CORNELL’S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE WINTER 2013

CONNECTED TO THE GLOBAL FAMILY

HOW UNIVERSITY-WIDE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FULFILLS OUR LAND-GRANT MISSION

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THE ESSENTIALS Textile pavilion in NYC, 11 join 2 Athletic Hall of Fame, Hotelies celebrate school’s 90th, alums launch crowdsourcing movie screening 4 model, Homecoming’s big tent, and more. ARTS & HUMANITIES 15 12,000 points of light BY DANIEL ALOI 4COVER STORY Action Teens, apples PEOPLE and the spirit of democracy 16 Two alumni under the sea BY KRISHNA RAMANUJAN BY EMILY SANDERS HOPKINS What President David Skorton has called Cornell’s “commitment to developing knowledge FACULTY that benefits communities” is closely tied to the A humanities influx university’s land-grant mission. From classes for 18 peony gardeners on Long Island to collaborations BY LINDA B. GLASER with CARE in Africa, there are thousands of stories that show Cornell’s spirit of public engagement at Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellowships update work – here are just a few. 19

Faculty legends: Schlesinger and Fuertes VIEWPOINT 20 BY GARY E. FRANK AND JOSE PEREZ BEDUYA 13 Discovering my pathway to service at Cornell BY BEN DUDA BOOKS Three new books from, and one about, Cornellians RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT 21 Better veggies for N.Y. 14 CORNELL NOW BY KATE FRAZER Meyer gift establishes economics professorship, 22 Greenbergs’ gifts to Weill Cornell and Veterinary College, King-Shaw names ILR School building, first Wold Professor is a geoscientist.

EZRA: Cornell’s quarterly magazine is an equal opportunity, Vol. V, Issue 2, Winter 2013 affirmative action educator and employer. Publisher: Thomas W. Bruce Subscription information: [email protected] Managing Editor: Joe Wilensky or call 607-255-3630. FSC Senior Editors: David Brand, Susan S. Lang http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu INFO HERE Copy Editor: Karen Walters Printed using soy inks on Fortune paper Contributing Editor: Emily Sanders Hopkins (FSC- and SFI-certified, 10% PCW, and chlorine free). Designer: Christopher J. Kelly Project Manager: Barbara Drogo 12/12 36.0M EL 120333 Contributors: Daniel Aloi, Jose Perez Beduya, Ben Duda, WIND ON THE COVER POWER Corey Ryan Earle, Lou Jean Fleron, Gary E. Frank, Kate LOGO Frazer, Linda B. Glaser, Jeremy Hartigan, Emily Sanders An illustration shows Cornell’s hands-on approach to Hopkins, Krishna Ramanujan the many facets of its land-grant, public engagement Produced by the and University mission. Illustration by Steven Noble Illustrations; Communications. All photography by Cornell University digital postproduction by Christopher J. Kelly. 15 Photography unless otherwise indicated. 1

ezramagazine.cornell.edu which you can read about in this issue, our evolving role role evolving our issue, this in about read can you which as the land-grant university to the world will continue to strengthen. Bruce Thomas W. University Communications Vice President, Cornell Medical College Provost for Medical Affairs Affairs for Medical Cornell Medical College Provost comprising Laurie Glimcher – he charged a task force, this arrest 10 faculty members, to develop a plan to has now made 27 sweeping slippage. The task force of Cornell to return forefront to the recommendations excellence in international studies and activities. Skorton has This will take investment, and President years for pledged $3 million a year for the next five force Beyond that, the task international programs. an endowment of for fundraising to create calls report also new alliances that are are at least $70 million. There as in particular, certain to enhance our global activities – partnership with CARE, our cover story explains, a recent largest humanitarian organizations. one of the world’s the mission Of course, as our cover story points out, our historic land-grant that has been passed down from status has always included a commitment of service that But, as the local or regional. beyond to reach aspired in our cover Rebecca Stoltzfus, who is profiled Professor 150th notes in a video made to celebrate the story, just a anniversary of the Morrill Land Grant Act, “It’s of this century that we cannot separate the local reality the global anymore.” from and depth, examples of I know that with such breadth From the publisher Cornell graduated Thomas Sze, a freshly In 1905, S.C. native China to returned to his engineer, mechanical on the Peking locomotive superintendent work as a man as the is remembered he Today Mukden Railway. network, as well railroad who developed the Chinese power distribution in Chinese as becoming a force and banking. Sze because he so well represents I mention “Tommy” that has been part the spirit of global engagement founding. of the Cornell ethos since the university’s mention the work of Hing Kwai I could just as easily or our Fung ’11 in modernizing Chinese agriculture the 1920s in the Cornell-Nankingparticipation during Indeed, Cornell has great Program. Improvement Crop pride in the legacy of its international tradition. David Skorton issued a President however, Last March, of the quality white paper citing “evidence of slippage at Cornell.and focus of international That’s programs” Kent Fuchs and Weill why – together with Provost

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n April, CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations – with field offices in 84 Top: Andrew Mude; Center: Kai Keane countries and an annual budget of more than $500 million – announced a unique partnership Iwith Cornell that has the potential to maximize the impact of both institutions’ work on gender, food security and poverty.

Cornell President David Skorton heralded farms and Cooperative Extension offices the partnership as “an important milestone providing composting classes for gardeners. in bringing the impacts of research to our Indeed, many people are under the human family.” mistaken impression that only The collaboration is also a modern Cornell’s state-supported colleges example of what has long been known (the Colleges of Agriculture and as the university’s land-grant mission Life Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, to translate knowledge into solutions Human Ecology and the ILR School) for real people and real communities, are “land grant” schools. and to engage with, and respond to, the “In fact, that’s not true,” points challenges of the real world. out Robert Harrison, chairman of the For many people, the term “land Cornell Board of Trustees and CEO of the grant” conjures up only images of the university’s Clinton Global Initiative. “Every department, every engagement with agriculture – apple orchards, cows, dairy discipline, area, major and college [at Cornell] has the same

Above: Erin Lentz, third from left, a research support specialist with Cornell’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, with villagers in Kargi, Kenya, who she interviewed as part of a 2008 project to assess which form of food assistance they preferred. She and other Dyson School researchers developed a tool to help international relief organizations cater their food aid response to specific situations. Above center: Cornell students from the Sustainable Neighborhood Nicaragua (SNN) team participate in group activity with San Diego, Nicaragua, residents. Opposite page, from left: Students participate in the Cornell Public Service Center’s annual Into the Streets volunteer event to aid communities in Ithaca and the surrounding area; the state apple crop is the second largest in the ; Cornell helped organize the first West Africa Conference on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in July. Pictured are workshop leaders Gaossou Traore, coordinator of the National Center of Specialization of Rice in Mali, and Erika Styger, director of programs of the SRI International Network and Resources Center at Cornell.

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obligation and same public-service mission.” developing knowledge that benefits communities.” Cornell is New York state’s land-grant university. The U.S. This commitment to fulfilling the land-grant mission Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 provided a grant of federal through public engagement is a distinctive feature of land to each state to provide for “at least one college in each a Cornell education and one that is emphasized in the state where the leading object shall be, without excluding university’s strategic plan. It “depends on the interest and other scientific or classical studies, to teach such branches enthusiasm of faculty, staff and especially students to be of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic successful,” Skorton says. It is they who “help connect arts [engineering] ... in order to promote the liberal and outreach and public engagement so effectively to teaching, practical education of the industrial classes.” The Act, which learning and research.” also allowed the sale of the donated land to fund a state’s Ronald Seeber, senior vice provost and a professor in land-grant university, specified that military tactics be taught the ILR School, says that public engagement is “in the very at land-grant colleges and recognized that other branches culture of Cornell’s faculty, even among professors who might of science and knowledge should be embraced – effectively not have any public engagement duties built into their job extending the land-grant mission to all colleges and descriptions – from the biology professors who are helping departments at Cornell. New York state high school classes conduct experiments From their very founding, the land-grant institutions using supplies and equipment that teachers don’t ordinarily served the public good, then, by educating citizens in have access to, to the English professor who goes out and practical subjects and by creating new knowledge in fields volunteers in the local prisons; this is just part of Cornell’s that were important to their state’s economies. identity.” Skorton attributes one of Cornell’s most enduring Here are just a few stories that show Cornell’s spirit of qualities to its land-grant mission: “the commitment to public engagement at work today – in places as familiar as a

6 EZRA Winter 2013 The centerpiece of a new video, “Cornell's Land-Grant Mission and the Spirit of Public Engagement,” is the on-camera creation of this large chalkboard mural by Ithaca artist Marshall Hopkins. The drawing and the video chart Cornell's historic land-grant founding and how that mission has evolved into the university’s global engagement today. The video, available at www.cornell.edu/ video/?videoID=2432, was produced and directed by Cornell video producer Micah Cormier and debuted during Trustee- Council Weekend in October in Ithaca.

