January 2015 - Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti

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CORNELL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS EMERITI
229 Day Hall
Cornell University
January 2015 Edition
2015 Executive Council
2015 Executive Council
Officers
The following individuals were elected for the 2015 CAPE
Executive Council. Election took place at the Membership
Meeting on Tuesday, December 9th at the BTI Auditorium.
President, Charlie Walcott
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Vice President, Ann Lemley
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Secretary, Brian Chabot
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Treasurer, Pete Loucks
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Past President, Frederick Gouldin
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Members
Ann Lemley
Frank Moon
Alan Lakso
Brian Chabot
Frank Robinson
David Gries
Elizabeth Earle
Ken Brown
Pete Loucks
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New Executive Council Members
David Gries, Computer Science
Elizabeth (Lisa) Earle, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Ken Brown, Mathematics
Outgoing Executive Council Members
David Robertshaw, Carolyn Eberhard and Howie Howland
A special thanks to the Executive Council members for the
commitment and energy.
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We’d Like to Hear From You!
Please let us know if you have a great idea or if there is
something you’d like to know or see in the newsletter, etc.
Send your comments and ideas to: Cindy Robinson, CAPE
Office, [email protected] or call us: 255-6608
Contact Us
Cindy Robinson, CAPE Office
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Office Hours: 8:30-4:00 (T/W/Th)
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 607-255-6608
http://www.emeritus.cornell.edu
Preserving Cornell History: Faculty Papers in the University Archives
Cornell University Library seeks your help to ensure the long-term survival of the work of generations of Cornell faculty.
The University Archives serve as Cornell’s institutional memory, identifying, describing, and preserving records of
enduring value that chronicle and promote knowledge of Cornell’s origins, growth, and ideals. The work of Cornell faculty
forms an important part of Cornell history. Curriculum materials, research files, correspondence, and administrative
records document not only the progress of the university, but the advancement of science, literature, art—in short, of
human knowledge in all fields.
Historical Collections: A vital part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in Carl A. Kroch Library, the Cornell
University Archives collects and preserves records of historical, legal, fiscal, and administrative value to Cornell University.
Faculty Collections: Cornell’s archival collections reflect the whole range of academic life in the university. Their historical
strengths lie in subjects including agriculture and the biological sciences; architecture and planning; human ecology; the
humanities, including Classics, history, English, and theater arts; the physical sciences; and the social sciences.
Donating a Personal Collection: Because the Archives cannot personally contact all members of the faculty, we rely on
you to help us identify potential collections. We can help you determine what kinds of material are suitable for donation to
the Archives.
For more information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/faculty_papers_brochure_final.pdf
The 2015 CAPE Spring Lecture Series
BTI Auditorium
10:30am-11:30am - come any time after 10am for refreshments
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February 4 Brian Wansink, Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, BTI Auditorium
The way our homes, schools, restaurants, workplaces, and grocery stores are set up
predictably lead us to pick up cookies rather than apples. But just as they’ve evolved
to make us overeat, we can easily redesign them to make us slim. For every place we
purchase or prepare food – homes and schools, restaurants and grocery stores – there
are slim by design solutions.
This presentation is about solutions—actionable ideas that my Lab has developed, tested,
tweaked, and analyzed in dozens of towns and cities across the United States and abroad.
Most are low-cost or no-cost solutions that any one of us can use in our food radius to help
our kids eat better, control our eating at restaurants, to shop like a slim person, and to eat less at home without thinking about
it. In other words, how to help yourself – and the people and places in your food radius – to become slim by design.
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March 19 Judith Appleton, Engaged Cornell, BTI Auditorium
Imagine Cornell University in 2025: Every department in its colleges and professional schools is offering community-engaged
learning courses. Faculty, students, and alumni are collaborating with an increasing number of local and international
community partners to expand their own learning and to help solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. The
recognized leader in public engagement in higher education – imagine Engaged Cornell.
April, Albert Podell, (TBA) Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
Albert Podell, (Benefactor, Podell Emeriti Awards for Research and Scholarship and Class of ’57) will
present and discuss his latest book. This is the inspiring story of an adventurous traveler who set the
record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, as he blasted his way out of
minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, coming within seconds of being lynched in
Pakistan, and losing three of the five men who started with him - two to disease, one to the Vietcong.
Although it took him 47 more years -- the author set another record by going to every country on earth.
