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HUMAN RESOURCES APPOINTMENT Senior Vice President Frederick A. Rogers has announced the appointment of Mary George Opperman, currently director of employee services at Harvard University, as associate vice president for human resources. She will begin her Cornell position July 15.
HONORING ACHIEVEMENT A sampling of honors given to students and faculty.
Reunion '96 celebrated June6to9
By Jill Goetz Reunions have always had the potential to provoke revelation as well as nostalgia. In that one regard, Cornell Reunion 1996 will be just like any other. . The 5,500 alumni and guests expected to converge on campus June 6 through 9 will reunite with former classmates and profes sors, revisit favorite haunts and commemo rate longstanding institutionsand traditions; but they also will encountera new president, \ an expanded College of Veterinary Medi cine and a host ofotherchanges to Cornell's faces and places. As at reunions long past, returning alumni can compete in golf and tennis tournaments, an alumni baseball game and a Reunion Row; take guided tours of the Cornell Plantations, Lab of Ornithol ogy and local wineries; and take cruises on Cayuga Lake. And, of course, there will begastronomic functions galore, from Charles Harrington/University Photography A new six-story, 90-ton radome, in white, is in place at Arecibo Observatory. Part of a major upgrade, the radome houses clambakes to Mexican fiestas. One of the a new system of optics that makes the radio-radar telescope even more powerful and sensitive. The structure was best attended of these will be the annual hoisted 450 feet above the reflector dish on May 16. all-alumni luncheon at noon on Friday and Saturday in Barton Hall. Attendees also can indulge in a smorgas bord of educational forums, symposia and Arecibo Observatory's upgrade nears completion lectures at Reunion. In one of the weekend's COMSAT RSI of Sterling, Va., is prime the National Astronomy and Ionosphere By Larry Bernard highlights, Beverly contractor for the work. Center and Cornell professor ofastronomy. Sills, opera star and The Arecibo Observatory, home of the Remember that big dish that appeared "Itwi II open a new era ofradio astronomical Lincoln Center board world's largest radio-radar telescope, has out of a lake, then was blown to bits in the observationsofpulsars, distant galaxies and chair, will deliver the moved close to completion of a major up climactic scenes of the James Bond movie our own galaxy. We are looking forward to annual SpencerT. and grade that makes it one ofthe most sensitive Goldeneye? Well, the giant dish remains a host of new discoveries." Ann W. Olin Lecture and powerful tools ever designed for astro (although it doesn't rise from under water Also, "The new radar system will have a on Friday, June 7, at 3 nomical studies. it's fixed in a huge sinkhole in the hills of tremendous capability to image Earth-ap The observatory, operated by Cornell's northwest Puerto Rico), but the system sus proaching asteroids and comets," said Don p.m. in Bailey Hall sms (see page 2). National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center pended above it to focus the radio waves Campbell, associate director of the center, Otherfeatured speakerswill include New under a cooperative agreement with the collected by the 1,OOO-foot-diameter (305 as a 1-km asteroid is set to pass within 2 York State Assemblyman Marty Luster and National Science Foundation (NSF), re meter) reflector has been radically changed. million miles of Earth on May 25. State Sen. James Seward at the dedication of cently completed installation of a new sys Now, a new six-story, 90-ton dome The upgrade includes a doubling to 1 the Veterinary Medical Center and former tem for focusing incoming radio waves that suspended 450 feet above the reflector dish megawatt of the power of the transmitter White House press secretary Marlin will open new doors to the universe. houses a new reflectorsystem, a combination used for radar studies of the solar system, Fitzwater at a Law School alumni dinner. On May 16, the 90-ton, 85-foot diameter of two radio mirrors and sensitive receiver a 50-foot-high stainless steel mesh fence (His address is open only to preregistered Gregorian system enclosure was hoisted systems. The mirrors focus radio waves com (called a ground screen) to reduce the from the bottom ofthe I ,OOO-foot diameter ing from distant objects in space, or radar effects of interfering radio noise emitted Law School alumni.) reflector to its working position 450 feet signals that are sent out into space and bounce by the ground around the perimeter of the But the focus ofReunion festivities will be above, on the azimuth arm. The lifting backfrom the surfacesofthe planetsandother reflector dish, reinforcement of the exist on the alumni themselves, particularly those process took about two hours, starting in bodies in the solar system. "First light" is ing 600-ton suspended structure and in from classes ending with a "1" or a "6." the pre-dawn mist at 6:10 a.m. The con expected by the end of August. stallation of additional supporting cables According to Margaret M. Gallo '81, di struction work, part of a $25 million up "Weare delighted that we will soon have to carry the added weight ofthe dome. The rectorofreunions and alumni programs, many grade of the Arecibo telescope financed by a new much more sensitive and versatile fence was installed in 1993. ofthe 52 attendees expected from the classes the NSF and NASA, was begun in 1993. telescope," said Paul Goldsmith, director of Continued on page 6 of 1926 and 1931 will have their memories and experiences recorded for posterity in a first-ever Reunion archival program. "Preserving the Past, Creating the Fu ture," the brainchild of alumnae Carolyn Neuman '64and Alice Berglas '66, will pair The 1?ig weekendfor 6,000 graduates is finally here up alumni from the classes of '26 and '31 in one-on-one interviews with alumni from Here is an abbreviated schedule of the Arts Quad from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday, May 26: the class of '66. The interviews will be this weekend's 128th commencement • SeniorConvocation: In Barton Hall, • Baccalaureate Service: In Bailey conducted on Friday and wi II be audiotaped, events. On Sunday, President Hunter beginning at noon. Convocation address Hall at 8:30 a.m. Susannah Heschel of transcribed and maintained at Cornell for Rawlings will conferdegreeson approxi by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Case Western Reserve University will use in future projects. mately 6,000 eligible candidates. • D. V.M. Hooding Ceremony: In speak at the service. Elsewhere on Friday, alumni can join For more information about this Alice Statler Auditorium, beginning at • CommencementProcession: Begin President Hunter Rawlings, Veterinary Col weekend's schedule and activities, con 4:30 p.m. ning at 9:30 a.m., proceeds from Arts lege Dean Franklin Loew and some special tact the Information and Referral Center • Ph.D. Recognition Ceremony: In Quad to Schoellkopf Field. canines for the dedication of the Cornell in Day Hall at 254-4636. Barton Hall, beginning at 5 p.m. • Commencement Ceremony: In Veterinary Medical Center, which was re • ROTCCommissioning: In the David SchoellkopfField from 11 a.m. to noon. cently completed following a $90 million Saturday, May 25: L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy President Rawlings will give his first construction and renovation project. On • President'sBreakfastReception: On Hall, beginning at 4 p.m. Cornell commencement address. Saturday, alumni can join President Emeri- Continued on page 2 2 May 23,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Reunion colltiltued from page 1 Say hello. to Hollywood OBITUARY tus Frank H.T. Rhodes in the Field House for the dedication of the Richard M. Ramin Room, named for the late alumnus from the Robert Bechhofer, profe or emeri class of 1951 who was a longtime vice tu in the School of Operations Research president for public affairs at Cornell. and Industrial Engineering, died May 13 at Other events have been scheduled age 77, following a six-year struggle with throughout the weekend to mark the 50th Par in. on's disease. anniversary ofthe School of Industrial and He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Labor Relations and the 25th anniversary Columbia University and taught there for of both the Holland International Living one year before coming to Cornell as an Center and the Center for Religion, Ethics as. oeiate professor in 1952. He served as and Social Policy. chairman of the Operations Research De For alumni who wish to return to the partment from 1967 to 1977 and continued classroom, there's Saturday's Reunion teaching until his retirement in 1989. His Symposium. "Gender Issues in the Work particular professional interest was in statis place," from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the David L. tical ranking and selection procedures. He Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. authored three books and over 70 technical Cornell'scollegesandcelebrated classes articles in that area. will offer their own forums, including His lifelong interest in art was reflected "Women's Health Issues in the '90s" (class in an extensive collection of 20th century of 1971) and "Politico Phobia: The Elec graphic art, much of which wa donated to tion of 1996 and American Studies" (Arts the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. and Sciences). Cornell Library will offer He i survived by his wife, four children Adriana Rovers/University Photography tours and exhibitions, including "Invention and three grandchildren. Academy Award·nominated writer/producer/director Melville Shavelson and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a 19th-Cen A memorial service will be held in Anabel '37, left, speaks with film students in the Advanced Undergraduate Film tury Life" and "The Virtual Museum at Taylor Chapel, Thursday, June 6, at 4 p.m. Program during a campus visit May 13. Shavelson's support has allowed Cornell," a digital imaging demonstration Donations in his memory may be made to the thefilm programtopurchase sophisticatednewequipment and createthe ofthe arrayofartwork availableat Cornell's Robert BechhoferGraduateComputingLabo Melville Shavelson Film Awards. With Shavelson, from left, are Charlene Sun '96, one of this year's award winners, and Marisue Taube, director of renowned Herbert F. Johnson Museum of ratory Fund in the School of Operations Re development and public affairs for the College of Arts and SCiences. Art and at other museums. search, the Finger Lakes Land Trust or the What's more, alumni can attend several American Parkinson's Disease Association. summer session classes on topics ranging from art history to the art of publication, money and credit to real estate law, Shakespeare's plays to feminist philoso
phy, and lost tribes and sunken continents to I BRIEFS the geology of Beebe Lake. Although many scheduled programs will attract alumni from particular class • Alumni trustees: The Committee on vicesfrom 14 East Ave. to 420E Computing During the summer, Cornell welcomes stu years or colleges, attendance at some AlumniTrustee Nominations has announced and Communications Center(c. Uber),424 dents of all ages: adults and youngsters at events is likely to span the alumni spec that thi year's voting has been concluded, CCC (M. John Testa and D. Barnard) and Cornell's Adult University (CAU), high trum. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday in Bailey and the two newalumni-elected membersof 222 Day Hall (J. Merrill); International Stu school students attending SummerCollege, Hall, Rawlings, inaugurated as Cornell's the Board of Trustee are Elizabeth G. dents and Scholars Office (ISSO) from professionals in a variety of fields, and 10th president nearly a year ago, will Armstrong '68 and Robert T. Blakely '63, Barnes to B50 Caldwell; Cornell-in-Wash undergraduates from many colleges and deliver his first State of the University BME '64, MBA '65. They will begin four ington and American Studies Program from universities, among others. With the Address at a Cornell Reunion. That year terms July 1. 131 Sage to 471 Hollister; Graduate School instructor's approval, seniors can take evening in the same location, Cornelliana from Sage to Caldwell; Cornell Institute for courses offered in subjects ranging from Night will feature songs from the Alum • Summer hours: Beginning May 28 Public Affairs from 132 Sage Hall to 473 African languages to women's studies. A nae Chorus and Alumni Glee Club and Hollister Hall; Learning Skills Center and continuing through Aug. 27, the Office from registration fee of$50 percredit is dueat the comments from Rawlings. of Transportation and Mail Services will Sage Hall to 420 CCC; Council for the Arts time of course registration. No transcript, "We want people to go away with a open at 7:30 a.m and close at 4 p.m. Regular from 310 Sage Hall to 341 Caldwell Hall; grade record, or proof of attendance in the renewed sense of what it means to be a hours of operation (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) will Public Service Center from 14 E. Ave. to class will be kept. Registration and instruc Cornellian," Gallosaidoforganizers' hopes resume Aug. 28. 200 Barnes Hall; the Office of Instructional tion for the eight-week session begins June for Reunion 1996. Support from 14 East Ave. to CCc. 10, and the six-weeksession beginsJune 24. The same goes for alumni who stay • New addresses: Several campus of For more information, call 255-4987; write behind. Hard as it is for them to believe, fices and programs have moved recently, • Summer Seniors Program: Anyone to the Cornell University School of Con in a few weeks Gallo - and this writer and Transportation and Mail Serviceswants who is at least 60 years ofage may enroll in tinuing Education and Summer Sessions, will be celebrating their own 15-year people to be aware of the changes. Here's a Cornell courses this summer at a reduced B20 Day Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-2801; e Cornell Reunions. listing of those programs, with former ad tuition rate through the Seniors Program. mail
