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Dr. Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University. He is based in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, where he teaches courses on animal behavior and does research on the behavior and social life of honey bees. His work is summarized in three books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1995)...

I came to Cornell in 2003 as a visitor to the Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and was hired in BSCB the following year. From 1987 to 2003 I was a faculty member in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. My research has covered a range of statistical topics including the bootstrap and Monte Carlo...

Dr. Jason Mezey is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (Cornell University) and a statistical geneticist working in the area of quantitative genetics (i.e. the genetics of complex phenotypes). Dr. Mezey has spent the last decade developing cutting edge statistical and computational analysis...

Jacqueline Gerson studies how anthropogenic activities have altered the cycling of nutrients and contaminants through watersheds. As an Assistant Professor in BEE, she focuses on the fate, transport, and transformation of these elements and compounds within and between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. She is particularly interested in linked...

Esther Angert earned a B.S. in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her graduate training was in the laboratory of Dr. Norman Pace at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, where she earned her Ph.D. She was Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Richard Losick at Harvard University before joining the Cornell University faculty...

Professor Lawless specializes in sensory evaluatiion of food and supervises the Food Science Department sensory testing facility. He teaches courses on sensory evaluation and flavor perception. His current research focus concerns taste and smell perception and methods for measuring food perception and acceptability. Research Focus My current...

I joined the Geneva Entomology department at Cornell in 1985 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1992, and full professor in 1999. I received a B.S. in wildlife ecology from the University of Maine in 1977, earned two master`s degrees from Michigan State University (entomology, 1979 and systems engineering, 1982). I...

Insect’s well-adapted interactions with abiotic and biotic surroundings offer inspiration for innovative engineering designs and concepts. One of the primary abiotic components in nature is fluids. In air, water, or in between, insect’s small sizes contend with multiple fluid forces. Through morphological and behavioral adaptations, insects have...

Kathy Barrett is a Senior Extension Associate with PRO-DAIRY. She draws on years of experience working directly with farmers through Cornell Cooperative Extension and a farmer-led board of directors. Her program focus is statewide dairy management programs, including providing leadership for dairy management education and coordinating statewide...

Charles Walcott is Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. Dr. Walcott received his AB from Harvard and his PhD from Cornell. He served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts and The State University of New York at Stony Brook before coming to Cornell as Director of the Laboratory of Ornithology in 1981. He retired as the Louis...