Jamila Cutliff, of Saginaw, Mich., a senior in Cornell University's College of Engineering, has been awarded a 1999 Samuel Huntington Public Service Award.

Cutliff, who is an employee of the Cornell Public Service Center, will use the grant to continue work with Encourage Youth Educate Society (EYES), a nonprofit organization she founded in the fall of 1996.

Based in Westborough, Mass., the Samuel Huntington Fund was established in memory of the late businessman and philanthropist. The award provides an annual stipend of $10,000 for a graduating senior to pursue public service anywhere in the world. The award makes it possible for recipients to engage in a meaningful, quality public service activity for up to one year before proceeding on to graduate school or the working world.

Cutliff, a materials science and bioengineering major, will continue her work as director of EYES, a community service organization that allies disadvantaged children in New York state school districts with more than 40 Cornell engineering students and faculty who teach them math and science skills through hands-on interactive engineering projects. The Huntington Award will help enable Cutliff to expand the program to partner with school districts beyond New York state.

Cutliff, a Rice Scholar and Cornell Tradition fellow, has been the winner of several awards, including the Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award, the Howard R. Swearer Humanitarian Award and the Community Partnership Grant. She also is founder of Black Theater Production, an organization committed to increasing cultural awareness through the arts, and is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers and the Quill and Dagger Senior Honor Society.