The law of laughter Soil-judging team wins a national title By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. Cornell studentswon the National Cham pionship of Soil Judging held April 26 at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla.,scoring2,060 points, beatingsecond place University of Wisconsin-Platteville, which scored 2,032. Third place went to Kansas State, followed by Texas Tech and Texas A&M universities. The national championship featured 17 collegiate teams. Cornell's Ulrika Rinman, an exchange student from Sweden, took first place and Patricia Gossett placed eighth in the individual competition. Sponsored by the Department of Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences in the Col lege of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Cornell soil-judgingteam had previously won national championships in 1982 and 1962. The contest required members of the team to describe soil layers to a depth of 1 meter, classify them, measure theirqualities for agriculture, describe their landscapeset ting and identify possible limitations for Photos by Adriana Rovers/University Photography uses in an urban development. . Team members, all undergraduates, and their hometowns are: Ulrika Rinman, jun ior, Varmdo, Sweden; Johanna Taylor, se nior, Lawtons, N.Y.; Steve Dadio, senior, . Above, Susan Morse Palmer, right, delivers the Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Joe Anderson, sophomore, student address for the class of '96 at the Law Atchison, Kan.; Patricia Gossett, junior, School's Convocation ceremonies Sunday, May 19, much to the delight of her listeners: (from left, Aberde.en, N.J.; and Amy Martin, junior, in the front row) Nan Colvin, Law School registrar; Kettering, Ohio. Winnie Taylor, professor of law; Comell President "Wewereregional champions last fall, but HunterRawlings; and Russell Osgood, the Allan R. going into this contest, we really had no Tessler Dean of the Law School. Degrees were expectation," said John Galbraith, coach of conferred on 224graduates. They includedPalmer the team and a research support specialist in and Hirohisa Yukawa, at right in robe, who isbeing congratulated after the ceremony by his friend the Department of Soil, Crop and Atmo Victor Addom '96, a graduate degree candidate spheric Sciences. from the College of Human Ecology who will take "We practiced hard, but this year we went part in Commencement ceremonies this Sunday. to enjoy the trip and we seemed more relaxed than normal. It just all came together. Being relaxed was the key," Galbraith said. Considering there are more than 18,000 soil series in the United States, soil judging is an exacting and challenging science, he said. Students also identified soil color, texture, structure and water table indicators. Children of divorce are half as likely to go to top colleges, study finds
By Susan Lang ously a major family disruption, and we're finding that it consistently and systemati Children who do not consistently live 'Divorce turns out to be a cally negatively affects a wide range of with two biological parents are only halfas marker for a whole array of significant factors." likely to ever attend a selective college, factors that have a negative In the United States, about 40 percent of white children and 75 percent ofblack chil even after researchers take into account impact on later life out· factors such as income and parent educa dren can expect to live with only one parent comes.' tion, according to a new Cornell study. or no parents by the time they turn ] 7. "The results suggest that students not - Jennifer Gerner Although other studies have looked at fam living with two biological parents are edu ily composition and its relationship to per Lillard Gemer cationally disadvantaged in a variety of formance on tests, years of schooling and ways," the researchers said. "We have point average, SAT scores, participation in when students apply to college," said whether or not the child will drop out of known for some time that these students sports and other extracurricular activities, Gerner, who teaches a course on the eco school, this study is one of the first to look receive less education, but now wesee they and identifying the top 50 colleges in the nomics of family policy pertaining to chil at family composition and the type of col are less likely to attend a selective college nation, theconsumereconomistsfound strik dren. Gerner also is assistant dean for un lege a student is likely to attend. as well. Ifthis quality difference is reflected ing differences between the two sets of dergraduate and graduate students in Specifically, the researchers found that, in later life income and other benefits, as students. They reported on these in their Cornell's College of Human Ecology. after controlling for factors such as income other studies suggest, then these children paper, "Family Composition and College Students from divorced households, and parent education, 28 percent ofstudents will be disadvantaged in other life out Choice: Does it Take Two Parents to Go to whether living with a step-parent or not, are livingwith two biological parents were likely comes as well." the Ivy League?" generally less likely to score as well as to apply to a selective college, compared Dean Lillard, Cornell assistant professor "Divorce turns out to be a marker for a students from intact families on grades, with 17 percent of students not living with of consumer economics and housing, re whole array of factors that have a negative standardized tests, school activities and the two parents; 25 percent were likely to get in, ported the findings at the annual meeting of impact on later life outcomes," Gerner said. otherfactors Lillard and Gerner considered. compared with ]4 percent of those living the Population Association of America in She pursued this research after she noted In a related study, also conducted by with one parent; and 2.2 percent of two New Orleans on May 9. "Not only are these that only 10 percent of the students in a Gerner and reported on at the PAA meeting parent students were likely to ever attend a students far less likely to apply, be admitted large class at Cornell were from divorced by co-authorShelly Verploeg, the consumer selective college, compared with only 1.1 and to attend college, but even given that households. She later discovered this same economists compared how elementary and percent of one-parent students. they apply to college, they are substantially proportion among the entire undergraduate middle school children who experienced Next, the Cornell consumer economists less likely to apply and attend a selective student body at Cornell, compared with any kind of family disruption (parent sepa want to explore the implications of these college," he said. the national average ofalmost 50 percent. ration, divorce, birth of a sibling, family . findings for tomorrow's policy leaders. Lillard, with Jennifer Gerner, professor When only students who go to college are move, grandparent moving out) fared on "Students at the most selective colleges of consumer economics and housing, ana considered, 38 to 40 percent are from standardized tests compared with children are most likely to become policy leaders, lyzed The High School and Beyond longitu divorced families, compared with the 10 who did not experience any significant dis making vital decisions concerning welfare dinal survey of almost 12,000 high school percent at Cornell. ruption in their family life. and other benefits for single-parent fami seniors and almost I5,000 high school sopho "Our analysis shows that it is not living "We found that all these disruptions had lies. Yet these students are, much more than mores initially interviewed in 1980 and re without two biological parents itself that significant negative impacts on children's others, isolated from such families. How interviewed in 1982, 1986 and 1992. has this negative effect. Rather, it is the scores. This is consistent with the notion can they make informed decisions if they After controlling for parents' income, family disruption that influences a whole that stability in a child's living arrangement are so unfamiliar with the all-too-common employment and education, students' grade constellation of factors that are considered matters," Gerner said. "Divorce is obvi- disputed family?" Gerner asked. 4 May 23,1996 Cornell Chronicle
GRADUATION 1996 STUDENT PROFILES New vet hopes to' form partnerships across disciplines
By Roger Segelken Veterinary students get used to being kicked, clawed and stomped by animals they're trying to help. Lisa K. Wingate, D.V.M. '96, took her lumps, too, but nothing prepared her for the heartbreak of having a vital research project with African elephants torn from her grasp. "I wanted to see what contribution veterinarians can make to field research in wildlife biology," the 28-year-old Winnipeg, Manitoba, native said, recalling the path that took her from the American Southwest and the Costa Rican rain forest to the nature preserves ofSouth Africa. "Veteri narians understand the role ofanimals' parasites and infec tious diseases - the aspects of health and physiology that have not been fully explored by wildlife biology - and that's where we can help. We can form cross-disciplinary partner ships in sciences where the tradition has been to work in i olation." The daughter oftwo health professionals was on her way to becomingasocial psychologist when the animal-medical "bug" bit. There was just one problem. "I thought I would be 'bad with blood.' The sight of blood flowing turned me three shades of green," she said. Adriana Rovers/University Photography Working as a vet's assistant cured the blood phobia. Then, Lisa Wingate, D.V.M. '96, prepares one of the Vet College's ambulatory service vehicles for another day's during the summervacations from Cornell, Wingate turned to visits to nearby farms. blood - and to even more distasteful excretions - as an unexplored window to the health status of wild animals. Poole. Nothing, it seemed, but clear sailing lay ahead. She started out small, setting mist nets in Costa Rica's Samples were being shipped back to Cornell labs, where Curu Wildlife Refuge to study the foraging behavior of 'I wanted to see what contribution veteri· physiology Professor David Robertshaw, who also is inter frugivorous (fruit-eating) birds and fingerprinting DNA to narians can make to field research in nationally noted for his research with African mammals, determine the parentage ofpronghorn antelope in Utah. Her wildlife biology.' provided valuable guidance. research subjects increased in scale when she met Katharine Abruptly, seven months into her research, the project - Lisa Wingate B. (Katy) Payne, the Cornell biologist who was studying was terminated by the conservation organization. The work well-diggingbehaviorofAfrican elephants. Wingate helped had become "too political," Wingate was told. There was no analyze already-collected data, trying to learn why el possible appeal. ephants excavate for subsurface water even when ample private game preserves. The International Fund for Animal A week before graduation, Wingate could barely dis supplies of fresh water stand nearby. Welfare (IFAW) hired Wingate in what was to be a multi guise her bitter disappointment. "I made a start on work that That led to a position at the Conservation and Re year project, using her hormone-monitoring technique to very much needs to be done," she said. "The termination search Center ofWashington's National Zoo, where she test elephants before and after their translocation. was a great disservice to the wildlife biology community, to performed hormone assays with zoo elephants' blood, Her South Africa project began in May 1995. At first the supporters of IFAWand to the animals. [f I don't end up urine and fecal samples. park officials tried to bar her entrance, but Wingate pre doing it, I hope someone else can." Sifting through mammoth manure "is not very glamorous, vailed and obtained samples from animals that were slated Then she brightened. "I intend to continue this work. I butit'snon-invasive and it is an emergingdiscipline," Wingate to be culled or translocated. The college agreed to juggle her suspect, though, that it will have to be in another country." said ofefforts to test an animal's endocrine status from what schedule so that Wingate could return periodically to Africa She also intends to build an interdisciplinary bridge it leaves behind. For example, cortisol in samples can show and conduct the study through subsequent phases. But last between veterinary medicine and wildlife biology - within whether the elephant is stressed, while progesterone levels in August, the translocation was delayed, in part because herself by earning a Ph.D. in that field. But first she plans a female samples indicate whether she is pregnant. shipping crates for the elephants were not ready. Wingate year or two of veterinary practice and has accepted a Collecting blood samples is relatively simple with cap trained a South African assistant in sample-collection tech position in a San Francisco-area clinic. "I need to get a solid tive elephants. Picking up feces and urine is safer with free niques, tried to "mend fences" with the national park offi handle on my skills," she acknowledged. "As the saying ranging and sometimes dangerous elephants where the cials and reluctantly came back to Cornell. goes, 'If you don't use it, you lose it.' hormone research took her next: to the Kruger National Park At an October IFAW meeting in Rome about the future "Then I'll get back to the project," Wingate vowed. The in South Africa. [n that park all elephants over a predeter of African elephants, the student's project was enthusiasti doctor who worked among elephants noted that her first job mined herd size of 7,000 are culled and slaughtered each cally endorsed by some of the world's leading elephant "will be in a small-animal practice. But maybe I'll get to see year - unless they are lucky enough to be translocated to researchers, including lain Douglas-Hamilton and Joyce some exotics on the side."
