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5 SWalloW-WorT<br />
ThreaT<br />
Researchers look for ways to<br />
curtail this invasive species.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> goes to the<br />
movies: Mars and<br />
Steve Squyres’<br />
rovers star in IMAX<br />
spectacular<br />
By Lauren GoLd<br />
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Regal and glamorous on a<br />
platform in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s<br />
cavernous atrium, a <strong>Cornell</strong> student-built model of the<br />
Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity presided over the<br />
festivities at the Jan. 26 premiere of Disney’s film “Roving<br />
Mars,” which opened in IMAX theaters nationwide the<br />
following day.<br />
The 40-minute film chronicles a years-long journey:<br />
<strong>from</strong> the two rovers’ early development and testing<br />
phases to their launches, landings and treks (still going<br />
strong, far beyond their projected lifespan of 90 days)<br />
across two very different regions of the red planet.<br />
Directed by George Butler and produced by Frank<br />
Marshall, the film includes 12 minutes of animation by<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> alumnus Dan Maas, creator of Emmy-nominated<br />
Maas Digital in Ithaca.<br />
The premiere – a gala event featuring Steve Squyres,<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> professor of astronomy and the Mars Exploration<br />
Rover (MER) mission’s principal investigator, as well as<br />
Butler, Marshall and a host of NASA and Lockheed Mar-<br />
Two universities and Pataki finally<br />
agree on land-grant funding in<br />
state budget proposal<br />
By Krishna ramanujan<br />
After years of effort, <strong>Cornell</strong>, the State<br />
<strong>University</strong> of New York (SUNY) and<br />
New York Gov. George E. Pataki have<br />
worked out an agreement on land-grant<br />
funding. Under a new arrangement,<br />
money appropriated to <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>from</strong> the<br />
state for its federal land-grant responsibilities<br />
will be separate <strong>from</strong> funding allocated<br />
by the SUNY system to <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
for higher education.<br />
The governor’s budget proposal, released<br />
Jan. 17, sets aside $60 million for<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s research and extension services<br />
related to the university’s land-grant<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Tango Week<br />
The Ithaca Tangueros<br />
host <strong>Cornell</strong> Tango<br />
Week Feb. 2-8.<br />
See <strong>page</strong> 16.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong><br />
ChroniCle<br />
www.news.cornell.edu February 2, 2006<br />
9 Web oF ouTreaCh<br />
Linda Rayor uses the<br />
mystique of spiders to capture<br />
scientific imagination.<br />
tin officials – was a celebration of two teams: the 4,000<br />
scientists, engineers and support staff who made the mission<br />
a success; and the smaller group that coalesced on<br />
the side to document the mission for the IMAX film.<br />
mission. <strong>Cornell</strong> and SUNY had asked<br />
for $73 million.<br />
Last year, <strong>Cornell</strong> received a total of<br />
$135 million <strong>from</strong> the state, including its<br />
funding for land-grant activities. The total<br />
funds granted to <strong>Cornell</strong> this year<br />
have yet to be determined.<br />
“This is a positive first step,” said Ron<br />
Seeber, <strong>Cornell</strong>’s vice provost for land<br />
grant affairs. “The governor’s proposals<br />
are a very good starting point for higher<br />
education in the state of New York.”<br />
From here, the Legislature will finetune<br />
the budget before approving it.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> will work with SUNY and the<br />
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10-11 CalenDar<br />
Folksinger Bill Staines<br />
returns to <strong>Cornell</strong> on<br />
Saturday.<br />
KEVIN STEARNS/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> alumnus Dan Maas, left, and Steve Squyres, astronomy professor and the Mars rover mission’s principal science investigator,<br />
attend the Jan. 26 premiere of “Roving Mars” at the Lockheed Martin IMAX theater at the Smithsonian Air and Space<br />
Museum in Washington, D.C.<br />
Equipping the rovers with IMAX-quality cameras was<br />
a priority for the mission <strong>from</strong> the beginning. “We set for<br />
ourselves the goal of making two robot field geologists,”<br />
Continued on <strong>page</strong> 8<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>ians honor two sports<br />
legacies at first 21 Dinner<br />
By BLaine P. FriedLander jr.<br />
Nearly 200 <strong>Cornell</strong>ians and their friends<br />
gathered Jan. 27 to celebrate the widely<br />
separated legacies of two former <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
students, the late George Boiardi ’04 and<br />
late sports journalist Dick Schaap ’55, at<br />
the first 21 Dinner at the <strong>Cornell</strong> Club in<br />
New York City. Both men wore the num-<br />
ber 21 – some five decades apart – on the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> men’s lacrosse team.<br />
The <strong>Cornell</strong>ians and friends not only<br />
celebrated two lives, but also raised<br />
$50,000 – or triple the funds they expected<br />
– for Teach for America of South Dakota,<br />
according to Jesse Rothstein ’03, a close<br />
friend of Boiardi, who organized the<br />
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JESSE WINTER<br />
Left to right: David Coors ’04, a teammate of George Boiardi; his father, Pete Coors ’69; and<br />
former <strong>Cornell</strong> lacrosse coach Richie Moran chat at the 21 Dinner at the <strong>Cornell</strong> Club Jan. 27.
2 February 2, 2006 <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle February 2, 2006 3<br />
Looking ahead<br />
Coming up in next week’s <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Chronicle:<br />
• The FOCUS on learning and teaching<br />
<strong>page</strong> will tour <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Center for Learning<br />
and Teaching, which provides free<br />
classes, tutors and workshops to help students<br />
understand diffi cult courses and to<br />
offer special accommodations for students<br />
with disabilities and specialized help for<br />
teaching assistants, instructors and faculty.<br />
• <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Division of Financial Affairs<br />
launches the <strong>Cornell</strong> Asset Transfer System<br />
– a new Web forum where university employees<br />
can post and browse ads of available<br />
and wanted items on campus.<br />
On the cover<br />
Top of <strong>page</strong> 1: Flowers of the pale and black<br />
swallow-wort, photos by Antonio Di Tommaso;<br />
male Amblypygid image by Jason<br />
Koski/<strong>University</strong> Photography; Bill Staines<br />
photo by Laury Marcus.<br />
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Professor launches professional<br />
educational society and journal<br />
By susan s. LanG<br />
A new professional organization, the<br />
Society for Research on Educational<br />
Effectiveness (SREE), with its own peerreviewed<br />
journal, is being launched by a<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> professor. His<br />
purpose is to bring<br />
together people who<br />
are interested applying<br />
the principles of<br />
scientifi c inquiry to examine<br />
effectiveness of<br />
educational practices,<br />
interventions, pro-<br />
grams and policies.<br />
Mark Constas, as-<br />
sociate professor of education at <strong>Cornell</strong>, has<br />
been awarded $750,000 <strong>from</strong> the U.S. Department<br />
of Education to spearhead the new<br />
organization and support the new journal,<br />
which is expected to publish its inaugural<br />
issue in 2007. The grant is among the largest<br />
that a researcher in <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Department<br />
of Education has received in more than 10<br />
years. It also the fi rst grant that <strong>Cornell</strong> has<br />
received <strong>from</strong> the newly formed Institute of<br />
Education Sciences, the primary research<br />
agency within the Department of Education.<br />
“For more than 85 years, the fi eld of<br />
education research has been dominated<br />
by the American Educational Research<br />
Association,” said Constas, a co-principal<br />
investigator of the grant with Larry<br />
Hedges of Northwestern <strong>University</strong> and<br />
co-chair of SREE’s new advisory board.<br />
“The new organization will bring together<br />
a growing community of researchers<br />
<strong>from</strong> education as well as psychology,<br />
economics and sociology to focus on cause-<br />
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and-effect relations in education,” he said.<br />
“The organization will also address ways<br />
to better design and conduct investigations<br />
to promote the understanding and use of<br />
scientifi c evidence in educational settings.”<br />
In the Feb. 1 issue of Education Week, an<br />
article reported that creating a society to<br />
focus on scientifi c studies of education is<br />
controversial because it implies that only<br />
randomized control experiments will be<br />
used to study education. “The new organization<br />
will address this misconception by<br />
including but not limiting our studies to<br />
randomized control trials,” he said.<br />
SREE will draw members <strong>from</strong> colleges<br />
and universities, institutions, corporations<br />
and organizations that are interested<br />
in conducting studies and developing<br />
statistical and econometric models that<br />
advance the understanding of causeand-effect<br />
relationships to help provide<br />
research-based solutions for pressing<br />
problems in classrooms, schools, school<br />
districts and school systems. “Our intention<br />
is that SREE will provide policy-makers,<br />
state and local education offi cials and<br />
the general public with a reliable source of<br />
research evidence on which they can base<br />
decisions to improve education,” he noted.<br />
Constas, whose research focuses on<br />
the technical problems and philosophical<br />
underpinnings of educational research<br />
methodology, joined the <strong>Cornell</strong> faculty<br />
in 2003. He was a program director and<br />
educational policy analyst under the<br />
Clinton administration in the Offi ce of<br />
Educational Research and Improvement.<br />
Under the current Bush administration, he<br />
served as program director of the Interagency<br />
Education Research Initiative.<br />
Wendy Wasserstein’s death a loss for<br />
A.D. White Professors-at-Large program<br />
By FranKLin CraWFord<br />
Constas<br />
The death of playwright Wendy Wasserstein<br />
on Jan. 30 was a loss to American arts<br />
and letters, Broadway – and the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
community as well. Wasserstein had been<br />
appointed in 2005 for a six-year term as the<br />
President’s Council of <strong>Cornell</strong> Women Andrew<br />
D. White Professor-at-Large.<br />
“She loved working with students and<br />
teachers,” said Ellis Hanson, professor of<br />
English, Wasserstein’s faculty host and<br />
close friend. “Her appointment here would<br />
have been an excellent opportunity for<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>ians to study with a distinguished<br />
playwright who managed to politicize the<br />
genre of Broadway comedy in a new way.”<br />
Her play “Uncommon Women and Others”<br />
is slated for production at the Schwartz<br />
Performing Arts Center in February 2007.<br />
Plans were underway for Wasserstein to<br />
Legislature to try to increase the land-grant<br />
money to more than $70 million.<br />
In years past, SUNY typically allocated<br />
money to all of its campuses based on<br />
such factors as student enrollment,<br />
amount of external research funding a<br />
campus generates and statutory mandates<br />
or unique costs for a campus. But these<br />
factors were not relevant to <strong>Cornell</strong>’s landgrant<br />
mission, and many felt it was not<br />
fair to have funds allocated for land grant<br />
through a formula for general higher education<br />
purposes.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> interim President Hunter R.<br />
Rawlings worked closely with new SUNY<br />
Chancellor John Ryan to submit a higher<br />
education budget to the governor. Ryan aggressively<br />
advocated for separate higher<br />
education funding, Seeber said.<br />
visit and discuss her work during the run.<br />
Wasserstein was an uncommonly productive<br />
and successful auteur. Her greatest<br />
hit “The Heidi Chronicles” was a 1989 Pulitzer<br />
Prize and Tony Award winner. She<br />
also wrote “Isn’t It Romantic?” (1991), “The<br />
Sisters Rosensweig” (1992), “An American<br />
Daughter” (1997) and “Third,” which debuted<br />
last fall at Lincoln Center and sold<br />
out through its entire run.<br />
“The last time I talked to Wendy was at<br />
the opening night of ‘Third’ in October,”<br />
said Hanson. “She was her usual self:<br />
funny, generous, and curious about what<br />
everyone was thinking. She was very<br />
pleased with the enthusiasm of the audience,<br />
and I am glad now that she survived<br />
to see the success of her fi nal play.”<br />
Wasserstein also was the author of the<br />
best-selling children’s book “Pamela’s First<br />
Musical” (1996).<br />
The budget also includes funds for a<br />
number of contracts to perform such services<br />
for the state of New York as an equine<br />
drug-testing program and other veterinary<br />
medicine services. It also includes $12 million<br />
to continue development of an advanced<br />
synchrotron radiation X-ray source,<br />
called an Energy Recovery Linac. The proposed<br />
device will enable investigations of<br />
matter that are diffi cult if not impossible to<br />
perform with existing X-ray sources.<br />
The governor’s budget also proposed<br />
cuts in the Tuition Assistance Program,<br />
New York’s largest grant program, which<br />
provides up to $5,000 per student in assistance<br />
based on the applicant’s and family’s<br />
New York state net taxable income. But, the<br />
proposed reductions are likely to be reversed<br />
by the Legislature, Seeber said.<br />
Obituary<br />
John W. Kronik, professor emeritus of<br />
Spanish literature in the Department of Romance<br />
Studies at <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong>, died<br />
Jan. 22, in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 74.<br />
Kronik joined the <strong>Cornell</strong> faculty in<br />
1966 <strong>from</strong> the <strong>University</strong> of Illinois, where<br />
he had been an assistant professor of<br />
Spanish since 1963. Previously he had<br />
been an assistant professor of Romance<br />
languages at Hamilton College (1958-<br />
1963). During his career he also was a visiting<br />
professor at Colby College, Columbia<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Syracuse <strong>University</strong>, Bryn<br />
Mawr College Centro de Estudios Hispánicos<br />
(Madrid), Purdue <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Middlebury College, Brigham Young <strong>University</strong>,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Colorado, <strong>University</strong><br />
of California-Berkeley, UC-Irvine, UC-Riverside<br />
and UCLA.<br />
Kronik, who specialized in Spanish literature<br />
of the 19th and 20th centuries, was<br />
born in Vienna, Austria, on May 18, 1931.<br />
He completed his undergraduate studies at<br />
Queens College, NY, receiving a B.A. in<br />
Spanish in 1952. He received both his M.A.<br />
(1953) and his Ph.D. (1960) in Spanish <strong>from</strong><br />
the <strong>University</strong> of Wisconsin-Madison.<br />
During his academic career he received<br />
numerous honors and awards, including<br />
two Fulbright Fellowships (1960-61 and<br />
1987-88), and a Guggenheim Fellowship in<br />
1983. He was president of the International<br />
Galdós Association <strong>from</strong> 1981 to 1985, and<br />
he was honored with a Distinguished Retiring<br />
Editor Award <strong>from</strong> the Council of<br />
Editors of Learned Journals in 1992.<br />
Kronik was a prolifi c and accomplished<br />
editor and served on the editorial boards of<br />
31 distinguished journals, most notably as<br />
editor of the PMLA, the journal of the Modern<br />
Language Association, <strong>from</strong> 1986 to<br />
1992. He was chair of the Fulbright national<br />
screening committee for Spain and Portugal<br />
<strong>from</strong> 1963 to 1964. Over the years, Kronik<br />
served as mentor and thesis advisor to<br />
a large number of <strong>Cornell</strong> graduate students,<br />
many of whom now hold academic<br />
positions at peer institutions.<br />
People<br />
Donald a. rutz, professor of veterinary<br />
entomology at <strong>Cornell</strong>, has been appointed<br />
director of <strong>Cornell</strong>’s New York state Integrated<br />
Pest Management (IPM) program. He will<br />
continue his research and extension programs<br />
while allocating 40 percent of his time to the<br />
directorship, which begins Feb. 1. He succeeds<br />
Michael P. Hoffmann, who became director<br />
of <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Agricultural Experiment Station<br />
in September.<br />
Rutz has been actively involved with IPM<br />
for over 25 years, having been a member of<br />
the IPM program operating committee since<br />
its inception.<br />
Announcing Rutz’s appointment, Helene R.<br />
Dillard, <strong>Cornell</strong> Cooperative Extension director<br />
and associate dean of the College of Agriculture<br />
and Life Sciences and the College of Human<br />
Ecology, said, “We welcome Don to our leadership<br />
team. He has been a highly respected, wellknown<br />
leader in the IPM fi eld and among <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
faculty and staff for decades. His knowledge and<br />
solid reputation will continue to keep the New<br />
York state IPM program well positioned as a<br />
national leader in this scholarship area.”<br />
Rutz will focus his attention as IPM director on<br />
stakeholder involvement and securing funding.<br />
“The outstanding reputation that our program<br />
experiences today has resulted <strong>from</strong> the ever<br />
constant involvement and input <strong>from</strong> our extensive<br />
list of stakeholders in both agriculture and in<br />
our communities; our regulators and legislators<br />
at the local, state and national levels; our public<br />
health and environmental advocacy groups; and<br />
our outstanding <strong>Cornell</strong> extension educators<br />
and researchers both off and on campus,” Rutz<br />
said. “As director, I will constantly strive to make<br />
certain that this involvement remains the driving<br />
force behind our program.”<br />
Drama of a journey into madness: Neal Freeman ’97<br />
is back on campus to direct play about Van Gogh<br />
By GeorGe LoWery<br />
neal Freeman has accomplished something rare:<br />
He has supported himself in the theater as a<br />
director, actor and playwright since graduating<br />
<strong>from</strong> <strong>Cornell</strong> in 1997. He is now back on campus to direct<br />
the regional premiere of “Vincent in Brixton,” a play<br />
based on Vincent Van Gogh’s years in England, in the<br />
Schwartz Center’s Black Box Theatre.<br />
“Much of what we know of Van Gogh comes <strong>from</strong> his<br />
letters,” says Freeman. “He struggled to understand himself.<br />
I love that the play is about real characters and has a<br />
strong authenticity about it. Our involvement as an audience<br />
is enhanced by the fact that we’re witnessing something<br />
that could have happened.”<br />
Set in 1873, when the 20-year-old Van Gogh was working<br />
for a London art dealer and renting a room in Brixton,<br />
south London, the play, written by Nicholas Wright, examines<br />
the seeds of genius and madness that lead to Van<br />
Gogh’s enduring art and his suicide at age 37.<br />
“This is very much a character study, not a history lesson,”<br />
Freeman says of “Vincent,” which won Britain’s 2003<br />
Olivier Award for Best New Play. “You’re watching real<br />
people struggling. You look ahead to the genius of his artwork,<br />
and then you look to the despair and madness of his<br />
personal life. It’s really about the coexistence of genius<br />
and madness. The play asks: Do you have to be somewhat<br />
mad to be a truly great artist?”<br />
Freeman, who majored in theater and English, returned<br />
to his native Baltimore after graduation, where he directed,<br />
acted and wrote plays. His work has received strong reviews,<br />
and he won the 2003 Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival<br />
competition. Two years ago he moved to New York<br />
City, where he has directed three off-Broadway shows in<br />
the past year.<br />
“It’s great as a graduate to feel like I have something to<br />
give back,” he says. “I felt that I took a lot <strong>from</strong> my training<br />
here, and I’ve been able to apply it to my own work.<br />
“I wanted a school where I could study theater intensively<br />
but at the same time have a broad base in liberal<br />
arts,” Freeman notes. “This is a relatively small department<br />
where there’s a lot of student involvement and a lot<br />
of professional skill in the teaching, design and technical<br />
staff. It was a perfect fi t for me. Part of the beauty of this<br />
program is that you get professional-level training without<br />
that conservatory kind of feel. It’s run like a regional<br />
theater. The facilities are fantastic.”<br />
JASON KOSKI/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Director Neal Freeman works with Barrie Kreinik during a recent rehearsal for “Vincent in Brixton” in the Schwartz Center’s<br />
Black Box Theatre.<br />
Freeman says that as a director, he is organized and reliable.<br />
“I bring some sense of stability as well as the passion<br />
and the understanding of the art.<br />
“As an artist in any discipline, the broader your life experience,<br />
the broader your art. It’s not as simple as taking a<br />
history class and having a better understanding of Vincent<br />
Van Gogh. It’s being exposed to different philosophies,<br />
writers, views of the world. They broaden your ability to see<br />
those viewpoints in a particular work of art.”<br />
At 31, Freeman has navigated hurdles of rejection and unemployment<br />
that can dash hopes of a theatrical career.<br />
“When you get to be my age, you have to make the commit-<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Hotel School creates collaborative degree<br />
program with Culinary Institute of America<br />
By Linda myers<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s School of Hotel Administration<br />
– the oldest, most prominent hospitality<br />
education program in the country – and<br />
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)<br />
in Hyde Park, N.Y. – the nation’s leading<br />
school of culinary arts – have teamed to<br />
offer a collaborative degree program that<br />
gives students the best of both worlds.<br />
The Hotel School has a managerial and<br />
research focus, the CIA a culinary one.<br />
The collaborative degree program is<br />
part of a broader alliance the two colleges<br />
formed in 2003 to enhance students’ educational<br />
experience and serve the hospitality<br />
industry through education, research<br />
and professional skills development.<br />
“This program will give students a<br />
distinctive education refl ecting the best of<br />
both institutions and is exactly the kind<br />
of innovative educational offering that we<br />
envisioned in forming this alliance,” said<br />
Leo Renaghan, associate dean for academic<br />
affairs at the Hotel School.<br />
“We are pleased to partner with the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Hotel School to create a unique<br />
program serving students who have a passion<br />
for food service and hospitality operations,”<br />
said Kathy Merget, dean of liberal<br />
arts and management studies at the CIA.<br />
In the new, intensive, four-year degree<br />
program, undergraduates enrolled in<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s Hotel School earn a Bachelor<br />
of Science (B.S.) degree in hotel administration<br />
<strong>from</strong> <strong>Cornell</strong> and an Associate<br />
in Occupational Studies (A.O.S.) degree<br />
JASON KOSKI/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Meryl Davis ’07, left, a junior in the Hotel School, is one of the fi rst two students to enroll in the<br />
school’s collaborative degree program with The Culinary Institute of America, pictured here in<br />
the Beck Center’s Park Atrium with Emily Franco ’92 Hotel, director of the joint program.<br />
in culinary arts <strong>from</strong> the CIA. Eligible<br />
juniors and seniors can enroll in the fi rst<br />
full class, beginning in May.<br />
At the Hotel School, students will<br />
spend most of the academic year taking<br />
such hospitality-oriented core courses<br />
as human resource management and<br />
organizational behavior as well as learning<br />
restaurant design, development and<br />
management and studying food service.<br />
At the CIA, students will gain the<br />
culinary knowledge, techniques and skills<br />
used by leading restaurants, hotels and<br />
resorts worldwide, through such courses<br />
as Cuisines of Europe and the Mediterranean,<br />
taken in three-week blocks over<br />
the course of the calendar year, including<br />
summers and winter intersessions.<br />
For more information contact Emily<br />
Franco, director of the <strong>Cornell</strong> Hotel<br />
School-CIA Alliance, at or (607) 255-4611.<br />
ment to swim against the stream or give up,” Freeman says.<br />
“I have no intention of doing that. I’ve been poor for so long<br />
that it doesn’t scare me to continue to be that way.”<br />
“Vincent in Brixton,” which runs Feb 1-5 and 8-11, says<br />
Freeman, “is really the beginning of Van Gogh’s journey.”<br />
And that’s something Freeman can understand. Of his career,<br />
he says, “I feel I’m on the threshold of something bigger<br />
right now, standing at the doorway, not quite fully in<br />
the room yet.”<br />
George Lowery is projects manager in the Offi ce of Humanities<br />
and Social Sciences Communications.<br />
Notables<br />
isabel hull, John Stambaugh Professor of<br />
History at <strong>Cornell</strong>, has won the 2005 Ralph<br />
Waldo Emerson Book Award for “Absolute<br />
Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices<br />
of War in Imperial Germany” (<strong>Cornell</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Press, 2005).<br />
The $2,500 Emerson award is offered by<br />
Phi Beta Kappa each year for scholarly studies<br />
that contribute signifi cantly to interpretations<br />
of the intellectual and cultural condition of<br />
humanity. The awards ceremony was held Dec.<br />
2 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.<br />
“Absolute Destruction” is a work of modern<br />
European history and a cautionary tale for<br />
today, examining the rise and development<br />
of German military culture and institutions.<br />
Thomas Lacqueur, a judge on the Emerson<br />
selection committee, said “the prose is taut;<br />
the documentation staggering; the analysis<br />
brilliant.” Jean Bethke Elshtain, chair of the<br />
Emerson committee, said Hull’s work is “detailed<br />
history of a very high order.”<br />
“Absolute Destruction” also received the<br />
German Studies Association’s DAAD 2005<br />
Book Prize for Outstanding Book in History<br />
and Political Science. Hull has taught at<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> since 1977 and has held fellowships<br />
<strong>from</strong> the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation,<br />
the German Academic Exchange<br />
<strong>Service</strong> and the John Simon Guggenheim<br />
Foundation, among others.<br />
Her 1997 book “Sexuality, State, and Civil<br />
Society in Germany, 1700-1815” was honored<br />
by the American Historical Association for<br />
the most outstanding work in English on any<br />
aspect of 17th- and 18th-Century European<br />
History, and by the Berkshire Conference of<br />
Women Historians (1997) as the best history<br />
book that year written by a woman.
