- Frank H.T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year.
- Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering. Levoy first studied computer graphics as an architecture student under Donald Greenberg at Cornell University. He received his B.Arch. in 1976 and M.S. in Architecture in 1978. He developed a 2D computer animation system as part of his studies, …
- Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", …
- Henry T. Yang
Henry T. Yang is the Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appointed in 1994, he is the fifth chancellor of the university. He also holds a professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had held the post of Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. He had also held the post of dean of engineering at Purdue. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, …
- Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee is a chemist who won a MacArthur Award in 1994. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.
- Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann. He joined Cornell University in 1963 in the Department of Physics as a junior faculty member, becoming a full professor in 1970. His brother David is also a Professor at Cornell in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
- Mike Lesk
Mike E. Lesk is an American computer programmer. In the 1960s, Mike Lesk worked for the SMART project, wrote much of its retrieval code and did many of the retrieval experiments, as well as obtaining a PhD in Chemical Physics. In the 1970s, he worked at Bell Labs, in the group that built Unix. Lesk wrote Unix tools for word processing ("tbl" and "refer"), compiling ("lex"), and networking ("uucp").
- Harlan James Smith
Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924-October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Paul and Anna McGregor Smith. While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search". From 1943 until the end of World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, performing weather observation. Following the war he attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1949.
- Johannes E. Gehrke
Johannes Gehrke Assistant Professor Johannes Gehrke obtained his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1999, and he has been an assistant professor in CS since then. Johannes's interests are in the areas of data mining, data stream processing, and novel applications of distributed database technology.
- Luc Anselin
Dr. Anselin's research deals with various aspects of spatial data analysis, ranging from exploratory spatial data analysis, to GIS and spatial econometrics, with substantive applications in regional economics, environmental economics, real estate economics as well as in epidemiology, criminology and political science.
- Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a Professor of Computer Science and (jointly) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received a Bachelor's and Master's in Architecture from Cornell University in 1976 and 1978, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. In the 1970's Levoy worked on computer animation, developing an early computer-assisted cartoon animation system.
- Mark Milstein
Mark Milstein Business Research Director, Sustainable Enterprise Program Mark Milstein is Business Research Director of the Sustainable Enterprise Program at World Resources Institute (WRI) and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
- Karen Trentelman
Karen's interest in science began in childhood. She was influenced, in part, by her father, a research immunologist, as well as by her three older brothers, who introduced her to music, photography, and painting. In high school in Salt Lake City, Karen assisted in the chemistry and physics labs and served as president of the science club (whose members spent more time cross-country skiing than conducting experiments).
- Nicholas P. Bigelow
Prof. Bigelow received his B.S. in Engineering Physics (1981) and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1981) from Lehigh University and his M.S. and Ph.D. (1989) in Physics from Cornell University. He then joined the Technical Staff of A. T. & T. Bell Laboratories where he remained until 1991. Early in 1991 he moved to the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France where he worked in the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel .
- Michelle Kuska
Michelle Kuska , Vice President, Broadband Access Ms. Kuska is the Vice President of Broadband Access for CableLabs. She is responsible for the overall specification and test development for the DOCSIS® and CableHome® projects. These projects define the interfaces necessary to deliver high-speed data and home networking services over cable systems.
- Jason McNichol
Jason McNichol , PhD , Founder and Director Jason is a sociologist, researcher, and patient advocate with over twelve years of experience addressing challenges in the health-care system. He holds his PhD and MA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.
- Susan McCouch
Dr. Susan McCouch Associate Professor of Plant Breeding The focus of Dr. McCouch’s research program is to develop and apply molecular tools for rice improvement. An area of special interest is in the efficient management and utilization of rice germplasm. Dr. McCouch is on an international team specializing in the rice genome, headed up by Sue Wessler at the University of Georgia and including colleagues at Washington University and in Japan.
- Kathryn Olesko
Kathryn Olesko Director, Master of Arts in German and European Studies Associate Professor of History Professor Olesko's research focuses on the social history of science and technology in Germany, with special emphasis on how rational beliefs and actions relate to daily life, local cultures, and personal and professional identities. Her work, in addition, covers issues in historical methodology, everyday life, gender, and industrialization.
- Richard Tapia
RICHARD TAPIA rat@rice.edu Richard Tapia is Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University. He is also Director of Rice University's Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, and is Leadership Team Director for Rice's NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. Tapia also co-leads NSF's Education, Outreach, and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI).
- Marianne E. Krasny
Dr. Marianne Krasny 's website Marianne Krasny is Professor and Chair in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, specializing in environmental, science, and sustainability education in urban and other settings in the US and internationally. Dr Krasny's scholarship focuses on the interface between science education, civic participation, and the environment.
- Claudia Goldin
Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research´s Development of the American Economy program. Goldin´s research is in American economic history. Many of her most recent papers on the rise of mass education in the United States and its impact on growth and inequality will form the core of a book, "The Race between Education and Technology" (with Lawrence Katz ).
- Franklin W. Olin
Franklin W. Olin The Western Cartridge Company In 1892, Franklin W. Olin , a Vermont-born engineer who was educated at Cornell University, founded the Equitable Powder Company in East Alton, Illinois. A predecessor of Olin Industries, Equitable Powder supplied blasting powder to midwestern coal fields. The powder company soon expanded into small arms ammunition, and the Western Cartridge Company was formed in 1898.