of reach, and that’s a pretty phenomenal opportunity.” Rebecca Stoltzfus, professor and director of the Program in International Nutrition in the College of Human Ecology and Cornell’s provost’s fellow for public engagement, is a prime candidate for participation in Atkinson Center efforts like the CARE collaboration. Her work centers on human nutrition, particularly for impoverished children. Stoltzfus grew up Mennonite and attended Goshen College, a small Mennonite liberal arts school in Indiana. She majored in chemistry. After graduation she went to work for a biotech startup company, helping develop diagnostic tools for monitoring blood sugar and insulin levels. “But it just didn’t feel connected enough to the things I value in life,” she says. 4-H after-school program in New York and as surprising as an As a junior in college she’d online repository of U.S. law. spent what she calls a “transformative” semester in Hinche, Haiti, where she assisted in a research project aimed at improving milk yields in goats. “It was eye-opening,” says Academic rigor and good citizenship Stoltzfus – not because of the goat breeding experiment The historic collaboration between Cornell and CARE, (which bred the scrappy Haitian goats with larger, imported established through gifts from David ’60 and Pat Atkinson, Alpine goats), but because of fundamental truths she will ensure “that the research will be scientifically sound witnessed as a guest in a Haitian family’s home: “the lived and locally applicable,” says professor realities and experiencing Wendy Wolford, associate director for diversity and difference and the the field of economic development in incredible joy and hospitality Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable amongst people who were living Future, which set up and administers in very difficult circumstances.” the collaboration. For example, she says, Yearning to get back to that “We have a team of CARE and Cornell kind of experience, she left the researchers working together on a project biotech firm and returned to to develop locally available fertilizers for school for a degree in human agriculture in Ethiopia. … partnering with nutrition. “It was one of the great CARE will make it significantly easier ideas of my life, really,” she says. to scale the project up from Ethiopia to Provided She graduated from Cornell with Wendy Wolford Tanzania or Kenya. CARE has that kind a master’s degree in 1988 and a

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Top: CARE International began working with the Cornell Ecoagriculture Working Group to conduct a Global Agricultural Review in 2010. The Guatemala Highland Value Chain Development Alliance, an example of CARE’s ongoing agricultural and natural resources strategy with women, provides technical support and market access to farmers to alleviate rural poverty. Above left: Professor Rebecca Stoltzfus chats with students about public engagement. Above right: In 2009, Stoltzfus congratulates Honest Massawe, the class representative from a collaborative global health and development course in Tanzania that enrolls both Cornell global health and Tanzanian medical students, as the rest of the class looks on.

Ph.D. in 1992. ‘It’s not just about where they are coming from. In her role as provost’s fellow, “This whole notion of public Stoltzfus is at the center of discussions doing good; it’s about engagement,” Stoltzfus contends, “is as about what part public engagement being really good at much about rigor as it is about charity. does and should play in the It’s not just about doing good; it’s about university’s work. what we do.’ being really good at what we do. There For Stoltzfus, public engagement are a lot of questions you won’t think – Rebecca Stoltzfus connects to Cornell’s land-grant to ask just sitting at your desk in your mission in four ways: finding office. Part of the knowledge we need solutions to problems, asking the right questions in the first can only be obtained by being out in the world.” place, deepening the educational experience for students After spending most of her professional life studying and “preparing ourselves and our students to be engaged in what foods and nutrients young children should be fed, democracy, which requires the ability to have conversations Stoltzfus had an epiphany: “I more and more realized that a with the diverse members of our society and understand big bottleneck was not the lack of knowledge or lack of food,

8 EZRA Winter 2013 Above left: Staff members from Primitive Pursuits, an educational program of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Tompkins County, pay a visit to a recent GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, N.Y., to teach children about nature. Above: but the lives of women who are the Helene Dillard, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension primary feeders and caregivers of since 2002 (and an associate children. I could have the perfect dean of CALS, where she holds food, the perfect message, but if a faculty appointment in plant there are not enough hours in her pathology), oversees the work day, if she’s being beaten up by her of 1,700 CCE employees around husband, if she’s actually clinically the state. Left: A scene from depressed, I could talk ’til the cows the Primitive Pursuits summer come home about what food she program at 4-H. Below: in , Don Tobias should feed her baby.” is the executive director of It’s a lesson she passes on to her Cornell University Cooperative students, not just by telling them, but faculty and the Henry Street Extension-NYC, which has also by giving them opportunities to engage with communities Settlement to improve offices in all five boroughs. themselves. “I teach about food insecurity in developing college-readiness of low- nations, but it’s really important for me that my students don’t income students through see that as an issue that is out there, outside our walls, outside an innovative partnership. our neighborhoods,” she says, “but [that they] realize that Other CUCE-NYC programs everything we talk about in terms of global problems does help high school students exist in our own neighborhood. It’s important educationally to farm tilapia fish in their realize that and to realize that as citizens.” school’s basement, develop science curricula around

A ‘partnership with the people’ urban agriculture and Provided Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) has a presence in provide free courses on basic every county of New York and makes direct contact (through research for adults. counseling, classes and other programming) with 1.8 million A recent example of CCE’s responsiveness: Within hours people a year. of Hurricane Sandy this fall, it made resources available Helene Dillard, director of CCE, oversees 1,700 CCE to victims of the storm. Its New York Extension Disaster employees around the state. “We work in partnership with Education Network (NY EDEN), eden.cce.cornell.edu, the people – it’s a multilane, multidirectional educational provided farmers, businesses and communities affected by highway,” she says. the hurricane with education on hazardous materials, food From upstate to downstate, including all five boroughs of safety, diseases and best-practice guides on dealing with long- New York City, CCE deploys agricultural, nutrition, health, term power outages and agricultural strategies for recovery family, youth development and urban environment programs. for growers. NY EDEN also placed extension educators on In the Big Apple, for example, CUCE-NYC works with Cornell disaster management and recovery teams.

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Left: Citizen U Teen Leader Mariah Crandell with Sue Siebol-Simpson, from the Binghamton University School of Nursing, at a Cornell Cooperative Extension Super Science Fun Camp. Above: Campers and teen leaders in Binghamton, N.Y., at the end of Eat4-Health Day, where teenagers taught schoolchildren about making healthy food choices. June Mead Kids teaching kids Citizen U program for at-risk teens are using the curriculum in after-school programs in Binghamton. In October, she Like Stoltzfus, Wendy Wolfe, a research associate in traveled to Florida to accept an award from the National the College of Human Ecology’s Division of Nutritional Association of Extension 4-H Agents’ Urban Task Force for Sciences, devotes her work to helping people – in particular, Citizen U’s efficacy. U.S. children – to eat healthier foods. In October, Wolfe won the statewide 4-H Award for Merit for creating two programs: Cornell 4-H Choose A way out, and up Health Action Teens (CHAT) and Choose Health: Food, Twelve men, all wearing green pants and drab shirts, sit Fun and Fitness (CHFFF). at desks arranged in a semicircle. They are inmates at the The research that informs CHAT shows that teens learn Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison by teaching, and that when teens become spokespeople less than an hour’s drive from Cornell’s Ithaca campus. for good nutrition, they practice what they preach. An Built in 1816, Auburn is the oldest operational prison in the additional benefit is that younger children, who are usually United States. taught by adults, seem to love learning from and engaging The youngest man is in his 20s; the oldest in his early with teens. 50s. All hang on the lecturer’s every word, their hands busy When she began searching for a good nutrition jotting lecture notes, their eyes alive with interest. curriculum for her teens to use, however, Wolfe found that The course is The Supreme Court, the Constitution and nothing fit the bill, and so she created one herself, with Criminal Justice. The teacher is Cornell Professor Emeritus the help of a consultant, dozens of CCE nutrition and 4-H Richard Polenberg. associates and teens giving feedback to fine-tune the course. “This is unbelievably exciting, interesting teaching,” says The end result, CHFFF, is a fun-packed, game-filled Polenberg, who taught at Cornell for 45 years before retiring set of lesson plans and materials that has taken New York as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History in 2011, of nutrition educators by storm. Favorites include the lesson his first semester teaching prisoners. demonstrating exactly how much sugar is in a bottle of cola, “These men are quite extraordinary. I don’t know what or the lesson showing how much fat is in the average fast- it is they’ve done, and I’m not really interested … they are food burger. “Ewww” is the typical response, says Wolfe, very, very well behaved in the classroom and considerate “and they often vow never to drink soda again.” and thoughtful, and they ask really good questions,” says In May, CHAT and CHFFF were selected by the Polenberg, whose teaching excellence earned him a Weiss National 4-H Council for a 10-state project funded Presidential Fellowship in 2003. by United Healthcare. Soon, children as far away as The course is one of 17 offered this semester, for credit, Mississippi and Arizona will be learning to eat smaller by the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP), which portions and steer clear of sugary drinks, following lessons has taught 425 incarcerated men since 2001. (No courses developed at Cornell. are offered to women because there are no women’s prisons June Mead, the association issue leader for Children, nearby.) The program is the culmination of work begun in Youth and Families in the Broome County CCE, has seen 1995 by English professor Pete Weatherbee, who, without how well CHAT and CHFFF work. Participants in her funding, began teaching in the Auburn prison. Since then,

10 EZRA Winter 2013 Above, from left: Cornell Prison Education Program faculty director (and plant biology professor) Robert Turgeon, administrative coordinator Marge Wolff and executive director Jim Schechter. Right: Shane Kalb ’14 earned 40 credits through the CPEP program and then successfully transferred to Cornell this past fall.