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Ammons’ ‘lowly and<br />
sublime’ vision explored<br />
at MLA convention<br />
By daVid BuraK<br />
on Saturday, Feb. 18, friends and<br />
former colleagues of A.R. “Archie”<br />
Ammons don’t expect to see his<br />
ghost sitting in the Temple of Zeus on<br />
the <strong>Cornell</strong> campus, even though the late<br />
Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
would have turned 80 on that day.<br />
However, Ammons’ spirit was alive and<br />
well in Washington, D.C., during the Modern<br />
Language Association (MLA) convention<br />
in December. On the morning of Dec.<br />
28, some of the most treasured parts of<br />
Ammons’ earthly remains – his poems<br />
– were brought to<br />
life by a cross section<br />
of distinguished<br />
scholars.<br />
Professor Roger<br />
Gilbert of <strong>Cornell</strong>’s<br />
English Department<br />
organized and<br />
moderated the panel,<br />
“From ‘Ommateum’<br />
to ‘Bosh and Flap-<br />
doodle’: Fifty Years of A.R. Ammons.”<br />
Ammons, who died in 2001 at age 75, had<br />
won two National Book Awards, a MacArthur<br />
Award and a Bollingen Prize, among<br />
other honors.<br />
In his opening remarks on the panel,<br />
Gilbert said that “Ommateum,” which<br />
Ammons paid to have published in 1955,<br />
is “now considered one of the rarest books<br />
in American poetry.” This fi rst collection<br />
of Ammons’ poetry appeared 100 years<br />
after Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,”<br />
Gilbert said, noting, “Archie was undoubtedly<br />
aware that Whitman’s seminal work<br />
was also self-published, with a preface by<br />
the author and with a group of untitled<br />
poems.”<br />
Steven Cushman, a professor at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Virginia, addressed issues<br />
arising <strong>from</strong> a close reading of “The Really<br />
Short Poems of A.R. Ammons.” In an<br />
intense and rapid-fi re manner, Cushman<br />
contended that Ammons’ shorter works<br />
are, aesthetically speaking, as legitimate as<br />
the poet’s longer, more critically acclaimed<br />
works, such as “Sphere: The Form of a Motion”<br />
and “Tape for the Turn of the Year.”<br />
Cushman suggested that his perspectives<br />
are probably emanations of his “investment<br />
... in seeing Ammons … as an endlessly capable<br />
fi gure of comprehensive continuity.”<br />
“Ammons is a nature poet,” declared<br />
Elizabeth Mills, a professor at Davidson<br />
College. Speaking with a mellifl uous<br />
Southern accent similar to that of Ammons<br />
himself, Mills noted that some of the<br />
problems Ammons had with depression<br />
and anxiety may have been associated with<br />
A.R. “Archie” Ammons in his offi ce, 1998.<br />
seasonal affective disorder. Nonetheless,<br />
Ammons embarked on his quest to “gather<br />
up pieces of clarity.” Mills noted that in<br />
the period during which Ammons wrote<br />
“Lake Effect Country,” he said, “I want to<br />
deal with intellectual conglomerates that<br />
could reveal the nature of things.” Mills<br />
characterized Ammons as “an edgewalker,<br />
a seeker on the periphery.”<br />
Kevin McGuirk, a professor at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Waterloo, suggested that Ammons’<br />
early position in the realm of poets<br />
could be understood by looking at him as<br />
a type of “outsider artist … This kind of<br />
individual produces work which isn’t part<br />
of the artistic movements of the time.” Mc-<br />
Guirk described “Ommateum” as “a very<br />
strange book.” At the time Ammons pub-<br />
ROBERT BARKER/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
lished the collection, “most of his peers<br />
had Ivy League educations.” Ammons did<br />
his undergraduate work as a science major<br />
at Wake Forest <strong>University</strong>. He also did<br />
a year of graduate work at <strong>University</strong> of<br />
California-Berkeley. McGuirk noted that,<br />
before the publication of “Ommateum,”<br />
Ammons knew virtually no one in the<br />
poetry world except Josephine Miles, who<br />
had been his teacher at Berkeley.<br />
Professor Steven Schneider, <strong>University</strong><br />
of Texas-Pan American, concluded by saying<br />
that Ammons’ poems “continuously<br />
explore the inside-out connection and<br />
a vision both lowly and sublime … that<br />
enriches us far beyond expectation.”<br />
David Burak, B.A. ’67, M.F.A. ’80, teaches<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> of California-Santa Monica.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>, Weill <strong>Cornell</strong> and Lockheed Martin partner to create<br />
plan to manage mass casualties in disasters<br />
By BiLL sTeeLe<br />
Gilbert<br />
NEW YORK — <strong>Cornell</strong> and Weill<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Medical College (WCMC) are<br />
partnering with Lockheed Martin to<br />
develop a computerized system to help<br />
hospitals nationwide plan for and deal<br />
with mass casualties <strong>from</strong> disasters<br />
such as hurricanes, a fl u pandemic or<br />
bioterrorism. The system will aid in<br />
readiness planning, simulate a disas-<br />
Muckstadt<br />
ter situation for testing purposes and<br />
act as a decision support system in a real disaster.<br />
The system, for which Lockheed is providing the research<br />
funding, will be an extension of a prototype already developed<br />
at WCMC in collaboration with OR-Manhattan, the<br />
New York City program of the School of Operations Research<br />
and Industrial Engineering (ORIE) on <strong>Cornell</strong>’s<br />
Ithaca campus. The partnership with Lockheed aims to<br />
combine <strong>Cornell</strong>’s computer models with command-andcontrol<br />
systems Lockheed has developed for medical services<br />
in the military. Other technology companies will be<br />
invited to join a consortium on the project.<br />
“In light of the 9-11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the<br />
persistent threat of terrorism, we believe there is an urgent<br />
need to develop logistics solutions for planning and response<br />
in the face of mass casualty events,” said Jack<br />
Muckstadt, the Acheson-Laibe Professor of Operations Research<br />
and Industrial Engineering at <strong>Cornell</strong> and director<br />
of OR-Manhattan.<br />
The goal is to create a distributed communications sys-<br />
21 Dinner <strong>continued</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>page</strong> 1<br />
dinner. Before his tragic death during a<br />
lacrosse game on March 17, 2004, Boiardi<br />
served as a <strong>Cornell</strong> lacrosse team captain<br />
and was president of Alpha Tau Omega<br />
fraternity on campus. Boiardi had committed<br />
to join the South Dakota corps of<br />
Teach for America upon graduation.<br />
Like Bioardi, Schaap was a campus<br />
leader. Schaap, who was a dedicated <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
alumnus, went on to become a wellknown<br />
journalist whose career spanned<br />
more than 50 years in television, newspa-<br />
tem that would coordinate the work of emergency responders,<br />
hospital managers and local and regional<br />
offi cials. It would combine real-time reports <strong>from</strong> responders<br />
in the fi eld with databases of hospital capacity and resources<br />
to show, for example, how 100 burn victims might<br />
be distributed among three hospitals, or where a ward full<br />
of premature infants in intensive care could be moved if a<br />
particular hospital needed to be evacuated.<br />
The <strong>Cornell</strong> prototype, called the Mass Casualty Response<br />
Logistics Program, was created by Dr. Nathaniel<br />
Hupert, assistant professor of medicine and a researcher<br />
in public health and medical decision making in the Departments<br />
of Public Health and Medicine, WCMC, in collaboration<br />
with Muckstadt.<br />
Hupert has already developed several computer models of<br />
public health systems that are in wide use across the country,<br />
including the Weill/<strong>Cornell</strong> Bioterrorism and Epidemic Outbreak<br />
Response Model (BERM), the de facto national standard<br />
planning tool for designing large-scale mass<br />
disease-control campaigns. BERM, which has had more than<br />
1,300 downloads <strong>from</strong> the Web site of the American Hospital<br />
Association, is used by states <strong>from</strong> New York to Hawaii for<br />
emergency-response planning purposes. Hupert’s collaboration<br />
with ORIE applies supply chain and logistics techniques<br />
used in manufacturing to the logistics of hospitals.<br />
The models the <strong>Cornell</strong> researchers have developed are<br />
the fi rst to focus on treatment capacity, according to Hupert.<br />
“Other current initiatives are primarily concerned<br />
with outbreak detection, health alerts, patient-level medical<br />
records and other issues unrelated to managing capacity,”<br />
Hupert said. The new system would keep track of<br />
pers, radio, magazines and books.<br />
Jeremy Schaap ’91, Dick’s son, an Emmy<br />
Award-winning reporter and host of<br />
ESPN’s “Outside The Lines,” gave the<br />
dinner’s keynote address.<br />
The money raised will help grow the<br />
corps of South Dakota Teach for America<br />
teachers to 40 – up <strong>from</strong> 34 this year and<br />
17 just two years ago – to teach in some of<br />
the state’s highest-need public and Bureau<br />
of Indian Affairs schools on the Rosebud<br />
and Pine Ridge Reservations.<br />
Michael P. Riley Jr. has been named associate<br />
dean for alumni affairs, development<br />
and communications by the College of Agriculture<br />
and Life Sciences (CALS) at <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
Riley provides overall leadership for development<br />
and public affairs in CALS. He works<br />
closely with the college’s dean, administrative<br />
leadership and faculty to determine initiatives<br />
in support of the college’s academic priorities<br />
and the dean’s involvement in these initiatives.<br />
such resources as beds, intensive care units, emergency<br />
departments, operating rooms, doctors, nurses and other<br />
health professionals, transportation assets such as ambulances<br />
and other EMS units and even supplies like bandages<br />
and fuel for generators.<br />
Initially, the system would coordinate activities in a local<br />
area, but Muckstadt hopes that eventually the data<br />
could move up to the state and federal levels so that offi -<br />
cials would know, for example, “where to send the ice<br />
trucks.” Meanwhile, he added, it should make life easier<br />
for hospital administrators on a day-to-day basis, even<br />
when there is no emergency.<br />
The researchers have tested their model by running<br />
simulations of real disasters, including last summer’s London<br />
subway bombings and the 2004 Madrid railway attack.<br />
The next step, they said, is to create a pilot program<br />
involving a group of 29 hospitals in New York City’s Presbyterian<br />
Hospital system, which is affi liated with WCMC<br />
Development of the system will be based on what Muckstadt<br />
calls a “three-legged stool” supported by technology<br />
companies, academic researchers and the prospective endusers.<br />
He is seeking funding to create a laboratory in<br />
which potential users could participate in computer simulations<br />
of disaster situations. The simulations would draw<br />
on <strong>Cornell</strong>’s high-performance cluster computing facilities<br />
in Ithaca and at the OR-Manhattan facility at 55 Broad St.<br />
in the fi nancial district of New York City.<br />
Funding for development of the computer models on<br />
which the new system will be based was supplied by the<br />
U.S. Department of Health and Human <strong>Service</strong>s Agency<br />
for Healthcare Research and Quality.<br />
People<br />
He coordinates the activities of the CALS Advisory<br />
Council, manages and advances the college’s<br />
relationships with its top development<br />
prospects and donors and oversees the college’s<br />
alumni affairs and communications initiatives<br />
with CALS’ many constituencies.<br />
“Mike has an exceptional ability to mobilize<br />
staff and resources on behalf of the college and<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>,” said Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P.<br />
Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences.<br />
Wanted by <strong>Cornell</strong> and USDA researchers: A natural enemy to<br />
curb two invasive, poisonous vines<br />
By Krishna ramanujan<br />
With no known enemies in North<br />
America, two types of invasive vines<br />
are growing unchecked in forests<br />
and fi elds, threatening reforestation,<br />
fragile butterfl y populations and<br />
bird habitats.<br />
The vines are pale and black swallow-wort, and to fi nd<br />
a biological control to stem the growth of and their steady<br />
conquest of local ecosystems in the northern United States<br />
and Canada, <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> has teamed up with the<br />
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research<br />
<strong>Service</strong> (USDA-ARS), which operates a federal laboratory<br />
at <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
Pale and black swallow-wort – twining vines recently<br />
classifi ed as invasive species and members of the milkweed<br />
family – have rapidly spread since the mid-1990s.<br />
The plants are lethal hosts for monarch butterfl y larvae<br />
and alter ground cover and affect habitat for grassland<br />
birds. And, if that is not enough, the plants are growing<br />
with increasing vigor in some maize and soybean fi elds<br />
and are altering forest regeneration patterns.<br />
Native populations of pale swallow-wort (Vincetoxicum<br />
rossicum) in Ukraine and black swallow-wort (V. nigrum) in<br />
southwestern Europe are kept in check, though, by native<br />
natural enemies. Natural enemies to plants often include<br />
moth caterpillars, beetles, fl ies and diseases.<br />
“These swallow-worts have been here more than 100 years<br />
but have exploded in the last 10 to 15 years, and it will still be<br />
a minimum of 10 years before we can even release a natural<br />
enemy to control their growth,” said Antonio DiTommaso,<br />
associate professor of weed science at <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
“The collaboration between <strong>Cornell</strong> and the USDA involves<br />
studies of the plants’ biology to identify weak links<br />
in the life cycle that should be targeted, if possible, for biological<br />
control,” said Lindsey Milbrath, a USDA-ARS research<br />
entomologist at <strong>Cornell</strong>, adding that introducing<br />
any agent will require federal approval. “Our research<br />
will help guide the selection of an effective agent.”<br />
Milbrath, whose funding <strong>from</strong> USDA supports the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
collaboration on a three-year project, is working with<br />
researchers at a USDA facility in Montpellier, France, and<br />
other colleagues who are working in Ukraine and southwestern<br />
Europe to identify the plants’ natural enemies.<br />
The plants contain strong poisons, which likely limit<br />
natural enemies. Deer and cattle do not eat them. Researchers<br />
also are fi nding that pale swallow-wort may be<br />
replacing milkweeds in open fi elds in New York state and<br />
across the Northeast coast, within the migratory range of<br />
LARISSA SMITH<br />
above: A mature pale swallow-wort plant with seed pod. inset: Swallow-wort seeds are polyembronic, meaning each seed can<br />
typically bear three to four genetically identical seedlings.<br />
monarch butterfl ies. The monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed,<br />
and their larvae eat it as a primary food. Studies<br />
have shown that when the monarchs lay their eggs on pale<br />
or black swallow-wort, the larvae die within three days.<br />
DiTommaso and his graduate students are investigating<br />
whether the plants release root chemicals that alter soil<br />
conditions. Preliminary fi ndings suggest that communities<br />
of mycorrhizae – soil fungi that help provide more nutrients<br />
to plant roots – differ in species and abundance in<br />
areas surrounding swallow-worts.<br />
“It could be that swallow-worts release chemicals that<br />
make an optimal environment for certain mycorrhizal<br />
fungi,” said DiTommaso.<br />
Through the altered soil, or possibly because of chemi-<br />
KEVIN STEARNS/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Ann Gifford, the EmPowerNY program team coordinator and a consumer and fi nancial management<br />
educator at CCE-Tompkins County, poses with an insulated window and other materials<br />
used for workshops about saving energy.<br />
cals directly released by the swallow-worts, other plant<br />
species have a hard time establishing themselves wherever<br />
swallow-worts grow, DiTommaso said.<br />
The pink-fl owered pale swallow-wort grows rapidly in<br />
both forest understories and in open fi elds of undisturbed<br />
soil throughout central and upstate New York, around the<br />
Great Lakes and in Canada. The purple-fl owered black<br />
swallow-wort prefers open areas and has a foothold in the<br />
Hudson Valley, Long Island, southern New York and the<br />
New England coast.<br />
Like the common milkweed, swallow-worts release<br />
lightweight seeds with featherlike tails that are dispersed<br />
by wind and passing deer. Interestingly, between two to<br />
eight plants can germinate <strong>from</strong> each seed.<br />
Free workshops throughout New York offer tips on saving energy and money<br />
By susan s. LanG<br />
Turn off computers and their peripherals<br />
when not in use. Unplug such “vampire”<br />
appliances as satellite TV systems<br />
and VCRs that suck electricity even when<br />
they are off. Replace light bulbs with<br />
compact fl uorescent bulbs. Install weather<br />
stripping on doors leading to the outside<br />
or garage. And, of course, turn down the<br />
thermostat when leaving home.<br />
These are just a few of the energy-<br />
and money-saving tips being given out<br />
around the state in hundreds of free<br />
EmPower New York workshops on saving<br />
energy and money. Last year, 28 <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Cooperative Extension (CCE) offi ces<br />
offered more than 335 workshops on<br />
saving energy and managing money with<br />
some 3,000 participants in 30 counties<br />
serviced by New York State Electric &<br />
Gas (NYSEG) and National Grid. Another<br />
135 workshops are scheduled for future<br />
months (see for schedule).<br />
“There are many low- and no-cost energy-saving<br />
strategies that can save money<br />
so that renters and homeowners can apply<br />
the savings to other household expenses,”<br />
says Ann Gifford, the program’s team<br />
coordinator of consumer and fi nancial<br />
management education at CCE-Tompkins<br />
County. Gifford developed the workshops<br />
on energy effi ciency and fi nancial man-<br />
agement education and provides statewide<br />
leadership for the workshops with<br />
Barbara Henza, fi nancial and consumer<br />
educator at CCE-Cortland County.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> housing and energy expert Joe Laquatra,<br />
the Reed Professor of Design and Environment<br />
Analysis (DEA) at <strong>Cornell</strong>, oversaw<br />
the development of energy workshop<br />
materials. Laquatra heads up the Consumer<br />
Education Program for Residential Energy<br />
Effi ciency, a related New York program that<br />
promotes energy-saving incentives for homeowners,<br />
landlords and builders. Laquatra<br />
and Mark Pierce, DEA extension associate,<br />
assisted with CCE educator training so that<br />
trained staff could implement the workshops<br />
in local communities.<br />
“Participants rave about the workshops<br />
and how helpful and informative they<br />
are,” Gifford says. “They often comment<br />
how there should be more people attending<br />
them.”<br />
Noelia Springston, who was worried<br />
about this winter, attended an energy-saving<br />
workshop last fall. After the workshop,<br />
she caulked and weather stripped<br />
doors and windows, put up plastic storm<br />
windows and plugged up socket covers.<br />
“It seems basic, but after the workshop, we<br />
were motivated to make adjustments.”<br />
“Save Energy, Save Dollars” workshops<br />
focus on energy effi ciency and offer such<br />
free take-home tools as weather stripping,<br />
caulk, plastic storm windows and<br />
faucet aerators. Both “Making Ends Meet,”<br />
which focuses on household planning,<br />
and “Exploring Credit Issues,” which<br />
assists consumers in debt management,<br />
provide free calculators and other moneymanagement<br />
tools. Although the workshops<br />
are open to the public, they require<br />
pre-registration and attendance is limited.<br />
The EmPower New York workshops are<br />
a program of the New York State Energy<br />
Research and Development Authority<br />
(NYSERDA) and are funded by a system<br />
benefi ts charge (SBC) paid by electric<br />
distribution customers of participating<br />
utilities. NYSERDA offers a wide range of<br />
energy effi ciency programs and information<br />
for households seeking assistance in<br />
reducing their energy bills.