- Priscilla P. Nelson
Dr. Priscilla P. Nelson Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Jerry Liu
Jerry C. Liu , Ph.D. Dr. Liu received his BA from New York University, majoring in Biology and minored in Chemistry and East Asian Studies. He has a MS in Marine Environmental Sciences from the Marine Sciences Research Center at State University of New York at Stony Brook, specializing in Bio-fluid Mechanics, Behavioral Ecology, and Biological Oceanography. He received a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, specializing in Microbiology and Artificial Intelligence.
- Harriet B. Creighton
Dr. Creighton in Peru Harriet B. Creighton, our former Editor, is on sabbatical leave from Wellesley College until September, 196o. She has a Fulbright Lectureship and will lecture at the University of Cuzco in Peru, on plant genetics. She will also be engaged in research on maize cytogenetics. Dr. Creighton will travel in the Andean countries and visit Research Stations operated by the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Matthew C. Nisbet
Matthew Nisbet , American University Matthew C. Nisbet , Ph.D., is assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University. Trained as a social scientist, he studies the nature and impacts of strategic communication. His current research tracks scientific and environmental controversies, examining the interactions between experts, journalists, and various publics.
- Geri Gay
Geri Gay is the director of the Human Computer Interaction Group (HCI Group) and a professor in Department of Communication. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 1985. The HCI Group is a research-and-development group whose members design and research the use of computer-mediated learning environments. Current research focuses on the use and design of PDAs for communication and collaboration (Intel ® ).
- Dawn Schwenke
Dawn Schwenke joined ASU in 2002 as Research Associate Professor. She was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in order to pursue a doctorate in Nutritional Biochemistry which she completed at Cornell University in 1985. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Lipids and Lipoproteins at the University of California , San Diego .
- Ruth Ingrid Michler
Ruth Ingrid Michler was born on March 8, 1967, in Ithaca, NY. Her father is a mathematician and her family was visiting Cornell University at the time. From April 1968 to March 1973 Ruth spent her childhood in Tuebingen. From April 1973 to March 1978 she went to primary school and high school in Giessen. Since 1978 her family has lived in Essen, and Ruth graduated from high school there in 1985.
- Abe Ghanbari
Dr. Abe Ghanbari is Vice President of engineering at Dielectric Systems, Inc. He has 18 years of extensive management experience in semiconductor processing equipment industry. He is recognized in his field for innovation in plasma technologies and product development. Dr. Ghanbari is widely published and has been granted more than 6 patents. He has lectured extensively worldwide, including an invitation under the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council.
- Daniel Simons
Dr. Daniel Simons Daniel Simons received his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He taught cognitive psychology for 5 years at Harvard University, first as an assistant professor and then as the John Loeb Associate Professor. In the summer of 2002, he joined the psychology department and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
- R. Britt Freund
R. Britt Freund , The University of Texas at Austin R. Britt Freund , Ph.D., is Assistant Dean of Executive Education and Director of both the Texas Evening MBA program and the Texas Executive MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on topics such as operations management, project management, distribution, supply chain management, inventory control, optimization, process analysis, and practical statistics.
- David Sherman
David Sherman received his BA in psychology from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He received his Ph. D. in psychology from Stanford University in 2000, and was a post-doctoral fellow in Health Psychology at UCLA from 2000 to 2003. He was a visiting assistant professor at UCSB from 2003 until 2005 when he became an assistant professor. He has a number of publications on the self, social support, and health behaviors.
- Catherine O. Thurston
Catherine O. Thurston is the Principal Investigator on the TALENT initiative as well as Program Manager in the Office of Educational Technology at the College of Education. She coordinates project activities, provides liaisons with partners and the Department of Education, and has responsibility for general oversight of the initiative. Cathy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and a Master of Arts in Teaching English from Wesleyan University.
- Thomas L. Isenhour
Thomas L. Isenhour is Provost at Old Dominion University. He received his doctoral degree in chemistry from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Dr. Isenhour has served on numerous academic and scientific committees and commissions as well as authored/coauthored over 180 scientific publications. He has directed 28 Ph.D. dissertations and served as a National Science Foundation Program Director.
- John Abrams
JOHN ABRAMS John Abrams graduated from Cornell University in 1982. He worked as a research scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and, the following year, received a National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate studies at Stanford University. Under the mentorship of Dr Robert Schimke, he analysed the regulation, amplification and mutagenesis of transfected genes, receiving a PhD in 1989.
- Derek Cabrera
Derek Cabrera , Ph.D. (Board Member) dcabrera@corafrica.edu Derek Cabrera is a Post Doctoral Associate and Co-Principal Investigator in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow in Nonlinear Systems, and recipient of the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. His research explores theories of conceptual ecology.
- Cyrus K. Aidun
Dr. Aidun's research focuses on direct numerical simulation (DNS) of suspension hydrodynamics, including fiber suspension, biotransport, and whole blood flow. Additional research interests include methods for enhancement of convective and boiling heat transfer, multiscale biotransport and fluidics-based automation of sorting and selection of somatic embryogenesis for clonal propagation of plants.
- Abhijit Mehta
Abhijit Mehta hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. He completed his undergraduate education in 2006 at Duke University, where he was an A.B. Duke Scholar. Abhijit pursued a double major, earning a B.S. in Physics and Math. During his undergraduate career, he was a member of the Duke Math Union and a competitor in the annual Putnam mathematics challenge.
- Benjamin Snavely
Benjamin Snavely Benjamin Snavely has served as Corporate Secretary of the American Institute of Physics since May 1999. The Office of the Secretary is responsible for maintaining the corporate records of the AIP, and preparing the agendas and arrangements for meetings of the Governing Board and the Executive Committee.