Honors thesis sent this senior back to high school By Jill Goetz Likewise, "[n the field, each student attends to the whole group's comfort, Senior Joshua Spitzer spent much of 'The course has been my safety and instruction, while in the class this past winter working with other stu own finest opportunity to room, each student practices peer-re dents, but not always in a Cornell build explore this intellectual view to develop fellow students' writ ing or even on the Cornell campus. and terrestrial world we ing," he said. For his honors thesis, Spitzer, a se Passions for writing and nature have nior in the university's College Schol inhabit.' long intersected for Spitzer, whose ars program, created and taught a writ - Joshua Spitzer resume lists writing, cycling, backpack ing and outdoor education course to 10 ing and cross-country skiing as pas high school students at Ithaca's Alter times. He has been a coxswain on the native Community School. Cornell crew team, an instructor for The weekly course, "Authors, Es resembled those in the classroom. Cornell University Outdoor Education, says and the Outdoors," involved in "I see the way that people access a member of the board of directors of tensive essay writing and field trips to natural places as very similar to the New York State Recreational Resources local nature preserves, including the way they approach the composition and a seasonal manager at Cayuga Cornell Plantations. process," he said. "I wanted to find a Mountain Bike Shop - all while mak Through a series ofassignments and series of lessons that would relate the ing Dean's List and Phi Beta Kappa. exercises, Spitzer sought to highlight experiences ofsitting in front ofa com But for Spitzer, teaching at the Al for students the relationship between puter to being in the forest. ternative Community School has been Robert Barker/University Photography how a writer approaches crafting an "Authors use many ofthe same skills the highlight of his Cornell career. Joshua Spitzer '96 poses at the Stevens Suspension Bridge in the essay, regardless of the topic, and how that outdoors people use to survive in "The course has been my own finest Cornell Plantations. The seniorcre· a nature lover approaches the natural and enjoy the back country," he added. opportunity to explore this intellectual ated and taught a writing and out· environment. He also tried to show how "Both must be confident, resourceful, and terrestrial world we inhabit," dooreducation coursefor localhigh the students' interactions in the field daring and playful." Spitzer said. school students. Cornell Chronicle May 23,1996 5
GRADUATION 1996 STUDENT PROFILES Engineering physics senior will use his opportunity to serve his vision By Larry Bernard Alan J. Renaud has news for Cornellians: The weather's not so bad in Ithaca. It's not even that cold. Winnipeg, Canada. Now that's cold. "Why, I go swim ming in Ithaca weather," Renaud says with a wave of the hand. "Just kidding." While the Cornell senior in applied and engineering physics may return to Canada after this summer to spend time with his parents, he won't be there long. After all, a doctorate beckons. Renaud, 23, knows about adjusting to weather. Born in the Seychelles, a tiny African island nation in the middle of the Indian Ocean, his family moved to London when he was 2, Calgary, Canada, at 9 and finally to Winnipeg when he was 15. But despite the weather, when he got accepted to Cornell five years ago, "It was one ofthe happiest days of my life," he said. Not only would he be the first in his immediate family to attend college, he was to attend one ofthe world's greatest universities and the onewhere his role model taught and preached the gospel of science: Like many oftoday's students, Renaud was "turned on" to science through the influence of another Cornellian astronomer Carl Sagan, director ofthe Laboratory for Plan etary Studies, whose television series Cosmos was shown around the world to the largest audience in public broadcasting's history. "I always liked science as a kid," Renaud said. "Butafter Adriana Rovers/University Photography seeing Cosmos, science became positively delicious. In the Alan Renaud, a senior in applied and engineering physics who will be graduating Sunday, poses In front show, Carl Sagan used to mention a laboratory he had at of Rockefeller Hall. Cornell, and I can remember thinking, 'what a university that must be!'" realm of possibility. "Shad Valley inspired and motivated Seychelles was backward. But really, I was the backward On the Dean's List every semesterwith a 3.8 cumulative me, and made me reach for the stars," he said. one. Having a good education did not make me a better or average and 3.9 in his major, Renaud studied engineering But first, a return to one's roots. The Seychelles is an a more clever person. I met my betters there," he said. physics with eager anticipation. He enjoys being a teaching island nation smaller than Tompkins County. Renaud has a Now, however, he hopes to give something back. "Many assistant - he will TA an engineering co-op course this large extended family there, 20 uncles and aunts and so ofthem are as equally capable as I. And they are hungry for summer session and has been a TA for the introductory many cousins he cannot keep count; he has not even met opportunity," Renaud said. Too small to become a manufac lasers course - and is doing research in quantum me them all. TheSeychelles, he said, isoneofthe most beautiful turing center, "the Seychelles is going to have to invest in chanics with Alfred Phillips Jr., associate professor of and exotic places in the world, with clean, gorgeousbeaches, ourone great resource: ourpeople," Renaud said. He speaks electrical engineering. palm trees, tropical weather and beautiful people, with ofperhaps making an "island ofconsultants," a reservoir of Renaud has been a tutor at Cornell's Learning Skills several unique species of plants and animals. For example, experts who even couldexport knowledge around the world. Center and a facilitator in the Academic Excellence Work the nation boasts the world's largest tortoises as well as the "If the Internet lives up to its promise, then the world's shop for introductory physics. He is a member ofTau Beta world's largest nuts (the Coco-de-Mer). knowledge will soon be at our fingertips," he said. "Like Pi, the engineering honorary society. He also is a Killam Renaud visited in 1991, taking a year off after high some families have a tradition ofbecomingdoctors, perhap . Canadian Fund scholar and a member of the Golden Key school and spendingabout halfofit there, encouraged by his we could begin a tradition ofservice." National Honor society. parents: His father, Sonny, a hospital accountant, and mother, Such a plan cannot be made alone. So Renaud wou Id look "Alan fits my definition of an intellectual: He not only Wils, a former teacher now employed in hospital records. to his brothers - Alfred, a computer science major at Yale, focuses on his field but also examines, without being re "It was quite a shock meeting my extended family for and Alex, an electrical engineering major at the University quired to do so, ideas and information outside that field, what was really the first time," he said. "What a surprise it of Manitoba - to help kick start the information revolution relating them to each other," said Penny J. Beebe, senior was to meet people who not only looked like me but acted in the Seychelles, and perhaps spread it throughout Africa. lecturer in the Engineering Communications Program, who like me, talked liked me, even laughed like me. There was "You see," he explained with the fervor of idealism, "I taught Renaud. "His mind is alive, and he is interested." a feeling ofgenetic familiarity." represent the first generation from when most African What really set the stage for Renaud's Cornell years was At times confusing-natives speak Creole patois, French countries received their independence. Our parents did not getting accepted, after high school, into Shad Valley, and English, and television shows may be in anyone of the have these opportunities. There is so much to be done in the Canada's premier and exclusive summer program in sci three languages - his visit was a humbling experience, too, world. I want to make as much of a differenc~ as I can. ence, technology and entrepreneurship. There, he met an as Renaud admits to having been somewhat conceited: "We need a new vision for the world. We have to blend other student who had applied to Cornell, and what previ "I had felt like I was special coming from Canada, with ideas from different peoples, different cultures. And where ously had been fantasy for Renaud suddenly became in the all its good schools and everything, and I had thought the there are obstaclcs, we will have to persist despite them." Lecturer-choreographer takes final steps toward a theater arts degree
By Jill Goetz tourcd the United Statcs and Europe with the Mcree Cunningham Dance Company. Jim Self teaches dance in Cornell's De His work has bcen commi sioncd by the partment of Theatre Arts. So why has he Jacob's Pillow and American Dance Festi been taking courses in anthropology, essay vals, Dance Theater Workshop, Boston writing and astronomy? Ballct and Rome Opera - the lattcr for thc Because he is also a student, about to 1984 edition of The Civil Wars by Philip earn his bachelor'sdegree through Cornell's Glass and Robert Wilson. Hc is the rccipi College Scholars program. And like many ent of several choreography fellowships students enrolled in the program, he has from the National Endowment for the Arts, carved out an imaginative and interdiscipli and in 1986 he was the subject of an Ala nary curriculum. bama Public Television special, "Jim Self Self has taught modern dance and chore Comes Homc." ography at Cornell's Center for Theatre While developing his own dance tech Arts si nce 1989 (the year thecenteropened). nique, Self was teaching it to others at Since enrollingas a Cornell student in 1991, American and European institutions be he has managed to fulfill the requirements fore coming to Cornell. But that teaching for an undergraduate degree by balancing a background did not prepare him for the full teaching load with daytime, evening role of student. and summer classes. "It was strange being older than the other He devoted this past year to an honors Thomas Hocbbel/UI/iversity Photography students," said Self, 42. "At first, Iwas very thesis titled "Chez Dada, Chez Moi (The JimSen, center,inblack,in"MerceCunningham andthe Shrine ofDancing Iguana quiet; Ididn't want to appear to be dominat House of Dada Selt)." Consciousness orThe Life in John's Cage with Ella and Louis," a perfonnance he ing class discussions. But orne ofmy teach "It is an autobiographical novel describ conceived and directed at the Center for Theatre Arts in March of 1995. ers were particularly open to my presence ingand illustrating how Icameto inhabit the and encouraged me to bring my personal •House of Dada,n, he said of the project. reflects upon its concepts and forms. I'm in the arts. The Alabama native first danced experiences to the classroom situation." "The novel is a late 20th-century reflection practicing Dada, not historicizing Dada." professionally with Shirley Mordine's Chi After receiving his degree on May 26, ofself-fractured Dada ideals.Thework does Self hopes to use the novel as material for cago Dance Troupe and went on to choreo Selfwill return to teachingat Cornell. Ifhe's not specifically address the literary and ar future dance performances. graph several works before moving to New lucky, he'll encounter other nontraditional tistic movement of Dadaism, but instead Not surprisingly,Setrslife story issteepcd York City in the Jate 19705. From there, he students like the one he used to be. 6 May 23,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Long jumper from Croatia leaps past many obstacles
By Michael Jason Lee Anita Jakelic ha come a long way literally and figuratively. ~~~rt~ ~_r~m~_ Ju t over three years ago, Jakelic was trapped in a nightmare. A nativeofZagreb, Croatia, her country was engulfed in a they do over in Europe." brutal war that had devastating effects on Jakelic'sperformance improved mark the entire nation. Destruction, bombings edly in her sophomore season, as her and death were commonplace, as citizens diligent training reaped a record-break lived in constant fear ofwhat the next day ing year. might bring. During the indoor season, she placed With the assistanceofherolderbrother, first at the Heptagonal championships in Davor, Jakelic wa able to escape the the triple jump and finished third at the horrors of her homeland. Davor, who al Eastern College Athletic Conference with ready was attending Cornell and was a an NCAA qualifying and school record member of the var ity track team, con leap of 41-1 3/4. Outdoors, she estab vinced hi si ter to pur ue her education lishedaschool record in the triplejump by in America. leaping 40-2 3/4 at the Irvine Invitational "My country was in a war for two and won the long jump at the Heps with a years," Jakelic said. "I just applied to personal best of 18-4 1/2. Cornell because I wanted to escape from Strategic training adjustments were my country." implemented before her junior year that Adju ting to the new environment would enable Jakelic to "peak" at crucial proved difficult for Jakelic, in part be season-ending meets. cau e of her rudimentary understanding "Last year I would start working really of English and the unfamiliar surround hard in the beginning of the year in No ing. vember and December, and by the time "I didn't know anything about Cornell, January came I slowed down," Jakelic how good ofa school it was or even what said, noting that she peaked earlier in the I was going to find here," the junior eco season than she had hoped to. "This year, nomics major recalled. "I just kind of wedid it the otherway around. We worked figured that I had to be here for four a little bit less at the beginning and then years." started building in February and March Photo courtesy ofSports Communications Despite her misgivings, lakelic and then slowed down in ApriL" Anita Jakelic takes off in her specialty - the triple jump - during a meet in quickly carved herself a niche on the Unfortunately, the new training method her sophomore year. Cornell women's track team. In her did not lead to the desired results, as first year on the squad, she shattered Jakelic struggled through her junior sea ground with her country being torn apart have to do this or that, or if you don't both the indoor and outdoor freshman son and was unable to sustain her success. with strife. She has been able to find a safe feel well, no one's going to make you record for the triple jump. She garnered her lone first-place finishes haven over here and do what she needs to practice anyway. In my country, you Jakelic worked closely with assistant in the triplejump and longjump at the Sea do to grow and prosper. can't skip practice, you have to do what track coach Rich Bowman to improve her Ray Relays (April 13) and the triple jump "She has shown everyone that no mat ever they want you to do." jumping technique. Ironically, Jakelic's against Penn on April 20. ter how hard it is, you can always find a The improved conditions in her home unique background led her to play the Despite her performance on the track, way to succeed," he said. land, coupled with a successful transition roles of student and teacher. Bowman recognizes that Jakelic has Jakelic values the freedoms offered to to America, have led Jakelic to re-evalu "The coaches gets more educated and excelled in other equally important en her in America, freedoms not available to ate her feelings for Cornell. learn more by working with a foreign deavors. students in her homeland. "I realize that this is the place I want to athlete than they do with athletes in the "It's always tough when a foreign ath "Cornell has so much opportunity. be. I no longer feel I am here because I state that are doing the arne things to get lete comes to a new country and adjusts, You can do whatever you want here. have to be," she said. "I am really enjoy better," Bowman said. "Anita has edu and Anita has done that well." said the 16 like selecting the subjects you want to ing myselfand realize how much I missed cated me in a lot of ways and made me a year track mentor. "She has had a lot of study and choosing your own major," my freshman year." better coach by showing me some things tough things that went on in her back- she said. "There's nobody to say you Clearly, Jakelic has come a long way.