6 February 2, 2006 <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle February 2, 2006 7<br />
Conference to consider labor’s responses to globalization<br />
At an unusual international labor conference<br />
in New York City, Feb. 9-11, trade unionists<br />
and scholars will strategize about the role<br />
of the labor movement in a globalized world.<br />
“Global Companies - Global Unions -<br />
Global Research - Global Campaigns,”<br />
which takes place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel<br />
at Times Square, is being co-sponsored<br />
by <strong>Cornell</strong>’s School of Industrial and Labor<br />
Relations (ILR).<br />
“This is a big event – the fi rst of its kind,<br />
with 500 academics and labor leaders <strong>from</strong> all<br />
over the world,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner,<br />
director of the Labor Education Research program<br />
at the ILR School and a chief organizer<br />
of the conference, which has attracted so much<br />
attention it is already oversubscribed.<br />
“Given the globalization of companies,<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Books<br />
A fetching second edition of ’Diseases of Trees and Shrubs’<br />
You wouldn’t think a plant pathology text with the title “Diseases of Trees<br />
and Shrubs” could double as a coffee-table book. But given its subject<br />
matter, the handsomely designed and revised second edition of Wayne A.<br />
Sinclair’s masterwork is quite fetching to the eye. Sinclair is a <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
professor emeritus of plant pathology.<br />
First published in 1987 by <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />
“Diseases of Trees and Shrubs” has become a standard<br />
reference for plant health specialists, plant diagnosticians,<br />
horticulturists, arborists, foresters and their students.<br />
Many of the original pictures (there are 2,200 color photographs<br />
alone) were shot by Howard H. Lyon, a photographer<br />
with the <strong>Cornell</strong> plant pathology department <strong>from</strong><br />
1950 to 1985, whose name is prominently displayed on the<br />
dust cover on which a Lyon original is printed. The jacket<br />
cover itself was designed by Kent Loeffl er, also a photographer<br />
in the plant pathology department at <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
Thoroughly revised, fully updated and illustrated<br />
with more than 2,200 digitally optimized color images in<br />
261 full-color plates and more than 350 black-and-white<br />
photographs and drawings, the second edition is an<br />
Red Hat CEO to<br />
discuss open<br />
source technology<br />
Matthew Szulik, chairman, chief executive<br />
offi cer and president of Red Hat, will<br />
speak at <strong>Cornell</strong> on Monday, Feb. 6 at 5<br />
p.m. in Room 101 Philips Hall. His talk,<br />
“Open for Change,” will address open<br />
source technology.<br />
The presentation is free, open to the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> community and sponsored by<br />
the <strong>Cornell</strong> Theory Center and the<br />
Faculty of Computing and Information<br />
Science.<br />
“As a vehicle for economic and social<br />
change, the power of open source is immeasurable,”<br />
Szulik said. “It’s changing<br />
how people learn, how developers create<br />
and how companies do business.”<br />
“Open source” refers to software whose<br />
source code is freely available, allowing<br />
a large community of users to examine<br />
it for fl aws and contribute corrections<br />
and improvements. Red Hat is a leading<br />
provider of a packaged version of the<br />
open source operating system Linux.<br />
Szulik is passionate about improving the<br />
educational opportunities for students<br />
worldwide through open source, and he<br />
often speaks to industry, government<br />
and education leaders on open source<br />
computing. He will share his vision of<br />
how the open source model is allowing<br />
greater affordability and access to<br />
technology, <strong>from</strong> the world’s largest<br />
organizations to its poorest societies.<br />
fi nance and labor markets, the labor movement<br />
recognizes that union organizing<br />
and bargaining campaigns and strategic<br />
research must become global as well,” said<br />
Bronfenbrenner, stressing that the plenary<br />
speakers are prominent labor leaders.<br />
Among the labor movement’s heavy hitters<br />
at the opening plenary session on Feb.<br />
9 are Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer,<br />
AFL-CIO; Harris Raynor, international<br />
vice president, UNITE HERE; Berta Luján,<br />
Mexico City comptroller with the Partido<br />
de la Revolución Democrática and former<br />
national coordinator of Authentic Labor<br />
Front, Mexico; Cedric Gina, second vice<br />
president of National Union of Metal Workers,<br />
South Africa; and Guy Ryder, secretary,<br />
International Confederation of Free<br />
Trade Unions. Harry Katz, dean of the ILR<br />
School, is also a panelist, and Bronfenbrenner<br />
is chairing the discussion.<br />
The Feb. 11 closing plenary session features<br />
Ron Oswald, general secretary, International<br />
Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel,<br />
Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied<br />
Workers’ Associations; Neide Fonseca,<br />
president, Inter-American Trade Union Institute<br />
to Promote Racial Equality and the<br />
secretary of social policy for the National<br />
Confederation of Bank Workers, Brazil;<br />
Chang Hsu-Chung, president of the Chunghwa<br />
Telecom Workers Union, Taiwan; and<br />
Hassan Yussuff secretary-treasurer of the<br />
Canadian Labour Congress. The session<br />
will be chaired by Kenneth Zinn, director of<br />
the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research.<br />
unrivaled survey of the diseases of forest and<br />
shade trees and woody ornamental plants in<br />
the United States and Canada.<br />
The book is both an authoritative reference<br />
book and a powerful diagnostic tool. Organized<br />
according to type of disease-inducing<br />
agent, the second edition also is designed<br />
to be helpful in classroom and fi eld instruction.<br />
Symptoms, signs and cycles of hundreds of diseases are<br />
described, and microscopic features of many pathogens<br />
are depicted in photos and line drawings.<br />
A searchable CD-ROM included with the book contains<br />
bibliographic entries for more than 4,500 works that<br />
readers can consult for additional information or images.<br />
The fi rst edition of “Diseases” was praised by The<br />
The conference also includes more than<br />
200 workshops on such topics as “Transnational<br />
Union Strategy, Environmental<br />
Movements and Corporate Responsibility”<br />
and “Working Off the Clock: Testimony<br />
From Former Wal-Mart Employees in the<br />
U.S.” One workshop participant is José<br />
Bové, who opposes the industrialization of<br />
food production and its impact on small<br />
farmers. Bové was jailed for dismantling a<br />
McDonald’s restaurant in France several<br />
years ago and faces another prison term for<br />
destroying genetically modifi ed corn in<br />
Brazil. He and others also are taking part<br />
in a pre-conference conversation Feb. 9<br />
starting at 9:30 a.m. that is free and open to<br />
the public (the conference is not). Plenary<br />
sessions are open to the media.<br />
Washington<br />
Post<br />
and many experts in the<br />
fi eld as one of the 10 best horticultural<br />
books of the 20th century. It is likely to yield the<br />
same accolade in the 21st century.<br />
United Way campaign passes goal and presses for<br />
Urgent Rx challenge<br />
By FranKLin<br />
CraWFord<br />
The <strong>Cornell</strong> United<br />
Way Campaign has<br />
soared past its goal<br />
of $627,000, hitting<br />
$668,556.69 in pledges<br />
as of Jan. 24.<br />
“These are just superb numbers,” said<br />
Charles Walcott, dean of the university faculty<br />
and <strong>Cornell</strong>’s 2005 United Way campaign<br />
chair. “I would like to thank those who gave<br />
and continue to give – and to remind everyone<br />
that this campaign is not over. We need<br />
to keep pushing as the participation rate is<br />
just about even with last year. That means<br />
there are a small number of exceptionally<br />
generous people on this campus.”<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> participation rates edged toward<br />
17 percent – nearly even with last year’s<br />
participation rate, yet still short of the 20<br />
percent goal that 2005 campaign organiz-<br />
Presidential transition office opens: A<br />
presidential transition offi ce has been created<br />
to facilitate David J. Skorton’s assumption<br />
of the <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> presidency on<br />
July 1. The offi ce will handle all transition<br />
details for <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Ithaca campus and for<br />
the Weill <strong>Cornell</strong> Medical College (WCMC)<br />
ers hope to realize. The<br />
campaign offi cially<br />
closes March 31.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> community<br />
members who have<br />
not yet participated<br />
are asked to consider<br />
pledging to the Urgent<br />
Rx Challenge Grant, a matching grant of<br />
$25,000 <strong>from</strong> the Brooks Family Foundation.<br />
So far, $19,560 has been pledged<br />
toward the program.<br />
Urgent Rx will help low-income, uninsured<br />
Tompkins County residents obtain<br />
medicine prescribed (as part of their treatment<br />
plan) in the Cayuga Medical Center’s<br />
emergency room and Convenient Care<br />
Center. The target population is uninsured<br />
individuals and families. Along with the<br />
Urgent Rx Program, patients will be encouraged<br />
and assisted in enrolling for the appropriate<br />
available insurance programs – Family<br />
Health Plus, Child Heath Plus and Medicaid.<br />
Briefs<br />
in New York City.<br />
The offi ce is headed by <strong>Cornell</strong> Provost<br />
Biddy Martin and by Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., the<br />
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of WCMC<br />
and provost for medical affairs.<br />
Skorton was appointed by the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Board of Trustees on Jan. 21, succeeding<br />
– Franklin Crawford<br />
To date, United Way of Tompkins<br />
County has received donations totaling<br />
$1,780,715, which is 96 percent of its<br />
$1,850,000 goal.<br />
Walcott expressed appreciation and<br />
thanks for the ongoing support of President<br />
Hunter R. Rawlings and for the hard<br />
work of the <strong>Cornell</strong> United Way Campaign<br />
cabinet, deputies in each division, and of<br />
course, the wide array of generous donors<br />
across campus. But he noted that “there are<br />
still two solid months left in this campaign<br />
and the United Way agencies that serve our<br />
neighbors in need can use every penny we<br />
can raise between now and then.”<br />
United Way pledges can be paid<br />
through payroll deduction or with a check<br />
or credit card. For more information, visit<br />
the United Way of Tompkins County<br />
Web site at or<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s United Way Web site, where you<br />
also can donate online, at .<br />
interim President Hunter R. Rawlings. He<br />
is currently president of the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Iowa.<br />
Comments, suggestions and inquiries<br />
regarding the transition should be directed<br />
to the offi ce at , phone (607) 254-2861.<br />
FoCuS on <strong>Cornell</strong> alumni<br />
Tibetan Buddhist scholar Jan<br />
Willis grew up Baptist but began<br />
her spiritual journey at <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
By CourTney PoTTs ’06<br />
Growing up in the deep South during the<br />
1950s and ’60s left Jan Willis ’69, M.A.<br />
’71, asking a lot of questions. Willis,<br />
who went on to earn a Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist<br />
studies <strong>from</strong> Columbia <strong>University</strong>, sought<br />
answers to the roots of hatred and whether<br />
peace in the face of such hatred is possible.<br />
Her search would eventually take her to<br />
Nepal and back and lead to her current position<br />
as professor of religion and the Walter<br />
A. Crowell Professor of the Social<br />
Sciences at Wesleyan <strong>University</strong>.<br />
It all started, however, with a trip to <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
when she was still in high school.<br />
Willis grew up in Docena, Ala., a small<br />
mining town just outside of Birmingham,<br />
which she described as the most segregated<br />
city in America at the time. Her father, a<br />
steelworker, was deacon at a Baptist church<br />
the family attended. “Racism was palpable”<br />
during her childhood, she said, and hate<br />
crimes against blacks – including children<br />
– were common. Willis experienced this<br />
fi rsthand when a burning cross was planted<br />
on the lawn of her family’s home.<br />
By the 1960s, however, the civil rights<br />
movement was gaining momentum. In 1963,<br />
while still in high school, Willis faced police<br />
dogs and fi re hoses to join a march through<br />
Birmingham led by Martin Luther King Jr.<br />
“Who wouldn’t march?” she said, adding<br />
that the experience had been empowering.<br />
Another seminal event in Willis’ life occurred<br />
during her junior year in high school,<br />
when Beatrice MacLeod, associate secretary<br />
of <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Telluride House, a living<br />
and learning center near campus for exceptional<br />
students, visited Willis’ school to recruit<br />
high school students for the Telluride<br />
Summer Program. Willis was accepted, and<br />
the program proved to be an eye-opening<br />
experience. “It was the fi rst time I had left<br />
Alabama ... and the fi rst time I’d been in a<br />
mixed-race learning environment,” she explained.<br />
Although Brown v. Board of Education,<br />
the landmark U.S. Supreme Court<br />
decision outlawing public school segregation,<br />
had occurred a decade earlier, many<br />
schools – including the ones near Willis’<br />
home – were still fi ghting integration.<br />
The Telluride experience prompted her<br />
to apply to <strong>Cornell</strong>. She was accepted and<br />
returned to campus in the fall of 1965 as an<br />
undergraduate, becoming the fi rst person<br />
in her family to attend college.<br />
She originally planned to major in phys-<br />
ics but soon realized she was more interested<br />
in philosophy. Her involvement in<br />
civil rights issues, however, <strong>continued</strong><br />
throughout her time in Ithaca. She wrote<br />
the constitution for the Black Students Association<br />
(BSA) and was the only woman<br />
among its eight founding members.<br />
During her senior year, members of the<br />
BSA took control of Willard Straight Hall, the<br />
student union, during Parents’ Weekend. “We<br />
were responding to an episode where someone<br />
had burned a cross in front of the residence<br />
of 12 black students, an often-ignored<br />
fact,” explained Willis, who, as one of the few<br />
women seniors in the BSA, was responsible<br />
for the women members’ safety.<br />
The era of campus unrest also was marked<br />
by protests against the war in Vietnam. It was<br />
around this time that Willis fi rst became interested<br />
in Buddhism, having seen news footage<br />
of Vietnamese Buddhist monks and nuns immolating<br />
themselves to protest the war. “I<br />
wanted to know how someone could be brave<br />
enough to do that,” she recalled. Her interest<br />
solidifi ed when, while studying in India, she<br />
met several exiled Tibetan Buddhists.<br />
More than 30 years later, Willis is considered<br />
one of the premier American scholarpractitioners<br />
of Tibetan Buddhism. She has<br />
studied with Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland<br />
and the United States and has published<br />
numerous essays and books on the<br />
subject, including her memoir, “Dreaming<br />
Me: From Baptist to Buddhist, One Woman’s<br />
Spiritual Journey” (Riverhead Books, 2002).<br />
She was recently profi led in <strong>News</strong>week’s<br />
“Spirituality in America” issue and in 2000<br />
was named one of Time magazine’s six spiritual<br />
innovators for the new millennium.<br />
For Willis, however, the public recognition<br />
is not as important as the private benefi ts.<br />
“[Buddhism] has helped me in real ways to<br />
fi nd what I was looking for as a young person<br />
in a world that was violent,” she explained.<br />
“It showed me how to locate deep wounds<br />
that racism caused in my early life ... and having<br />
found them, how to heal them.”<br />
To this day, Willis credits her time at<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> with having changed her life. “It<br />
was as if [MacLeod] reached down into the<br />
Jim Crow South and liberated me,” she<br />
said. “I know how different my life could be<br />
if it had not been for that.”<br />
Courtney Potts is a writer intern at the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Service</strong>.<br />
MARLIES BOSCH<br />
Jan Willis, in front of her altar of Buddhist icons and images, is considered one of the premier<br />
American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States.<br />
ROBERT BARKER/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Xavier Torres, MMH ’05, shows off the presidential suite overlooking the Pacifi c Ocean at the<br />
Four Seasons luxury resort at Peninsula Papagayo in Costa Rica.<br />
Xavier Torres keeps hotel guests in<br />
luxury on Costa Rica’s ‘gold coast’<br />
By danieL aLoi<br />
GUANACASTE, Costa Rica — Xavier<br />
Torres began working as a cook while he<br />
was an undergraduate more than a decade<br />
ago, but his career has really been cooking<br />
since he earned his master’s of management<br />
in hospitality (MMH) degree <strong>from</strong> <strong>Cornell</strong>’s<br />
School of Hotel Administration last year.<br />
He has been given successive management<br />
responsibilities at the Four Seasons<br />
luxury resort at Peninsula Papagayo, overlooking<br />
the Pacifi c Ocean in Costa Rica’s<br />
northwestern Guanacaste province.<br />
Torres, 33, was<br />
hired last June as<br />
assistant room service<br />
manager. He<br />
was asked to manage<br />
the resort’s 120-seat<br />
Papagayo restaurant<br />
in December, and he was recently promoted to<br />
conference services manager, one of two at the<br />
hotel. (Torres speaks English, Spanish and<br />
Catalan, an asset in dealing with guests and<br />
hotel staff. His parents are <strong>from</strong> Spain and<br />
moved to Minnesota before he was born.)<br />
Nightly rates for the hotel’s 163 guest rooms<br />
start at $395 in the off season and go up to<br />
$6,500 for the three-bedroom presidential<br />
suite, complete with a private pool and garden.<br />
It is one of several stand-alone suites and residences<br />
nestled in the hillsides above the hotel.<br />
A guest paying $6,500 a night for a suite<br />
inevitably places extra demands on hospitality<br />
staff to do more than provide good service,<br />
Torres said. “You put yourself in their<br />
place – you see what it must be like to spend<br />
$15,000, $20,000, $90,000 on a vacation. If<br />
you were spending that kind of money, you’d<br />
want everything to be perfect,” he said.<br />
The resort’s interior designers chose<br />
earth tones and indigenous materials, such<br />
as stones, rattan, bamboo and wood, to fi t<br />
the surroundings.<br />
“They go for a natural look, very rustic<br />
but at the same time very modern,” Torres<br />
said. “They found a very nice balance of<br />
keeping things tasteful.”<br />
The resort’s stylized low-rise stucco<br />
and wood building exteriors strike the<br />
same balance.<br />
“The idea was to make them look like armadillos<br />
– they travel in single fi le, and one<br />
roof’s smaller than the next,” he said.<br />
Torres’ hospitality career began out of<br />
economic necessity; he worked in the<br />
kitchen of a St. Peter, Minn., tavern to help<br />
pay his way while he was an undergraduate<br />
studying history and political science<br />
‘If you were spending that kind<br />
of money, you’d want<br />
everything to be perfect.’<br />
– Xavier Torres ’05<br />
at Gustavus Adolphus College.<br />
He eventually went to a culinary school in<br />
Barcelona, Spain, then worked as a chef in<br />
Mexico for four years. “In 2002-2003, I fi nished<br />
my last year of undergraduate work, then applied<br />
at <strong>Cornell</strong> and got accepted,” he said.<br />
He was soon using his culinary skills as a<br />
sous-chef at <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Statler Hotel. “They<br />
look for that a lot in the MMH program, someone<br />
with a lot of practical experience,” he<br />
said. At the Four Seasons, he supervises the<br />
Papagayo restaurant line staff and ensures<br />
quality control.<br />
The resort also<br />
has three other<br />
restaurants, three<br />
swimming pools, a<br />
full-service spa and<br />
fi tness center, year-<br />
round residential villas, conference facilities,<br />
tennis courts, two private beaches, an Arnold<br />
Palmer-designed golf course and daily activities,<br />
<strong>from</strong> poker to beach volleyball.<br />
Despite the luxurious tropical setting of<br />
his job, there are a few things Torres misses<br />
about <strong>Cornell</strong> and Ithaca – such as shopping<br />
at Wegmans and the pulled-pork wraps<br />
served at the Statler’s Terrace Restaurant.<br />
“I would kill for one of those,” he said.<br />
The Four Seasons Costa Rica resort has<br />
been featured in such magazines as Travel &<br />
Leisure, Town & Country, Su Casa, The Robb<br />
Report and People, which covered pop star<br />
Pink’s Jan. 9 wedding at the resort.<br />
“When I fi rst got here, I was wowed <strong>from</strong><br />
the fi rst day,” Torres said. “We got rated No.<br />
1 in Central and South America by Condé<br />
Nast Traveler’s readers – you don’t expect<br />
an award like that in your second year.”<br />
Guanacaste province is the home of Costa<br />
Rica’s “gold coast,” now undergoing a development<br />
boom with plans for more high-end<br />
resorts, condominiums and ecotourism attractions<br />
such as rainforest canopy tours.<br />
The coast also attracts snorkelers, surfers<br />
and other adventure travelers.<br />
“There’s so much more to do here besides<br />
lie on the beach,” Torres said. “Before,<br />
the economy in Guanacaste] revolved<br />
around rice and cattle, which are not good<br />
for forests. But tourism based on preserving<br />
the forests, and done conscientiously,<br />
can benefi t the local economy.”<br />
FOCUS on <strong>Cornell</strong> alumni is edited<br />
by Linda Myers. Contact her at<br />
.