38 other Cornell professors have taught in the program, Making the connection with another 30 or so participating as guest speakers. Stoltzfus’ position as the provost’s fellow for public Annual funding of $180,000 comes from the Sunshine Lady engagement is part of the university’s renewed engagement Foundation founded by Doris Buffett, sister of investor and initiative: She works with and is a faculty fellow at Engaged philanthropist Warren Buffett. Learning and Research, a universitywide center created in Last June, the program graduated its first class of 15 2011 to strengthen the university’s public engagement and men, who earned Cayuga public service mission. The Community College ‘These men are quite center is being funded for its first associates’ degrees. “You three years through a gift from have created a learning extraordinary. I don’t know the Einhorn Family Charitable community within these Trust (David Einhorn ’91 and walls, and your example what it is they’ve done and I’m Cheryl Strauss Einhorn ’91) and holds encouragement for not really interested … they receives support from the Office others,” Seeber told the of the Provost and the Division of prisoners at the ceremony. ask really good questions.’ Student and Academic Services. CPEP executive – Richard Polenberg The center serves as the director Jim Schechter core academic unit connecting believes that prison public engagement with education “addresses a problem on which social progressives Cornell’s educational mission, and social conservatives find common ground: the a mission that encompasses the unnecessary burden on taxpayers caused by the 67 percent work of plant breeders developing recidivism rate among released prisoners. The system sweeter corn, juicier apples and hardier Brussels sprouts to improve isn’t working for the public good,” he says, “and emerging the competitiveness of New York research shows that education programs like ours reduce farmers; groundbreaking research that recidivism rate by 20 to 60 percent, so it’s a really cost- Polenberg in medicine, engineering, business, effective intervention.” sustainability and law that saves lives, influences policy and Among the new students arriving on Cornell’s campus spurs innovation; and the work of artists and designers, this fall was transfer student Shane Kalb ’14, who earned poets and philosophers – all of whom also contribute to the 40 credits through CPEP while incarcerated at Auburn. In education of tomorrow’s thought leaders, Cornell students. August, with good grades and persuasive recommendations “In the broadest sense,” says CALS Dean Kathryn Boor, from Cornell professors who had taught him behind a professor of food science, “our land-grant mission provides bars, Kalb moved from his prison cell to an apartment in key guiding principles that shape the College of Agriculture Collegetown. On his first day, he stood on the Arts Quad in and Life Sciences. From the classroom to the community, awe. “I have to tell you,” Kalb says, “this is the most beautiful the creation and dissemination of ‘knowledge with a public place I have ever seen in my life.” purpose’ is a driving passion. Building on the land-grant

ezramagazine.cornell.edu 11 legacy of applying research, teaching and extension to real-life challenges, we are addressing critical needs … across our full spectrum, from fundamental life science discovery to developing effective and sustainable strategies for feeding a population projected to reach 9

COVER STORY billion by 2050.” Access to the law and more The broader definition of engagement encompasses many other parts of the university – even programs and efforts that were not launched or developed with the land- grant mission in mind. More than half of all traffic to Cornell’s recently, new Web domain is from people visiting pages of From left, Dean Stewart Schwab, Legal Information institutions in Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (law. Institute Director Thomas R. Bruce and emeritus professor countries such of law and former Law School Dean Peter Martin. Bruce and as Vanuatu and cornell.edu). Co-founded in 1992 by former Martin co-founded the LII in 1992. Law School Dean Peter W. Martin, now the Guatemala have Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law Emeritus, also gained access. and Thomas R. Bruce, then the law school’s director of TEEAL reaches more than 370 subscribers in 86 countries. educational technologies, the institute “believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern An expanding proposition them, without cost.” In 2005, the Cornell Board of Trustees Committee on “We were kind of just hot rodding,” laughs Bruce, LII Land Grant and Affairs, which was formed director, recalling early forays into putting legal code onto the in 1980, issued its final report and recommended that Cornell Web as hypertext. “Let’s put it up and see if anybody looks,” he become re-involved as a whole in its land-grant mission. remembers thinking. The report explained that while historically, external By 2000, was calling the institute funding sources had influenced the focus of land-grant “probably the most expansive legal reference tool online.” programming in the four statutory colleges, “… the land grant Today it is without a doubt the most comprehensive collection designation and mission belongs to all of Cornell.” The report of U.S. law and court decisions available without charge to recommended further development of the service learning, anybody with access to the Internet. Between 110,000 and applied research and outreach potential of Cornell as a whole. 140,000 people visit the site daily. In the years since that report, that broader and deeper Ten percent of the site’s content is original, mostly engagement has continued – for example, through the creation written by students. A regular column of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the most analyzing Supreme Court cases is published in the Federal Bar comprehensive institution of its kind in American academia; Association journal and emailed to 20,000 subscribers and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research; and the members of Congress. Engaged Learning and Research center. The site’s impact is widespread. One day, when he was in “Being a land-grant university, in particular one as Japan for a conference, Bruce was introduced to a Vietnamese prominent as us – only one of two private land-grant woman who, upon learning his name, “started acting like I institutions in the country and the only land-grant institution was a rock star,” recalls Bruce, who was mystified at first. “It in the – is a tremendous competitive advantage for turned out she worked for the ministry in Vietnam that had Cornell,” Harrison says. “We are able to, number one, address rewritten that country’s commercial code. They’d used us as a the world’s problems in a way that many other universities primary source on American law.” are not, [and] number two, we’re able to attract students Another example of engagement through digital access is who understand that; they appreciate that by coming to a Mann Library’s The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library place like Cornell they are able to address, meaningfully and (TEEAL), which gives faculty, students and scientists in many immediately, the great challenges that the world faces.” parts of the developing world offline access (delivered via For Cornell to remain successfully engaged, it needs to hard drives) to more than 240 full-text agricultural research stay relevant to the prevailing forces of the day, Stoltzfus says, and other scientific journals. Before TEEAL, which was through “technology, increased diversity and globalization, founded in the early 1990s, their access had been spotty, and by responding to a new student generation and the public outdated or nonexistent because so many of these areas demand for relevance and career readiness. have poor telecommunications infrastructure and limited “So that’s our creative job,” she says: “To keep being the financial resources. land-grant university of the moment.” The nonprofit, digital library continues to expand, thanks to heightened promotional efforts and funding opportunities;