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The upgrade gives the Arecibo telescope much better Observatory has long history of achie\Tement sensitivity that it could be used to listen in to a cellular Arecibo facts screen is 50 feet high surrounding the perimeter of the telephone call on Venus; and the radar could detect a steel primary antenna, the reflector dish. It has an area of golf ball at the distance of the moon. The new system • Arecibo Observatory was built in 1963 by the U.S. about 16,000 square meters, the size of five football increases the tele cope's sensitivity by a factor ofabout 20 Air Force under the initiative of Professor William fields. The screen reduces radio noise emitted by the for radar studies of the solar system - comets, planets, Gordon and his colleagues at Cornell. It was primarily ground that gets into the receiver systems. moons and asteroids. Studies of the radio waves from intended for radar studies ofthe Earth's ionosphere, but it was realized that the telescope would be a very distant galaxies, pulsars, quasars and other objects can be Arecibo accomplishments made 10 times faster with the new focusing system, and the significant new instrument for the then relatively new much greater frequency coverage (300 MHz to 10,000 fields of radio and radar astronomy. In addition to its • The first planets outside the solar system were MHz) will open up new studies of molecules in star astronomical observations, it is still used for atmo discovered around a pulsar. forming regions of our own galaxy. spheric and ionosphericstudies. It has been managed by • One of its first accomplishments: Establishing the A spherical reflector such as the Arecibo dish does not Cornell since its construction. first for the Air Force and, rotation rate ofMercury, which turned out to be 59 days focus radio waves to a point as does a parabolic satellite after 1970, for the National Science Foundation. rather than the previously suspected 88 days (1965). antenna, but the symmetry properties ofa phere mean that • With a fixed spherical reflector dish and a • The first pulsar in a binary system was discovered. it is possible to "steer" the telescope to look in different steerable feed system, the observatory was upgraded leading to important confirmation of Einstein's theory directions by moving the focusing system rather than the in the 1970s shortly after Cornell began operating it ofgeneral relativity and a Nobel Prize for Russell Hulse entire 1,000-foot reflector. The original focusing system for the NSF. An improved surface and high-power and Joseph Taylor of Princeton University. consisted of long, linear wave guide elements (the villain in solar system radar were added. This upgrade was • Investigation of ice in craters at the polar regions of Goldeneye fell from the bottom ofone of these) which have funded by the NSF, with NASA contributing the the planet Mercury with the radar system. many disadvantages; a different one is needed for each funds for the radar transmitter. • Provided much ofour pre-Magellan mission knowl frequency, and they are very difficult to build, virtually • The reflector dish is 1,000 feet in diameter (305 edge of the surface of Venus via 1.5 km (I mile) impo ible at frequencies above about 3,000 MHz. meters), as big as 26 football fields. Its surface is made resolution imagery of the surface through the planet's The new system, called a Gregorian system, does it with of 38,800 reflective aluminum panels. The ground cloud cover using the radar system. mirrors, one about 80 feet in diameter. the other about 28 feet across. The mirrors are enclosed in the dome along with the new radar transmitter and microwave receivers. The lengths. "The high sensitivity and broad frequency cover in turn can yield clues to the distribution of"missing matter" whole structure is attached to trolleys moving on the 300 age ofthe upgraded Arecibo Observatory will allow detec in the universe. foot-long curved feed arm suspended above the dish. tion and study of a range ofvery heavy molecules in these • Comets, like Comet Hale-Bopp, which will be visible Thus, the new Arecibo Observatory holds promise for coldest regions of the galaxy," Goldsmith said. Thus, this fall and Comet Hyakutake, which was visible from decades of new discoveries, as it opens up new areas of scientists will have a new tool to study the chemical and Earth in March, and near-Earth asteroids can be studied in research. Here is an example ofsome ofthe science that can physical conditions in the regions where new stars and far greaterdetail with the upgraded radar system at Arecibo. be investigated: planets around them form. • Pulsars can be examined more closely, and more of • Birth ofstars. New stars form out ofcold cloudsofdust •• Extra-galacticstudies. Astronomersstudyingthe large them become accessible, with the increased sensitivity. The and gas, which emit no visible radiation. But the molecular scale structure of the universe will have a much improved first planets outside oursolarsystem were discovered around material in these clouds emit radiation at radio wave- ability to measure velocities and masses ofgalaxies, which a pulsar using the Arecibo Observatory.
• Cornell Chronicle May 23,1996 7
CORNELL RESEARCH
Embryo transfer procedure offers hope for endangered species
By Roger Segelken Marshall Farms Inc. of North Rose, N.Y., donated domestic ferrets and pro Cornell animal scientists may have a vided technical assistance in ferret hus way to help rebuild populations of endan bandry. Michael Simkin ofthe Department gered mammalian species, now that they ofAnimal Science and Paul Roberts in the have succeeded in the first live births by College of Veterinary Medicine contrib non-surgical embryo collection and trans uted technical expertise in various phases fer in domestic ferrets. of the experiments. The experiments were Their new procedure with specially supported by the New York Cooperative designed, miniature instruments is ex Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the pected to offer a less invasive way to Department of Animal Science at Cornell. harvest and transfer embryos. Surgical Additional equipment and support was pro procedures pose health risks to the animal vided by the cardiology and urology de and may compromise its ability to repro partments ofthe Cornell University Medi duce naturally - particularly important cal College in New York City. considerations when working with en Kidder spent two years developing the dangered species. transfer procedure with rabbits before at Two healthy domestic ferrets (Musteta tempting ferrets. The first live birth ofrab putorius furo) were born April 15 in an bits from non-surgical embryo collection animal science laboratory at the College of and transfer occurred April 25. Although Agriculture and Life Sciences, 49 days the rabbit's reproductive tract is somewhat after 12 seven-day-old embryos were non larger, its different shape presented other surgically collected and transferred to a challenges and required the development surrogate mother of the same species. The ofspecial instruments as well, he noted. scientists plan to further refine the tech The zoologist expects to perform about nique with domesticated ferrets, which are 30transfer procedures in domesticated fer plentiful as pets, and nope to apply the rets before trying the technique with a spe technique to black-footed ferrets (Musteta cies as endangered as the black-footed fer lIigripes), one of the rarest mammals in ret. One question still to be answered is North America. whether the domesticated species, which "We believe this is the first non-surgi originally came from Europe, is closely cal embryo collection and transfer result enough related toserve asasurrogate mother ing in live young in small- to medium for black-footed ferret embryos. sized mammals," said Robert H. Foote, Taking reproductive science a step fur the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of ther, a single ferret embryo at the appropri Animal Science and Physiology Emeritus ate stage of early development could be who, with Cornell colleague Xiangzhong cloned with techniques now being per Yang, pioneered many ofthe cloning pro fected by Yangand colleaguesin the Cornell cedures used today incattle. Embryo trans Embryo Bioengineering Program and at fer is now an everyday occurrence in other laboratories. Using the rabbit as a cattle, but it is still in its infancy - so to model, the ferret embryo may be able to be speak - in exotic animals. separated into as many as 32totipotent cells Collecting and transferring embryos - each with the potential ofgrowing into a non-surgically has been one of the stum genetically identical animal. bling blocks, Foote noted. The non-surgi When cloning cattle, the nucleus of cal procedure was developed in ferrets each separated embryo cell is put in a and rabbits, as a model for eventual appli special "nurse egg" cell that already cation to other small mammals, including Adriana Rovers/University Photography has its nucleus removed, Foote ex endangered species. Graduate student Jeffrey Kidder displays two baby ferrets - bom as the plained. Those reconstructed embryos Until now, surgical procedures required result of a new, non-surgical embryo-transfer procedure - and their surro are then activated, cultured and grown gate mother. entering through an animal's abdomen to to a stage called the blastocyst, which flush embryos from - or transfer them to developed and performed the non-surgi ferret's uterus. The fluid flushes embryos are transferred to synchronized recipi - the oviduct or uterus. Non-surgical em cal embryo collection and transfer. "I had out through the catheter and into collec ents. Although 32 clones from one bryo collection and transfer has been tried help from cardiologists and urologists in tion dishes. Harvested embryos are se embryo are theoretically possible, that experimentally in larger wild animals in developing the procedure, but even their lected by microscopic examination for number has not yet been achieved be zoos, but the ferret was a greater chal instruments were too large." viability and held in a nutrient solution. cause of the difficulty of the multistep lenge because its reproductive anatomy is The ferret embryos are harvested from Embryo transfer in ferrets reverses the process, Foote said. on a much smaller scale. the donor animal with an array ofcustom process. The embryos are transferred, us The cloning studies hold hope for even "The ferret's cervix is not much big built instruments, including a 0.86-milli ing cathetersofsimilar size, to a surrogate greater achievements, Foote said, referring ger than a pinhead, and it is sometimes meter catheter. While Kidder watches a mother who has been hormonally treated to the possibility ofculturing special cells covered by tissue, so finding the entrance video monitor connected to a fiber-optic with human chlorionic gonadotropin so in the blastocyst that will grow into em to the uterus is not easy," said Jeffrey D. endoscope on loan from Olympus Corp., that her uterus is in synchrony with that of bryos and produce millions of identical Kidder, the zoology doctoral student who a fluid medium is injected into the donor the embryo donor. cells in cattle and other animal species.