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Squyres said. <strong>Cornell</strong> astronomy Associate<br />
Professor Jim Bell, leader of the panoramic<br />
camera (Pancam) team for the mission,<br />
noted that meant giving the rover cameras<br />
20/20 stereo vision – “the fi rst time we’ve<br />
had human resolution on Mars.”<br />
Documenting the mission for a fi lm,<br />
though, was not originally in NASA’s<br />
plans. That idea came together in part<br />
thanks to Squyres’ younger brother Tim,<br />
an Academy Award-nominated fi lm editor<br />
(and like his older brother, a <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
alumnus). Tim Squyres pitched the idea<br />
to Butler and Marshall, who then did<br />
their own share of pitching to NASA and<br />
the mission manager, the Jet Propulsion<br />
Lab in Pasadena, Calif., before they were<br />
granted access for fi lming.<br />
The pivotal point occurred just before<br />
Spirit’s launch in June 2003, when tension<br />
was at its peak and the team didn’t want<br />
to be slowed down by a camera crew. To<br />
make his case, Butler rented the IMAX<br />
theater at Cape Canaveral and screened<br />
his most recent movie: a documentary<br />
about the journey of Antarctic explorer Sir<br />
Ernest Shackleton.<br />
“You could feel this chill go through the<br />
room,” said Steve Squyres. From that moment,<br />
Butler’s fi lm crews had full access.<br />
But neither Butler’s crews nor the rovers’<br />
cameras could capture images of the<br />
rovers themselves once they were in orbit.<br />
That’s where Maas came in. The quiet, unassuming<br />
24-year-old had created animation<br />
for the MER mission in the past – as<br />
well as for other NASA and JPL missions,<br />
including Deep Impact. The fi lm’s animation<br />
was a natural extension of that work.<br />
And his seamless transition between<br />
actual footage and animation earned him<br />
celebrity status at the premiere. “Omigosh,<br />
let me hug you!” gushed Marshall<br />
when the two met on the red carpet.<br />
“This,” he added to reporters, “is one of<br />
the most talented men I’ve ever met.”<br />
The fi lm’s animation is meticulously<br />
true to the mission data – <strong>from</strong> the placement<br />
of rocks on the surface of Mars to the<br />
way the rovers bounced down on opposite<br />
sides of the planet in January 2004 enclosed<br />
in pillows of hand-stitched airbags.<br />
“Those are the actual bounces. That’s<br />
not a Hollywood recreation,” Squyres<br />
said. “Dan did spectacular work.”<br />
The ultimate success and longevity of<br />
both rovers makes the story even more<br />
compelling. But producer Marshall admitted<br />
it put him in a bit of a quandary.<br />
The story he pitched to Walt Disney Co.<br />
was much more straightforward. “They’re<br />
born, they go up there and rove around, and<br />
they die,” he said. When they didn’t die, no<br />
one was quite sure how to proceed. “We<br />
said, we’ve got to fi gure out another ending.<br />
[Spirit and Opportunity] have gone the distance<br />
– way beyond our wildest dreams.”<br />
The fi lm, sponsored by Lockheed Martin,<br />
is about sharing those dreams – and<br />
their results – with a broader audience.<br />
“That doesn’t happen when you put a<br />
picture on your monitor; it doesn’t happen<br />
when you make a printout,” said Bell.<br />
“It will be that immersion experience<br />
– of being completely surrounded and<br />
overwhelmed with Mars. I want people to<br />
have the experience of being there.”<br />
And if viewers – especially the youngest<br />
ones – are inspired to do some exploration<br />
of their own, said Steve Squyres, the movie<br />
will have served its purpose. Because<br />
when Mars hosts its fi rst human explorers,<br />
they most likely will be, Squyres believes,<br />
today’s elementary school students.<br />
“What I would most like is if some kid<br />
watches this movie and says, ‘I want to<br />
go there,’” said Steve Squyres. “And then<br />
actually does it.”<br />
KEVIN STEARNS/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> alumnus and animator Dan Maas meets producer Frank Marshall for the fi rst time Jan.<br />
26 at the Washington, D.C. premiere of the IMAX fi lm “Roving Mars.” Marshall called Maas “One<br />
of the most talented men I’ve ever met.”<br />
KEVIN STEARNS/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
As the movie “Roving Mars” was projected onto the giant IMAX screen at the fi lm’s Washington, D.C. premiere,<br />
photographer Kevin Stearns captured this image that shows <strong>Cornell</strong> alumnus Dan Maas’ computer animation<br />
work for the fi lm.<br />
‘Roving Mars’ : planetary detective story<br />
By Lauren GoLd<br />
Geologists, says Steve Squyres, are<br />
like detectives at the scene of a crime.<br />
Their job is to reconstruct what happened<br />
somewhere long before they got<br />
there. And the clues, he says, are in the<br />
rocks.<br />
So “Roving Mars,” the 40-minute<br />
IMAX fi lm which opened Jan. 27, is a detective<br />
story – a chronicle of NASA’s<br />
Mars Exploration Rover mission to fi nd<br />
the answer to a long-pondered mystery:<br />
whether the red planet was ever capable<br />
of supporting life.<br />
From the beginning, the rovers Spirit<br />
and Opportunity had their own personalities.<br />
Even as they were being built<br />
and tested, Spirit was the problem child<br />
– the fi rstborn who fl unked tests, craved<br />
extra attention and gave her creators<br />
ample cause for worry. Opportunity<br />
was the contrasting golden child: the<br />
one who went out of her way to please.<br />
The fi lm documents the days counting<br />
down to the rovers’ January 2004<br />
launches; and the even-higher tension<br />
300 million miles later at the Jet Propulsion<br />
Laboratory as mission members<br />
wait in silence – except for an announcer’s<br />
agonizing words: “We currently do<br />
not have a signal <strong>from</strong> the spacecraft.<br />
Please stand by.” – for news of Spirit’s<br />
safe landing.<br />
Since cameras couldn’t fi lm the rovers<br />
on their way to Mars, <strong>Cornell</strong> alumnus<br />
Dan Maas’ animation takes over<br />
with a fl awless transition <strong>from</strong> real footage<br />
to impressively lifelike animation.<br />
But drama and animation aside, the<br />
Mars footage, provided by Spirit and<br />
Opportunity (actually by <strong>Cornell</strong> astronomy<br />
professor Jim Bell, leader of<br />
the rovers’ panoramic camera team)<br />
makes the fi lm spectacular. Bell’s cameras<br />
were designed to see with near-human<br />
vision, and the result is an IMAX<br />
screen fi lled with Mars – as it would look<br />
to us, if we were there.<br />
“Roving Mars” is a movie without an<br />
end. Two years after they landed on the<br />
red planet, the rovers continue to chug<br />
along dutifully, denying Hollywood producers<br />
a chance at a tear-jerking death<br />
scene. But nobody is complaining.<br />
“To the success of Spirit and Opportunity,<br />
and the people who operate the<br />
rovers,” said NASA administrator Michael<br />
Griffi n at the movie’s premiere,<br />
“Both of whom refuse to quit.”<br />
KEVIN STEARNS/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
A replica of the Mars rovers, built four years ago by<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> students, was on display in the Smithsonian’s<br />
lobby for the fi lm’s premiere.<br />
Decker named director of new Offi ce of Land-Grant Affairs in CALS<br />
Daniel J. Decker, <strong>Cornell</strong> professor<br />
in the Department of Natural Resources,<br />
has been named director of<br />
the new Offi ce of Land-Grant Affairs<br />
(OLGA) in the College of Agriculture<br />
and Life Sciences (CALS). Susan A.<br />
Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of<br />
the college, made the announcement<br />
during the New York State Agricul-<br />
Decker<br />
tural Society’s annual meeting in<br />
Syracuse Jan. 6.<br />
“In his new role as director of OLGA, Dan will provide<br />
oversight, coordination, coaching, assistance and resources<br />
for the college’s portfolio of engagement activities with selected<br />
stakeholder organizations,” said Henry. “He will help<br />
the college carry out our major land-grant obligations in<br />
ways that most effectively serve the needs of New York and<br />
its citizens. He will also act as senior adviser to the dean.”<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> was designated New York’s land-grant university<br />
when it was founded in 1865. CALS’ teaching, research<br />
and outreach programs have been cornerstones of the<br />
university’s land-grant activities, and the land-grant mission<br />
has been a priority of the college since its inception.<br />
“We are very proud of CALS’ 100-plus years of service to<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s land-grant mission and look forward to continuing<br />
that tradition,” said Decker. “Food and agriculture<br />
remain major global issues of importance to CALS, but<br />
today’s land-grant mission in the college has broadened in<br />
response to society’s concerns and emerging technologies.<br />
Every day, faculty, researchers and extension educators<br />
at CALS apply their talents and energies to improving<br />
people’s lives and responding to society’s changing needs.<br />
Our goal as a college is to help our faculty and staff be effective<br />
leaders, active collaborators and valued partners in<br />
a spectrum of efforts to address critical needs of society.”<br />
As director of OLGA, Decker will support CALS faculty<br />
and staff who serve as the college’s representatives to<br />
various boards and committees across the state in public<br />
policy-making capacities. Decker will work with the directors<br />
of college experiment stations and <strong>Cornell</strong> Cooperative<br />
Extension to articulate how CALS’ research and outreach<br />
activities benefi t the state of New York and its citizens. He<br />
also will act as the college’s point of contact with Ron Seeber,<br />
the university’s vice provost for land-grant affairs.<br />
Decker is considered one of the college’s foremost<br />
authorities on wildlife management. His current research<br />
and outreach efforts address these issues with respect to<br />
human-wildlife confl icts and the integration of biological<br />
and human dimensions of wildlife management, as well<br />
as stakeholder engagement in community-based wildlife<br />
management and confl ict issues.<br />
Decker received his B.Sc. in 1974, his M.Sc. in 1976 and<br />
his Ph.D. in 1986, all <strong>from</strong> <strong>Cornell</strong>. He joined the Department<br />
of Natural Resources in 1976 as a research support<br />
specialist, was promoted to research associate, then<br />
senior extension associate before being named assistant<br />
professor in 1988. He was promoted to associate professor<br />
in 1991 and full professor in 1998. Decker served as chair<br />
of the department <strong>from</strong> 1993 to 1996. From 1996 to 2001,<br />
he served the college as associate director of the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Agricultural Experiment Station (CUAES) in<br />
Ithaca. From 2001 to 2005, he served as associate dean of<br />
CALS and director of CUAES.<br />
Faculty Facets<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s spider woman spins web<br />
of science outreach that stretches<br />
far beyond the classroom<br />
By susan s. LanG<br />
Like the spiders she studies, Linda Rayor – senior research<br />
associate of arthropod behavior at <strong>Cornell</strong> – spins webs.<br />
Her webs, however, aren’t to snag prey but to capture the<br />
scientifi c imagination of people of all ages. Using the<br />
mystique of spiders as a gateway to kindle an awe for<br />
nature in others, this arachnophile (spider lover) has<br />
become the hub of giant webs of learning.<br />
Rayor weaves her webs by fi rst inspiring<br />
students, transforming many arachnophobes<br />
(fearful of spiders) through her<br />
lively undergraduate courses on spider biology<br />
and insect behavior. Her passion for the<br />
exotic and exquisite natural world is infectious<br />
and radiates throughout the community<br />
and far beyond via her student<br />
“speakers’ bureau,” a cadre of trained students<br />
who use live specimens and dynamic<br />
teaching tools to communicate their enthusiasm<br />
for biology. In the past eight years<br />
they have spoken to more than 16,000 people<br />
via some 480 presentations to classrooms,<br />
clubs and community groups.<br />
“When I began teaching spider biology, I<br />
knew that spiders were appealing with their<br />
interesting biology and behavior, but I didn’t<br />
have a clue that they verge on the magical to<br />
so many people,” said Rayor, who recently<br />
reaped a 2005 Kaplan<br />
Family Distinguished<br />
Faculty Fellow in <strong>Service</strong>-Learning<br />
Award<br />
<strong>from</strong> <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Public<br />
<strong>Service</strong> Center.<br />
What motivates<br />
Rayor to spread natural<br />
history knowledge<br />
far beyond her teaching<br />
and research responsibilities?<br />
“Payback,” she says. “My guess is that no<br />
one makes it without good mentors. I had a<br />
mentor in fi fth grade who made it okay for me<br />
to think about becoming a scientist, and later<br />
a good mentor in graduate school who encouraged<br />
me to follow my passion for behavior,<br />
and that mentoring is what made all the<br />
difference for me. I also want to share with<br />
undergraduate students the real pleasure of<br />
teaching because I think teaching is one of the<br />
best things anyone can do. Research is wonderful<br />
but as a good teacher, you get strokes<br />
everyday for doing a good job.”<br />
‘She turned me <strong>from</strong> a<br />
spider-fearing ignoramus into<br />
a fellow community-contributing<br />
arachnophile and my experiences<br />
with her have supercharged my<br />
passion for teaching biology and<br />
researching animal social<br />
behavior.’<br />
– Frank Castelli, CALS ’05<br />
Her highly successful outreach efforts<br />
began as the Spider Outreach Program:<br />
Eight-legged Ambassadors for Science Education<br />
in 1998. The program evolved last<br />
year into the Naturalist Outreach in Biology<br />
program to offer a much wider variety<br />
of presentations on the natural history,<br />
ecology and behavior of arthropods, birds,<br />
mammals, reptiles, seeds and adaptations.<br />
Rayor’s new interdisciplinary course,<br />
Naturalist Outreach Practicum, trains students<br />
to give scientifi c inquiry-based outreach<br />
programs at different levels, <strong>from</strong><br />
schools and museums to large community<br />
events. The participating students learn<br />
pedagogy, sharpen their public speaking<br />
skills and experience the joys of teaching,<br />
which Rayor conveys every time she<br />
teaches or talks about teaching.<br />
“Linda has this gift of turning students<br />
on to nature and<br />
[has] the good instincts<br />
and taste to<br />
know how to show<br />
bugs and spiders in<br />
a way that students<br />
fi nd congenial and<br />
not nerdy or dorky,”<br />
says Ron Hoy, a professor<br />
of neurobiology<br />
and behavior at<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>. “Her ability<br />
to draw large crowds into a course on spiders,<br />
for example, is a pedagogical marvel.”<br />
Rayor’s teaching and outreach programs<br />
also can change many a student’s life.<br />
“She turned me <strong>from</strong> a spider-fearing ignoramus<br />
into a fellow community-contributing<br />
arachnophile and my experiences with her<br />
have supercharged my passion for teaching<br />
biology and researching animal social behavior,”<br />
says Frank Castelli, CALS ’05, who took<br />
Rayor’s spider biology course and later served<br />
as a teaching assistant for the class. Castelli<br />
has given about 15 talks to some 500 people in<br />
ROBERT BARKER/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Gabriel Villar CALS ’06, Airel Zimmerman CALS ’07 and Linda Rayor pose in Rayor’s Comstock<br />
Hall lab with Australian spiders.<br />
JASON KOSKI/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Entomology senior research associate Linda Rayor holds a male Amblypygid, a species that<br />
made an appearance in the most recent Harry Potter movie.<br />
the last two years as part of the outreach program.<br />
He is currently conducting research<br />
with Rayor before heading to graduate school.<br />
“I want to become a behavioral ecologist, and<br />
my experiences with Dr. Rayor have reassured<br />
me that I have chosen the right dream<br />
to pursue. I only hope one day I can be as good<br />
as a professor as she.”<br />
Currently, the <strong>Cornell</strong> spider woman,<br />
whose lab is home to many colonies of social<br />
spiders, is studying confl ict and cooperation<br />
in cannibalistic social spiders; mother-offspring<br />
dynamics in solitary vs. social spiders;<br />
and patterns of social communication and<br />
exploration in social whip spiders.<br />
“Spiders are primarily solitary, readily cannibalistic<br />
and voracious predators that are the<br />
most important terrestrial predators on earth,”<br />
Rayor explains. “Yet 1 percent of spiders are<br />
highly social, living in large groups characterized<br />
by tolerance and cooperation. Even in the<br />
most social spider species, we’re fi nding that<br />
individuals must balance the many benefi ts of<br />
group living with the strong compulsion to<br />
eat irritating siblings.”<br />
Rayor also mentors a host of undergraduate<br />
students as research assistants in her laboratory<br />
every year, ensuring that they help in<br />
the research design, behavioral recording,<br />
data analysis and in writing scientifi c papers<br />
– serving “as true collaborators, rather than<br />
hired hands.” In fact, she has co-authored<br />
most of her recent academic papers with undergraduates.<br />
In addition, she organizes the<br />
annual Undergraduate Research Symposium<br />
in Entomology, offers a free, online multimedia<br />
show about spiders at <br />
and hosts <strong>Cornell</strong> alumni<br />
on nature tours around the world. She also<br />
organized the fi rst <strong>Cornell</strong> Insectapalooza,<br />
an entomology open house, in 2004. The second<br />
event last year attracted more than 1,300<br />
people <strong>from</strong> the community.<br />
Rayor grew up in Denver and barely remembers<br />
insects or spiders in that high and<br />
dry habitat; she didn’t see her fi rst fi refl y<br />
until age 15. But her love for animals<br />
prompted her to major in biology at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Colorado. Rayor then attended the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Kansas for doctoral studies in<br />
behavioral ecology. But when her research<br />
population of 1,500 prairie dogs died of the<br />
bubonic plague, Rayor switched gears. “The<br />
trauma of seeing massive numbers of animals<br />
I knew personally die was too much<br />
for me. I realized that most of the issues that<br />
I was really interested in could be approached<br />
better with arthropods,” she says.<br />
Her interest in spiders during graduate<br />
school was shared with fellow student Cole<br />
Gilbert, who is now both her husband and<br />
entomology colleague at <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
Rayor completed her Ph.D. in 1987 and<br />
then fostered her fascination with social spiders<br />
doing postdoctoral research at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Cincinnati and in Mexico, and she<br />
hasn’t wavered since.<br />
JASON KOSKI/UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Rayor is refl ected in the abdomen of an Australian<br />
huntsman as she looks through glass<br />
at a photo of the spider.