12 EZRA Winter 2013 BY BEN DUDA VIEWPOINT Discovering my pathway to service at Cornell

ot quite off the turnip truck, I arrived in Ithaca in fall 1995 from East Amherst, N.Y. (a suburb of Buffalo). Replete with a wardrobe Nof L.L. Bean plaid shirts, jeans and “Buffalo Bills AFC Champions” T-shirts, I was in for a bit of culture shock from my downstate brothers and sisters. I had chosen Cornell’s ILR School because it was a great feeder program for law school, and my father said that ILR cost the same as other SUNY schools but had the resources and cachet of a leading international university. Either way, my time at Cornell, like that of Provided many others, was about a process of successes and failures over four years of trying to find Members of AmeriCorps Alums’ Atlanta chapter volunteered on Martin Luther King Jr. my fit and my way forward. Day in 2012, tackling neighborhood yard cleanups and home repairs for senior citizens. My first breakthrough was building an Ben Duda ’99, executive director for Americorps Alums, is fourth from left. affinity for Professor Michael Evan Gold and his Socratic method of teaching. In addition to being My analytical and writing skills, developed at Cornell, were a trial lawyer with Supreme Court experience, Gold was now put to use supporting Habitat for Humanity in Long a former Peace Corps volunteer. He taught My Brother’s Beach, Calif., and York, Pa., and housing organizations in Keeper – Philanthropy and Volunteerism, which required Cincinnati, Vallejo, Calif., and Washington, D.C. our attendance at a guest lecture by Harris Wofford. Then A decade later, I’m the executive director for the CEO of the Corporation for National Service, Wofford AmeriCorps Alums. I get to share my passion for my oversaw the AmeriCorps national service programs that experience by connecting the more than 775,000 who have power nonprofits like Teach for America and Citizen Schools, served in AmeriCorps since 1994. This national network and engage thousands of (largely young) Americans in includes chapters across the country where AmeriCorps domestic national service. Wofford had previously served alumni are finding new ways to serve or alumni now as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, had been an adviser working in the for-profit and nonprofit business sectors. We to Martin Luther King Jr. and was appointed by President even recently recognized 12 notable AmeriCorps Alums at a Kennedy to help launch the Peace Corps. Wofford’s speech White House event. was an incredible tale of being a part of critical points in U.S. I returned to Ithaca in spring 2011 to share with Professor history and answering the call to serve. Gold’s class on Ethics at Work my observations on the ethical I left Olin Hall with an AmeriCorps pamphlet in hand, dilemmas that might befall a nonprofit seeking corporate wondering if law school was still in my future. Instead, and philanthropic funding. I also met with students through through Cornell, I found a pathway to service. the Cornell Public Service Center who asked about joining A CALS education class soon placed me at DeWitt Middle AmeriCorps after graduation. I was proud to see that the School as part of a weekly volunteering assignment with an same service ethos was thriving on campus. after-school homework help program. A summer job with My Cornell experience set me on a pathway of service. the Tompkins County Economic Opportunity Commission I’m glad to know that future generations of Buffalonians, kept me on campus for a summer, managing a diverse corps Oneontans or Greece-Athenians, as well as citizens from of high school students ranging from children of professors across the globe, will have opportunities like I did to learn to residents of local public housing. That summer the youth and grow at Cornell, in whatever direction it takes them. corps built a playground, rebricked a sidewalk and organized Ben Duda ’99 lives in Atlanta. Did you serve in AmeriCorps community cleanups. as a VISTA, NCCC member or with one of the thousands of So after graduation, while friends went into law school AmeriCorps grantee organizations since 1994? (Or even before and banking, I decided to join AmeriCorps. For two years, I AmeriCorps, as a VISTA volunteer in the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s?) traveled across the mid-Atlantic and West Coast, serving with Share your story at [email protected]. local nonprofits in different cities for two to 12 weeks with AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps).

ezramagazine.cornell.edu 13 BY KATE FRAZER Better veggies for New York

hen Michael Mazourek, Ph.D. ’08, was a child, (USDA) that brings scientists he dreamed of becoming a farmer, a chef or an together with organic farmers.

engineer. Little did he know he’d get a taste of “Here in New York, there’s no Provided all three professions at Cornell. ‘big organic’ like in California so WAs the Calvin Noyes Keeney Assistant Professor of Plant it’s all the more important to get Michael Mazourek Breeding, Mazourek spends some days planting crops for farmers involved in breeding,” he trials at the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment said. “My goal is to connect people RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT Station’s research farms, others collaborating with chef Dan with seeds that will work for them. In central New York, that Barber on unusual breeds like the honeynut means things like broccoli that doesn’t bolt, peppers that squash, and still others designing organic resist Phytophthora and butternut squash you can store in varieties to benefit New York state growers. the winter.” It was this work that earned Mazourek While funds for agricultural research are recognition by the Organic Seed Alliance increasingly scarce, Mazourek has been able to access (OSA) earlier this year as it marked the grant opportunities through the USDA and its Organic 150th anniversary of the land-grant Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative to help university system with a series public plant cultivar developers meet these and other of profiles on young organic grower needs. With the funds, Mazourek breeders, including Mazourek. deploys historic knowledge and new tools. A native of Newfield, Some projects – like helping the town N.Y., Mazourek was inspired of Irondequoit, N.Y., rediscover a to better connect farmers melon breed lost to disease – involve with research when he came combing through the dusty files of his to Cornell as an assistant predecessors. Others demand high- professor in 2009. “There were all tech approaches like DNA of these cultivars developed at Cornell Amber delight sequencing and barcode that had solutions to problems I had in my squash is a hybrid readers in the field. home garden for decades,” he said. “I grew between “honeynut” and Regardless of approach, he “bugle” squashes that Michael up one town over so I couldn’t imagine why sees this work as important Mazourek helped breed. It offers I had suffered for so long with powdery mildew better storage, powdery mildew not only for farmers but for the when these folks had the cure.” resistance and high yield for region as a whole. “Sustainable Under his graduate adviser, Molly Jahn, Ph.D. ’88, Northeastern U.S. growers. and organic systems contribute Mazourek worked on biochemical genetics of peppers, and to the economy and well- quickly developed expertise in vegetable improvement and being of our state and region. By definition [local food] has getting new products out to the local region. to be produced in our communities, and production in our “Professor Jahn was committed to bringing the products communities means profits tend to stay in our communities of her research to anyone who could benefit,” Mazourek said. and jobs grow locally,” Mazourek said. “I had a revelation about the importance of this work; I felt I “It’s one aspect of our economy that cannot had been training for it all my life.” be outsourced.” This spark eventually led Mazourek to get involved with OSA through the Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Kate Frazer is the agricultural stations Collaborative, a collaboration communications officer for the College of among researchers from four Agriculture and Life Sciences. universities, OSA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Mazourek shows a Phytophthora resistance trial with bell peppers to President David Skorton, his wife, professor Robin Davisson, and Cornell deputy spokesperson Simeon Moss ’73 at the East Ithaca Research Farm.

14 EZRA Winter 2013 ARTS & HUMANITIES ARTS

Michael Mazourek

12,000 points of light BY DANIEL ALOI

he newest work of public art on Cornell’s campus is giving Wiles, the museum’s Richard J. Schwartz Director. “We all believed T viewers a constantly changing, unique experience. in the project and are excited to have it at the Johnson for so many Leo Villareal’s “Cosmos” is composed of nearly 12,000 energy- different reasons, including inspiring students who are working with efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on gridwork above the Johnson digital technology.” Museum of Art’s Mallin Sculpture Court. The artist and his team Villareal said he named the piece “Cosmos” because “I grew up on programmed the piece during a campus residency in October. Carl Sagan and love that he spent so much time here. I was a geeky “It’s very abstract and very open-ended,” Villareal says of the kid with an Apple II+.” installation, which also is visible in daylight. “Once you begin Software, programmed by Villareal and project team member programming, it changes and becomes something else.” Jason Cipriani, will generate new patterns throughout the life of Villareal, project architect Walter Smith, and Lisa and Richard Baker the installation. ’88, who funded the project, visited the I.M. Pei-designed museum Villareal’s major site-specific works include “Multiverse” in the in November 2010 to work with museum staff to determine a National Gallery of Art’s Concourse in Washington, D.C., in 2008, location for the installation. The sculpture court ceiling, measuring and “Hive,” recently installed in the Bleecker Street/Lafayette Street approximately 45 feet by 68 feet, was chosen for its high visibility on subway station in lower . Another new piece, “Buckyball,” campus and from the city of Ithaca below. opened in October in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. Working with Andrea Inselmann, the museum’s curator of modern The artist said his work on “Cosmos” has also helped with his largest and contemporary art, the artist’s team returned in April 2012 to installation to date, “The Bay Lights,” which opens in March 2013 install a 9-foot-square mockup, and installation of the final work and will stretch 1.8 miles on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. began in August. The grid is attached to the ceiling through electrical Richard and Lisa Baker have commissioned works by artists junction boxes. including Villareal and James Turrell, and have worked with Smith Villareal says the installation also “reinvigorates the site. This building on several installations. To support established and emerging artists, was really radical in 1973, and it still is.” the couple created the Baker International Exhibitions foundation, “From the very beginning, it’s been the most collaborative and overseen by Lisa Baker, who also serves on the Johnson Museum’s exciting project I think I might ever have worked on,” says Stephanie Advisory Council.

