Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty, the Cornell Chronicle will be publishing a series of brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Scott Gibson

Associate professor, finance
College: School of Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Current research includes the use of derivative securities (e.g., put warrants) to reduce corporate funding costs, and the trading behavior of institutional investors.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 1996-2001; corporate banking officer, Marine Midland bank, Buffalo, N.Y., 1988-91; mutual fund financial analyst, Fidelity Investments, Boston, 1987-88.
Academic background: B.S., finance, Boston College, 1987; MBA, management, Michigan State University, 1985; Ph.D., finance, Boston College, 1996.

Laura Harrington

Assistant professor, entomology
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Harrington studies the ecology, epidemiology and the management of human and animal diseases transmitted by insects. As a medical entomologist, she has studied the mosquitoes' important disease vectors to feed on humans, blood feeding preferences and mortality patterns. She will be teaching an entomology course in fall 2002 and will teach Medical and Veterinary Entomology in the Fall 2003.
Previous position: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Entomology, University of California-Davis, 1999-2000.
Academic background: B.S., biology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y., 1990; M.S., medical entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1993; Ph.D., medical entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999.

Yong Lak Joo

Assistant professor, chemical engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Polymer fluid mechanics, rheology, applications to polymer processing, applied mathematics and numerical analysis.
Previous position: Postdoctoral research associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999-2001.
Academic background: B.S., chemical engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 1989; M.A., chemical engineering, Stanford University, 1990; Ph.D., chemical engineering, Stanford, 1993.

Beth Milles

Assistant professor, theatre, film and dance
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Directing, acting, playwriting and adaptation of classical texts.
Previous position: Freelance theatre director, Broadway and regional; professor, University of Redlands, 1998-2000.
Academic background: B.A., history, Cornell, 1988; M.A., theatre arts, Harvard University, 1992.

October 18, 2001