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dance<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> international Folkdancers<br />
The club meets Sundays <strong>from</strong> 7:45 to 10:30 p.m.<br />
at Helen Newman Hall. No partner or experience<br />
required. Free; small donation requested. For more<br />
information, e-mail .<br />
exhibits<br />
Johnson Museum of art<br />
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, at <strong>University</strong><br />
and Central avenues, is open Tuesday through<br />
Sunday <strong>from</strong> 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.<br />
Telephone: (607) 255-6464. Web site: .<br />
• Façade Projection: Pilar Albarracín’s “I Will Dance<br />
on Your Grave,” through Feb. 12.<br />
• “<strong>Cornell</strong> Department of Art Faculty,” through<br />
March 12.<br />
• “Japanese Poetry Prints: Surimono From the<br />
Schoff Collection,” through March 19.<br />
• “Japonisme: European Artists and the Allure of<br />
Japan,” through March 19.<br />
• “Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the<br />
Lake,” photographs by Linda Butler, through<br />
March 26.<br />
• “Story Cloths of Bali,” through March 26.<br />
• “Frank Lloyd Wright Art Glass From the Darwin<br />
D. Martin House,” ongoing.<br />
• Art for Lunch: Feb. 2 at noon, Associate Professor<br />
Todd McGrain will discuss his work included<br />
in the faculty exhibition.<br />
• Thursday Evening Performance Series: A Taste<br />
of Tango, Feb. 2, 7 to 9 p.m. Argentinian dancers<br />
Facundo and Kely Posadas demonstrate their<br />
talent and share tips on tango dancing. Refreshments.<br />
Free and open to all.<br />
• Art-full Family Saturday: Feb. 4 at 10 a.m., Mrs.<br />
McPuppet brings baskets and suitcases full of<br />
puppets and costumes for theatrics, music and<br />
fun. $5 per family, free for museum members.<br />
Seating limited, fi rst come, fi rst served.<br />
• For Students Only: “Off the Label” Tour: Feb. 4 at<br />
2 p.m., <strong>Cornell</strong> students select themes and artworks<br />
for discussion at an intimate, student-only tour.<br />
• Artist’s Talk: Feb. 9 at 5:15 p.m., photographer Linda<br />
Butler will discuss her portrait of the Yangtze River.<br />
Kroch library<br />
(9 a.m.-5 p.m. M-F; 1-5 p.m. Sat.; closed Sun.)<br />
“Vanished Worlds, Enduring People,” <strong>Cornell</strong>’s<br />
Native American Collection, through June 2,<br />
Hirshland Gallery, level 2B. For information visit<br />
, call (607) 255-<br />
3530 or e-mail .<br />
Museum of the earth<br />
“Conquering Darkness: The Art of Charles R.<br />
Knight,” through April 30, Paleontological Research<br />
Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route<br />
96, three miles north of Ithaca). Admission $3-$8,<br />
members and children age 3 and under free. For<br />
information call (607) 273-6623 or visit .<br />
fi lms<br />
Films are presented by <strong>Cornell</strong> Cinema, open to the<br />
public and screened in Willard Straight Theatre,<br />
>Highlight<br />
PROVIDED<br />
Judith Halberstam<br />
to speak on ‘failure’<br />
Author Judith Halberstam, director of the<br />
Center for Feminist Research at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Southern California, will speak Feb.<br />
2 at 4:30 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin<br />
Smith Hall. Her lecture, “Notes on Failure,”<br />
will address failure as an opportunity to<br />
launch a democratic struggle based on ideas<br />
of difference, including race, class, gender<br />
and sexuality. For more information, visit<br />
.<br />
calendar<br />
except where noted. Admission to all fi lms $6<br />
($4.75 for undergraduates and senior citizens;<br />
$4 for <strong>Cornell</strong> graduate students and ages 12 and<br />
under). Call (607) 255-3522 or visit .<br />
Thursday, Feb. 2<br />
“The Passenger” (1975), directed by Michelangelo<br />
Antonioni, with Jack Nicholson and Maria<br />
Schneider, 7:15 p.m.<br />
“Everything Is Illuminated” (2005), directed by<br />
Liev Schreiber, with Elijah Wood and Eugene<br />
Hutz, 9:45 p.m.<br />
Friday, Feb. 3<br />
“Nine Lives” (2005), directed by Rodrigo García,<br />
with Glenn Close and Holly Hunter, 7:15 p.m.<br />
“Everything Is Illuminated,” 7:15 p.m., Uris.<br />
“A History of Violence” (2005), directed by David<br />
Cronenberg, with Viggo Mortensen and Maria<br />
Bello, 9:30 p.m., Uris.<br />
“Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-<br />
Rabbit” (2005), directed by Steve Box and Nick<br />
Park, 9:45 p.m.<br />
Saturday, Feb. 4<br />
“Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,”<br />
2 and 7:30 p.m. At 2 p.m., IthaKid Film Fest;<br />
$3 adults/$2 children 12 and under.<br />
“Nine Lives,” 4:30 and 9:35 p.m.<br />
“A History of Violence,” 7:30 p.m., Uris.<br />
“Everything Is Illuminated,” 9:35 p.m., Uris.<br />
Sunday, Feb. 5<br />
“Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,”<br />
4:30 p.m. $4.<br />
“Everything Is Illuminated,” 7:15 p.m.<br />
“And the Pursuit of Happiness” (1986), directed<br />
by Louis Malle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free.<br />
Monday, Feb. 6<br />
“Zazie dans le Métro” (1960), directed by Louis<br />
Malle, with Catherine Demongeot and Philippe<br />
Noiret, 7 p.m.<br />
“A History of Violence,” 9 p.m.<br />
Tuesday, Feb. 7<br />
“The Passenger,” 7:15 p.m.<br />
“Mardi Gras: Made in China” (2004), directed by<br />
David Redmon, 7:30 p.m., Schwartz Center Film<br />
Forum. $3.<br />
“Zazie dans le Métro,” 9:45 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Feb. 8<br />
“A Summer in la Goulette” (1996), directed by<br />
Férid Boughedir, introduction by Deborah Starr,<br />
Near Eastern studies, 7 p.m.<br />
“Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,”<br />
9:30 p.m.<br />
February 2-9<br />
Thursday, Feb. 9<br />
“Phantom India” Part I (1968), directed by Louis<br />
Malle, 4 p.m.<br />
“Nine Lives,” 7:15 p.m.<br />
AARDMAN ANIMATION<br />
Wallace & Gromit at <strong>Cornell</strong> Cinema<br />
Wacky, cheese-loving British inventor Wallace and his (much smarter) dog Gromit take on a mutant<br />
bunny threatening their town’s Giant Vegetable Competition in “Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” The Oscarwinning<br />
Claymation duo’s fi rst full-length feature fi lm adventure screens Feb. 3-8 at <strong>Cornell</strong> Cinema.<br />
For more information, call (607) 255-3522 or see .<br />
“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” (2005), directed by Shane<br />
Black, with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer,<br />
9:45 p.m.<br />
lectures<br />
architecture, art and Planning<br />
“Southern Views Projects and Environments,” Rodrigo<br />
Perez de Arce, Pontifi cia Universidad Católica<br />
de Chile, Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m., 157 E. Sibley Hall.<br />
“After Effects,” Sheila Kennedy, KVA Kennedy &<br />
Violich Architecture, Ltd., Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m., 157<br />
E. Sibley Hall.<br />
City and regional Planning<br />
International Studies in Planning Program Lecture:<br />
“Modern Preservation Practice and the Conservation<br />
of Yemeni Traditions and Resources,”<br />
Pamela Jerome, Preservation@Wank Adams<br />
Slavin Associates, Feb. 3, 12:20 p.m., Hollis E.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> information Science<br />
For more lectures visit .<br />
Gerard Salton Lecture Series: “Discovering Interesting<br />
Subsets of Data in Cube Space,” Raghu<br />
Ramakrishnan, <strong>University</strong> of Wisconsin-Madison,<br />
Feb. 2, 4:15 p.m., B17 Upson Hall.<br />
“Information and the Quality of Life: Environmentalism<br />
for the Information Age,” David Levy,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Washington, Feb. 8, 4:15 p.m., 301<br />
College Ave., Seminar Room.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> institute for Public affairs<br />
“Tort Law as a Means for Regulating Safety,” John<br />
Siliciano, vice provost and professor of law, Feb.<br />
2, 4:30 p.m., 100 Caldwell Hall.<br />
“Truth and Reconciliation as a New Paradigm for<br />
Confl ict Resolution,” Billie Jean Isbel, anthropology,<br />
Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m., 100 Caldwell Hall.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Theory Center<br />
“Open for Change,” Matthew Szulik, chairman,<br />
president and CEO of Red Hat, Feb. 6, 5 p.m., 101<br />
Philips Hall.<br />
east asia Program<br />
“Philosophy and the Political in Wartime Japanese<br />
Thought,” Richard Calichman, City College of New<br />
York, Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.<br />
Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies<br />
“Notes on Failure,” Judith Halberstam, <strong>University</strong><br />
of Southern California, Feb. 2, 4:30 p.m., Lewis<br />
Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.<br />
Mann library<br />
Book Talk: “Food Aid After 50 Years: Recasting<br />
Its Role,” Christopher Barrett, applied economics<br />
and management, Feb. 7, 4 p.m., Mann Library<br />
second fl oor.<br />
music<br />
Department of Music<br />
For a full listing visit .<br />
• Feb. 2, 8 p.m., State Theatre: <strong>Cornell</strong> Concert<br />
Series: Alfred Brendel, piano. Admission: $24-$39,<br />
general; $15-$24, students.<br />
• Feb. 3-4, 1:30 p.m., Barnes Hall: Conference, “The<br />
Cultural Landscape of the Organ: Between Music<br />
and Science, God and Society.” Friday <strong>from</strong> 2-5:30<br />
p.m., Saturday <strong>from</strong> 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
• Feb. 3, 8 p.m., Sage Chapel: “The Cultural Landscape<br />
of the Organ” concert with organist David<br />
Yearsley with violinist Martin Davids.<br />
• Feb. 4, 2 p.m., Sage Chapel: “The Cultural Landscape<br />
of the Organ” family event: “Pipes You Can Play”<br />
activity geared to K-12 students and their parents.<br />
• Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Barnes Hall: Finals for the second<br />
annual <strong>Cornell</strong> Concerto Competition. Three fi nalists<br />
vie for the opportunity to perform a concerto<br />
with a <strong>Cornell</strong> ensemble this spring.<br />
• Feb. 4, 8 p.m., Sage Chapel: “The Cultural Landscape<br />
of the Organ” concert with guest organist<br />
Peter Sykes.<br />
• Feb. 9, 8 p.m., Sage Chapel: Alumnus recital with<br />
David Kim, piano, and guest violinist Lauren Basney.<br />
Works by Brahms, Bartok and Schumann.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Folk Song Society<br />
Bill Staines, singer-songwriter, Feb. 4, 8 p.m., Hollis<br />
E. <strong>Cornell</strong> Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Tickets<br />
$15 advance/$17 door, $3 discount for members; $2<br />
discount for seniors and children. For information<br />
visit .<br />
‘bound for Glory’<br />
Feb. 5: Old Timey Music Night, with members of Up<br />
South, The Chicken Chokers and friends; “Bound<br />
for Glory” live broadcast, 8-11 p.m. Sundays <strong>from</strong><br />
Anabel Taylor Hall’s Cul de Snack Café, on WVBR-<br />
FM, 93.5 and 105.5. Free and open; all ages. Visit<br />
.<br />
religion<br />
For a detailed listing of worship services on campus<br />
and in the Ithaca area, go to <strong>Cornell</strong> United<br />
Religious Work at or call (607) 255-4214.<br />
Sage Chapel<br />
Rev. William Gipson, university chaplain, <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Pennsylvania, will lead the service Feb. 5 at 11 a.m.<br />
seminars<br />
astronomy and Space Sciences<br />
“Probing the Nuclei of Deeply Obscured ULIRGs<br />
With the Spitzer Space Telescope,” Henrik Spoon,<br />
radiophysics and space research, Feb. 2, 4:30 p.m.,<br />
105 Space Sciences Building.<br />
“Origin of Giant Planets and Stellar Disks in the Galactic<br />
Center,” Roman Rafi kov, <strong>University</strong> of Toronto,<br />
Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building.<br />
>Highlight<br />
Troubadour Bill<br />
Staines in concert<br />
PHOTO BY LAURY MARCUS<br />
New England folksinger Bill Staines brings<br />
his cowboy songs and sing-alongs back<br />
to Ithaca for a concert Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. in<br />
Hollis E. <strong>Cornell</strong> Auditorium, Goldwin Smith<br />
Hall. Tickets are $17 at the door and $15 in<br />
advance at Ithaca Guitar Works, Ludgate<br />
Farms, GreenStar Cooperative Market, Small<br />
World Music, Colophon Books and online at<br />
. Discounts<br />
are available for <strong>Cornell</strong> Folk Song Society<br />
members, senior citizens and children. For<br />
information, call (607) 564-1998.<br />
>Highlight<br />
PROVIDED<br />
Morial to deliver<br />
King lecture<br />
Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the<br />
National Urban League and a former twoterm<br />
mayor of New Orleans (1994-2003),<br />
will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative<br />
Lecture on Feb. 8 <strong>from</strong> 4:45 to<br />
6 p.m. in Sage Chapel. The event is free and<br />
open to the public. For more information,<br />
call (607) 255-6002.<br />
biogeochemistry and environmental<br />
biocomplexity<br />
“Soil-plant Relationships in Lowland Tropical<br />
Forests,” Joseph Yavitt, natural resources, Feb.<br />
3, 4 p.m., Morison Room, Corson Hall.<br />
Center for applied Mathematics<br />
“The New Graduate Minor in Computational Science<br />
and Engineering (CSE),” Charles Van Loan,<br />
computer science, Feb. 3, 3:30 p.m., 253 Rhodes<br />
Hall. For more information visit .<br />
Chemical and biomolecular engineering<br />
“From Physics and Engineering Techniques to<br />
Biological Observations,” Mingming Wu, mechanical<br />
and aerospace engineering, Feb. 6, 4 p.m., 165<br />
Olin Hall.<br />
Computer Science<br />
“Discovering Interesting Subsets of Data in Cube<br />
Space,” Raghu Ramakrishnan, <strong>University</strong> of Wisconsin-Madison,<br />
Feb. 2, 4:15 p.m., B17 Upson Hall.<br />
Crop and Soil Sciences<br />
“Traditional and New Approaches for Rainfed<br />
Field Crops Improvement in Israel,” David Bonfi ,<br />
Gilat Research Center, Israel, Feb. 2, 12:20 p.m.,<br />
135 Emerson Hall.<br />
“Ecological Footprint of Iowa Row Crop Agriculture,”<br />
Ricardo Salvador, Iowa State <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Feb. 9, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.<br />
Development Sociology<br />
Future of Rural New York panel discussion on<br />
“Transitioning to Renewable and Agriculturalbased<br />
Products and Energy,” Feb. 3, 3 p.m., 32 Warren<br />
Hall. For more information on the Rural New<br />
York Initiative, visit .<br />
ecology and evolutionary biology<br />
“Parasite Meditated Interactions in Amphibian<br />
Communities: Implications for Behavior, Ecology<br />
and Conservation,” Joesph Kiesecker, Feb. 6, 12:30<br />
p.m., A106 Corson Hall.<br />
entomology<br />
For updates see .<br />
“Neural Plasticity – From Neural Circuits to Behavior:<br />
Lessons From the Locust Model,” Amir Ayali, Tel Aviv<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Feb. 6, 3:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.<br />
infection and immunity<br />
“How Oncogenic Viruses Interact With and Evade<br />
the MHC,” Henry Hunt, USDA-ARS-ADOL, Feb. 3,<br />
12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium.<br />
information Science<br />
“Information and the Quality of Life: Environmentalism<br />
for the Information Age,” David Levy,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Washington, Feb. 8, 4:15 p.m., 301<br />
College Avenue, Seminar Room.<br />
institute for european Studies<br />
For more information visit .<br />
“One Country, Several Cultures — Post-Soviet<br />
Return Migration and Identity in Latvian-American<br />
Life Story Interviews,” American Latvian<br />
Association Oral History Project, Feb. 6, 12:15<br />
p.m., 153 Uris Hall.<br />
institute for the Social Sciences<br />
“Baby Mama Drama: Contact Between Men and<br />
(Their?) Children Before and After Genetic Tests,”<br />
David Bishai, International Health, Feb. 9, 11:45<br />
a.m., 146 Myron Taylor Hall.<br />
international nutrition<br />
For a full listing visit .<br />
“The Effectiveness and Feasibility of Using Micronutrient<br />
Sprinkles to Reduce Anemia Among Chil-<br />
dren in Rural Haiti,” Purnima Menon, nutritional<br />
sciences, Feb. 2, 12:20 p.m., 100 Savage Hall.<br />
Materials Science and engineering<br />
“Length-scale Effects and Screening in Ionic<br />
Materials by Molecular-dynamics Simulation,”<br />
Dieter Wolf, Argonne National Laboratory, Feb.<br />
2, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.<br />
Mechanical and aerospace engineering<br />
“Rapid Immunoassays for Endogenous Protein<br />
in Human Saliva,” Amy Herr, Sandia National<br />
Laboratories, Livermore, Calif.; Feb. 7, 4:30 p.m.,<br />
B11 Kimball Hall. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in<br />
Upson Lounge.<br />
nanobiotechnology Center<br />
“Roles for Surface Geometry in Neuromuscular<br />
Junction Development,” Olena Kolotushkina,<br />
Oregon Health and Science <strong>University</strong>, Feb. 7,<br />
noon, G01 Biotechnology Building.<br />
nutritional Science<br />
For a full listing visit .<br />
“Development of Meat-containing Porridges<br />
to Prevent Iron Defi ciency in Infants,” Helena<br />
Pachon, nutritional sciences, Feb. 6, 4 p.m., 100<br />
Savage Hall.<br />
Peace Studies<br />
For more information visit .<br />
Current Event Roundtable: “Bosnia 10 Years After<br />
Dayton,” Chip Gagnon, peace studies; John Weiss,<br />
history; Feb. 2, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.<br />
Physics<br />
“Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: The<br />
Magic of Microfl uids,” David Weitz, Harvard<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Feb. 6, 4 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium,<br />
Rockefeller Hall.<br />
Plant breeding and Genetics<br />
“Understanding Genetics and Evolution of Arbuscular<br />
Mycorrhizal Fungi: Are They an Ancient<br />
Asexual Scandal?” Teresa Pawlowska, plant pathology,<br />
Feb. 7, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.<br />
Plant Pathology<br />
“A Molecular and Morphological Approach to the<br />
Phylogenetics of the Entomopathogenic Genus<br />
Metarhizium,” Joe Bishoff, Genbank, Feb. 8, 12:20<br />
p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.<br />
Psychology<br />
“Expanding the Phenomenology of Social Anxiety,”<br />
Todd Kashdan, George Mason <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Feb. 2, 12:15 p.m., 205 Uris Hall.<br />
“Regulating the Flow of Auditory Activity Through<br />
a Vocal Learning Circuit,” Melissa Coleman, Duke<br />
<strong>University</strong> Medical Center, Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m., 202<br />
Uris Hall.<br />
Topic TBA, Vivian Zayas, <strong>University</strong> of Washington,<br />
Feb. 8, 12:15 p.m., 204 Uris Hall.<br />
Theoretical and applied Mechanics<br />
“Digital Images,” Anthony Reeves, electrical and<br />
computer engineering, Feb. 2, noon, 317 Martha<br />
Van Rensselaer Hall.<br />
“Chemistry’s Essential Tension: The Same and<br />
Not the Same,” Roald Hoffmann, chemistry<br />
and chemical biology, Feb. 8, 4:30 p.m., 205<br />
Thurston Hall.<br />
“Hydrogels for Mineral Nucleation and Growth,”<br />
Lara Estroff, materials science and engineering,<br />
Feb. 9, noon, 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.<br />
theater<br />
Theater, Film and Dance<br />
Nicholas Wright’s award-winning play “Vincent in<br />
Brixton” makes its regional premiere through Feb.<br />
12 at the Schwartz Center’s Black Box Theatre.<br />
Evening performances are Feb. 2-5 and 8-11 at<br />
8 p.m. Matinees are offered at 2 p.m. on Feb. 5,<br />
11 and 12. For tickets and information call (607)<br />
254-ARTS. Tickets are $10 each, $8 for students<br />
and senior citizens.<br />
lebanese Club at <strong>Cornell</strong> (lCC)<br />
“A Child of Life,” monodrama about the life of<br />
Kahlil Gibran, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m., Statler Auditorium.<br />
Tickets $12 general, $6 <strong>Cornell</strong> community. See<br />
.<br />
miscellany<br />
Campus Club<br />
“One Woman’s Present, Another Woman’s Poison,”<br />
Gwen Curtis, naturalist and educator, talks about<br />
women and the international cut fl ower commodity<br />
chain. Feb. 2, 10:30 a.m., Women’s Community<br />
Resource Building, 100 W. Seneca St., Ithaca.<br />
Campus life<br />
Bob Marley Birthday Bash, with live reggae music<br />
by Dub is a Weapon, Feb. 4, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Robert<br />
Purcell Community Center.<br />
Interested students should sign up by Feb. 7 for<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>’s student talent competition, to be held<br />
during Feb. and March. Compete in preliminary<br />
rounds in fi ve categories: individual performers,<br />
original talents, DJ, dance (individual or group)<br />
and performing groups/bands. To register or<br />
for more information, visit the Noyes or Robert<br />
Purcell community centers or go to .<br />
CuSlar<br />
Conversational Spanish and Portuguese classes<br />
at the beginner and intermediate levels, taught by<br />
native speakers, begin the week of Feb. 6. Geared<br />
toward conversational fl uency, the classes are<br />
inexpensive alternatives to university courses.<br />
Also: contemporary Latin American queer cinema<br />
for intermediate and advanced levels. Contact<br />
the Committee for U.S.-Latin American Relations<br />
(CUSLAR) for more information or to register:<br />
(607) 255-7293 or .<br />
Fuertes observatory<br />
Public viewing nights, every clear Friday <strong>from</strong> 9<br />
to 11 p.m. Call (607) 255-3557 for updates.<br />
Martin luther King Jr. Commemoration<br />
Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National<br />
Urban League and mayor of New Orleans <strong>from</strong><br />
1993 to 2003, will speak at <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Martin Luther<br />
King Jr. Commemoration, Feb. 8, 4:45 p.m., Sage<br />
Chapel. Free and open to the public.<br />
Museum of the earth<br />
Darwin Day: <strong>Cornell</strong> and the Paleontological<br />
Research Institution (PRI) will honor Charles<br />
Darwin Feb. 9-13 in a series of joint events marking<br />
the fi rst offi cial Darwin Day celebration for the<br />
Ithaca community. For a full list of events, visit<br />
.<br />
Tango Week<br />
For more information see <strong>page</strong> 16 or contact<br />
Professor Wolfgang Sachse, <br />
or (607) 255-5065.<br />
• A Taste of Tango: Performance and demonstrations<br />
by Facundo and Kely Posadas, Feb. 2, 7 to 9<br />
p.m., Herbert F. Johnson Museum, free.<br />
• Noche de Bienvenida: Dish-to-pass, dancing with<br />
Facundo and Kely Posadas, Feb. 3, 6:30 to 11 p.m.,<br />
Chanticleer Loft, Cayuga and State Streets, $5.<br />
• Tango workshops with Facundo and Kely Posadas,<br />
Feb. 4 and 5, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Appel<br />
Commons. $25.<br />
• Gran Milonga, Feb. 4, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Fifth Floor<br />
Lounge of Willard Straight Hall. $10.<br />
• Weekly Milonga, Feb. 5, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Chanticleer<br />
Loft, Cayuga and State Streets, $5.<br />
• Guided Practica with Facundo and Kely Posadas,<br />
Feb. 6, 8 to 10 p.m., City Health Club, 402<br />
W. Green St. $10.<br />
• Findley Lecture: “Tango: The Art History of Love,”<br />
Robert Farris Thompson, Yale <strong>University</strong>, Feb. 7, 7<br />
p.m., Hollis E. <strong>Cornell</strong> Auditorium, Goldwin Smith<br />
Hall. Free. Reception and booksigning, 4:30 p.m.,<br />
Findley Gallery, Goldwin Smith Hall.<br />
• Regular Practica, Feb. 8, 7 to 10 p.m., Big Red<br />
Barn, free.<br />
nyc events<br />
Minority alumni initiatives<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Mosaic program, panel discussions with<br />
distinguished alumni, Feb. 4, <strong>Cornell</strong> Club-New<br />
York, 6 E. 44th St.; topics include diversity and<br />
inclusion in the workplace, personal fi nance<br />
and life on campus today. For information or to<br />
register, visit .<br />
Weill <strong>Cornell</strong> Medical College<br />
“Speaking of Medical Ethics,” one-day course<br />
with Drs. Antonio Gotto Jr. and Joseph Fins,<br />
Feb. 4, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Fifth Avenue Presbyterian<br />
Church.<br />
Global unions Conference<br />
An international conference of scholars and<br />
trade unionists to bring together organizers,<br />
researchers and comprehensive campaign<br />
specialists <strong>from</strong> the labor movement, as well as<br />
scholars who study multinational companies and<br />
campaigns. Feb. 9-11, Crowne Plaza Hotel Times<br />
Square, 1605 Broadway and 49th Street, Manhattan.<br />
For more information visit Highlight<br />
NICOLA KOUNTOUPES<br />
Chronicle calendar<br />
deadlines<br />
Feb. 16 issue (calendar for Feb. 16-23):<br />
Monday, Feb. 6<br />
Feb. 23 issue (calendar for Feb. 23-March<br />
2): Monday, Feb. 13<br />
March 2 issue (calendar for March 2-9):<br />
Monday, Feb. 20<br />
The Chronicle calendar deadline is 10 days<br />
(two Mondays) before publication. Items<br />
submitted for the calendar should include a<br />
contact name, e-mail address, Web address<br />
(if any) and a phone number. By campus or<br />
U.S. mail, send to: Chronicle events calendar,<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Service</strong>, 312 College Ave.,<br />
Ithaca NY 14850. By fax: (607) 255-5373. By<br />
e-mail: .<br />
ilr.cornell.edu/globalunionsconference/> or call<br />
(607) 254-4749.<br />
sports<br />
For details on <strong>Cornell</strong> athletic events visit .<br />
Men’s basketball<br />
Feb. 3, Dartmouth, 8 p.m.<br />
Feb. 4, Harvard, 7 p.m.<br />
Women’s basketball<br />
Feb. 3, at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.<br />
Feb. 4, at Harvard, 6 p.m.<br />
Women’s Fencing<br />
Feb. 5, Ivy Champs, fi rst round, with Brown, Harvard<br />
and Princeton, TBA<br />
Women’s Gymnastics<br />
Feb. 4, Brown, 1 p.m.<br />
Men’s ice hockey<br />
Feb. 3, Colgate, 7 p.m.<br />
Feb. 4, at Colgate, 7 p.m.<br />
Women’s ice hockey<br />
Feb. 4-5, at Union, 2 p.m.<br />
Men’s lacrosse<br />
Feb. 5, Colgate, scrimmage, noon<br />
Men’s Polo<br />
Feb. 4, Virginia, 8:15 p.m.<br />
Women’s Polo<br />
Feb. 3, Connecticut, 7:30 p.m.<br />
Men’s Squash<br />
Feb. 4, Franklin & Marshall, 3 p.m.<br />
Women’s Squash<br />
Feb. 4, William Smith, 10 a.m.<br />
Men’s Tennis<br />
Feb. 3, at Old Dominion, 1 p.m.<br />
Feb. 4, at VCU, noon<br />
Feb. 5, at Georgetown, 11 a.m.<br />
Men’s Track<br />
Feb. 4, <strong>Cornell</strong> Invitational, TBA<br />
Women’s Track<br />
Feb. 4, <strong>Cornell</strong> Invitational, TBA<br />
Wrestling<br />
Feb. 4, Columbia, 1 p.m.<br />
Feb. 5, Hofstra, 1 p.m.<br />
‘The Cultural<br />
Landscape<br />
of the Organ’<br />
Music professor Annette Richards is among the organizers and presenters of “The Cultural Landscape<br />
of the Organ: Between Music and Science, God and Society,” a conference involving musicians,<br />
humanists and scientists, Feb. 3 and 4. Sessions will be held in Barnes Hall <strong>from</strong> 2 to 5 p.m.<br />
Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, with an 11:30 a.m. Saturday keynote lecture, “The Organ<br />
as Bearer of Culture,” by Hans Davidsson of the Eastman School of Music and Sweden’s Göteborg<br />
Organ Art Center (GOArt). Evening concerts at 8 p.m. and a family session at 2 p.m. Saturday<br />
will be held in Sage Chapel. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, see<br />
.
