Introducing New Members of the Faculty

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

R. Richard Geddes

Assistant professor, policy analysis and management
College: Human Ecology
Academic focus: The economics of postal services, the economics of women's rights, electricity deregulation, regulation and corporate governance.
Previous position: Research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2001-02; National fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1999-2000; associate professor, economics, Fordham University, 1998-2002.
Academic background: B.S., economics and finance, Towson University, 1984; and M.A. and Ph.D., economics, University of Chicago, 1988 and 1991, respectively.

Steve Marschner

Assistant professor, computer science
College: Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Engineering
Academic focus: Modeling the appearance of materials, including translucent materials in which light is scattered beneath the surface. Most recently worked on the digital Michaelangelo Project, digitizing the classical sculptor's statues.
Previous position: Stanford University Computer Graphics Laboratory research associate, 2000-02.
Academic background: Sc.B., mathematics-computer science, Brown University, 1993; Ph.D., computer science, Cornell, 1998; Program of Computer Graphics, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, Calif., research intern, 1998-99; and Microsoft Research, Redmond, Wash., postdoctoral researcher, 1999-2000.

Joseph E. Peters

Assistant professor, microbiology
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Use of genome arrays as a tool to determine gene function; dissecting processes and protein/DNA interactions relevant to chromosome integrity.
Previous position: Postdoctoral research fellow, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1996-97 and 1999-2002.
Academic background: B.S., biology and marine environmental science, State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1991; and Ph.D., microbiology, University of Maryland-College Park, 1996.

Rebecca Stoltzfus

Associate professor, nutritional sciences
College: Human Ecology
Academic focus: Maternal and child nutrition, especially micronutrient deficiencies. Most of her research is carried out in Asia and Africa, where resources to meet health and nutrition needs are acutely limited. Her multidisciplinary research looks at the relative importance of dietary and parasitic causes of anemia in women and children in different environmental settings; the consequences of zinc and iron deficiencies for child development; the consequences of pregnancy anemia for mothers and infants; how to improve vitamin A status of lactating women; and how to best measure the impact of interventions on the health and nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and their infants.
Previous position: Associate professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1998-2002; assistant professor, Center for Human Nutrition at Johns Hopkins, 1992-98.
Academic background: B.A., chemistry, Goshen College, 1983; M.A., nutritional sciences, Cornell, 1988; and Ph.D., nutritional sciences, Cornell, 1992.

Steven A. Wolf

Assistant professor, natural resources
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: His expertise is in environmental policy, agricultural development, and innovation and technological change. He is teaching Environmental Governance (institutional analysis of environmental problems and conservation strategies), and he will develop a new course focused on market-based environmental management strategies.
Previous position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy, University of California-Berkeley.
Academic background: B.A., English, with a chemistry concentration, University of Vermont, 1986; M.A., urban and environmental planning, University of Virginia, 1991; and Ph.D., land resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Environmental Studies, 1996.

October 17, 2002