Little

Racine

Sachse

Thom-Levy

Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Laura Brown has announced that faculty members John E. (Jack) Little, Anita Racine, Wolfgang Sachse and Julia Thom-Levy will receive 2014 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards. They will be honored May 24 at a trustee-faculty dinner recognizing universitywide teaching and advising awardees and newly tenured faculty.

Little, a senior lecturer in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, teaches the popular undergraduate core accounting classes of Financial and Managerial Accounting. Thanks to Little, the Dyson School now offers 10 accounting courses, up from two when he arrived. Little also is credited with mentoring many students for professional and personal development.

Senior lecturer Racine, who earned the SUNY Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Teaching and the Lectra Technology Citation for innovative teaching, both in 2007, has helped expand design curricula in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design in the College of Human Ecology to include new technologies. She helps match students with successful alumni in the fashion industry for internships and jobs. Every year, Racine advises more than 50 undergraduates to develop fashion collections and organize their annual Cornell Fashion Collective fashion show that normally draws more 2,000 attendees.

Sachse, the Meinig Family Professor of Engineering in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, joined the Cornell faculty in 1970. He was awarded The Golden Whistle, the highest award bestowed by the International Congress on Ultrasonics in 2013. Since 2011, Sachse has been serving as associate director of undergraduate studies in the Sibley School. He also coordinates the project team advisers and students, serving more than 800 undergraduates across campus.

Thom-Levy, associate professor of physics, serves as a physics major adviser, mentors on gender and work-life issues, and regularly advises troubled students. Additionally, she has launched a science education program for high-need rural elementary schools in upstate New York and included an undergraduate in that work, runs the Women in Physics lunches and actively includes undergraduates in these events. She advised last year’s Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, which was held at Cornell and served as the faculty liaison for the Society of Physics Students at Cornell, reviving this organization after a long hiatus. Since joining the Cornell faculty six years ago, she has supervised 15 students in either developing emerging detector technologies for some of the major detectors in particle physics or analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider.

The Carpenter Award recipients will receive $5,000 each. The awards, which underscore of the importance of undergraduate advising, were established by trustee Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, to honor his adviser, the late Professor Kendall S. Carpenter, who taught business management from 1954 to 1967.