The Essentials

Mechanical engineering graduate student Calvin Phelps and Sara Xayarath Hernandez, director of diversity programs in engineering, received accolades at the 2010 Graduate Education for Minorities (GEM) annual board meeting and mini-conference, Aug. 10-11. Phelps was presented with the GEM Fellow of the Year Award for his leadership, including his election to 2010-11 national chair of [...]

Sara Xayarath Hernández is the College of Engineering’s new director of diversity programs in engineering. She was most recently associate director and co-principal investigator on the NSF-supported Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation project. Hernández serves as a committee chair for the national Women in Engineering ProActive Network, and at Cornell she will advise the Society of [...]