee, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior DEA Honors Thesis KON Honor Society |
| Abby Lerner, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior |
| Antonio Martinez, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Lili Minerva, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Audrey Perlman, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Vivian Shiu, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior |
| Emily Chen, DEA Senior | Dean's Undergraduate Advisory Council |
| Jasmine Chow, DEA | SOURCE Lighting Competition, Award of Recognition |
| Julia DeNey, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Alexina Federhen, DEA | SOURCE Lighting Competition, Honorable Mention |
| Margaret Dunne, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Hannah Harvey, DEA Junior, Jewel Ingram, Junior and, Erika Kane, DEA Senior | IDEC Student Design Competition Regional Finalist |
| Jialin Ke, DEA Senior | D+EA Honors Thesis Hillier Award |
| Tuyen Nguyen, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Koloina Rasamoely, DEA Senior | D+EA Honors Thesis D+EA Outstanding Senior |
| Siyu Shen, DEA Senior | D+EA Outstanding Senior |
| Kyra Streck, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Xin Wen, DEA Senior | Beyer Award |
| Katie Williams, FSAD Senior | FSAD Outstanding Senior |
| Bailey Herbstreit, DEA Senior | The Beyer Award |
| Lauren Charpentier, DEA Senior | The Hillier Award |
| Y Pham, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior Award |
| Jiachen (Jeffrey) Ding, DEA Senior | DEA Outstanding Senior Award |
| Alexina Federhen, DEA Senior | D+EA Honors Thesis |
| Zachary Kaan, DEA Senior | D+EA Honors Thesis |
| Y Pham, DEA Senior | D+EA Honors Thesis |
| Bailey Herbstreit, DEA Senior | D+EA Honors Thesis |
| Jacky Lin | Best Color Prize, 2018 Contemporary Concept Photography Exhibition |
| Kati Peditto | New Investigator Award, Center for Health Design |
| Zachary Kaan | Study Abroad Award-semester Delft University of Technology (Fall 2018) |
| Erika Kane | Study Abroad Award-semester Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milan (Spring 2019) |
| Yaoyi Zhou | Best Student Paper Award EDRA 2018, 2nd Place |
| Abby Lerner | 2nd Place, Elsie Van Buren Rice Award in Public Speaking |
| Tuvshinzaya Amarzaya | Early Career & Graduate School Research Travel Grant, National Geographic |
| Jonathan Pao | Finalist, Aging Innovation Challenge, NYS Department of Health |
| Uchita Vaid | Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grant |
| Paulina Villacreces | Finalist, Aging Innovation Challenge, NYS Department of Health Pitch Competition & Startup Selected for the eLab 2019, 2nd Place CHE Emerging Tech Grant 2018, Julie Schaffer Salles Award |
| Jialin Ke | Finalist, Aging Innovation Challenge, NYS Department of Health Honorable Mention, What is a Hotel? Idea Competition, SWITCH Architecture Honorable Mention 2018 Healthcare Environment Awards, Contract Magazine 3rd Place, BIG Idea Competition 1st Place, DEA Explorative Environments Competition |