The 2008 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships have been awarded to four Cornell professors — Bruce Ganem, the Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry; Prof. Ronald Harris-Warrick, neurobiology and behavior; Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History; and Prof. Richard Rand, mechanical and aerospace engineering.

According to the University Faculty website, the fellowships are meant to honor and recognize tenured faculty members “who [have] a sustained record of effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students and of contributions to undergraduate education.”