Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Provost, Cornell University
Provost Biddy Martin is the chief educational officer and chief operating officer of the university. She is responsible for overseeing all academic programs, with the exception of those programs reporting to the provost for medical affairs in New York City, and serves as the president's first deputy officer.
Martin completed her PhD in German literature in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and has been on the faculty at Cornell since 1984. In 1991, she was promoted to associate professor in the Department of German Studies, with a joint appointment in the Women's Studies Program. She served as chair of the Department of German Studies from 1994 to 1997, and in 1997 was promoted to full professor in the department. She also served as associate director of the Women's Studies Program in 1993–94. In 1996, Martin was appointed senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Martin was appointed provost of Cornell University effective July 1, 2000.
Martin has served on several committees of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and the Women's Studies Program, and in the field of lesbian, bisexual, and gay studies. Her publications include Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salome (Cornell University Press, 1991), and Femininity Played Straight (Routledge Press, 1996).
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Daniel Huttenlocher
Daniel Huttenlocher is the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computer Science and Business. With joint appointments in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and the Johnson School, Huttenlocher bridges science, business, and engineering in his teaching and research. Outside of Cornell he has been the chief technology officer of Intelligent Markets, a firm that provides trading technological tools to dealers and exchanges serving institutional financial markets, and a member of the senior management team at Xerox PARC, a world-renowned technology research lab. Huttenlocher's research interests include computer recognition of visual information, studies of online social networks, the role of technology in transforming financial markets, and management of high-performance software development teams. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, holds 24 U.S. patents, and has published extensively in computer vision and artificial intelligence. He has also received a number of distinguished teaching awards and, in 1996, was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in recognition of teaching excellence.
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Peter J. Katzenstein
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 30 books and over 100 scholarly articles addressing a broad range of economic, security, and cultural issues in world politics. His most recent work has focused on anti-Americanism, religion, and America as a civilizational imperium. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes, Katzenstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988 and is currently the president-elect of the American Political Science Association. Since joining the Cornell Department of Government in 1973 Katzenstein has chaired or been a member of more than 100 dissertation committees. He received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993, and, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching, was appointed a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in 2004.
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Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall, professor of history, specializes in American foreign relations and political history, with particular interest in the Cold War. Recently, Logevall has focused some of this specialization on examining the ways in which the Vietnam conflict may help contextualize the United States' current involvement in Iraq. He has published extensively on both Vietnam and the history of American foreign policy, and his writing has won several prestigious scholarly awards. Logevall is currently at work on two books: The Road to Vietnam (Random House) and America's Cold War (Harvard). His co-edited volume Nixon in the World will be published in March by Oxford University Press.
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Susan McCouch
Susan McCouch, professor of plant breeding and genetics, has pioneered methods of improving the yield, nutritional value, and disease resistance of rice crops. In 1988 she and her colleagues published the first molecular map of the rice genome. Collaborating with scientists and plant breeders in the United states, Asia, Africa, and South America, McCouch uses genetic techniques to enhance this important staple crop's ability to improve global nutrition and alleviate hunger. Her research also benefits other grass crops, such as wheat and corn. She has trained scores of young scientists throughout the world and was recently elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was also honored with the Golden Sickle Award by the princess of Thailand and has received numerous teaching and faculty awards.
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Ralph L. Nachman
Ralph L. Nachman, associate dean of clinical research at Weill Cornell Medical College, is a physician, scientist, administrator, and educator. He previously served as chair of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell and physician-in-chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Nachman has spearheaded multiple endeavors in biomedical research, clinical programs, educational curricula, residency training, fundraising, and quality assurance. His groundbreaking discoveries in vascular biology, and the establishment of the Specialized Center of Research in Thrombosis (National Institutes of Health) at New York–Cornell, led to his performing the first culture of human endothelial cells. This achievement initiated a modern explosion of knowledge in vascular biology. He has published numerous articles in the field of hematology and has lectured around the world. His honors include the Stratton Award from the American Society of Hematology and the Robert H. Williams, MD, Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine. In 2007, Weill Cornell Medical College appointed him as the Lewis Thomas University Professor. For ten years he was co-director of the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering MD-PhD Program. Dr. Nachman has been, and continues to be, a superb and tireless teacher for students, residents, and fellows.
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Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara, the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Management and professor of finance in the Johnson School, focuses on issues of market microstructure. Her most recent work has focused on the role of underwriters in the aftermarket trading of IPOs, the impact of transparency on trading system performance, listing and delisting issues in securities markets, designing markets for developing markets, and the role of liquidity and information risk in asset pricing. In addition, O'Hara publishes widely on banking and financial intermediaries, law and finance, and experimental economics. She was executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies; is chair of the board of directors of Investment Technology Group, Inc., an agency brokerage firm; and is on the board of NewStar Financial, a commercial finance company. She has served as chair of the board of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rochester and has consulted for a number of companies and organizations, including Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, the New York Stock Exchange, and Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
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Eswar Prasad
Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. He was previously chief of the financial studies division in the International Monetary Fund's research department and, before that, was head of the IMF's China division. His research has spanned a number of areas including labor economics, business cycles, and open economy macroeconomics. He has co-authored or edited several books and monographs on financial globalization, China, and India. His current research interests include the macroeconomics of globalization, the relationship between growth and volatility, and the Chinese and Indian economies. He has contributed op-ed articles to the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal Asia, and various other newspapers. He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services (both on China), and his research has been cited in the U.S. Congressional Record.
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