Symposium will focus on encouraging international science education Thesyposium talks, in Room G1 0, Biotechnology Build Building. His talk will be on "Unity and Diversity" in By Larry Bernard ing, are free and open to the public. However, registration science education in different cultures. A symposium to help science educators find ways of for the three-day symposium, including all meals, is $100. Speakers in the first part of the symposium will building programs that will encourage science students to To obtain registration materials or for more information, examine the goals ofscience education in their cultures, consider international experiences as fundamental to their contact Sue Chamberlain, Pew Science Program, Cornell as well as how science students are recruited. The sec education will be held at Cornell June 9-12. University, telephone 255-2710, e-mail
Report shows growth in N.E. farmer co-ops By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. Farmer-owned fruit and vegetable coop erative that wholesale produce to restau rant, supermarkets and institutions could become a valuable marketing strategy to help sustain the agri culture industry in the Northeast, according to a recent Cornell re port. Bucking a na tional trend of declin ing co-ops, fruit and vegetable coopera Hilchey tives in the Northeast are growing in number. "This came as quite a surprise to me," said Duncan Hilchey, agricultural develop ment pecialist in the Cornell Farming Al ternatives Program, part of the university's Department of Rural Sociology. "North Charles Harrington/University Photography eastern cooperatives are growing in number Doctoral student Leslie Allee, left, and Paula Davis, assistant professor of entomology, are using neutron radiography with very little public support.They seem to atth Ward Laboratory of Nuclear Engineering on campus to study com rootworm, an insect pest. Below isthe neutron be increasing as a result of opportunities in beam-generated image of the internal workings of a toy handgun that was inside a lead box. the private sector which is fostering these changes. Cooperative Extension assistance . may enhance that potentiaL" Neutron beam helps scientists see things X-rays cannot Hilchey cannot pinpoint exactly why grower cooperatives are increasing in the By Larry Bernard California, to try to resurrect an image from Northeast but are declining elsewhere. If an old, faded photograph. The idea is to see funding becomes available, a new study Like a physician exammmg X-rays, the silverthat's not visible to the human eye. could determine that. Certainly, the 10 per Leslie Allee lends an expert eye to the film David Bouldin, professor of soil, crops cent to 12 percent growth in fruit and veg hanging on the light screen. and atmospheric sciences, and Michael etableconsumption overthe past 10 years is No broken bones here. Allee, a Cornell Cahn, graduate student, showed water dis a contributing factor. doctoral student in entomology, is looking at tribution, root growth rates and root distri Nationally, while the number of coop film that showsa thin white line branchingoff bution in soil using the technology. Richard erative has fallen 44 percent over the past in different directions. Around it are three or Zobel, professorofplant breeding, and Vic seven years, fruit and vegetable coopera four tiny white marks, maybe 1/4-inch long tor Bushamuka, graduate student, later used tives in the ortheast have increased by 56 the objects of her attention. These are living neutron radiography to examine root growth percent, according to the U.S. Department com rootworms in soil, caught in the act of and responses of tolerant plants to toxic of Agriculture's Rural Business and Coop searching for the plant root. aluminum and compacted soils. erative Development Service. "Here you can see where they were when The neutron radiography facility now "Participating in a cooperative often westarted. In this picture you can see where has the capability for real-time observing. A complements a grower's retail activities, they were 24 hours later. The dark lines video camera inside the high-flux beam uch as selling at a roadside stand or a show the path of the rootworm," she says, configuration can show what happens to a farmers' market," Hilchey said. pointing to the film. 'Neutron radiography is a sample as it is happening. This beam is 40 "Ifwell-managed, cooperatives may of No ordinary pictures, these; Allee is new way of looking at things times more intense than the beam used in fer a means ofachieving what is beyond the making use of a Cornell resource to study, and has proved to be a very high-resolution film radiography, such as reach of individual growers, such as enter along with Paula Davis, assistant professor useful nondestructive evalu that used to view corn rootworms. K. ing new markets or adding value to pro of entomology, the behavior of this major Bingham Cady, professor of nuclear engi ation tool. We think faculty duce," said Brian Henehan, senior exten corn pest in the hope ofdeveloping a natural neering, is using it in collaboration with sion associate with the Cornell Cooperative way to control it. from many different disci Jean-Yves Parlange, professor of agricul Enterprise Program. With 11, New York By using the 500-kilowatt nuclear reac plines could benefit from this tural and biological engineering, andTammo lead the Northeast in number of fruit and tor on campus, the entomologists can get technology.' Steenhuis, associate professor of agricul vegetable cooperatives that gross at least sharp pictures on film oftheircorn roots and - Howard Aderhold, tural and biological engineering, to study oil $10 million annually. the rootworms in soil around it. The tech reactor supervisor and water penetration in sand. Such studies "We believe small-scale fruit and veg nique is called neutron radiography, and will be useful for determining optimum etable cooperatives have the potential to be professors from art historians and agrono cleanup methods for oil spills. an important component of an overall sus mists to zoologists can use it to get detailed "You can see the water and oil diffus tainable agriculture strategy for the North pictures that X-rays cannot produce. It is the ography facility a decade ago. "We think ing into the sand," Cady said. Neither X east," Hilchey said. The study will attempt first time neutron radiography has been used faculty from many different disciplines could rays nor neutrons can readily detect the to grapple with challenges facing the grow to study insects. benefit from this technology." difference between water and oil. he ex ers, characteristics of succes ful or failing "X-rayspass through therootworms with Indeed, its util ity already has been shown plained. With neutron radiography, how cooperatives, and how small-scale coopera out attenuation. Neutrons, however, are at by Cornell faculty in a variety of areas. W. evcr, there is the potential for distinguish tives could work together to increase all tenuated by the hydrogen in the rootworms," S. Taft, professor of art, has used neutron ing bctwcen the oil and water by modifying growers' opportunities. Davis said. "With a neutron beam, we can induced autoradiography radiography to peer the water phase in one of two ways: add Small-scale cooperative - which gross also see the corn roots and see the behavior beneath layers of pigments on a painting to gadolium nitrate to make the water more less than 10 million in sales annually of the insects as they are growing. And it's see what lies beneath. As an experiment, he opaque to neutrons, or replace light water make up only 4 percent of the Northeast's all totally non-invasive." tookaclassical paintingofa woman, painted with heavy water to make the "water" $2 billion in fruit and vegetable cooperative Here is how it works: The TRIGA Mark an abstract modern painting atop that, and more transparent to neutrons. ales. Hilchey explained that large grower II nuclear reactor at Ward Laboratory on the then painted a fabric drape over that. Cady also is proposing to use neutron cooperatives, like Ocean Spray and Na Engineering Quad produces a beam of neu When subjected to the neutron beam, radiography to measure vapor fractions in tional Grape (Welch's), account for most of trons that is focused to a plate holding a each layer became visible. The goal: an two-phase (boiling) flow. High vapor frac the sales. But many small-scale fruit and sample. Behind the sampl~ is film. The understanding ofthe most common modern tions are the precursor to sudden failure of vegetable cooperatives occupy niches in the neutrons pass through the film (unlike X pigments so a more informed analysis of heated surfaces in nuclear reactors. The regional marketplace that have not been rays, without activating the emulsion), and modern paintings could result. Taft used vapor fraction measurements are in support filled by least-cost, mass-market producers land on a conversion screen (made of the such case studies in an undergraduatecourse, of a two-phase flow model important in and distributors, he said. rare-earth metal gadolinium) that absorbs "Art, Isotopes and Analysis." understanding the potential for severe acci "One possible development strategy them. The metal screen emits an electron for Now he uses neutron-induced autorad dents in nuclear reactors. could be the establishment of a Northeast every neutron it absorbs, and that activates iography as a form of art itself. "It has David D. Clark, professor of nuclear Growers Co-op Federation," Hilchey said. the emulsion and producesthe photographic always been used for analysis, but I was science and engineering and director of The Horticulture Producers Federated As image on film. really interested in the images it produced," Ward L'lboratory, who teaches the fresh sociation accomplished this uccessfully in The result looks like an X-ray, but it can Taft said. So he started making radiographs man introductory course "Fission, Fusion the Southeast. That formal association pro reveal things X-rays cannot. An example: a of his paintings, which have been exhibited and Radiation," said that faculty from a vides in urance, some marketing assistance. toy plastic gun sealed in a 1-inch-thick lead in California, Washington, D.C. and Ithaca. variety of disciplines are welcome at the educational services, consulting and politi box. The neutron radiograph shows details "The painting is just a means of produc facility. "Thereactor facility has broad use cal action. inside the gun, even its spring mechanism, but ing the radiographs; the radiographs are the fulness and can be used across the whole "An organization which supports exist X-rays could not ~ven penetrate the lead box. final work," he said. "X-rays only make campus," he said. "Even if someone is ing grower cooperatives and promotes the "Neutron rauography is a new way of visible a very few number of elements. unsure, we can help determine if they could establishment of new cooperatives in the lookingat things and has proved to be a very Using neutrons, we can see a broader range benefit from these tools." region could help farmers capture a larger useful nondestructive evaluation tool," said ofelements. It's extremely usefuI." Now he Research groups with illterest iI/ usil/g share of the growing fruit and vegetable Howard Aderhold, reactor supervisor who is embarking on a new project, in collabora thefacility shouldcOl/tactHowardAderhold, market," Hilchey said. designed and built Cornell's neutron radi- tion with the Getty Conservation Institute in (607) 255-3481, or [email protected]. Cornell Chronicle Ma 23,1996 9
ourism expert: Traditional summer vacations have seen their day
y Darryl Geddes Noden says the break-up of the American family is one noted. "Our view of the world has changed. Twenty-five ofseveral reasons summer vacations aren't what they once years ago, a trip to the Poconos was hot stuff. It was a day's The traditional summer vaca were. "These were always times families could count on drive, 100 miles. Today we drive 100 miles to the airport." ion - that getaway with mom, dad where they would all be together, but that's changed," he The change in vacation destinations also reflects the nd the kids setting out in the car said. "Today, with parents having joint custody of their desire to experience it all- a sort of race against time to or some resort in the mountains or children with many differing custody agreements, summer dot one's travel resume or passport with exotic hot spots t water's edge - is becoming a vacations can be too emotional and, frankly, too much that hopefully neither one's neighbor or co-worker have ictim ofsocietal changes and~on- trouble to coordinate." yet found. sumer demands. The reworking of the traditional summer vacation does "It's the 'been there, done that' attitude that propels "Thedaysofsavingupandmak- not mean Americans are not vacationing. us to jump on a plane and fly to Belize to scuba dive in • ing elaborate preparations for a Noden "In fact, we do it more frequently now, but for shorter the coral reefs," Noden said. "Years ago, our more summer escape from the suburbs stays," Noden said. "Consumers, in increasing numbers, traditional behavior would have been to go to Miami and are waning," says Malcolm A. Noden, a tourism policy have a greater desire and willingness to go further afield for sit on the beach." expert, travel consultant and senior lecturer at Cornell's shorter periods of time." But despite these vacationers, who are breaking with School of Hotel Administration. "The traditional summer The low costs and greater availability of air travel have tradition when it comes to the summer vacation, there still vacation, as many of us know it, is becoming part of opened a diverse menu ofdestinations for the traveler at the are people who set out in their car with road map in hand in America's past." expense of some of America's most traditional resorts, he pursuit of rest and relaxation. Thmor-fighting fish are focus Excellent networking of vet studies
By Roger Segelken Viral gene studies at the College of Vet erinary Medicine aim to learn how some fish fight skin cancer and how retroviruses function in the development and regression of tumors. Supported by a three-year, $270,000 grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS), James W. Casey, associate profes SOr of microbiology and immunology, is leading an investigation of a complex retrovirus called walleye dermal sarcoma virus (WDSV) and the tumors it causes on the skin of the fish. Casey, along with microbiology and immunology professors Paul R. Bowserand • Donald Holzschuand VolkerM. Vogtofthe Section of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecu lar Biology, are investigating the mecha nisms by which certain fish tumors grow and regress on a seasonal basis. "The kind of tumor regressIon we see in walleyes is unique to poikilotherms - or cold-blooded animals - and WDSV is of particular interest because an understanding of this process may help explain how other cancer-related retroviruses and the immune systems oftheir hosts interact," said Casey, a specialist in molecular virology. The ACS study at Cornell will focus on viral genes and infectious particles during Adriana Rovers/University Photography On behalf of the university, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings accepts the 1995 Cause Award for Excellence In tumor induction and regression in cell cul Campus Networking from Jane Ryland, Cause president, on May 13 in the Statler Hall Ballroom. The award tures as well as in fingerling walleyes and recognizing exemplary campuswide network planning, management and accessibility, as well as effeetiv, use older fish with naturally-induced tumors. of the campuswide network to enhance teaching, leaming, research, administration and community service By the time the fish virus study iscompleted was announced in November of 1995. A statement accompanying the award reads, in part: "• •• Cornell has in 1998, the research team ofvirologists and evolved into an Infonnation Age institution, where 95 percent of the faculty, almost 100 percent ofthe students, fish pathologists hope to know more about and 90 percent of the staff are connected to and use the campus network." Comell was chosen from among 17 colleges and universities that submitted applications for the 1995 award from Cause, the association for how processes such as superinfection, vire managing and using information resources in higher education. mia and immune responses are related to cancer in other animals, including humans.
