Introducing new members of the faculty

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.

Arthur T. DeGaetano

Associate professor, earth and atmospheric sciences
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: DeGaetano is director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center, located on campus. His research has focused on climate effects in the Northeast, such as understanding East Coast winter storms, soil freezing depths and evaluating snow loads (the impact of snow's weight) on houses and buildings. He will teach physical meteorology and atmospheric thermodynamics on alternating fall semesters, and he will teach climate and global warming each spring.
Previous position: Senior research associate, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell, 1995-2001.
Academic background: B.S., meteorology, 1984; M.S., meteorology, 1986; and Ph.D., meteorology and horticulture, 1989, all at Rutgers University.

Delia Graff

Associate professor, philosophy
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Philosophy of language, philosophical logic and metaphysics.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Princeton University, 1997-2000; instructor, Central European School in Generative Grammar, Bulgaria, 2000; teaching assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994-97.
Academic background: B.A. with a joint concentration in philosophy and government, Harvard College, 1991; Ph.D. in philosophy, with a minor in linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.

Kichool Park

Assistant professor, economics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Microeconomic theory, game theory, information and uncertainty, mathematical/quantitative methods and industrial organization.
Previous position: Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA).
Academic background: B.A., law (minor in economics) Seoul National University, Korea, 1992; M.A., economics, UCLA, 1999; C. Phil., economics, UCLA, 1999; Ph.D. economics, UCLA, June 2001.

Deborah Starr

Assistant professor, Near Eastern studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Modern Arabic and Hebrew literature.
Previous position: Assistant professor of comparative literature and Jewish studies, Pennsylvania State University.
Academic background: B.A., international relations, University of Pennsylvania, 1990; M.A., comparative literature, University of Michigan, 1994; Ph.D., comparative literature, University of Michigan, 2000.

September 20, 2001