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.

Derek Chang

Assistant professor, history and Asian American studies
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Race and ethnicity in the United States, especially examining Asian-American and African-American experiences. Other interests include American religious history and the post-Civil War United States.
Previous position: Doctoral student, Duke University, 2001-02.
Academic background: B.A., history, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1991; Ph.D., history, Duke University, 2002.

Margaret Wilde Frey

Assistant professor, textiles and apparel
College: Human Ecology
Academic focus: High value fibers from renewable resources and recycled polymers. By setting up a state-of-the-art wet spinning line on campus, she will begin spinning high modulus cellulose fibers and nanofibers using post industrial scrap cellulose as a raw material.
Previous position: Manager of material development, Champlain Cable Corp., 1998-2002; Materials specialist, Johnson Filaments, 1995-97; Graduate research assistant, College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, 1990-95; Textile consultant, Bard Vascular Systems, 1992.
Academic background: B.S., chemical engineering, 1985, and M.S., textile science, 1989; both from Cornell; Ph.D., fiber and polymer science, North Carolina State University, 1995.

Martine R. Haas

Assistant professor, organizational behavior
College: School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Academic focus: Organizational behavior, organizational theory, groups and teams, knowledge management, international management, nonprofit and public sector management, professional service management, research design and methods.
Previous positions: Management consultant, McKinsey & Co.; strategy consultant, Oxfam UK/I; doctoral student and teaching fellow, Harvard University.
Academic background: B.A., human sciences, Oxford University, 1991; M.A., international relations, Yale University, 1993; M.A., sociology, 1999, and Ph.D. organizational behavior, 2002, both from Harvard.

David L. Hysell

Associate professor, earth and atmospheric sciences
College: Engineering
Academic focus: He is seeking to understand the composition and dynamics of Earth's ionosphere, which includes examining the physics of plasma irregularities in the ionosphere and developing new techniques for processing radar data.
Previous position: Associate professor, physics, Clemson University.
Academic background: B.S., electrical engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1987; and Ph.D., electrical engineering, Cornell, 1992.

Radu Rugina

Assistant professor, computer science
College: Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Engineering
Academic focus: Pointer analysis, parallelizing compilers and parallel computing.
Previous position: Visiting scholar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science, 1997-2001.
Academic background: B.S., 1995, and M.S., 1996, both from University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania; Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara, 2001.

October 3, 2002