Reminder: CUinfo will be discontinuing use ofGopher on June 16 As of June 16, CUinfo, the campus Bear Access for DOS phased out on May 4. The space in McFaddin is wide electronic service that provides in Due to the computing industry's lack smallerthan that in Noyes, soCITwas not formation about Cornell events and ac of active development of DOS software able to move all of the equipment for tivities, will no longer be available @ornell.edu and to Cornell's growing need for more merly located in Noyes. There are cur through Gopher. It will be available only Windows support, CIT plans to stop dis rently 12 Macintoshes and seven IBMs through the World Wide Web and telnet, tributing- and eventually to stopsupport with dot matrix printers, plus a small staff/ a text-based service with easy-to-navi ing - Bear Access for DOS. The decision storage area in McFaddin. The McFaddin gate menus and links using the same files for that button to show up on your Launch to phase out DOS Bear Access was made lab is closed until June 24, the start ofthe as the Web service. Pad, you must choose Select Mode from in collaboration with computing support summer six-week session. As ofJune 24, You can access CUinfo via the web the Buttons pull-down menu. Clickon the providers in departments across Cornell. the lab hours will be 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., from the Bear Access Launch Pad using box to the left of "CUINFO/WWW via CIT no longer distributes DOS Bear seven days a week. CIT will provide stu the button "CUinfo via Web," or reach it Telnet." Return to the Buttons menu and Access. However, CIT will continue to dent staffing every day from 4 p.m. to 11 directly at
Students and faculty honored for their achievements
This List offacuLty andstudent awards is onLy a sampling ofthe honors presented this year. Some awards not Listed here have yet to be chosen or have aLready have been announced in the Chronicle. CongratuLations to all!
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences TheSeniorService Award, sponsored by the ALS Alumni Association, went to Karin Klapper and A'ndrea Van Schoick. Molly Schiltgen received the Paul Schreurs Memorial Award to recognize excellence in undergraduate research, sponsored by the college's honor society, Ho-Nun-De-Kah. The Academic Excellence Award recognizes the top scholars in each of the 17 majors in the college. They were awarded as follows: agricultural and biological engineer ing: orbert Lou; agricultural, resource and managerial economics: Todd Builione; animal science: Stephanie Konsker; biological sciences: Deborah deSa; biometry and statistics: Matthew Kumpf; communication: Lyra Colfer; education: Laura Bogardus; entomology: Mark Milleman; environmental systems technology: Kevin Dree ; food science: Yinqing Ma; general studies: Adam Landman; landscape architecture: BenjaminYoung; natu ral resources: Tracy Triplett; nutrition, food and agricul ture: Ginnie Anderson; plant sciences: Jason Griffin; rural sociology: Rachel Goodman; soil, crop and atmo spheric sciences: Eric Brewer. The OutstandingStudent Employee Award went to Dawn University Photography Chavez and Tammie Cros ,and the Perseverance Award Among the honors given out at the April 24 Dean's Awards Convocation for the College of Agriculture and went to Heather Raufand Linda Riggs. . Life Sciences (ALS) was the ALS Alumni Association's 1996 Senior Service Award. The finalists, from left to The Professor of Merit award, voted on by the senior right, were Slade Ashley Cox, Cheryl Dollard, Karin Klapper, Robin Claire McLean and A'ndrea Van Schoick. class, was awarded to Lois Willett, professor of agricul The award winners were Klapper and Van Schoick. Congratulating the students are Daryl B. Lund, left, the tural, resource and managerial economics. Ronald P. Lynch Dean of ALS, and H. Dean Sutphin, associate ALS dean and director of academic programs. The Distinguished Adviser Award, also selected by the senior class, has been renamed the Donald C. Burgett The Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medals went to Chemistry Department Di tinguished Adviser Award in recognition ofBurgett and ChristopherGenter, silver medal for architecture; Laura StephenSchvaneveldtreceived aClarkTeaching Award. his 28 years of service to the college. This year's recipient Nova, bronze medal for art; and Todd Eisenpresser, The following undergraduate prizes have been awarded: was Dale A. Grossman, professor ofagricultural, resource David Nam and Monica Rodriguez, bronze medals for Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to Phillip Geissler. and managerial economics. architecture. George C. Caldwell Prizes to Jima Jenab and Michael The Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, given The George How SummerTravel Award went to Nsenga Eichberg. American Institute ofChemists Medal to Steven by the college to a faculty member with less than 10 years Bansfield. Ewer. Merck Index Awards went to Susan Mao and of teaching at Cornell who demonstrates excel1ence in Catherine Tingey received the Faculty Medal of Art, Andrew Yeh. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize to EmilY undergraduate teaching, went to Margaret M. Kyle, assis based on academic record and studio work demonstrating Reines. ACS Analytical Prize to Cherie Purring. A.W tant professor of plant breeding. promise of future achievement in the field of art. Laubengayer Prizes to Betsy Ostrov, Andrew Blix anJ The Innovative Teaching Award, for developing new Megan Faulknerwon the Edith and Walter King Stone Richard Larson. approaches to instruction in undergraduate teaching, Memorial Prize, given to juniors exhibiting promise and went to David A. Levit ky, professor of nutritional accomplishment in the field of art. Civil and Environmental Engineering ciences. The Department of City and Regional Planning Student Professor Richard N. White was elected the 1996 Chi The NACTA Teaching Award of Merit, given by the Award for exemplary community service went to graduate Epsilon Professor of the Year by the students in civil and ational Association for College Teachers of Agriculture, students John Thomas and Charles Jennings and under environmental engineering. went to Timothy J. Fahey of the Department of Natural graduates Emily Hart and Ryan Tan. Lee Fishman has received a $2,000 award from the Re ources. Jennifer Tiffany won the American Institute of Certi American Concrete Institute Concrete Research and Educa The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, fied Planners Student Award for outstanding achievement tion Foundation for "high potential for making the most awarded by the State University of New York, went to in the graduate study of planning. significant contributions to the concrete profession." George J. Conneman, professor of agricultural, resource JenniferSwiftreceived the John "Kip" Brady Award for Students who won $1,000 first prizes in the National and managerial economics, and George W. Hudler, pro Printmakers. Student Paper Competition for the 1996 International Bridge fessor of plant pathology. For academic achievement and contribution to the intel Conference were Barbara J. Jaeger for "Evaluation of a The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional lectual advancement of fellow students, the Thomas W. Post-Tensioned Bridge Using the Impact-Echo Method" Service, also awarded by SUNY, went to Richard A. Mackesey Prize went to Martha Armstrong. and John Ochsendorf for "An Engineering Study of the Church, director of alumni affairs for the Ag Col1ege. City and regional planning student Xavier MOr'dles won Last Inca Suspension Bridge." The Edgarton Career Teaching Award, for a faculty $1,000 from the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund in support ofa Patrick McCafferty won the two-year Ove Arup & member who has provided outstanding teaching and advis summer internship project. Partners Engineering Fellowship for civil engineering prac ing throughout a long and continuous career in the college, The David Bean Scholarship for studying in Europe went tice in London. went to George J. Conneman, professor of agricultural, to Eniko Hangay, Tasha Caugh, Mathew Abruzzo and Khalid Mosalam won the 1995 National Student Paper re ource and managerial economics. Rachel Farber-Kaiser. Competition ofthe Earthquake Engineering Research Insti The Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achieve tute for his paper, "Modeling of the Nonlinear Behavior of Agricultural, Resource & Managerial Economics ment Award went to Amy Greenhouse. Gravity Load Designed Infilled Frames." Charmaine T. Ing and Lori B. Marino were chosen Winners ofthe Edwin A. Seipp Memorial Prize, based on to receive $1,000 each from the Cyril F. Crowe Fund, aspecial third-yeardesign competition, were AliJeevanjee, Dean of Students Office which recognizes academic performance of students Jose Gutierrez and Christopher Williams. The Class of 1963 Diversity Awareness Award for the specializing in applied mathematics and business man Robert James Eidlitz Fellowships to supplement profes "student organization or program house that is most suc agement. sional training in the field of architecture went to Reja cessful in using formal and/or informal learning to promote Bakhshandegi, Kyra Chomak, Mark Lawton, Sue Mee understanding, respect and amicable relations among stu College of Architecture, Art and Planning Lee, Sean Selby, Stefee Sioane-Oouchbane and Pamela dents ofdifferent races and cultures" went to Watermargin The Martin Dominguez Award for Distinguished Teach Unwin-Barkley. Education Program. ing, voted on by all students and faculty in the department The Peter B. Andrews Memorial Thesis Prize for the best The Hahn-Rotterdam Prize for "exceptional contribu went to Zevi Blum, professor of art. thesis presentation for the degree of master of regional tions to the development ofinnovative, high-quality student The AlA Student Medal and Certificate, for best under planning went to Elisabeth Uphoff. activities programming and for adhering to the highest graduate academic grade average, went to Christopher human values while maintaining academic excellence" Genter (medal) and Nicholas Larco (certificate). Athletics went to Jill Meredith Nusbaum of the Cornell University Francisco Acoba received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, Each Ivy League institution nominates five men and Program Board. recognizing leadership, service and future promise. five women among its eligible student-athletes who Scott Logan Aronson of the Cornell Concert Commis Christopher Genter received the Clifton Beckwith were starters or key reserves on any officially recog sion received the Daniel F. Mahaney Scholarship, awarded Brown Memorial Medal, awarded to the senior attaining the nized varsity team with a 3.0 or better cumulative grade for "exemplary performance as a volunteer leader and as a highest cumulative average in architectural design. point average. The recipients are announced by the Ivy student employee." The William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding League Office. Winners ofthe Edgar A. Whiting Award for"exemplify achievement in architectural design, went to Monica All-Ivy Academic Honors for fall 1995 went to Michelle ing the personal characteristic and dedication of Edgar Rodriguez. Lauermann, women's soccer; Olga Itskhoki, women's Whiting, director of Willard Straight Hall from 1930 to Stephen Chen reccivcd the Eschweiler Prize, given to a tennis; Thomas Strobel, lightweight football; and Ron 1970, on behalf of the programs and services of studcnt gr ouating architecturc student who has enrolled in an Mateo, football. activities/developmcnt" were Michael G. Merritt Jr. and architccture graduatc program at Cornell. Winter 1995-96: Kristin Davis, women's track; Mary Andrew Craig Swanson. icholas Larco won the ew York Society of Archi LaMacchia, women's basketball; UzThomson, women's tccts Matthew W. Del Gaudio Award for leading the class swimming; and Brandt Schuckman, men's basketball. Ecology and Systematics in dcsign, planning and construction. Spring 1996: Craig Palmer, men's heavyweight crew; Co-recipients of the Robert H. Whittaker Award are The Michael Rapuano Memorial Award for distinction Olga Itskhoki, women's tennis; and Amy Carpenter, Corey R.Freeman-Gallant for his presentation, "Domes' in dcsign went to Jutiki Gunter. women's lacrosse. Continued 01/ page II Cornell Chronicle May 23,1996 11