ezramagazine.cornell.edu 15 BY KRISHNA RAMANUJAN

PEOPLE Two alumni under the sea

magine having a career that allows you to scuba dive and becomes deeply focused on her work. While diving, she in coral reefs around the world. Or what if you were has seen wrecked ships, manta rays, huge parrotfish, mating a veterinarian who heals seals wounded by fishing turtles, hundreds of sharks, nets and sea turtles injured by passing boats? For two and areas where coral covers ICornellians who work for the New England Aquarium in almost 100 percent of the Boston, such adventures are a part of the job. ocean floor. On March 11, 2011, the day a tsunami devastated Japan’s Though Rotjan will increase northern coast, Randi Rotjan ’99 (neurobiology and behavior), the time she spends in the field an associate scientist at the New England Aquarium who again as her daughter gets older, when works to conserve coral reefs around the world, was on a she is in Boston, roughly 15 percent of boat researching the health and ecology of a coral reef in Rotjan’s job is to write and ensure accuracy Indonesia’s Raja Ampat Archipelago. of exhibit panels pertaining to her expertise She checked her satellite phone and learned the tsunami as a “coral doctor.” She also runs a research was about to pass their way. Rotjan and her colleagues had lab with graduate students, interns and no time to leave the area; the tsunami passed under the postdoctoral researchers, and teaches water’s surface, raising their boat by only an inch. college classes. “Had the boat been raised by a foot or more, Through her lab, Rotjan studies predation on we would have been caught on the reef and coral by such animals as parrot and puffer fishes. wrecked,” Rotjan said. “We were very lucky.” She also monitors marine protected areas like Before she had a baby this year, Rotjan, the Phoenix Islands and studies a tiny New who received her Ph.D. in biology from England coral, Astrangia poculata, that has Tufts University, spent four to six months a photosynthetic properties. year in the field in such places as the Red Sea, Coral around the world is changing for Indonesia, Panama, Belize and the Central Pacific’s different reasons in different places, Rotjan Phoenix Islands, one of the most remote areas said, with almost all the damage due to human on the planet, and the location where Amelia pollution, disease, overfishing and sedimentation, Earhart’s plane is thought to have crashed. and such global human impacts as warming waters and “The Phoenix Islands allow us to decouple ocean acidification. the local versus global human issues,” Charles Innis ’90 (biology), who earned a doctorate in Rotjan said. “It’s a great place veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, to calibrate what’s going on, on a cares for some 850 species of marine animals at the Boston- climate-change level, without having to area aquarium, where he also contributes to exhibit design. worry about the local pollution [and Part of his clinical work is with turtles, small dolphins, other] more immediate human porpoises and seals brought in for rehabilitation or in the threats.” In such surroundings, field, in such places as the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Rotjan loses track Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Innis applies information from of time, lives at working with free-ranging animals to care for captive ones the whims of and determine if they are sick. the sea and In late September, Innis and colleagues helped rehabilitate weather, a 7-foot-long, 655-pound leatherback turtle found near

16 EZRA Winter 2013 death on Cape Cod. The turtle was given medications and The New England Aquarium, www.neaq.org, is located nutrients, outfitted with a satellite tag and released within on Boston’s downtown waterfront and features more than 50 48 hours. Three weeks later the turtle was detected heading exhibits, thousands of marine animals and an IMAX theater. It toward and diving down to 240 feet. The treatment also is a pioneer in marine animal rescue and a leading ocean and release marks only the third successful leatherback conservation organization, with research scientists working rehabilitation anywhere. around the world. Innis and his colleagues learned from the two previous successful rehabilitations that leatherbacks, the world’s largest Top images, from far left: Coral reef scientist Randi Rotjan sea turtle (they can grow to more than 1,000 pounds), do not ’99 at sea (her recent expeditions include trips to the Central live long in captivity, Innis said. “The key is to treat them Pacific Phoenix Islands, Belize, Indonesia and the Red Sea); a quickly and get them back in the ocean,” he said. healthy stand of Caribbean elkhorn coral provides shelter for Though Innis has treated everything from penguins to fishes and other reef organisms; veterinarian Charles Innis ’90 fish and seals, turtles are his main area of interest. “I’ve (second from right) poses with a research team that briefly been interested in them for as long as I can live-captured giant leatherback turtles to learn more about the remember,” physiology of this endangered species near Cape Cod in 2009; green sea turtles can be found around the world in tropical he said, adding waters; Innis checks on a juvenile Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle that they are (the world’s most endangered) before an MRI; a diverse array an evolutionary of animal life thrives in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, which boasts marvel, having lasted the most biodiverse reefs on the globe: hawkfish, crinoids, some 250 million years tunicates, soft corals and sponges. with the same body form. Still, Bottom left: The Red Sea hosts beautiful reefs; shown here freshwater, terrestrial and are characteristic orange Anthia fishes against a backdrop of marine turtles are all in trouble, mainly due soft corals. to human activities: They get hit by cars and boats and Bottom right: Coral reefs thrive in crystal-clear waters, kept so encounter development in prime nesting areas. “There are a partly by these plankton-eating fishes. lot of turtle species around the world that are monitored by All images provided by the New England Aquarium conservation organizations that are trying to prevent them from becoming extinct,” he said. Both Innis and Rotjan remember their time at Cornell fondly. “I miss Ithaca badly; I dream about it a lot. I really miss the environment up there,” Innis said. And Rotjan, who began college with aspirations of becoming a writer, credits a supportive atmosphere at Cornell, her neurobiology and behavior professor and honeybee expert Thomas Seeley, and a summer course at Shoals Marine Lab for her switch to science. “It was thanks to the general liberal arts education at Cornell, really excellent teachers, having access to Shoals Marine Lab, and Tom Seeley, who set an amazing example of what science can and should be,” she said.

ezramagazine.cornell.edu 17 BY LINDA B. GLASER FACULTY

From left, assistant professor Austin Bunn, graduate student Aoise Stratford, professor Bruce Levitt and graduate student Bashir Hassan discuss "The Life Before Us" in the Schwartz Center in August. Faculty and students from the Department of Performing and Media Arts hosted one of six sessions of the 2012 New Student Reading Project. A humanities influx

espite recent public commentary that the liberal joined us this year and last. Already, they are shaping the arts generally – and the humanities in particular landscape of learning in the college, offering exciting new – have become less relevant, humanities study classes, and bringing new understanding and innovative has grown in popularity at Cornell. Over the projects to the Cornell community.” Dlast two decades, the portion of students who major in the One of these newcomers, CAITLÍN BARRETT, is an humanities has increased by 15 percent. Strong student assistant professor of classics interest is one of many factors having an impact on the who draws on archaeological ongoing faculty renewal effort in the College of Arts and and textual sources. The Sciences: 60 percent of faculty members hired in the past importance of her research two years are in the humanities, even though humanists on the cultural, religious represent 45 percent of the college’s entire faculty. and trade connections “Cornell will experience an unprecedented number of between Egypt and faculty retirements over the next 10 years, making faculty the rest of the ancient renewal of utmost importance for deans and other leaders Mediterranean world across the university,” said Dean Peter Lepage. “Our goal for has attracted grant the College of Arts and Sciences is to preserve the powerful support from the Fulbright combination of humanities and physical and social sciences Foundation, the American that defines the quintessential college education in this Research Center in Egypt, and country. While it is critical to replenish our faculty in each Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research of these areas, I am thrilled that 34 humanist scholars have Society. Barrett spent many months on the Greek island of

18 EZRA Winter 2013 Delos examining first- and second-century B.C.E. terracotta for incoming students. His work is recognized outside of the figures. She found that many of Delos’ residents worshipped academy as well: His play “RUST,” which was excerpted in Egyptian and other foreign gods within their households, as The New York Times Magazine, recently opened in Texas; his she describes in her recently published book “Egyptianizing screenplay “Kill Your Darlings” is in production, co-written Figurines From Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion.” and directed by John Krokidas, with Daniel Radcliffe playing Although MUKOMA WA NGUGI, assistant professor the role of Allen Ginsberg. of English, has just arrived at Cornell, he already has co- MOSTAFA MINAWI, assistant professor of Middle founded the Global South Cultural Eastern history and a Himan Brown Sesquicentennial Dialogue Project with English Faculty Fellow, is an expert on the Ottoman Empire. Just professor Satya Mohanty. The weeks after arriving at Cornell, he managed to arrange project aims to create a more for the wildly popular first-run Turkish film “Conquest democratic and egalitarian 1453” to be shown at Cornell Cinema. He used the film global culture by facilitating and Q&A session to illustrate how the conversation among writers public perception of Ottoman history and scholars from Africa, is changing in Turkey, and how Latin America and Asia, these changes are affecting as well as minority groups contemporary politics. Minawi in the West. Wa Ngugi, who also studies south-south specializes in African literature colonialism in Africa and and post-colonial literature and the Middle East, and the theory, has published many scholarly shift from “old” to “new” essays and is author of the novel “Nairobi imperial models of rule in Heat,” the forthcoming “Finding Sahara” and a collection Ottoman Africa at the end of of poems, “Hurling Words at Consciousness.” He is also a the 19th century. Recently he columnist for the BBC, and his commentaries have appeared convened and organized a two- in The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, day international workshop on Libyan Times and Sunday Nation. history in ; in December, he will be presenting his AUSTIN BUNN, assistant professor of dramatic research on the Ottoman state’s relationship with the writing and screenwriting in the Department Bedouin tribes in turn-of-the-century Hijaz, at a of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) and a German Orient Institute conference in Cairo. Koenig-Jacobson Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, also has lost no time in becoming active on campus. Before the beginning of the fall semester, he worked with a group of faculty and students in PMA to create a dramatic staging of scenes from the New Student Reading Project book, Romain Gary's “The Life Before Us,” as one of six Cornell Contexts presentations

