
Knuth, also a professor of natural resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received the honor at an awards ceremony held during the council’s 59th annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The award included a cash prize.
Dr. Knuth has been dean of the Graduate School at Cornell for nearly a decade. She is the past chair of the board of directors of the Council of Graduate Schools.
Professor Knuth holds two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She earned a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech.