Hotel School's Drown Prize winner dishes out Hong Kong hospitality
By Darryl Geddes most successful restau "Management was considering me for an rant companies in Asia. executive position, but the one thing that was Ever stay up late to watch television and After talking with 'There was no question as to holding me back was the lack ofany theoreti come across one of those badly dubbed Chworowsky and hear where I would go. Cornell calor post-secondary education," he said. Kung Fu films? Ifso, you'veprobably heard ing how varied and was often mentioned as the "There wa<; no que tion as to where I the voice of Andrew P. Chworowsky. unique his talents and best school in the business.' would go," he said. "Cornell was often men Before entering the hospitality industry, young professional life tioned as the best school in the bu iness." Chworowsky, 32 - the winner of the 1996 have been, it's easy to - Andrew Chworowsky When Chworowsky returns to Hong Drown Prize, awarded annually to a top see why a panel of Kong this July, he won't be the only em senior in the School of Hotel Administra Hotel School faculty Chworowsky ployee at Windy City with a degree from the tion - made a living in Asia providing selected him as the re- Hotel School. Two of his former Cornell English dubbing for Kung Fu movies and cipient of the $15,000 Drown Prize - one of general manager, and he has helped open the classmates, Michael Domer '95 and Larissa television programs. Cornell's richest undergraduate awards. firm's restaurants - Dick Ryan's Chicago Cook '95, are employed with the company. "My talent was my ability to read the script Chworowsky has demonstrated indepen Grill-in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. So how will Chworowsky spend his and watch the movie at the same time," said dence, perseverance, energy and industri "The restaurants provide an oasis to the $15,000 Drown Prize award? "I'll probably Chworowsky, who estimates he dubbed more ousness in all he has done, and he also holds growing population of American business invest it for now in mutual funds or some than 10,000 hours of Kung Fu films while the promise of making a significant contri executives traveling through Asia," he said. thing and then maybe consider investing it living in Hong Kong in the early 1980s. bution to the hospitality industry. Dick Ryan's has been successful in in a restaurant ofmy own, perhaps," he said. Despite a pay scale that was"pretty good," The senior's road to winning the Drown large part, he said, because it does what it Aside from Chworowsky, four other se Chworowsky ditched the dubbingjob in 1986. Prize has been circuitous. Raised in Mil does better than anyone else: offer qual niors were selected as Drown Prize finalists "It got mind-numbingly boring. It turned into waukee, the son of a Lutheran minister, ity food prepared American-style. "Our and have received $1,000 cash prizes. They a factory job, where all I was doing was Chworowsky moved to Hong Kong as a philosophy has been to not localize the are: Megan Marie MachadoofWilliamsville, reading scripts. I didn't see any future in it." teen-ager with his family. When the family food. We have no Chinese food on the N.Y.; Johnny Ceballos of Woodside, N.Y.; The next role he was offered was taking decided to head back to the states, he de menu, nor would we adjust any recipe to Karen Lyn Thie sen of Boise, Idaho and drink orders in a soon-to-be-opened restau cided to stay behind. appeal to the Chinese palate." Eric Charles Sinoway of Landing, .1. rant in Hong Kong. "The owners wanted an Then his chance meeting with the entre That's straight forward marketing that The Drown Prize, established and en American bartender to help set the right preneurs who had plans to open a restaurant works. Why offer 10 mein on the menu when dowed by hotel ownerJo eph W. Drown, is tone for their Chicago-style grill," he said. catering to the tastes of American business other establishments can make it better? In intended "to enhance not only the knowl Chworowsky signed on with the Ameri executives launched his successful hospi stead, you offer steaks, seafood and ribs. edge of young people but their indepen can-owned company, Windy City Interna tality career. Chworowsky decided to apply to dence and self-reliance so that they may tional of Hong Kong, in 1988 and has since Chworowsky has held numerous posi Cornell's Hotel School after realizing a col contribute to the free society to which Drown played a key role in making the firm oneofthe tions with Windy City, including regional lege degree would enhance his career. credited his own success."
Students and faculty honored for their achievements
Continued from page 10 Blutbader: Hubert Fichte Between Ritual and Ego" and to The Gamma Sigma Delta DistinguishedTeachingAward ticity and Sex: Lessons From Savannah Sparrows," and Christopher Clark for "The Weg Not Taken: The Unex went to Gary Evans. William V. Sobczak for "Microbial Responses to Varia pected Politics of Gunter de Bruyn's Buridans Esel." tions in Dissolved Organic Carbon Along Subsurface School of Industrial and Labor Relations Flowpaths in Stream Ecosystems." History Department Lorraine Stokes won the James Campbell Memorial 1996 Teaching Awards, given in recognition of excel The Clyde A. Duniway Prize, worth $75 in books to a Award to honor her "academic excellence; personal quali lence in teaching by a graduate student, went to Patricia history major, went to Nicholas Daum. ties of humility and friendliness; and service to the school." Doak and Cynthia A. Wilczak. The two Anne MacIntyre Litchfield Prizes, worth $275 ClaySamford received the Irving M.lves Award, given in books awarded to two women seniors majoring in history, to the senior demonstrating "good faith, integrity, responsi English Department went to Deirdre Daly and Kathleen O'Halloran. bility, cooperativeness and good will." The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize was awarded to TheGeorge S. LustigPrize, this yearworth $200awarded The Daniel Alpern Memorial Prize went to JoyceHoying Ellen Samuels for "Forgiving the Body"; honorable mention to an outstanding senior planning to study history in gradu and Derek ShatTer in recognition of their scholarship and went to Anna Isabel DiDonno for "Us Four." ate school, went to Arthur C. Smith. service to the school. Phoenix Mayet received the Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Michael E. Gold has been named as the first recipient of Prize; honorable mention went to Barbara Yien. School of Hotel Administration the Schering-Plough Exemplary Teaching Award, nomi The Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for short fiction went The Clyde Robinson Awards went to the following nated by students and selected by the ILR School's Teach to Michael Cobb for "Milo's Woods" in the undergraduate students: the Freshman Award to Clinton Wu; the Aca ing Advisory Committee. division and to Julia Cumes for "And What Music Will demic Excellence Award to Ana Kositchotitana; the Ser Accompany Us" in the graduate division; second place went vice Award to Felicia Sparkman and Allison Myatt; the Unguistics to Joshua Harmon for "The Lighthouse Keeper." Leadership Award to Tairea Mattox; and the Dean's Assistant professors Abby Cohn and Molly Diesing First prize for the Corson Bishop Poetry Prize went to Award to Burnell Goldman. received Appel Fellowships, recognizing teaching excel Daniel Donaghy for a selection of poems. Second-prize The Dean's Awards went to the following students: Fresh lence and scholarly promise. winners were Peter Coviello for "'These Plainest Sen man Award of$250 to Tracey Gamble; Sophomore Award Denise Meyerwasawarded a Clark DistinguishedTeach tences" and Jake York for "Wake." of $250 to Amit Kiesel; Junior Award of $500 to Kristina ing Award for teaching assistants. Foerster; and Senior Award of $500 to Alexandra Jaritz. European Studies Institute Thefollowing faculty awardsweregiven: Freshman/Sopho Peace Studies Frederic Conger Wood Fellowships for undergraduate more Awards to Florence Bergerand RupertSpies; Junior/ The Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize in Peace Studies students went to Jasmina Burdzovic, College of Human Senior Awards to Christopher Muller and Elizabeth went to Afra Afsharipour, a government major in the Ecology, and MarkKlempner,CollegeofArts and Sciences. Huettman; Graduate Awards to Timothy Hinkin and linda CollegeofArts and Sciences, and to eil Giacobbi, a senior Michele Sicca Summer Research Grants went to, from Canioa; and Overall Teaching Award to Bruce Tracey. in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. They will the Arts College, Carolyn Gray Anderson, Maria Blume, both receive $750. Ginger Diekmann, Leigh Anne Eubanks, Richard Gay, College of Human Ecology Mechele Leon, Colleen McFarland, Sophie Muetzel, The E. Scott Maynes Award for Academic Achievement Romance Studies Vicki Ellen Szabo and Kim Williams; and, from the Ag in Consumer Economics and Housing and Policy Analysis The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize for aca College, Oleg Biloukha and Jason Frost. went to Joseph Doyle. demic achievement, with special reference to facility of SarahBenson,Arts College, received the Manon Michels The following students received Elsie Van Buren expression in French, went to Mariah Magargee. Einaudi Travel Grant. Rice Awards in Oral Communications: first prize to The winners of the J.G. White Competition were as Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowships went to Arts stu Tina Shiau; second prizes to Jonelle Bradshaw and follows: J.G. White Scholarship to Kristin A. Loberg; dents W. Eugene Cobble, Ulrich Krotzand JudithSurkis. Brian Finch; third prize to Sujin Lim; and fourth prize Prize for Excellence in Spanish to Nazaneen Grant,Jason Denise Bratton from Architecture, Art and Planning to Erin McCloskey. Markham and Alisa Yang; and Prize for Excellence in received the Mario Einaudi Fellowship. The winner ofthe Halpern Award was Briana Barocas. English to Calie Santana and Isabel Ramos. Honorable mentions went to Erin Fitzpatrick, Kelly Geological Sciences Gonzalez and Alexis Hartstone. College of Veterinary Medicine The $1,000 Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship, EstherJacobreceived the Hillier Interior Design Award. The Horace K. White Prize for the student