cornell report fall 2012
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Faculty/Staff News
More faculty/staff news available on the Academic Affairs pages Barbara Christie-Pope (biology) was selected as one of six Fellows of the FUTURE (Fostering Undergraduate Talent—Uniting Research and Education) in Biomedicine program at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Christie-Pope, together with student Federica Otalora-Roselli, spent two months engaged in an intensive research experience […]
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Letters Fall 2012
Bon Appétit! Having worked on the “chow line” while in Bowman Hall for the Navy and Marine units, I think we would all have appreciated the fine restaurant-type food now being offered at Cornell. Alice Hibner Johnson ’48 Downers Grove, Ill. Recommended reading I enjoyed the feature “Faculty Summer Reading” in the Cornell Report. Afterward […]
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Professor for a block
Trustee Dean Riesen ’79 reflects on his return to campus to teach the block-long economics and business course Leadership and Corporate Governance.
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Alumna is violence prevention leader
Rachel Johnston ’94 works at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, the research and policy center focused on improving the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities. She is developing a multi-agency collaboration project to support anti-violence initiatives in Chicago.
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Alumna focused on clean energy
Katrina Pielli ’00 is the senior policy advisor to the deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy, working with the White House and state agencies on smart grid, energy efficiency, industrial, and utility policy.
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Stacy Panfil-Parsley ’93
Stacy Panfil-Parsley ’93 and her husband, Martin, own and operate Texas East Gymnastics, founded by his parents 42 years ago. After graduating from Cornell, Stacy moved to Tyler, Texas, and secured a teaching position. Since it was summer, she filled her days coaching gymnastics and quickly realized that was her real passion.
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Clay Davis ’82
After 20 years in the U.S. Army, Clay Davis ’82 joined the U.S. Forest Service as a Lands Specialist assigned to the agency’s office in Sitka, a community of just under 9,000 residents on an island off Alaska’s southeastern coast.
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David Welter ’76
David Welter ’76 says Cornell prepared him well for a career in education. In 2012 he was named Iowa Middle Level Principal of the Year by the School Administrators of Iowa.
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Jane Bishop Varda ’69
Jane Bishop Varda ’69 figured on one medical career in the family when she married Darryl Varda ’68, who went on to a medical degree from the University of Iowa and became a highly-regarded neurologist.
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Class News
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In Brief
Gathering of the Rams Doug Hanson Retrospective Three alumni win Fulbrights Three Cornellians—two members of the Class of 2012 and one from the Class of 2009—recently earned Fulbright grants from the U.S. State Department. Chris Stadler ’12 and Will Dinneen ’12 teach English in Germany and Turkey, respectively. Lucio Tolentino ’09 is in South Africa, […]
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Rams rejoin Midwest Conference
After leaving the MWC following the 1996–97 season, the Rams are officially back in the conference they helped form in 1921.
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The sound of progress
The campus is reverberating with the sound of heavy machinery and workers making progress on two major renovation projects—the Thomas Commons and the Garner President’s House.
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Blooming knowledge
The college and community garden, now in its third year, is a spot of color among trees and well-trimmed grass, a world away from the nearby soccer fields.
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Lightning silences College Hall bell
A fire caused by a lightning strike destroyed the cupola and bell on College Hall on Sept. 7.
Letters Fall 2012 
Professor for a block 
Alumna is violence prevention leader 
Alumna focused on clean energy 
Stacy Panfil-Parsley ’93 
Clay Davis ’82 
David Welter ’76 
Jane Bishop Varda ’69 
In Brief 
Rams rejoin Midwest Conference 
The sound of progress 
Blooming knowledge 
Lightning silences College Hall bell