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WWW.OHR.CORNELL.EDU/JOBS<br />
FEBRUARY 2,<br />
JOBS<br />
2006<br />
ment, time management software decision-making and confi dential- diverse array of customers as part objectives of this position are to:<br />
and internet searches. Knowledge ity is required while working within of a dynamic team based in the In- effectively support applications Librarians<br />
of <strong>Cornell</strong> maintenance, human re- a team-oriented atmosphere. This stitute for Biotechnology and Life for the long term; effectively imsources,<br />
accounting, capital assets position will be posted through Feb- Science Technologies. Install, diagplement applications in compliance Assistant Curator of Rare<br />
inventory and purchasing systems ruary 8, 2006.”<br />
nose, maintain and repair computer with vendor requirements and uti- Books, Division of Rare<br />
desirable.<br />
Qualifi cations: Formal training hardware, software and networks lizing CIT’s shared infrastructure and Manuscript Collections<br />
beyond a high school diploma of 6 in offi ce and laboratory environ- whenever appropriate; ensure (04994); Librarian, Assis-<br />
Finance/Budget months to 1 year with at least 2-4 ments. Identify and resolve prob- quality of changes, enhancements, tant; Level 002; Exempt;<br />
years experience in fi nance/busilems of low to moderate complexity and new development; fi nd ways to 01-24-2006; Div of Rare &<br />
Planning<br />
ness management or related fi eld and refer more complex problems minimize implementation and long<br />
Manuscript Coll<br />
at <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
or equivalent combination of edu- to senior staff. Maintain records term support costs; develop effec-<br />
Accounts Rep III (05011); cation and/or experience. Must be and confi gurations in accordance tive relationships and communica- <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> Library seeks<br />
Level C; Non-exempt; 01- able to understand and accurately with university policy and standard tions with vendors, user groups, dynamic and energetic applicants<br />
30-2006; Ctr for Animal apply account numbers to trans- operating procedures. Assist in the application owners, etc; develop to play an active role in develop-<br />
Research & Educ<br />
actions and understand impact on preparation of special reports/proj- competence supporting various ing the programs and collections<br />
offi ce. Participate in the hiring of newsletter. Maintain relationships<br />
Provide general support for the fi nancial statements. Experience ects. Support some specialized vendor applications, and expertise of the Division of Rare and Manu-<br />
General Application Information<br />
student employees and supervise and networking channels with other<br />
daily fi nancial and business func- with software applications - spe- software and equipment used in with a few.<br />
script Collections (RMC). This en-<br />
the student employees. Review university departments in the detions<br />
for the <strong>Cornell</strong> Center for cifi cally Microsoft Excel and Word, biological research.<br />
try-level academic position is aimed<br />
Qualifi cations: Bachelor’s degree<br />
at those seeking to begin a career<br />
Located in Ithaca, N.Y., <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> is a bold, innovative, inclusive, and dynamic teach- correspondence and materials for velopment and execution of pro-<br />
Animal Resources and Education as well as database applications Qualifi cations: Formal training with 3-5 years experience or equiv-<br />
in the rare book and manuscript<br />
ing and research university where staff, faculty, and students alike are challenged to make an accuracy and completion. Prepare grams related to MITWS. Prepare<br />
(CARE) and Laboratory Animal such as Access and Filemaker Pro. beyond HS of 1-2 years, 2 years of alent combination. 3-5 years dem-<br />
profession. <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> is<br />
enduring contribution to the betterment of humanity.<br />
in a timely fashion drafts of mate- program budget, monitor expenses<br />
<strong>Service</strong>s (LAS), two non-academ- Expertise in preparing cost projec- college coursework in information onstrated experience developing<br />
among the top 10 research universirials<br />
(i.e. briefi ngs, bios, and sup- and process payments for guest<br />
ic support departments. With the tions, a variety of complex ad hoc technology, or Associate’s degree or supporting information systems<br />
ties in the United States, featuring<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> is an equal opportunity/affi rmative action educator and employer. Positions porting materials) to be used by artists, lectures, and colloquia. Half-<br />
Administrator for LAS and CARE, and standard fi nancial reports as with 2-4 years of experience or including requirements gathering,<br />
a 140-year history of innovation,<br />
will be listed in this paper for one week. These listings are only announcements of open positions; the VP SAS, the Dean of Students time, one year term position (with<br />
provide coordination and support well as experience with Accounts equivalent combination. Experi- testing, and customer support ac-<br />
excellence, and inclusiveness, an<br />
they are not complete descriptions of jobs and their responsibilities. Detailed descriptions are (DOS), West Campus House facul- possibility of renewal). Afternoons<br />
for the administrative, personnel, Receivable. Preferred Qualifi caence with a wide range of operattivities. Must have well-developed<br />
award winning Library, and interty,<br />
other university administrators, preferred. 4-5 days/week.<br />
and business operations. Track, uptions: Associate’s degree in relating systems with an ability to learn problem-solving abilities, analyti-<br />
normally provided by the department, if you are contacted for an interview. For those who do not<br />
disciplinary research programs that<br />
Trustees and alumni engaged in Qualifi cations: Two-years college<br />
date and maintain offi ce records on ed fi eld preferred. Experience with and adapt to new technologies. cal, reasoning and judgment skills.<br />
have easy access to a computer, computers are accessible at various locations across campus,<br />
offer 4,000 courses in nearly 100<br />
development activities on behalf coursework, plus 4-6 years relevant<br />
employees, vehicles, telephones <strong>Cornell</strong> accounting environment Outstanding customer service and Must be able to work effectively in a<br />
departments. <strong>Cornell</strong> is a member<br />
local employment agencies, area libraries and the Recruitment and Employment Center. of SAS. Make travel and hotel ar- experience or equivalent combina-<br />
and data, equipment, and space. including budgeting, purchasing communication skills required. Su- dynamic, deadline driven, complex,<br />
of the Ivy League and a partner of<br />
rangements for Director and pro-<br />
If you have general questions about employment or if you are interested in temporary option.<br />
Bachelor’s degree, preferred.<br />
Prepare monthly fi nancial reports and accounting practices and properior organization and prioritiza- team-based environment with mul-<br />
the State <strong>University</strong> of New York.<br />
cess travel reimbursements. Par- The successful candidate will be<br />
for CARE and review and analyze cedures utilizing <strong>Cornell</strong>’s on-line tion skills essential. Ability to work tiple competing priorities. Excelportunities<br />
at <strong>Cornell</strong>, please contact <strong>Cornell</strong>’s Recruitment and Employment Center at 607-<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> Library’s Division<br />
ticipate in annual AAD events in- creative and have strong organiza-<br />
monthly data for CARE and LAS. systems: <strong>Cornell</strong>C, Payment/Travel as part of a team and also complete lent oral and written communica-<br />
of Rare and Manuscript Collections<br />
254-8370; TTY 607-255-4943; 337 Pine Tree Rd., East Hill Plaza, Ithaca, NY 14850; email cluding Reunion, Homecoming and tional, multi-tasking, writing and in-<br />
Assist with offi ce purchasing. Re- Requests, APPS, JEMS, ADW/Brio, tasks independently. Knowledge of tion skills including ability to obtain<br />
(RMC) is an academic special collec-<br />
. The Recruitment and Employment Center is open Monday- Trustee/Council Weekend. terpersonal skills with a keen attenview<br />
departmental charges (phone Eudora, Corporate Time. Experi- <strong>Cornell</strong> computing environment and convey service information to<br />
tions library featuring 300,000 rare<br />
Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.<br />
Qualifi cations: Formal training tion to detail. Must work well with<br />
bills, copier, and shipping) for acence with Web Financials and Re- helpful. Employment experience in others of varying levels of techni-<br />
books and 70 million manuscripts,<br />
beyond HS of 6 months to 1 year; faculty and students. Must be able<br />
curacy. Prepare routine travel and trieve Hyperion.<br />
a hands-on help desk based support cal knowledge and responsibility is<br />
photographs, and related materials.<br />
How to Apply<br />
General Employment Sessions Additional Information<br />
more than 2 years and less than 4 to work independently and be self-<br />
expense reimbursements. Assist<br />
environment desirable.<br />
essential. 2+ years of experience<br />
Collection highlights include the pa-<br />
To be considered an applicant for • Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. about the Job Postings:<br />
years experience. Excellent commotivated. Experience in or ability<br />
with budget development and per Health<br />
working with Unix (i.e. Solaris, AIX,<br />
pers of writers such as James Joyce<br />
positions at <strong>Cornell</strong>, you must follow The Recruitment and Employ- Commonly Used Terms<br />
munication, organization and in- to quickly achieve profi ciency in the<br />
diem rates. Serve as front line per-<br />
Prog/Analyst III (04615); Linux) required, including fi le and<br />
and Vladimir Nabokov, a copy of the<br />
terpersonal skills. Ability act in a use of Word, Excel, FileMaker, and<br />
son for HR, payroll and accounting Assoc Dir Psych Svcs Level F; Exempt; 01-25- directory management, fi le permis-<br />
the application process below:<br />
ment Center, 337 Pine Tree Road,<br />
Gettysburg Address in the hand of<br />
Working title– if two titles are listed,<br />
East Hill Plaza, Ithaca, NY<br />
professional manner representing graphics software. Appreciation<br />
questions. Prepare billing, payroll, (04989); Level H; Exempt; 2006; Computer Science; sions, and common utilities such as<br />
• Applicants for non-academic<br />
the fi rst title will be the working title<br />
Abraham Lincoln, E.B. White’s origi-<br />
To register, contact Janet Beebe<br />
the organization with individuals and experience working in a cross-<br />
vacation, and sick time reports as 01-25-2006; Gannett Health Recruiting Range $36,900 emacs, vi, ps, grep, sort, and fi nd.<br />
staff and librarian positions must<br />
designated by the department as<br />
nal manuscript of Charlotte’s Web,<br />
at 254-8370, TTY 255-4943,<br />
apply on-line through the Jobs at<br />
representative of the responsibilities in a variety of positions across cultural environment, highly pre-<br />
assigned. Communicate with inter-<br />
UNIX shell and perl script experi-<br />
<strong>Service</strong>s<br />
to $56,375<br />
and many other treasures. Other<br />
or via e-mail , following<br />
es, Counseling and Psychological<br />
<strong>University</strong> job title– appears in italics<br />
REST, XML, XSLT, scripting lanclude:<br />
the largest collection on the<br />
parents and friends. Proven ability notice. Occasional evenings and<br />
information.<br />
years exp with Windows required.<br />
the instructions therein. Tip: to • 1st & 3rd Fridays 1:00–3:00 p.m. after the working title. If only one<br />
<strong>Service</strong>s (CAPS), is seeking a full guages (e.g. PHP, PERL), and oth-<br />
French Revolution outside of Paris,<br />
assist you in locating these posi- Workforce New York,<br />
to work effectively as a member fl exibility in schedule, required. Ap-<br />
Qualifi cations: Formal training be-<br />
Experience performing Windows<br />
title appears, no working title was<br />
time Assistant Director for Comer standard software technologies,<br />
the largest collection on the histotions<br />
on-line, note the job number Resource Room, Center Ithaca,<br />
of a team. Demonstrated record plications will be accepted through<br />
yond a HS Diploma of 6 months to<br />
system administration experience<br />
designated<br />
munity Based <strong>Service</strong>s with sig- assist in the development of the<br />
ry of witchcraft in North America,<br />
that appears after the job title. 171 East State Street Ithaca, NY<br />
of exercising initiative and work- Tuesday, February 7, 2006.<br />
1 year with a minimum of 2 years<br />
an asset. 1+ year exp with SQL datanifi<br />
cant demonstrated clinical and National Science Digital Library<br />
the world’s second largest collec-<br />
To register, contact Dawn Potter Pay band or level– the level to which ing independently. Must be detail<br />
providing accounting support in a<br />
base queries and schemas desired.<br />
outreach experience working with<br />
• Applicants for all other positions<br />
(NSDL). Create and maintain softtion<br />
on William Wordsworth, one of<br />
at 272-7570, extension 118 or via the university job title is assigned, oriented, organized and able to Operations Manager/Admin-<br />
complex offi ce or equivalent combi-<br />
Oracle preferred. Programming ex-<br />
must apply by following instruc-<br />
underrepresented minority populaware to support a distributed infor-<br />
the country’s founding collections<br />
e-mail <br />
requirements<br />
mation processing infrastructure<br />
on the abolitionist movement, and<br />
tasks while meeting clear and esments.<br />
F; Exempt; 01-12-2006; Lib<br />
required. Profi cient with Microsoft<br />
Expect, CGI scripting, Javascript,<br />
Director of CAPS and serves on and workfl ow to gather, transform,<br />
one of the most extensive collec-<br />
During the General Employment Exempt or “EX”– indicates the positablished deadlines. Must be able Administrative Operations<br />
including spreadsheets, databases,<br />
SQL database programming desir-<br />
the Operations Team making ad- maintain and disseminate digital litions<br />
on the history of sexuality and<br />
• You must apply separately for<br />
Session talent are provided with the tion is not eligible for, or is exempt to work at an advanced level with<br />
and word processing software esable.<br />
Required to carry a <strong>University</strong><br />
each position in which you are<br />
opportunity to: discover career op- <strong>from</strong>, overtime pay<br />
desktop applications (MS Offi ce<br />
Library Administrative Operaministrative<br />
decisions for the debrary metadata and content. Sup-<br />
gender in the United States. RMC<br />
sential. Must be open and recep-<br />
issued <strong>page</strong>r and/or cell phone to<br />
interested.<br />
portunities, learn more about the Non-exempt or “NEX”– indicates the<br />
including PowerPoint), databases<br />
tions, part of the <strong>Cornell</strong> Univerpartment.<br />
Responsibilities include port and collaborate with other in-<br />
is used extensively by local faculty<br />
tive to new ideas and approaches;<br />
provide off hours coverage 24/7.<br />
employment application process, ob- position is covered by the federal (Filemaker), networked informasity<br />
Library system is seeking an<br />
providing leadership, performance stitutions to integrate distributed<br />
and students and by scholars <strong>from</strong><br />
diplomatic, courteous and welcom-<br />
Some weekend and holiday availtain<br />
tips to getting noticed, and meet Fair Labor Standards Act and theretional systems (Brio, PeopleSoft),<br />
Operations Manager (OM). The<br />
feedback, and administrative direc- digital library infrastructure, includ-<br />
around the world. Programs include<br />
ing, working effectively and coopability<br />
required.<br />
1:1 with a Recruitment Consultant. fore is eligible for overtime pay electronic calendaring, mail pro-<br />
Operations Manager reports to<br />
tion for a dynamic team of clinicians ing jointly developing protocols,<br />
active teaching and outreach eferatively<br />
with others. Must work to<br />
grams and the Internet. Demon-<br />
the Library’s Director of Facilities<br />
who respond to clinical needs in user interfaces, and APIs; providing<br />
forts, and a variety of exhibitions<br />
Administrative Applications<br />
build relationships to solve prob-<br />
Recruiting range– (optional) instrated<br />
ability to work with confi -<br />
Planning and assists with the co-<br />
the student community. Other re- debugging and maintenance sup-<br />
and events showcasing collections.<br />
lems and achieve common goals.<br />
Prog/Analyst (05008); Level<br />
dicates the range in which a new<br />
dential information with absolute<br />
ordination and planning for facility<br />
sponsibilities include providing inport for digital library metadata,<br />
While continuing to emphasize the<br />
Must be able to express thoughts<br />
hire’s pay rate is usually established.<br />
Actual pay is determined by college/<br />
care and discretion. Demonstrated<br />
improvements and building maintedividual<br />
and group psychotherapy<br />
F; Exempt; 01-30-2006; CIT<br />
content, and software; and provid-<br />
importance of traditional formats,<br />
clearly both orally and in writing.<br />
unit guidelines and each applicant’s ability to work in a fast-paced, cusnance<br />
within the Uris, Kroch, Olin<br />
within the clinic, as well as consultaing consulting and support to other Business Info Systems <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> Library is ac-<br />
Excellent organizational and an-<br />
position-related qualifi cations. tomer service environment with<br />
and Annex Libraries. The OM also<br />
tion with faculty, staff, and parents institutions using the NSDL library As a member of Information Systively committed to the support<br />
alytical skills required. Ability to<br />
changing priorities. An Associ-<br />
manages various renovation proj-<br />
regarding student mental health software services. Participate in tems participate in providing pro- and promotion of digital collections<br />
handle stress and maintain confi -<br />
CL & R– cover letter & resume ates Degree or Bachelors Degree<br />
ects within the fourteen endowed<br />
issues. The <strong>Cornell</strong> campus is cul- the design and development of the gramming support to facilitate the and services, and RMC has played<br />
dentiality.<br />
would be preferred. Familiarity with<br />
libraries on the <strong>Cornell</strong> campus.<br />
turally and ethnically diverse with next generation of NSDL services maintenance and enhancements a pioneering role in the use of new<br />
courier support, managing complex<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> computing systems is pre-<br />
Business and operational respon-<br />
approximately 3,000 international in areas such as data representa- of <strong>Cornell</strong>’s administrative appli- technologies for providing access<br />
Administrative Assistant,<br />
Accounts Rep IV (05003);<br />
Administration calendar and travel arrangements,<br />
ferred. Experience working in the<br />
sibilities include management of<br />
students and 5,000 students <strong>from</strong> tion, identity management, content cations. Principal responsibilities to special collections materials.<br />
Offi ce of Student Academic<br />
Level D; Non-exempt; 01offi<br />
ce purchasing and inventory,<br />
division of Alumni Affairs and De-<br />
the library copy center and ship-<br />
other ethnic minority groups. We management, protocol design, web include on-going support for mis- In cooperation with other library<br />
Administrative Asst III<br />
<strong>Service</strong>s (05007); Adminis-<br />
and occasional back-up to deans<br />
velopment organization would be<br />
ping and receiving department.<br />
25-2006; VM Accounting are interested in a professional who services design, and other software sion critical mainframe applications units and national projects, RMC<br />
(04982); Level C; Non-extrative<br />
Asst III; Level C; Non-<br />
support staff. Will interface with<br />
strongly preferred. Valid NYS driv-<br />
The OM is responsible for vendor<br />
<strong>Service</strong>s Center<br />
would strengthen our ongoing inno- infrastructure issues.<br />
and the design and development creates digital collections and Web<br />
empt; 01-27-2006; VM Ad- students, faculty, staff, CVM execuexempt; 01-27-2006; AAD er’s license is preferred.<br />
negotiations regarding public pho-<br />
As a member of the CVM Accountvative<br />
systemic community based Qualifi cations: Bachelor’s degree of modifi cations & enhancements sites providing access to rare books,<br />
tocopy operations, equipment puring<br />
<strong>Service</strong> Center’s <strong>Service</strong> Team,<br />
clinical interventions with commu- with 2-3 years experience or equiv- to applications. In accordance with manuscripts, graphics, and historiministrationtives,<br />
alumni and clients. This posi- Student & Academic Svcs<br />
In a customer-oriented, teamtion will be posted through Febru- Provide administrative support to Events Coordinator-Future chases and maintenance contracts,<br />
under very general supervision and<br />
nities of color, as well as increasing alent combination using modern these requirements: develop projcal artifacts at <strong>Cornell</strong>. Reporting<br />
and library cafe operations. Coor-<br />
considerable latitude for exercising<br />
the diversity of our staff.<br />
IDE-based development tools for ect plans: prioritize across mul- to the Curator of Rare books and<br />
based environment function as priary 10, 2006.<br />
the Director of External Relations Minority Studies/Indigenous &<br />
dinates library telecommunication<br />
judgment and self-direction, coor- Qualifi cations: A doctorate in Java/J2EE code development, web tiple and simultaneous activities; Manuscripts, the Assistant Curamary<br />