with the awarded to an outstanding senior' geology major, went to The following students were named Outstanding Se highest academic record during his or her veterinary train Michael A. Zimmer. niors: Jonelle Bradshaw, Joseph Doyle, Mary Ewing, ing went to Karen Fessler. EliseMillnerwon the $1,000 Michael W. Mitchell Memo Devin Gallagher, Jason Kahn, Miriam Levine, Erin Sarah Ford and Uesl Breickner received the Gentle rial Prize, awarded to aseniorgeology student who has proved McCloskey, Edmond Murphy, Laura Scheirer, Israel Doctor Award, for a fourth-year student who, in the opinion adept in other fields as well as geology. Soong and Melissa WigdersoD. of the faculty of the Department of Clinical Sciences, Those receiving Robinson Awards for Academic Excel exemplifies enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to the German Studies Department lence were: Usa Berman, Thomas Fong, Matthew Hol delivery of excellent veterinary patient care. The Simmons Award in German, which goes to the lander, Daniel Katz, Jill Morganstern and Melissa The Norden Distinguished Teacher Award, for a full-time student who has done the best work in German, went to Wigderson. member of the veterinary medical faculty who has shown Stephanie K. Wolf. PaulEshelman won the Human Ecology Alumni/Kappa continuedexcellence in teaching, went to Dr.ThomasDivers. Onefirst prize and two second prizes were awarded in the Omicron Nu Advising Award. Dr. Peter Daels won the Pfizer Animal Health Award Goethe Prize Competition. First prize of$250 went to John The Halpern Prize for Extension/Outreach went to for Research Excellence, presented to a young investigator R. Crutchfield for his essay "Language and the Mechanics Frank Barry. whose research achievements are likely to have a significant ofPresence in Herder's Plastik." Second prize of$150 each Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award for New York impact on our understanding of the biology or medical went to Christian Gundermann for "Voodooeske State went to Priscilla Tennant. management of animals. 12 May 23,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Friday, 5/24 during the preceding academic year do not pay Muslim "Georgia' (1995), directed by Ulu Grosbard, tuition for non-credit summer registration. Stu Friday Juma' prayer, 1:15 p.m., One World with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham and dents approved for summer residence credit must Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. DailyZuhr, Asr, Maghreb Ted Levine, 7:15 p.m. pay the appropriate pro-rated Graduate School and Isha' prayers at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall. "Kicking and Screaming' (1995), directed by tuition rate. Tuition mustbepaid forsummer courses Noah Baumbach, with Chris Eigeman, Parker taken through the School of Continuing Education Orthodox Christian (Eastern Orthodox) Posey and Eric Stoltz, 9:45 p.m. and Summer Sessions. Sundays, Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m., St. • Dissertation and thesis seminars will be Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church, 120 W. Sen Saturday, 5/25 held in Room 1DO, Caldwell Hall. The master's eca St., 273-6884. "Kicking and Screaming," 7:15 p.m. thesis seminar will be on Monday, June 17, at 3 "Georgia,' 9:30 p.m. p.m. The doctoral dissertation seminar will be Protestant Cooperative Ministry Tuesday, June 18, at 3 p.m. The thesis adviser will Sundays, 11 a.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. Sunday, 5/26 discuss preparing and filing theses and disserta "Kicking and Screaming," 8 p.m. tions; students, faculty and typists are encouraged Sri Satya Sai Baba to attend. Sundays, 10:30 a.m., 319 N. Tioga St. For Monday, 5/27 details call 273-4261 or 533-7172. "Pinky" (1949), directed by Elia Kazan, with Jeanne Crain, Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore, Zen Buddhist 7p.m. Tuesdays, 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 6:45 p.m., chapel, "Georgia," 9:15 p.m. Anabel Taylor Hall.
Tuesday, 5/28 "Georgia," 7 p.m. "Kicking and Screaming," 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, 5/29 Department of Music "A Better Tomorrow II' (1987), directed byJohn • May 25, 3 p.m., Arts Quad: The Cornell Uni Woo, with Chow Yun Fat, Leslie Cheung and Ti versity Wind Ensemble presents its Senior Week Lung, 7:15 p.m. Concert. Part of the commencement week activi "Georgia," 9:15 p.m. ties at Cornell, the concert repertoire includes favorite works played by the Winq Ensemble dur Agricultural, Resource & Managerial Thursday, 5/30 ing the 1995-96 academic year. The hourlong Economics "Bottle Rocket" (1996), directed by Wes Ander concert features patriotic songs and marches, as "Estimation of Production Technologies Under son, with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson and Robert well as seven traditional Cornell songs: March on Output Price Uncertainty, Yield Uncertainty, Input Musgrave, 7:15 p.m. Cornell, Davy, Cornell Victorious, Carnelian and Specific Technical Inefficiency and Allocative Inef "A Better Tomorrow II," 9:30 p.m. White, New Cornell Fight Song, Fight for Cornell ficiency," Chris O'Donnell, University of New En and The Big Red Team. gland, Australia, May 31, 1 p.m., 401 Warren Hall. Friday, 5/31 • May 25, 8:15 p.m., Bailey Hall: The Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club present a com All items for the Chronicle Calendar should "The Neon Bible' (1995), directed by Terence Genetics & Development Davies, with Gena Rowlands and Jacob Tierney, mencement eve concert featuring a variety of "Dissecting the Mechanism of Mitochondrial be submitted (typewritten, double spaced) by works, including traditional Cornell songs. Tickets campus mail, U.S. mail or in person toChronicle 7:15 p.m. Protein Translocation From Matrix to Intermem "Bottle Rocket," 9:30 p.m. are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. Advance brane Space," Schichuan He, May 29, 12:20 p.m., Calendar, Cornell News Service, Village Green, tickets can be purchased in the basement of Sage 840 Hanshaw Road. small seminar room, Biotechnology Building. Chapel at eitherthe Chorus orGlee Club office and Notices should be senlloarrive 10 days prior Saturday, 6/1 at the Lincoln Hall ticket office, Monday through to publication and should include the name and "Bottle Rocket," 7:15 p.m. Microbiology Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. telephone number ofa person who can be called "The Neon Bible," 9:30 p.m. "The Tunnel at the End of the Light: The Re if there are questions. spective Roles ofUl 15 and Other Genes Required Notices should also include the subheading Sunday, 6/2 Bound for Glory for Herpesvirus DNA Cleavage/Packaging," Joel May 26: Albums from the studio. Bound for oflhe calendar in which the item should appear. "The Neon Bible," 8 p.m. Baines, May 31, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Glory is broadcast Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m. on Auditorium. Monday, 6/3 WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5. "Bombshell" (1933), directed byVictor Fleming, with Jean Harlow, 7:15 p.m. "Bottle Rocket," 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 6/4 "City ofLost Children" (1995), directed byJean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, with Ron Perlman, Johnson Art Museum Daniel Emilfork and Judith Vittet, 7:15 p.m. rmmw._n__ "Bottle Rocket," 9:30 p.m. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum ofArt. on the Bioengineering comer ofUniversity and Central avenues. is open Sage Chapel Wednesday, 6/5 A "Universitywide Discussion on Bioengineer Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Susannah Heschel from Case Western Re "Hardboiled" (1992), directed by John Woo, ing" will be held June 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. in 101 Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464. serve will give the Baccalaureate Service May 26 with Chow Yun-Fat, 7: 15 p.m. Phillips Hall. Topics and spp.akers include: "Engi • "Still Time: Photographs by Sally Mann," at 8:30 a.m. in Sage Chapel. University organist is "City of Lost Children," 9:50 p.m. neering Drugs - An Atomic View of Biology," Jon through May 26. Annette Richards, and the Sage Chapel choirmas Clardy, the Horace White Professor of Chemistry; '"A Life Well Uved: Fantasy Coffins of Ghana ter is William Cowdery. Thursday, 6/6 "Micromachines for Bio-probes," Noel MacDonald, by Kane Quaye," through June 16. director ofthe Cornell Nanofabrication Facility and • "The Gertrude and David Tucker Collection of "How Green Was my Valley" (1941), directed African·American by John Ford, with Walter Pidgeon and Maureen professor of electrical engineering; "Materials for American Painting,' through July 7. Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union. the Future: Bio-inspired and Synthetic Polymers," • "Methods and Media: 20th Century SCUlpture O'Hara, 7 p.m. "Hardboiled," 9:30 p.m. Lynn Jelinski, director of the Center for Advanced From the Collection,' through Aug. 11. Baha'i Faith Technology - Biotechnology and professor of en • "Prints ofOarkness: ImagesofOeath,"through Fridays, 7 p.m., firesides with speakers, open gineering; "Biomedical Engineering to Build Im Aug. 4. discussion and refreshments. Meet at the Balch proved Drugs and Rebuild Damaged Organs," • "Classof1951 Prints," June1 through Aug. 11. Archway; held in Unit 4 lounge at Balch Hall. Mark Saltzman, professor of chemical engineer Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m. ing; "Biological Engineering for a Sustainable Hartell Gallery (M-F 8 a,m.-5 p.m.) World," Larry Walker, professor of agricultural and B.FA Exhibitions, through May 25. Catholic biological engineering; and "Connections for the Weekend Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, Future," a roundtable discussion including the Kroch Library Exhibition Room 2B 10 a.m., Anabel Taylor Auditorium. Daily Masses: audience and speakers, with Peter Bruns, director "Invention and Enterprise: EzraCornell, a 19th Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. of the Division of Biological Sciences. Century Life," curated 6y Elaine Engst, university Sacrament of Reconciliation, Saturday, 3:30 p.m.. • Move to Caldwell: The Graduate School of archivist, through June 9. fices have moved from Sage Hall to Caldwell Hall. G-22 Anabel Taylor Hall. May 25 Mass: 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. (Spanish • Commencement: Commencement is on Sun Tjaden Gallery (M·F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Mass), Anabel Taylor Auditorium. day, May 26. Commencement information pack • B.FA Thesis Shows, through May 24. ets have been mailed to all recipients of August May 26: 8:30 a.m., Anabel Taylor Auditorium. • Sculpture by Sandra Toro, May 25-27. 1995 and January 1996 degrees. Candidates for May 1996 degrees: Professional Master's degree Christian Science Veterinary Medical Center candidates may obtain packets in graduate field Testimony meetings sharing healing through Paintings by Corinne T. Kenney, DVM '62, are offices; M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degree candidates prayer and discussion every Thursday at 7 p.m., on display in the center's gallery through June 9. may pick up packets at the Graduate School Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For more information desk, first floor, Caldwell Hall. information see