SESQUICENTENNIAL FACULTY COLLEGE GOAL ($) PROGRESS ($) FELLOWSHIPS UPDATE Agriculture and Life Sciences 5 million 2.8 million Architecture, Art and Planning 2 million 0 In 2010 President David Skorton announced a $100 million Arts and Sciences 10 million 8.6 million Cornell Faculty Renewal Fund to enable the university to hire Computing and Information Science 2 million 0.5 million 100 new faculty members by 2015, with half the funding coming from philanthropy and the balance from Cornell Engineering 7.5 million 7.4 million dollars. Already, alumni and friends have donated $35 million Hotel Administration 2.5 million 1 million toward the $50 million goal. The fellowships are called the Human Ecology 2.5 million 1.6 million Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellowships. ILR 2.5 million 0.5 million Each of Cornell’s colleges and schools has specific goals for Johnson 2.5 million 1.4 million each fellowship, and the deans have established plans to shape the colleges’ futures with the injection of new faculty talent. Law School 1 million 1.4 million Here is an update on progress toward these goals. Veterinary Medicine 2.5 million 0

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’70s films once suffered from the same dysfunction that too often undermines teamwork in health care today has Government professor dramatically improved. Jonathan Kirshner’s new book, Gordon is a health care journalist, training consultant “Hollywood’s Last Golden Age: and speaker on nursing issues; co-author Bonnie Blair Politics, Society and the Seventies O’Connor is an ethnographer and medical educator. Film in America” (), examines “an uncommonly adventurous era in It’s all about the brand the history of American film.” Years of research by Chekitan Between 1967 and 1976, S. Dev, associate professor of several factors – the end of strategic marketing and brand censorship, the decline of the management at the School studio system, and demographic of Hotel Administration, has shifts among audiences, been compiled in “Hospitality filmmakers and critics – Branding” (Cornell University converged to usher in the “’70s Press). film.” Kirshner shows how key films from this period, such Business strategy once began as “Chinatown,” “Five Easy Pieces,” “The Graduate” and with marketing and incorporated “Nashville,” as well as underappreciated films like “The branding as one of its elements; Friends of Eddie Coyle” and “Night Moves,” were works of art today the brand has moved into that reflected and helped shape political, social, personal and the spotlight and drives marketing philosophical issues. within hospitality. It has become the Kirshner argues that ’70s filmmakers showed that it was chief organizing principle for most possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious hospitality organizations, the book states, a never-ending explorations of politics, society and characters’ interior lives. quest for market share that follows trend after trend – all driven by the pre-eminence of the brand. Aviation’s lessons for health care Suzanne Gordon ’67 has co-authored a new book in Who’s who at Cornell Cornell University Press’ health care series: “Beyond the In “The Unofficial (and Slightly Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn From Aviation Irreverent) Cornell University Teamwork and Safety.” Who’s Who” (History Company), The U.S. health care system is Michael Turback ’66 compiles more spending many millions of dollars to than 250 “life sketches of those who improve “patient safety” and “inter- have studied here, taught here or professional practice,” the book states. otherwise contributed to [Cornell’s] Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 legacy.” patients succumb to preventable Cornellians included in the medical errors or infections every book include innovators, reformers year. and pioneers, world leaders, artists, “Beyond the Checklist” argues athletes, academics, scientists that lives could be saved and patient and captains of industry. This care enhanced by adapting lessons “drive-thru compendium” offers of aviation safety and teamwork. In entertaining details about “the accomplished, the iconic, the response to a series of human-error famous (and sometimes infamous), the noble and ignoble who caused crashes, the airline industry once roamed the corridors of this remarkable institution.” developed a system of job training and information sharing in Turback is also the author of “Surrounded by Reality: which pilots, flight attendants and ground crews communicate 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Ithaca, N.Y. (but are and cooperate in ways that have greatly reduced the hazards of about to find out)” (History Company) which is out in a commercial air travel. new edition with a foreword by Svante Myrick ’09, mayor The book shows how airline staff interaction, which of the city of Ithaca.

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lthough spent his later years building College and the his legacy on Ithaca’s East Hill, his story began affiliated Bellevue in the present-day Bronx, nearly 200 miles away. Hospital Medical From Ezra’s birth at Westchester Landing in 1807 College. Unhappy CORNELL HISTORY Ato the announcement of the Cornell NYC Tech campus’s with policies and a founding more than 200 years later, our alma mater’s history lack of representation has been entwined with the New York metropolitan area. in matters of The tech campus, to be located on Roosevelt Island, will governance and join the university’s other New York City locations and brings appointments, many Cornell University full circle, with a new campus to be built of the University Cornell University Medical College’s first less than 10 miles from Ezra Cornell’s birthplace. Medical College building, ca. 1910. As a child, Cornell lived in Tarrytown, West Farms and Bellevue faculty (Bronx) and ’s Bergen County before moving to and students seceded from NYU to create Cornell’s College the upstate New York town of DeRuyter with his family at the of Medicine, which soon moved to a new building on age of 11 and then to Ithaca a decade later. But his business First Avenue between 27th and 28th streets, funded by an travels would bring him downstate long before he dreamed endowment from businessman Oliver H. Payne. of founding a great university. In 1844, tasked with finding Although Cornell medical students are a rare sight in investors for the newly invented telegraph, Cornell returned Ithaca today, the first two years of medical courses were to New York City in search of capital. He constructed a offered on campus in Stimson Hall as well as in New York telegraph line from 112 Broadway (near Trinity Church) to until the Ithaca division was closed in 1938. Over the next 561 Broadway (near Prince Street) as part of an exhibition but century, the college would expand through affiliation with received limited attention from the public. New York Hospital in 1912 and the opening of the New With little income, Cornell often skipped meals and York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1932. The Cornell slept on chairs in the exhibition room. University-New York Hospital However, his hardship would eventually School of Nursing joined the pay off, and the telegraph would make medical school in 1942 but him a wealthy man, helping fund his closed in 1979 due to funding eponymous university in Ithaca just over issues. In 1998, the generosity two decades later. of Sanford I. Weill ’55 and wife In 1867, Ezra Cornell and university Joan led to the formal renaming co-founder of the medical school as the Joan turned to New York City talent for help and Sanford I. Weill Medical in designing and planning the new College of Cornell University. campus that would replace Cornell’s farm in Ithaca. White contacted Alumni in NYC Frederick Law Olmsted, known as Cornell University alumni the “father of American landscape in New York City were among architecture,” who had recently co- the first to organize, and the designed New York’s Central Park. Cornell University Club of New Olmsted’s plan cautioned against the York was incorporated in 1889. rigid confines of a quadrangle, but he In 1909 the association opened eventually went along with White’s its first clubhouse at 65 Park Ave., vision. His most lasting contribution may complete with parlors, reading and be the recommendation that White Hall billiard rooms, a café and a dining be built on the same elevation as Morrill room. In 1933 it added a satellite Hall to create a unified skyline. office of the University Placement Above, clockwise from top: New York Hospital- Bureau to help alumni find jobs. 1898: Medical college established Cornell Medical Center aerial view, 1930s; The club would relocate many Cornell University’s first major graduation ceremonies for the Cornell University times over the years, eventually academic unit to be established in New Medical College Class of 1955; Entrance of the opening its current location at York City was the College of Medicine in Cornell University-New York Hospital School of 6 E. 44th St. in 1989. Today, the Nursing (New York Hospital Training School for 1898. The new college formed following a university operates numerous Nurses) Nurses’ Residence, 1949. disagreement over New York University’s offices in the city for Cornell All Weill Cornell images: Courtesy of Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/ management of its University Medical Weill Cornell. Financial Engineering Manhattan;

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A Boldt Boldt ezramagazine.cornell.edu An architect with Shreve, E.B. White, Class – of 1921 longtime The contributor to New Yorker, White also authored the book Yorker, “Here Is New York,” which been has “Here Is New York,” called a “love letter” thecalled city. to a “love President the of First and chair National Bank of

White Houses in Brooklyn. Building, Shreve was also Shreve Building, lead architect the for Williamsburg campus is poisedmake to a significant impact in the city and worldwide, continuing Cornell’s as role the “land-grant university the to world.” EarleCorey is Ryan ’07 associate director student of programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs. NOTABLE CORNELLIANNOTABLE NEW YORKERS Richmond H. Shreve, Class of 1902 – Lamb and Harmon, the firm that designedState Empire the George F. Baker, trustee,George Baker, F. Baker laboratory and dormitories namesake – in wasbusinessman an influential Baker Citibank), (now New York In addition significant his to giftsand philanthropy. Cornell, he to helped Library Baker fund Dartmouth, at Field Columbia Baker at and the Harvard Business School. George C. Boldt, trustee, Boldt Hall namesake – merged the Waldorf and Astoria serving together, hotels as proprietor the of new Waldorf-Astoria which Hotel, often hosted trusteeCornell meetings under management. his He also is credited with popularizing Thousand Island dressing.