receptionist providing a wel- Qualifi cations: Formal training for the Division of Student & Aca- Third World Studies (04998); and other requests for services and<br />
dinate, monitor, and provide com- clinical or counseling psychology services development, distributed estimate project resource requiretor will deliver presentations to<br />
coming and professional presence beyond HS diploma of 6 months demic <strong>Service</strong>s (SAS), with occa- Administrative Asst IV; Level authorizes purchase orders and<br />
prehensive accounting, purchasing, or MSW, with New York State pro- systems development, and/or dataments; exercise stakeholder man- classes and other groups, help in-<br />
as the initial contact point in the to 1 year with 2 to 4 years related sional support for the Assistant Di- D; Non-exempt; 01-24-2006; payment requests. Also responsi-<br />
budgeting, fi nancial and reporting fessional licensure/certifi cation or base systems development. Demagement across diverse campus terpret RMC’s collections through<br />
College of Veterinary Medicine’s experience, or equivalent combinarector of External Relations. . The Asian American Studies; ble for library safety and security<br />
support for the <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> eligibility. Three years of clinical onstrated ability to work indepen- constituencies.”<br />
the preparation of exhibitions and<br />
Offi ce of the Dean. Will greet and tion of education and experience. division of SAS supports the living<br />
Part-time<br />
procedures, emergency planning<br />
Hospital for Animals (CUHA). The experience post training. Previous dently and as part of a team, man- Qualifications: Bachelor’s de- related programming and publica-<br />
direct incoming visitors, respond Profi ciency with PC-based soft- and learning experience of Cor-<br />
independently to inquiries or rediware including Word, Excel, Pownell students, and includes 1,000 Provide program and administra-<br />
and inventory management. The<br />
position demands a high level of college mental health experience age time effectively, set priorities, gree or equivalent experience. 3-5 tions, promote research in the colrect<br />
as appropriate. Responsible erPoint, FileMaker Pro or Access, employees and about 1/3 of the tive support for the Future of Mi-<br />
OM advises the Director of Facili-<br />
customer service and frequent preferred. The successful candidate and adapt quickly to changes. Ex- years programming experience in lections, and provide support for<br />
for answering the main College of and electronic calendar and mail campus’s buildings, and programs nority Studies Project (FMS) and<br />
ties Planning and the Director of<br />
deadlines. Due to the complex busi- will be team-oriented, accessible to cellent oral and written communi- systems and applications environ- collection development and donor<br />
Veterinary Medicine phone line. programs required. Strong oral including the Residential Initiative, the Minority, Indigenous, and Third<br />
Finance and Administration in the<br />
ness of the CUHA as an enterprise students and student affairs staff, cation skills including the ability to ments compatible with <strong>Cornell</strong>’s initiatives. The Assistant Curator<br />
Provide administrative support for and written communication skills, a university priority. The offi ce is a World Studies Faculty Research<br />
development of activities, poli-<br />
unit, the position requires one to equipped to address multicultural provide technical information to mainframe administrative systems will also participate in RMC’s ref-<br />
the Dean and his Executive Staff organizational skills and attention fast paced, professional environ- group at <strong>Cornell</strong> (MITWS). Responcies,<br />
programs, and facilities that<br />
closely monitor and verify validity issues, possess a strong work eth- others of varying levels of techni- architecture (OS/390, VM/ESA). erence services, technical process-<br />
including demonstrating sound to detail are a must. Must be able ment. Manage the Director’s calsible for coordinating the admin-<br />
enhance library operations in the<br />
of transactions on all assigned acic, offer a positive presence to stucal knowledge and responsibility. Requirements: extensive experiing, and digital asset management<br />
judgment in setting priorities and to handle confi dential materials endar, scheduling appointments istrative operations for a variety<br />
endowed units. Responsible for sucounts.<br />
Must be able to function dents and staff with a willingness to Excellent problem-solving, analytence developing and maintain- activities.<br />
forecasting all possible needs of the and sensitive information with the with senior <strong>University</strong> administra- of programs, meetings, seminars,<br />
pervising a staff of 10 FTE.<br />
effectively under pressure, dem- collaborate with other healthcare ical, and reasoning skills. Must be ing complex applications written Qualifi cations: MLS degree or<br />
offi ce. Prepare a variety of docu- utmost tact and discretion. Estabtors, trustees, faculty and donors. conferences, and FMS summer in- Qualifi cations: Bachelor’s degree<br />
onstrating sound judgment in ac- professionals in a multidisciplinary able to foster effective working re- in Natural/Adabas; proven abil- graduate degree in literature, hisments,<br />
including correspondence, lishing appropriate individual pri- Maintain offi ce fi les; coordinate on stitute. Administrative support in- with 5-7 years related experience<br />
complishing tasks that are urgent health care setting.<br />
lationships to facilitate and achieve ity to analyze requirements and tory, archival management, or oth-<br />
reports, presentations, charts, and orities and functioning as part of and off campus meetings and large cludes correspondence, responding in facility operations, or equiva-<br />
or of a sensitive or confi dential<br />
project goals.<br />
meet deadlines; strong written & er relevant fi eld. Excellent written<br />
tables, <strong>from</strong> notes or data using ap- the team supporting key College scale mailings. Produce reports to emails, the coordination of travel lent experience. Excellent inter-<br />
nature; balance confl icting priori- Information<br />
oral communication skills. Must and verbal communication skills.<br />
propriate software. Further develop executives is required. Must demon- and gift acknowledgement letters arrangements, hotel reservations, personal, communication, comties,<br />
and making decisions <strong>from</strong> a<br />
Vendor Applications Program- demonstrate an ability to develop Demonstrated ability to initiate,<br />
and/or maintain informational lists strate a positive, professional and for signature by VPSAS, Director scheduling room use, catering, creputer, and customer service skills<br />
range of choices while adhering to Technologies mer Analyst (04798); Prog/ competence in new subject areas coordinate and conclude projects<br />
and databases to track faculty in- customer-focused attitude with a of External Relations and Dean of ating posters for publicity, provid- required. Evidence of leadership<br />
<strong>University</strong> policies and procedures.<br />
formation, including committee as- commitment to continuous growth Students. Prepare and distribute ing follow up contact to outside and commitment to teamwork.<br />
Must be comfortable working in IT Support Asst III (05002);<br />
Analyst Sr; Level F; Exempt; with little or no formal training or with effi ciency. Ability to lift 40<br />
oversight, and continuously expand lbs. and work with dusty materials.<br />
signments, voting privileges, mail- and learning. Preferred Qualifi ca- reports for SAS unit business man- participants. Develop and maintain Excellent judgment and the abil-<br />
an environment where change in Level D; Non-exempt; 01-30-<br />
01-30-2006; CIT Business<br />
one’s knowledge about technology Preferred Qualifi cations: Experiing<br />
information, etc. Provide primations: Associates degree preferred. agers, maintain up to date gift fund master schedule of all events and ity to prioritize multiple compet-<br />
process/procedures is the norm. 2006; Biotechnology Center;<br />
Info Systems<br />
and methods supportive of campus ence working in special collection,<br />
ry support for an offi ce-wide fi ling Experience in an executive offi ce listings. Review all mail coming into programs. Develop and maintain ing priorities. Working knowledge<br />
Attention to detail and ability to Recruiting Range $15.50 to<br />
As a member of Information Sys- business processes. Knowledge of archives, or the antiquarian book<br />
system, retaining primary ongoing environment or <strong>Cornell</strong>/CVM ex- the Director’s offi ce: sort, open and FMS http://fmsproject.cornell.edu/ of accounting, budgeting, person-<br />
follow up and through on all areas<br />
tems Application group this posi-<br />
$18.70<br />
fi nance systems a plus.<br />
trade. Experience working with the<br />
responsibility for its maintenance. perience preferred.<br />
distribute correspondence. Provide nel and facilities management re-<br />
of activities are required. Excellent<br />
tion’s primary responsibility is to<br />
public in a library, archival, muse-<br />
Provide a variety of information<br />
Responsibilities include mail and<br />
primary phone coverage for the and MITWS websites; assist with quired. Profi cient in spreadsheet<br />
customer service skills are essen-<br />
implement, support, and enhance<br />
um, or cultural setting. Subject ex-<br />
technology support services to a<br />
the writing and production of the manipulation, database manage-<br />
tial to this position. Independent<br />
vendor applications. The primary<br />
pertise; experience curating exhi-
14 February 2, 2006 <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle February 2, 2006 15<br />
bitions or teaching experience. Fa-<br />
miliarity with online bibliographic<br />
tools and technologies, including<br />
EAD and Web design. Application<br />
Procedure: Applications requested<br />
by April 1, 2006. Please include a<br />
cover letter, resume, and the names,<br />
phone numbers, and addresses for<br />
three references. Review of appli-<br />
cations will begin immediately and<br />
will continue until the position is<br />
fi lled. For further information, con-<br />
tact Susan Markowitz, Director of<br />
Library Human Resources, 201 Olin<br />
Library, <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Ithaca,<br />
NY 14853-5301.<br />
Library/Museum<br />
PSA I/Book Mover - Annex<br />
Library (04999); Public Svcs<br />
Asst I; Level A; Non-exempt;<br />
01-24-2006; Annex Library<br />
The <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> Annex Li-<br />
brary is seeking a task oriented in-<br />
dividual to move books. Under the<br />
direction of the Annex Manager, this<br />
person will be responsible for item<br />
processing which includes: assem-<br />
ble and barcode book trays, mea-<br />
sure items against templates for<br />
placement in the appropriate size<br />
tray, enter barcoded items into an<br />
inventory control system database<br />
and load fi lled trays onto custom<br />
made book carts.”<br />
Qualifi cations: Formal training<br />
beyond HS of 6 months-1 year<br />
with less than 6 months of expe-<br />
rience or equivalent combination.<br />
Aptitude for detailed work, good<br />
physical strength and stamina, ex-<br />
cellent organizational and inter-<br />
personal skills, able to work inde-<br />
pendently, familiarity with micro-<br />
computers and communications<br />
equipment. This is an term ap-<br />
pointment through April 13, 2007.<br />
Monday - Wednesday 7:30 am -<br />
4:00 pm; Thursday - Friday 8:00<br />
am - 4:00 pm.<br />
Technical Svcs Asst III/Serials<br />
Assistant (05010); Level C;<br />
Non-exempt; 01-30-2006;<br />
LTS-E Resources & Serials<br />
Library Technical <strong>Service</strong>s is seek-<br />
ing a Serials Assistant. Under the<br />
direction of Serials Management<br />
Unit Supervisor, the individual is<br />
responsible for a mix of activities<br />
for serials in both print and elec-<br />
tronic formats. For print serials this<br />
includes receiving and claiming of<br />
periodicals and serials in the on-<br />
line library system. For electronic<br />
serials it includes verifying account<br />
titles, maintenance of records in<br />
Voyager, the ERMS and Serials So-<br />
lutions, checking links & holdings,<br />
and updating & verifying access.<br />
Special projects will be an ongo-<br />
ing part of the e-resources activi-<br />
ties. For receiving print journals,<br />
typical duties include: verify the<br />
condition of the materials; search<br />
and record the receipt of the serial<br />
titles, create holdings; adjust publi-<br />
cation patterns; create item records<br />
for bound volumes; route titles to<br />
designated locations; claim titles;<br />
communicate internally and exter-<br />
nally to resolve processing issues<br />
by phone, e-mail, or post. The indi-<br />
vidual may use various vendor and<br />
publisher websites during the pro-<br />
cess. The tasks can be complex due<br />
to different publisher requirements<br />
and purchasing methods. Offi ce is<br />
located in Mann Library, but posi-<br />
tion includes regularly scheduled<br />
work in Olin Library each week.<br />
Qualifi cations: Formal training<br />
beyond HS of 1-2 years, 2 years of<br />
college coursework, or Associates<br />
with 1-2 years experience or equiv-<br />
alent combination. Ability to work<br />
in Windows environment. Excellent<br />
organizational and communication<br />
skills. Attention to detail. Ability to<br />
perform repetitive tasks with ac-<br />
curacy and effi ciency. Ability to<br />
perform multiple tasks in a timely<br />
manner. Preferred Qualifi cations:<br />
Medium typing skills. Knowledge<br />
of one or more foreign languages.<br />
Basic knowledge of MARC21 and<br />
one or more national library da-<br />
tabases (OCLC and RLIN). Knowl-<br />
edge of integrated library systems<br />
is a plus. Ability to use Excel or MS<br />
Access to record and maintain ac-<br />
count details.<br />
<strong>Service</strong>/Facilities<br />
Director of Environmental<br />
Health & Safety (05012);<br />
Level I; Exempt; 01-30-2006;<br />
EH&S Administration<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> invites applica-<br />
tions for the role of Director En-<br />
vironmental Health and Safety.<br />
Reporting to the Vice President<br />
of Business <strong>Service</strong>s and Environ-<br />
mental Safety, the Director will lead,<br />
promote, and support a compre-<br />
hensive environmental health and<br />
safety program for <strong>Cornell</strong> Univer-<br />
sity. The Director must develop,<br />
maintain, and promote policies,<br />
procedures and programs neces-<br />
sary to maintain a healthy envi-<br />
ronment for the entire <strong>University</strong><br />
community. The Director will serve<br />
as a liaison between the Central<br />
Administration and campus safety<br />
committees and is responsible for<br />
providing professional leadership<br />
and administrative direction to a<br />
staff of 59 as well as maintaining<br />
a budget of $4.9 million including<br />
seven ‘fee for service’ programs.<br />
The Director also serves as Uni-<br />
versity Safety Offi cer.<br />
Qualifi cations: This position must<br />
possess a Bachelor’s degree in either<br />
physical or biological sciences, or<br />
engineering; and a Masters degree<br />
in management, or a related<br />
scientifi c, health or safety fi eld such<br />
as environmental health, industrial<br />
hygiene, preventive medicine, safety<br />
engineering; as well as progressive<br />
experience in the management<br />
of comprehensive environmental<br />
health and safety programs at a<br />
comparable organization with a<br />
minimum of 7-10 years experience.<br />
The strong candidate must also<br />
possess a Board certifi cation in a<br />
recognized professional health and<br />
safety discipline such as industrial<br />
hygiene (CIH), safety professional<br />
(CSP) and health physics society<br />
(CHP). Applicants must have a<br />
demonstrated ability to create<br />
an effective and positive team<br />
environment and the ability to<br />
lead effective change, exemplary<br />
communication skills and ability<br />
to exercise sound judgment, and<br />
proven successful fi scal experience<br />
managing operating budgets.<br />
For further information or to<br />
apply, contact: Katie Dean, Sr.<br />
Vice President, Opus Search<br />
Partners, Inc., 1616 Walnut<br />
Street, Suite 1812, Philadelphia,<br />
Pa 19103, 215-790-1188,<br />
, .<br />
Temporary<br />
Temp Serv Tech (04987);<br />
Non-exempt; 01-24-2006;<br />
Natural Resources<br />
This is a 8 month position to as-<br />
sist the project managers of the<br />
NY Cooperative Fish and Wildlife<br />
Research Unit at <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
and the New York State Department<br />
of Environmental Conservation<br />
(NYSDEC) are seeking a temporary<br />
biodiversity outreach coordinator<br />
to help local governments and con-<br />
servation organizations through-<br />
out New York’s Hudson Valley to<br />
conserve the region’s rich biological<br />
resources. The conservation area<br />
covers the counties bordering the<br />
150 mile long Hudson River Estu-<br />
ary <strong>from</strong> the City of Troy to New<br />
York City. This position is located<br />
in New Paltz, NY. The Hudson Riv-<br />
er Estuary Biodiversity Outreach<br />
Coordinator will work closely with<br />
the NY Cooperative Fish and Wild-<br />
life Research Unit and NYS Depart-<br />
ment of Environmental Conserva-<br />
tion to implement its Hudson River<br />
Estuary 2005 Action Agenda. The<br />
eight-month, full time coordinator<br />
will: Provide interpreted biological<br />
data and technical assistance to lo-<br />
cal land use decision-makers; pres-<br />
ent to various audiences on bio-<br />
diversity conservation, especially<br />
local governments; participate in<br />
regional habitat conservation ini-<br />
tiatives; work with biodiversity out-<br />
reach partners (NYS Department<br />
of Environmental Conservation,<br />
Wildlife Conservation Society, Hud-<br />
sonia, Ltd); and work closely with<br />
the Hudson River Estuary Biodiver-<br />
sity Project Coordinator to imple-<br />
ment and monitor progress of the<br />
2005 Hudson River Estuary Action<br />
Agenda. The Biodiversity Outreach<br />
Coordinator will work with local<br />
government decision-makers, land<br />
trusts, watershed groups, local and<br />
regional non-profi t conservation<br />
organizations, and state agencies<br />
to implement the program.<br />
Qualifications: Bachelor’s de-<br />
gree or equivalent; at least 3 but<br />
fewer than 5 years of experience<br />
or equivalent in biology, ecology,<br />
conservation biology, natural re-<br />
sources, environmental planning,<br />
or related fi eld. Comfort describing<br />
biodiversity conservation concepts<br />
to diverse audiences. Familiarity<br />
with local land use planning, basic<br />
GIS skills (ArcView 3.X, ArcGIS), and<br />
excellent oral and written commu-<br />
nication skills. Preferred qualifi ca-<br />
tions include knowledge of Hudson<br />
Valley biology and ecology.<br />
Temp Serv Tech (05004);<br />
Non-exempt; 01-30-2006;<br />
Ecology & Evolutionary Biol-<br />
ogy<br />
The Department of Ecology and<br />
Evolutionary Biology is seeking a<br />
highly motivated individual to pro-<br />
vide research support to ongoing<br />
projects in aquatic and atmospheric<br />
biogeochemistry. Responsibilities<br />
include: preparing and deploying<br />
equipment for atmospheric and<br />
water chemistry sampling at local<br />
and regional fi eld sites; conduct-<br />
ing chemical analyses for nutrients<br />
and major ions on a variety of en-<br />
vironmental samples using both<br />
automated and manual methods;<br />
analyzing data <strong>from</strong> fi eld sampling<br />
and chemical analyses and prepar-<br />
ing summary reports. Other duties<br />
include assisting with basic labora-<br />
tory management and quality con-<br />
trol, ordering materials as needed,<br />
reviewing research literature, and<br />
conducting library/internet search-<br />
es. The successful applicant should<br />
be personable and fl exible. Ability<br />
to work independently as well as<br />
effectively in a team environment<br />
to achieve research objectives is<br />
essential. This temporary position<br />
is funded through November/De-<br />
cember 2006; specifi c start and<br />
end dates negotiable. Schedule: 39<br />
hours per week (negotiable to 30<br />
hours per week). Contract college<br />
employee benefi ts apply.<br />
Qualifi cations: Formal training<br />
and experience in aquatic or ana-<br />
lytical chemistry, biogeochemistry,<br />
ecology, or related discipline. Bach-<br />
elor’s degree preferred. Experience<br />
with both wet chemical procedures<br />
and instrumental analyses for nutri-<br />
ents is highly desirable, as is some<br />
experience with fi eld sampling.<br />
Good organizational skills and basic<br />
computer skills are essential. Valid<br />
driver’s license required.<br />
Academic<br />
Post Dr Assoc (04704); 01-<br />
25-2006; Microbiology &<br />
Immunology<br />
A post-doctoral position is avail-<br />
able to study the molecular basis<br />
of antigen induced immune sup-<br />
pression and the modulation of the<br />
innate immune system response in<br />
immunity against cancer. Ongoing<br />
research in the laboratory is inves-<br />
tigating the mechanism of inducing<br />
suppressor/regulatory T cells to any<br />
or most autoantigens using a skin<br />
patch method.<br />
Qualifi cations: A doctoral degree<br />
with experience/expertise in molec-<br />
ular biology, protein biochemistry<br />
and eukaryotic cell culture is re-<br />
quired. Must be comfortable work-<br />
ing with laboratory mice. Please<br />
send a copy of your resume and<br />
3 professional references to Dr.<br />
Margaret Bynoe, Microbiology<br />
and Immunology, C5149 Vet<br />
Medical Center, College of Vet-<br />
erinary Medicine, <strong>Cornell</strong> Univer-<br />
sity, Ithaca, NY 14853.<br />
