About the Marilyn Emmons Williams Award
Dean Williams, with the MEWA plaque, and Charles Lo of CURB
The Marilyn Emmons Williams Award (MEWA) is annually presented to the dean, administrator, faculty member, or student who has most contributed to promoting undergraduate research at Cornell University. Named after CURB's beloved advisor emeritus, this award is a testimony to her commitment to Cornell and undergraduate research.
As the first member of her own family to attend college and earn a Ph.D., Marilyn recognized how difficult it could be for first-generation college students to find their way in a large research university. With this understanding, she developed an undergraduate research program that, according to Cornell president Hunter R. Rawlings III, has earned national recognition.
The Cornell community and the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board wish to thank Dean Williams for more than twenty years of service and dedication to undergraduate research. May this award forever serve as recognition to its recipients and for the program that Marilyn Williams instituted at Cornell.
Past Recipients
24th Annual Forum, 2009: Dr. Lara Estroff
24th Annual Forum: Special Lifetime Committment Award: Brenda Bricker
23rd Annual Forum, 2008: Dr. Parfait Eloundou-Enysque
22nd Annual Forum, 2007: Dr. Scott Warren
21st Annual Forum, 2006: Dr. Jon Njardorson
20th Annual Forum, 2005: Dr. David Lee
19th Annual Forum, 2004: Dr. Laurel Southard
18th Annual Forum, 2003: Beth Reynolds
17th Annual Forum, 2002: Dr. Ralph Obendorf
16th Annual Forum, 2001: Dr. Bruce C. Monger
15th Annual Forum, 2000: Dean Marilyn Williams
Nominations
Nominations for the Marilyn Emmons Williams Award are accepted year-round, and will be announced at CURB's Annual Forum. Nominations may be anonymous if you choose. It may be helpful to provide your name and email so that we may contact you for additional information in support of the candidate. All recommendations will remain confidential.
Nomination Form:
Contact
Cornell Undergradate Research Board
curb@cornell.edu