Guion Papanicolaou Developer the of First female

Surgeon general the of du Vigneaud du professor of clinical medicine and a A list all of the Cornell collaborations and programs Awarded the NOTABLE MEDICAL CORNELLIANS SCHOOL NOTABLE synthesis oxytocin. of biochemistry – Nobel Prize 1955 chemistryin the for Pioneer cytopathology in and developer smear.” the of “Pap Vincent du Vigneaud, professor of C. Everett Koop, M.D. – 1941 United States, 1981-89. George N. Papanicolaou, professor of clinical anatomy – Henry Heimlich, A.B. M.D. 1943 1941, – Heimlich maneuver. Connie Guion, M.D. – pioneer among women doctors. Hospital’s New York In 1963, Guion was dedicated Building Connie – the first building named honor in a living of woman . Emily Dunning Barringer, M.D. 1901 – ambulance surgeon and surgical resident; American Medical AssociationWomen’s president. grand ballroom. The heldThe Cornell a testimonial of New York Club dinner banquet and Livingston honor new in Cornell’s president, of Farrand, Dr. the at Waldorf-Astoria City Hotel December in New York in According to the Cornell 1921. Era, the event “set the water high mark for all time of City” set New and York in enthusiasm Cornell a record alumni for attendance gathering alumni as Cornellians an at 716 filled the hotel’s magazine and beyond. As the “beta” class students of begin their studies Ezra Cornell Cornell’s at Tech, NYC legacy in the has yet further. broadened Apple Big new The Division Alumniof Affairs Development. and City operating would fill in York New pagesthe of this the College Architecture, of Art and Planning; the ILR School; Cornell University Cooperative Extension-NYC; and the BY EMILY SANDERS HOPKINS Givers who keep on giving New recognition for loyalty, consistency and the habit of generosity WORTH SUPPORTINGWORTH

Above: Cornell’s Class of 1979 officers announce the Class of 1979 Cup for Donor Loyalty at the Annual Fund breakfast during Trustee- Council Weekend in 2008. The superhero theme, says Jeff Berg ’79, is easily explained because “Annual Fund Director Joe Lyons ’98 and his team go to superhuman efforts to motivate volunteer leaders.” Opposite top left: Cornell’s Class of 1979 officers pose with the Class of 1979 Cup for Donor Loyalty at Trustee-Council Weekend in 2009. Oppisite top middle: Katherine Houng. Opposite top right: Amy and Harvey Doliner are parents of four Cornellians: Allison ’03, Lauren ’04, Brian ’07 and Michael ’13. All photos provided

o honor and encourage regular individual giving 2010 and centenarians who have made gifts every single year to Cornell, the university is launching the 1865 since the United States had only 48 states. Society, named for the year of Cornell’s founding. The university’s giving records are reliable only back to “As we approach Cornell’s sesquicentennial,” 1957. Twenty-five individuals and couples have made a gift Tsays Charlie Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and every year since then, including Cornell Professor Emeritus development, “we’re excited to celebrate and recognize the Mike Abrams, a Harvard alumnus who attributes his 55-year tradition of loyal giving that has made our university into streak to “habit.” Others with 55 years in a row are Phebe what it is today.” ’52 and Sidney Goldstein ’52; Roger Batchelder, DVM ’46; Members of the 1865 Society include anyone who has and trustees emeriti Nels Schaenen Jr. ’50 and Patricia Carry made a gift, in any amount, for at least two consecutive years. Stewart ’50, to name but a few. Members include major benefactors as well as those who have Jeff Berg ’79, M.Eng. ’80, MBA ’81, past president of the made more modest annual gifts. Class of 1979 and current member of the Johnson Advisory Members include those who support a wide range of Council, has long been a vocal advocate for the sort of departments or give to the Annual Fund for unrestricted recognition of consistency and loyalty that the 1865 Society university use; as well as those who make specific gifts to only, represents. for example, the Lab of Ornithology, or to the hockey team, or “I’m not sure why people wouldn’t make a gift every year,” to support feline research or Student and Academic Services. he says. “After all, Cornell has given all its graduates a chance Members include recent graduates who have given since to be better off in the world from what we learned on campus.

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PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE TOWER CLUB “Thereason I give everyyear is becauseof the students that are Current students most inspire Katherine make to a gift Houng ’10 “We told them,” Harvey Doliner says: “You give. It doesn’t matter Harvey them,” how give. told doesn’t It Doliner“We says: “You “That spiritof giving back is criticalto Cornellon many levels,” says The The Doliner children, “We are amazed forever “We our at four children,” Harvey Today, 10 years after 10 their firstToday, togift Cornell, the Doliners are still Not allNot are consistent alumni. donors Amy and Harvey Doliner In 2007, under theIn leadership 2007, Berg of and his of some class fellow on campus now,” she says. “My annual says. she “My campus gifton now,” goingis toward their campus experience.” was a Cornell Annual Fund caller herself two for years and then a student manager. was She also a residential adviser and a chimesmaster. every says, she year, when gets she call the phone from the Cornell Annual Fund. Houng, is who in nursing school the at University Pennsylvania, of President DavidPresident 1865 Skorton.Society “The will,hope, I highlight that spirit and all that make helps it current possible for faculty, staff and students and the important our of great work university.” making a family it tradition. If canmuch. you only give a little, then only give a little.” in turn, are following their parents’ example and are Cornell to consistent donors themselves, incrediblysmart, beyond just knowing facts.” They are ethical.They are great friends to their friends. They are Doliner says. “We takeDoliner says. a little “We credit a of it, but bit for tremendous amount is it their of education. just really They’re good people. each other Cornell.” to go to supporters, and habit of gratitude, out they say. are parents four Cornellians: of Allison Lauren ’03, ’04, Brian ’07 and the poster family what Cornell “We’re for HarveyMichael offers,” ’13. declares. had great experiences, “All and them each of one motivated 35th reunion in 2014, it has 410 members who have made members gifts have who has it 410 35th reunionfourin in 2014, consecutive years. Cornell in every year from reunion one the to next. Coincidentally, the Class was the 1979 of first winnerof members the cup, in 2009, 311 with hadwho made giftssix years As the classrow. a in heads towardits officers,the universitycreated Loyalty,Donorfor Cup the 1979 Class of which is eachpresented year all to reunion classes in which either 55 their of percent members, least at or members, given 295 have a giftto Many us realized of have that paid what we in tuition is only a small part takes what it of educate to a student.” Provided

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ezramagazine.cornell.edu The Cornell NYC Tech campus The hasCornell NYC $5 The million is endowment memoryin First endowed professorship honors honors professorship endowed First ’37 Robert Tishman reached another milestone: The creationof V. itsprofessorship, first Robert the endowed Tishman Chair. Founder’s tech.cornell.edu Tishman had a long-standing interest in technology and goals The of techthe campus – including technology Tishman, City, real a major estate developer in York New The giftcomes partly $3from million in unrestricted

its use in education and research; supported he many Cornell technology initiatives and programs, many anonymously. commercialization across a wide range industries, of housed in an interdisciplinary setting with a focus outreach on – is a natural match with interests, Tishman’s said Huttenlocher, addedwho that the the of holder Tishman chair will profoundly shape the initial new campus’s faculty. Information: of Tishman ’37, who died in 2010 at age at 94.professorship died who The in Tishman 2010 of ’37, will a faculty to go member in the areas science, computer of information science, in or electrical engineering. computer or was founding chairman Tishman of Speyer Properties and Realchaired Estate the Board. York New Although Tishman announcement the of diedthe tech before campus, 2011 “the educationalcombination a major of facility in York New City that was engaged in information of the development technology been would have truly exciting him,” said for Lynne Handler. daughter, Tishman’s funds estate; from Tishman’s Properties contributed million $2 create to the honor in Tishman’s professorship. Provided The central esplanade campus with large open space, feature a key of the plan. proposed campus