It’s a remarkable and meaningful tale of quiet courage, dogged persistence, undying determination,
and the author’s uncanny ability to extricate himself from one perilous situation after another – and
return with some of the most memorable, frightening, and hilarious adventures you have ever read.
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May 21 Christopher P. Dunn, PhD, The E.N. Wilds Executive Director, Plantations
Spring tour of the Plantations. Details TBA.
A Sesquicentennial Exhibition!
150 Ways to Say Cornell
October 17, 2014 - September 30, 2015
Hirshland Exhibition Gallery
Carl A. Kroch Library
On April 27, 1865, New York State Governor Reuben E. Fenton, in his chambers in the old State Capitol in Albany, signed the bill
that constitutes the charter of Cornell University. The ideals of the founders, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, reflected in
this Charter, were remarkable in their day and constituted a truly radical educational experiment for the 1860s. This exhibit, part
of Cornell's celebration of the Sesquicentennial, will provide a lively tour through Cornell's inspiring history through original
documents, photographs, and artifacts. View the online exhibition.
2015 Podell Scholarship Award Program
Six awards were funded for the 2015 Podell Scholarship Program. Here is a glimpse at the projects for 2015.
Anthony Ingraffea, Civil and Environmental Engineering, “Fracking is Not the Issue” - support for the public
education on issues of fracking techniques in the development of shale gas and oil.
Randolph Barker, Applied Economics and Management, and Gilbert Levine, Biological and Environmental Engineering.
Redevelopment of a computer-based simulation of farm-level rice production RICEGROW is an interactive simulation program
designed to teach the users the nature of the risks faced by small-scale rice farmers in Asia.
Bonnie McDougall, Architecture Art and Planning, “Heritage Landscape and Architectural Interpretation with Special
Reference to the Knuckles Conservation Forest”, creation of a digital archive to preserve important drawings from a Sri Lankan
Community Project
M.C. Kelly, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Verifying that GPS -based Total Electron Content Measurements can be used
to Predict Earthquakes”, work will examine whether retrospectively an early warning of an earthquake could have been
provided by analysis of atmospheric data.
Richard Durst, Food Science – As a result of his project entitled “Biosensor Studies for Resource-Limited Countries”, Professor
Durst is organizing a conference on Emerging Diagnostic Technologies for Resource-Limited Countries, at the behest of CHEMical
Research Applied to World Needs Committee of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
David Henderson, Mathematics will join the core curriculum development team of the Algebra Project, working with
underserved students to “raise the floor” so that all students learn the mathematics they need to enter college by developing
special experiential-based high school curricular materials, leading the efforts on the geometry aspects of the curriculum
materials.
“About Our Colleagues” is a featured selection. We are interested in what members are doing. Feel free to send along any
news, updates, comments, etc. that you would like to share with your colleagues. Please limit your update to a small
paragraph or two and send it to the CAPE office or via email: [email protected].
Cornell Wellness Program: Classes for Healthy Aging
The Wellness Program offers opportunities for physical activity that are appropriate for every size, shape, age, and ability. These
Classes For Healthy Aging are great for individuals who have gone through joint replacement, suffer from arthritis, experience
lingering joint pain from injury, want to improve their balance and more.
Classes embody our vision of inclusion, offering participants individualized attention to be successful, and promote an
environment of camaraderie and personal success. Any current Wellness member may participate. In addition to a Wellness
membership, online registration is requested for all of the classes listed below. Classes For Healthy Aging have start and end
dates; but you can join at any time. If you plan on joining after the class has started, please contact Jennifer Bennett, the Healthy
Aging Program coordinator, and she'll get you registered (email: [email protected] or (607) 255-3886).
Printable Spring Schedule (Jan 5 - May 22)
For More Information or to Register for Classes For Healthy Aging, contact the Wellness Program (305 Helen Newman Hall,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: (607) 255-5133, [email protected]) or follow the link.
Are you a Cornell retiree wanting to know your retiree parking options? Contact the Cornell Commuter & Parking Services Office:
116 Maple Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850, P: 607-255-4600 or via email: http://transportation.fs.cornell.edu/parking/contact.cfm
Read "The Older-Adult Population: Finding the Balance Between Fitness & Fun" By Jennifer Bennett, MS, Featured in AKWA
Magazine for Water Fitness Professionals – April/May 2014 edition
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