Jeremy Feinstein '14

From left: Diana Cheung '13, last year's Cornell Undergraduate Research Board president; Corinna Lewis; and Aaron Oswald '14, current CURB president.

Corinna Lewis, outreach coordinator of Cornell Abroad, received the 2012 Marilyn Emmons Williams Award in March for working with the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB) to create the Fall Research Forum in November 2011 and holding it again in November 2012.

Lewis wanted to find a way to draw attention to international research as part of an undergraduate degree by helping students present their scholarly work and inspire others across campus to consider conducting research internationally. Much like the spring research forum held April 17, the fall forum featured student posters of their research projects, but focused specifically on international and off-campus summer research.

The Marilyn Emmons Williams Award is annually presented to the dean, administrator, faculty member or student who has most contributed to promoting undergraduate research at Cornell. It was named after CURB’s adviser emeritus, who, as the first member of her family to attend college and earn a Ph.D., recognized how difficult it could be for first-generation college students to find their way in a large research university.