Study In US: 28 Cornell University Faculties Get Engaged Faculty Fellowships 2024-25

The Engaged Faculty Fellowship offers two cohorts - Faculty Fellows in Engaged Learning and Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship.

Cornell University's 28 faculty members have received 2024-25 Engaged Faculty Fellows. These faculty members are from 10 colleges and schools at Cornell University. The selected fellows will join scholars’ networks to strengthen the university's public engagement mission and will also spend a year developing projects or publications and community-engaged courses.

Einhorn Center for Community Engagement facilitates the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program. Since its launch in 2013, it has welcomed around 170 faculty members.

Richard Kiely, associate vice provost for engagement and land-grant affairs and the Einhorn Center’s director of academic initiatives said, “Fellows become part of a yearlong cohort that meets to discuss readings, projects and challenges, but the connections they make extend far past the academic year."

2024-25 Engaged Faculty Fellows Details

It has two cohorts - one is the Faculty Fellows in Engaged Learning to revise or develop courses or projects which are for community-engaged learning and another one is Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship which develops presentations professional pieces, how-to guides and peer-reviewed journal articles. There are 17 faculty members who are named the 2024-25 Faculty Fellows in Engaged Learning. The names of these faculties include - James Hardwick, Swanne Gordon, Jackie Barrett, Mary Lorson, Sharon Kaplan, Meredith Holgerson, Fridah Mubichi-Kut, Virginia Moore, Maranda Miller, LeeAnn Roberts, Kelly Quinn, Niti Parikh, Hanna Tulis, Lauren Stulgis, Meredith Rutherford, So-Yeon Yoon, and Jenna Wells.

11 Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship include - Joshua Felver, Michael Charles, Amiel Bize, Isabel Perera, Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson, George Frantz, Jamal Uddin, Kristen Stanley, Emma Silverblatt, Zoe West and K. E. von Wittelsbach.

Astronomy Professor Anna Ho Becomes Packard Fellow

 

David and Lucille Packard Foundation has named Anna Ho, assistant professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences as a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. Under the fellowship, she will receive $875,000 in unrestricted funds for use in her research work over five years. This year 20 early-career scientists and engineers have received the Packard Fellowship.

“The Packard fellowship will enable me to spend more time exploring new ideas and will support the growth of my group and my students’ development as scientists. I’m excited to join an interdisciplinary group of researchers and to learn from the other Packard fellows," she said.

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