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer<br />
(05000); 01-24-2006; Plant<br />
Biology<br />
Applications are invited for the po-<br />
sition of Lecturer or Senior Lec-<br />
turer (depending on qualifi cations;<br />
Ph.D. required) to direct the labora-<br />
tory component of a combined lec-<br />
ture/laboratory course in Introduc-<br />
tory Biology for Non-Majors (BioG<br />
109-110) beginning July 2006. This<br />
2-semester, 3-credit course offers a<br />
broad introduction in general biol-<br />
ogy to students <strong>from</strong> a variety of<br />
majors. Responsibilities include as-<br />
sisting instructors in coordinating<br />
lectures and exams, and producing<br />
an updated, in-house laboratory<br />
manual each year. The course has<br />
15 sections per week and is sup-<br />
ported by 8 teaching assistants,<br />
one full-time preparator, and one<br />
part-time secretary. The appoint-<br />
ment is for 9 months (mid August<br />
through mid June), except for the<br />
fi rst year when summer support<br />
is provided.<br />
Qualifi cations: PhD required. For<br />
further information visit the website<br />
or contact Dr.<br />
Robert Turgeon, 607-255-8395;<br />
. Applicants<br />
should send a curriculum vitae<br />
and a narrative describing career<br />
goals and teaching interests<br />
to Ms. Deborah Spencer,<br />
Introductory Biology Search<br />
Committee, 228 Plant Science<br />
Building, <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Ithaca, NY 14853. Also have<br />
three letters of reference sent to<br />
the same address. The deadline<br />
for receipt of applications is<br />
February 20, 2006.<br />
Assistant Professor (04800);<br />
00-23-2005; Horticulture<br />
Sciences at the New York<br />
State Agricultural Experiment<br />
Station in Geneva, NY<br />
Develop an innovative, internation-<br />
ally-recognized, externally funded<br />
research program in viticulture to<br />
address current and future needs<br />
of the New York winegrape indus-<br />
try. The research should compli-<br />
ment and be carried out in collabo-<br />
ration with related grape and wine<br />
research and extension programs<br />
and other disciplines as appropri-<br />
ate. Teach undergraduate courses<br />
in viticulture and vineyard manage-<br />
ment and participate in other relat-<br />
ed courses as appropriate. Mentor<br />
undergraduate and graduate stu-<br />
dents, direct student research and<br />
facilitate student internships. In ad-<br />
dition to teaching undergraduate<br />
courses in viticulture, the candidate<br />
may develop a graduate course in<br />
his/her area of specialization. Ap-<br />
pointment will be to a tenure-track,<br />
academic-year position as a faculty<br />
member of the <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
College of Agriculture and Life Sci-<br />
ences (CALS), and will be based in<br />
the Department of Horticultural<br />
Sciences at the New York State<br />
Agricultural Experiment Station<br />
in Geneva, NY . A mentoring<br />
program for new faculty provides<br />
guidance and assistance.<br />
Qualifi cations: Ph.D. in Viticul-<br />
ture/Enology, Horticulture, Plant<br />
Physiology, Biochemistry or other<br />
related plant science. Teaching,<br />
and/or industry experience with<br />
grape production systems is de-<br />
sirable as is a working knowledge<br />
of molecular biology and biochem-<br />
istry. Send a letter of applica-<br />
tion, resume, academic tran-<br />
scripts, statement of teaching<br />
and research goals and plans,<br />
and names, addresses, phone<br />
numbers and email addresses of<br />
three references to: Dr. Alan N.<br />
Lakso, Viticulture Search Com-<br />
mittee Chair, <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
- New York State Agricultural<br />
Experiment Station, Depart-<br />
ment of Horticultural Sciences,<br />
630 West North Street, Gene-<br />
va, N.Y. 14456, , Phone: 315-787-2399,<br />
Fax: 315-787-2216. Review of<br />
applications will begin February<br />
1, 2006, and will continue until<br />
the position is fi lled.<br />
Cooperative<br />
Extension<br />
Executive Director (04440);<br />
Level 006; Exempt; 01-26-<br />
2006; Cayuga Cnty Coop<br />
Ext Assn<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Cooperative Extension of<br />
Cayuga County (Auburn, NY) is<br />
searching for an Executive Director.<br />
Responsible for the development<br />
and maintenance of an effective<br />
working relationships among<br />
the association, its staff and<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> faculty as well as providing<br />
leadership for association relations<br />
with legislators, local government<br />
leaders, funding agencies,<br />
community leaders, and special<br />
interest groups. Provide leadership<br />
for overall program development,<br />
implementation, evaluation, and<br />
reporting of results. Represents and<br />
is accountable to the association<br />
board of directors and the Director<br />
of the <strong>Cornell</strong> Cooperative<br />
Extension system. Administers<br />
all association policies and is<br />
responsible for fi nancial planning,<br />
affi rmative action implementation,<br />
and personnel administration.<br />
Provide programming in the areas<br />
of community leadership and<br />
diversity. See for<br />
complete position description.<br />
Qualifi cations: A Master’s degree<br />
required in education, manage-<br />
ment, or fi eld related to association<br />
program. Highly desired is course<br />
work in public or not for profi t man-<br />
agement or other closely related<br />
study. Substantive coursework<br />
and/or experience in education<br />
required. Six years progressively<br />
responsible experience including<br />
at least three years in Cooperative<br />
Extension or a closely related fi eld<br />
of employment. Cooperative Exten-<br />
sion experience preferred. At least<br />
four years of substantive organiza-<br />
tional leadership and management<br />
responsibilities, including human<br />
resources, fi scal management and<br />
organizational management. (PhD<br />
may substitute for 2 years of ex-<br />
perience.) Experience in facilities<br />
management/oversight desired.<br />
Applications will be reviewed be-<br />
ginning 2/10/2006, or until an ac-<br />
ceptable pool of applicants has<br />
been identifi ed. Send letter of in-<br />
tent, resume, and transcripts to<br />
PA#386, Box 26, Kennedy Hall,<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> U, Ithaca, NY 14853.<br />
Bulletin Board<br />
Staff Development Opportunities<br />
Open House for On-line Learning<br />
Your needs for skills enhancement or additional business knowledge<br />
can be met through your choice of 2000 on-line courses offered at no<br />
charge to you or your department by a leading provider of e-learn-<br />
ing solutions, SkillSoft. Ready to get started? Come to one of the open<br />
houses listed below to see what it is all about, or contact Organizational<br />
Development <strong>Service</strong>s at 254-6400 or . You can<br />
register for the open house at: .<br />
• February 27 (Class 3351) Noon - 1:00 p.m.; G25 Stimson Hall<br />
• March 29 (Class 3352) Noon - 1:00 p.m.; G25 Stimson Hall<br />
• April 18 (Class 3353) Noon - 1:00 p.m.; G25 Stimson Hall<br />
SkillSoft On-line Courses<br />
Are you interested in mastering a skill set to highlight your profes-<br />
sional development plan? If so, there are 47 certifi cate programs avail-<br />
able through the SUNY SkillSoft e-Learning Program. The following<br />
outlines the SkillSoft on-line courses needed to receive a certifi cate in:<br />
Time Management and Organization Skills<br />
• Analyze Your Use of Time (PD0101) Expected Duration: 2 hours<br />
• Set Goals and Prioritize Your Use of Time (PD0102) Expected Dura-<br />
tion: 2 hours<br />
• Major Time Management Challenges (PD0103) Expected Duration: 3<br />
hours<br />
• Organize to Remember (PD0123) Expected Duration: 2 hours<br />
• Create Your Time & Memory Management Program (PD0124) Ex-<br />
pected Duration:2 hours<br />
Upcoming Workshops<br />
We hope you take a minute to look through the workshops listed<br />
below <strong>from</strong> the 2005-2006 Guide to Workshops for Staff and Faculty.<br />
Register for the following courses at: < http://register.cit.cornell.<br />
edu:8000>. Questions can be directed to Organizational Development<br />
<strong>Service</strong>s at 254-6400.<br />
Supervisory Roundtable Discussions<br />
EAP (Employee Assistance Program) as a Partner in Supervision<br />
(Class 3295); February 13; 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary<br />
Staff Skills for Success: Self Development; Facilitator <strong>from</strong> Employee<br />
Assistance Program; no charge<br />
Staff Retention with Diversity & Inclusion in Mind Class 3296); March<br />
15; 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Self Development; Facilitators: Linda Gasser, assistant director/senior<br />
OD consultant and Jim Sheridan, senior trainer, ODS; with subject<br />
matter experts: Connie Park, program manager for diversity programs<br />
and Constance Thompson, manager, recruitment & diversity recruit-<br />
ment; no charge<br />
Certifi cate Programs<br />
New Supervisor Orientation Certifi cate Program (Class 3224); March<br />
30, April 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4 & 11; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; primary Staff<br />
Skills for Success: Self Development; Instructors: Representatives <strong>from</strong><br />
the Offi ce of Human Resources and subject matter experts <strong>from</strong> other<br />
university departments; $250<br />
Supervisor Development Certifi cate Program (Class 3234); April 25,<br />
May 2, 9 & 16; 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; primary Staff Skills for Success: Self<br />
Development; Instructor; Jim Sheridan, senior trainer, ODS; no charge<br />
Rolling Out The Big Red Carpet: Developing a <strong>Service</strong> Culture at<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> (Class 3232); June 6, 13 & 29; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 20<br />
Thornwood Drive, Suite 101; primary Staff Skills for Success: <strong>Service</strong>-<br />
Minded; Instructor; Jim Sheridan, senior trainer, ODS; $125<br />
New Supervisor Orientation Certifi cate Program (Class 3225); June<br />
8, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13 & 20; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; primary Staff Skills<br />
for Success: Self Development; Instructors: Representatives <strong>from</strong> the<br />
Offi ce of Human Resources and subject matter experts <strong>from</strong> other<br />
university departments; $250<br />
Workshops<br />
Parenting Skills: Parenting an Infant or Toddler (Class 3236); Febru-<br />
ary 7; 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.; 170 Roberts Hall; primary Staff Skills for<br />
Success: Self Development; no charge<br />
Conducting Effective Performance Dialogues (Class 3280); February<br />
8; 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skill for Success:<br />
Communication; Instructor: Vashti Peagler, senior human resource<br />
associate and consultant, OHR; no charge<br />
Keeping Relationship Satisfaction High: Love is Never Enough<br />
(Class 3331) February 8; 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary<br />
Staff Skills for Success: Motivation; Instructor: Jim Morris, MSW, CSW-<br />
R, clinician and workplace consultant, EAP; no charge<br />
Surviving the Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)<br />
(Class 3330); February 9 (please note change in date); 2:00 p.m. - 4:00<br />
p.m.; B16 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success: Self Development;<br />
Instructor: Cindy Glanville, MSW, CSW, senior clinician and work-<br />
place consultant, EAP; no charge<br />
Increasing Employee Sustainability in Today’s Workplace (Class<br />
3286); February 10; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 20 Thornwood Drive; primary<br />
Staff Skills for Success: Adaptability; Instructor: Chet Warzynski,<br />
director, ODS; no charge<br />
Resume Guidance & Interviewing Techniques (Class 3310); February<br />
15; 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Self Development; Instructor: JoAnn Shepherd, senior human resource<br />
consultant and manager, Professional Development, ODS; no charge<br />
The Mind-Body Connection (Class 3332) February 15; 2:00 p.m. - 4:00<br />
p.m. 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success: Self Development;<br />
Instructor: Cora-Ellen Luke, MA, NCC, clinician and workplace con-<br />
sultant, EAP; no charge<br />
Parenting Skills: The Step-Parent’s Role in Parenting (Class 3237);<br />
February 21; 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.; 170 Roberts Hall; primary Staff<br />
Skills for Success: Self Development; no charge<br />
Cross-Cultural Communications (Class 3270) February 23, 2006;<br />
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Inclusiveness; Instructor Linda Gasser, assistant director/senior OD<br />
consultant; $35<br />
Effective Relationships: Supporting Friends or Family Coming Out<br />
(Class 3253); February 28; 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.; 170 Roberts Hall;<br />
primary Staff Skills for Success: Self Development; no charge<br />
Strategies for Handling Performance Problems (Class 3290) Febru-<br />
ary 28; 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; SR560 Statler Hotel College; primary<br />
Staff Skills for Success: Communication; Instructor: Vashti Peagler,<br />
senior human resource associate and consultant, OHR; no charge<br />
Navigating Your Career: Myths and Truths (Class 3259); March 1;<br />
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Self Development; Instructor: JoAnn Shepherd, senior human resource<br />
consultant and manager, Professional Development, ODS; no charge<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Children’s Tuition Scholarship (CCTS) Program Workshop<br />
(Class 3262); March 6; 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff<br />
Skills for Success: Self Development; Instructor: Maureen Brull, pro-<br />
gram manager life & education plans, Benefi t <strong>Service</strong>s; no charge<br />
Parenting Skills: Building Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual and Transgender<br />
Families (Class 3241); March 7; 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.; 170 Roberts<br />
Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success: Self Development; no charge<br />
Resume Guidance & Interviewing Techniques (Class 3311); March 8;<br />
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success: Self<br />
Development; Instructor: JoAnn Shepherd, Senior Human Resource<br />
Consultant and Manager, Professional Development, ODS; no charge<br />
Project Management Methodology (Class 3288) March 9 & 10; 9:00<br />
a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 1423 ILR Conference Center; primary Staff Skills for<br />
Success:Teamwork; Instructors: Chet Warzynski, director, ODS and<br />
Linda Gasser, assistant director/senior organizational development<br />
consultant, ODS; $150<br />
Self-Image: Beating the Bully in Your Brain, Part 1 (Class 3333)<br />
March 15; 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for<br />
Success: Self-Development; Instructor: Jim Morris, MSW, CSW-R, clini-<br />
cian and workplace consultant, EAP; no charge<br />
Self-Image: Beating the Bully in Your Brain, Part 1 (Class 3333)<br />
March 15; 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for<br />
Success: Self-Development; Instructor: Jim Morris, MSW, CSW-R, clini-<br />
cian and workplace consultant, EAP; no charge<br />
Problem Solving (Class 3279) March 16; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 163 Day<br />
Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:Adaptability; Instructor: Pam<br />
Strausser, senior human resource consultant; $80<br />
Have You Wanted to Get a <strong>Cornell</strong> Degree? Undergraduate (Class<br />
3268); March 20; 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills<br />
for Success: Self-Development; Instructor: Maureen Brull, program<br />
manager life & education plans, Benefi t <strong>Service</strong>s; no charge<br />
Resume Guidance & Interviewing Techniques (Class 3312); March<br />
22; 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Self- Development; Instructor: JoAnn Shepherd, senior human resource<br />
consultant and manager, Professional Development, ODS; no charge<br />
Self-Image: Beating the Bully in Your Brain, Part 2 (Class 3334)<br />
March 22; 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for<br />
Success: Self-Development; Instructor: Jim Morris, MSW, CSW-R, clini-<br />
cian and workplace consultant, EAP; no charge<br />
An Overview of Elder Care Issues: Caring for the Caregiver (Class<br />
3244); May 28; 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.; 170 Roberts Hall; primary Staff<br />
Skills for Success: Self-Development; no charge<br />
Conducting Effective Performance Dialogues (Class 3281); March 28;<br />
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; B12 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Communication; Instructor: Vashti Peagler, senior human resource<br />
associate and consultant, OHR; no charge<br />
Emotional Factors in Chronic Pain (Class 3335) March 28; 2:00 p.m.<br />
- 4:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success: Self-Devel-<br />
opment; Presenter: Cora Ellen Luke, MA, NCC, RPT, clinician and<br />
workplace consultant, Employee Assistance Program; no charge<br />
Effectively Presenting Your Ideas in Groups (Class 3272) March 30;<br />
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 163 Day Hall; primary Staff Skills for Success:<br />
Communication; Presenter: Jim Sheridan, senior trainer, ODS; $80<br />
Mentor for TC3 Courses<br />
Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) has a special mentor<br />
to assist <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>University</strong> staff members and their families who are<br />
taking, or are interested in taking, TC3 courses. The mentor, Profes-<br />
sor Kevin Haverlock, can provide information on TC3 programs<br />
and services, academic advisement, basic skills assessment, learning<br />
assistance, and some career counseling. For the Spring semester, he<br />
will be available to meet with you <strong>from</strong> 8:30 - 11:00 a.m. on February 8<br />
in B16 Day Hall, February 15 in B16 Day Hall, February 22 in 163 Day<br />
Hall, March 1 in B16 Day Hall, March 8 in 163 Day Hall, March 22 in<br />
163 Day Hall, March 29 in 163 Day Hall, April 5 in B16 Day Hall, April<br />
12 in 163 Day Hall, April 19 in B16 Day Hall, April 26 in 163 Day Hall<br />
and May 3 in 163 Day Hall. The TC3 mentor can be reached via e-mail:<br />
or call 844-8222, x4215.<br />
Benefi ts Appointments<br />
Aetna Inc. Phone Appointments<br />
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16 February 2, 2006 <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle<br />
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By GeorGe LoWery<br />
adecade ago, when some of Wolfgang Sachse’s<br />
graduate students began to dance tango, they<br />
invited him to watch. He brought his camera.<br />
“I was intrigued by what I saw: the connection<br />
between two persons moving beautifully through<br />
space,” says Sachse, the Meinig Family Professor of<br />
Engineering.<br />
Over the next few years, Sachse <strong>continued</strong> to photograph<br />
tango performances. “I had danced little over the<br />
years and felt safe behind my camera,” he says. But when<br />
a tango band played at a 40th wedding anniversary<br />
party in 2003, Sachse became hooked. “I had my camera<br />
with me, and the images of a couple married 40 years,<br />
moving in close embrace across the dance fl oor, brought<br />
tears to my eyes.”<br />
Later that evening he signed up for a tango workshop.<br />
“I haven’t looked back since,” Sachse says. “I’ve<br />
learned that tango is much more than a dance. It’s<br />
been called an ‘elegant, passionate, sensuous interpretive<br />
art form disguised as a dance.’ When one really<br />
dances tango, one opens oneself up to very subtle<br />
movements of body and soul, totally immersed in the<br />
moment with a partner, which is as fl eeting and glorious<br />
as life itself.”<br />
Sachse worked with the Ithaca Tangueros, a student<br />
organization, to create <strong>Cornell</strong> Tango Week, Feb. 2-8,<br />
which includes performances, classes, a dinner and<br />
the History of Art Department’s Annual Findley Distinguished<br />
Lecture by Yale art historian Robert Farris<br />
Thompson, whose widely praised new book, “Tango:<br />
The Art History of Love,” explores African infl uences<br />
on the dance.<br />
Facundo and Kely Posadas, Argentine masters of<br />
the milonga candombé, or salon-style tango, will demonstrate<br />
tango and offer tango instruction throughout<br />
the week and also will perform at the Findley lecture<br />
Feb. 7. (See calendar, <strong>page</strong>s 10-11, for schedule.)<br />
Tango originated in the late 1800s in Buenos Aires <strong>from</strong><br />
a fusion of candombé, an Afro-Uruguayan rhythm, and<br />
European dances. Once seen as an inappropriately sexual<br />
display – perhaps the original dirty dancing – tango has<br />
gained worldwide popularity. The legendary choreographer<br />
Martha Graham considered it the most beautiful<br />
of dances.<br />
Shall We<br />
Dance?<br />
Tango Week, Feb. 2-8, features<br />
performances, lecture and classes<br />
Of his passion for tango, Sachse says, “One can enjoy<br />
the sensuousness, the passion, the touch and the physical<br />
contact. But it’s nothing unless your soul is also<br />
touched by your partner. It’s different with each partner,<br />
and it may be that one will not enjoy dancing with<br />
certain persons. But when it works, it’s a truly magical<br />
experience. That’s why tango is not just a dance.<br />
“<strong>Cornell</strong>, ¡bailemos tango!”<br />
ALL PHOTOS CREDIT: WOLFGANG SACHSE<br />
all photos: Scenes <strong>from</strong> a performance by Ithaca<br />
Tangueros teachers Vera Sazonova and Joaquin Canay<br />
at the 2005 Ithaca Festival on the Ithaca Commons.