Introducing New Faculty Members

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles through December.

Goldstein

Messick

Michael Goldstein

Assistant professor, psychology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Developmental psychology and psychobiology, specifically early social learning, with a focus on the development of communication; prelinguistic vocal development; early word learning; psychobiology of parental behavior; comparative approaches to the development and evolution of communication.
Previous position: Assistant professor, Psychology and Biological Foundations of Behavior Program, Franklin and Marshall College, 2001-04.
Academic background: B.A., psychology and philosophy, University of Colorado-Denver, 1993; Ph.D., psychology and animal behavior, Indiana University, 2001.
Last book read: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen.

Joanne B. Messick

Associate professor, population medicine and diagnostic sciences
College: Veterinary Medicine
Academic focus: Clinical pathology; study of a unique group of mycoplasmas that parasitize red blood cells; genomic sequencing, annotation of hemoplasmas that infect cats and pigs; developing PCR and serologic tests; defining prevalence of hemoplasmas in kennel-raised dogs and panthers in Florida.
Previous position: Associate professor of pathology, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.
Academic background: B.S., Salisbury State College; V.M.D, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. and residency in clinical pathology, Ohio State University; Diplomate, American College of Veterinary pathologists.
Last books read: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken; Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand.

November 4, 2004