Assistant Professor
Material Science & Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Chekesha Liddell received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Highest Distinction from Spelman College (1999) and a Bachelor of Materials Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1999), [Atlanta University Center, Dual Degree Engineering Program]. She was awarded the NASA Women in Science and Engineering Scholarship to support her undergraduate work including an honors thesis on the Synthesis and Characterization of m-Aminobenzenarsonic acid, an important standard for understanding the metabolysis of arsenic in poultry. Liddell also held three internship appointments at NASA, Kennedy Space Center in the Cryogenics and External Tank Branch and the Microchemical Analysis Laboratories. She joined the Cornell University faculty in November of 2003, after receiving a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with a minor in Science and Technology Policy from Georgia Tech.
Liddell most recently received the government's highest honor for scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers--the PECASE award. Liddell has also been involved in minority student outreach through the National Society of Black Engineers. The 2006 PECASE winners were honored in a ceremony at the White House on Nov. 1, 2007.
Additional awards Liddell has received for scholarly achievement include the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award [Nonspherical, Active, and "Inverted" Bases for Optimized Photonic Crystal Design] (2006); Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Sciences Career Initiation Grant, (2003); Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship (1999-2003); Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship, (1999-2003); Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Sciences Fellowship (1999-2003); NSBE, National Society of Black Engineers Fellow, (2000); Hertz Foundation Fellowship Grant, (1999); TMS materials society, J. Keith Brimacombe Presidential Scholarship, (1999); ASM Foundation Scholarship, ASM International materials society, (1998); and the ASTM, American Society for Testing and Materials, Mary R. Norton Memorial Fellowship, (1999). Liddell is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Chemical Society, the Materials Research Society, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) and the Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS).
Education
* Spelman College, Chemistry, B.S., 1999
* Georgia Institute of Technology, Materials Engineering, B.S., 1999
* Georgia Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph. D., 2003
Appointments
* Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University 2003
* ONR, Office of Naval Research HBCU Graduate Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology 1999-2003
* National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Women in Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholar, Spelman College/Georgia Institute of Technology 1994-1999
* MITES (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science) Scholar Massachusettes Institute of Technology Summer 1993
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