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Cornell NYC Tech begins land use land begins Tech NYC Cornell images new releases review, U.S. Patent and Office Trademark Patent U.S. personnelto the to campus promote innovation and economic development. developing tech a new model of entrepreneurship. Earlier this fall, announced Cornell a first-of-its-kind Tech partnership with the Department U.S. Commerce of bring to full-time space Google by donated in Chelsea, and in January will begin teaching a “beta” class science master computer of of engineering students. up to 2.1 million 2.1 to up square feet housing approximately 2,000 full-time graduate students. facilities and a residential building students, for faculty and staff.openingAt site the will also significant include public the campusopen space. When will in completed 2037, include Current plans Phase I include for thefirst academicbuilding, as well as additional buildings that include: may a corporate co-location building, an executive education with center hotel designed Pritzker by Prize-winning architect Mayne Thom and Morphosis Architects. with the 2014, firstphase of the campusopento due in 2017. building’s ground floor that spills into open the space. and Merrill, with the LLP, first academicbuilding being parks the at island’s southern tip. spaces, highlighted a large by public café the on academic onto a seriesonto central of open spaces accessible the to public. The design will capture viewsof Manhattanthe and Queens skylines andlink the to Southpoint and new Four Freedoms their iconic architecture.” south spine that transverses the entire campus and opens Cornell Tech. “We are determined “We Cornell innovate to in Tech. every aspect the of from the development, that way students, faculty, researchers, industry and the community are intermingled, the to sustainability our of buildings and approaches to graduate to approaches research and education, our like look campus any other won’t university campus that said exists Daniel dean Huttenlocher, today,” of which aspires energy be to a net-zero building that harvests as energy much as consumes. it released new images the of campus in including October, preliminary renderings its first of academicbuilding, C BY JEREMY HARTIGAN LET’S GO BIG RED

Above: Nick Booker-Tandy ’13, left, and Shane Savage ’13 display the website and networking tool they created for student-athletes, The League of Extraordinary Athletes, www.leagueathlete.com. Opposite: Booker-Tandy in action for Big Red football. Professional athletes in another sense

enior football players Nick Booker-Tandy and Development. In developing a marketing plan for the College Shane Savage are attractive prospects for potential of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ student services office, the employers. Both are dean’s list students and duo got a glimpse at tools available to students on campus decorated members of the Big Red football team. for professional development. The two also were selected SBut their goal is that employers won’t be competing to hire as Cornell’s representatives in Management Leadership for just the two of them – they want employers to find every Tomorrow (MLT), the nation’s premier career development student-athlete at Cornell. And they want every student- institution that, according to its website, “equips high athlete to make professional development a priority. potential minorities with the key ingredients – skills, coaching “We want to create a sense of urgency while they’re here to and door-opening relationships – that unlock their potential.” start that search instead of [waiting until] their senior year,” Working with MLT, Booker-Tandy and Savage each were says Savage, a 2011 All-America wide receiver and one of the given a career coach and walked through the process of all-time leaders in every category in school history. “They preparing for job seeking, from writing a resume to interview need to be looking ahead right away.” prep. The program included intensive workshops and several With that in mind, the duo developed The League of seminars around the country. Extraordinary Athletes. The goals of The League include They landed interviews with numerous companies before increasing the number of quality internships and job both accepted internships with Google. placements, the connections among alumni and current Their teammates took notice and came calling, looking for athletes who share interests, and the number of career-related advice about resumes and interviews for internships and jobs. experiences during the summers, a down time for many Big Booker-Tandy asked to see one inquiring teammate’s Red student-athletes. To do so, Booker-Tandy and Savage resume. They sat down at Trillium and walked through the created a structure that includes a career prep program, a document. summer program and an alumni-student database through “I think I know why you’re not getting any interviews,” their new website, www.leagueathlete.com. Booker-Tandy told him. “Your resume is pretty bad.” Their journey began in AEM 2410, Marketing Plan “Well, help me fix it,” was the response.

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involving members of members of ezramagazine.cornell.edu every team. “The fact that students are running this and are Smith Director of w in charge their of future is a big reasonbig think we this “I discussed“I the program with Athletics and Physical Education. “I take pride in their focused effortsto science major Joshua Freeberg,science Joshua major who began programming and designing tool from scratch.the Web Shane and and Nick am impressed with what they developed have saidthus Andy Noel, the far,” Meakem advertising agency in Florida, them put in withtouch creative some artists. Aftermocking up site, the Booker-

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In 1940, the Cornell Cooperative Society (the group that founded what became the Cornell Store) published an illustrated look at Cornell University, past and present, wholly written and illustrated by then-undergraduate student Steve Barker ’41. Barker died in 2006; his son, Rev. Fred Barker of Derby Center, Vt., says that as an undergraduate, his father illustrated numerous covers of books sold by the Cooperative Society and that the “We Cornellians” book was created “partly for putting himself through Cornell.” But Barker was also fascinated with the history and culture of the university. “He loved it,” Fred Barker says. Barker says that his two sons, Steve Barker’s grandchildren, “both enjoy illustrating as my Dad did.”

32 EZRA Winter 2013 BY LOU JEAN FLERON NOTE END Living laboratory: On the High Road in Buffalo

very first week in June, students from Cornell’s ILR School arrive in Buffalo for a summer of community service, civic participation, urban immersion and research. They come from Eall over – from nine states in 2012 – for two intensive months of hands-on experience in grassroots economic development. I direct this paid summer fellowship program, The High Road Runs Through the City, funded by the ILR School. The city of Buffalo is an ideal living laboratory. It is

home to the very first ILR extension office, which opened Lou Jean Fleron in 1946. Building on more than six decades of history, High Road fellows get right to work with dynamic local organizations that are helping Buffalo transform from a rust belt to a green economy. The big picture: High Roaders atop Buffalo City Hall. Students’ projects are coordinated through the Partnership for the Public Good (PPG), a community- Here is a glimpse of some of the High Roaders’ recent based think tank with 125 richly networked partners, each contributions: of which is eligible to apply for a High Road fellow. Partner • Deanna Hall ’15, from Norfolk, Va., worked at Habitat organizations rave about the students’ contributions to for Humanity-Buffalo, researching the effects of home economic development activities ranging from youth ownership on families who have built their houses through participation in the arts to urban farming and local Habitat. “Knowing that my research is promoting the well- business development. being of the city of Buffalo and its residents makes going out After working Monday through Thursday on their on a construction site on a hot Wednesday morning not only individual projects, students meet on Fridays to share and fathomable, but a rewarding experience,” Hall says. reflect on their work and participate in workshops with • Michelle Lim ’14, from Phoenix, Ariz., was a fellow with community leaders; they then head out for guided walking the Health Sciences Charter School, a partnership between tours of the city’s neighborhoods, commercial strips, the city’s public schools and health care industry unions innovation centers and waterfront developments. From the and employers. Lim worked with employers to develop the historic Colored Musicians Club to the Bioinformatics Center framework for an internship program for the school and of Excellence; from the city of Buffalo’s director of strategic conducted an employment forecast of the local health services planning and Federal Reserve Bank economists to the founder labor market. of Prisoners Are People Too, High Road fellows get to know • Buffalo native Tom Wasko ’14 expanded service of the places and meet the people changing Buffalo. They Buffalo CarShare to low-income residents and students. experience the unvarnished realities of this metro area, from • Carolyn Krupski ’15 of Clifton Park, N.Y., drafted a concentrated poverty and urban sprawl to a world-class arts policy brief on a ballot initiative for dedicated funding for scene and historic walkable neighborhoods. public transit. High Roaders, as the student fellows have come to be • Chris Bain ’14 from Dallas worked at GO Bike Buffalo, to called, explore the city through the lens of the public good. engage local businesses in a bike share initiative. Their work and study reveal the linkages between the worlds The High Road thrives on collaboration, and I am grateful of policy and practice, the profit and nonprofit sectors of the for support from Dean Harry C. Katz and my ILR colleagues economy, and academia and the “real” world. They meet with and for assistance from Cornell’s new Center for Community public officials, testify in public hearings, write for online Engaged Learning and Research. publications, speak with the press, participate in civic events and live democracy in action. Lou Jean Fleron is an emeritus extension faculty Over the past four years, 47 students have been awarded member with Cornell’s ILR School, co-director fellowships. As the program has grown and attracted more of the Partnership for the Public Good and the students from across the country, affordable group housing director of The High Road Runs Through the City, has provided a shared neighborhood home. In summer 2011, www.ilr.cornell.edu/highroad. High Roaders were the initial occupants of Buffalo’s first net- Provided zero (energy neutral) rehabbed house on Buffalo’s west side.

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