Advisory Committee

We express our gratitude to the following individuals who served as appointed advisory board or steering committee members, key partners, and staff for Graduate School future faculty preparation efforts and earlier “CIRTL at Cornell” efforts.

Shorna Allred, Associate Professor of Natural Resources, Center for Conservation Social Sciences

Avery August, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

Laura Harrington, Professor of Entomology and Program Director of Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases

Susan Henry, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dean Emerita of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (former Advisory Board co-chair and co-PI for NSF CIRTL grants to Cornell, 2012-2016)

Sara Xayarath Hernández, Associate Dean for Inclusion and Student and Faculty Engagement, Cornell Graduate School

Christine Holmes, Director of Postdoctoral Studies

Katya Hrichak, Communications Specialist, Cornell Graduate School

Barbara Knuth, Professor of Natural Resource Policy and Principal Investigator for NSF grants in support of Cornell participation in the CIRTL Network and the CIRTL Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) initiatives (2012-2020), Dean Emerita of the Graduate School

Azucena Ortega, Program Assistant, Latino Studies Program, Cornell University (Past Program Assistant, Cornell Graduate School)

Mark Roberson, Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Chris Schaffer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Lisa Schneider-Bentley, Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives

Jed Sparks, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (former Advisory Board co-chair and co-PI for NSF CIRTL grants to Cornell, 2012-2016)

Susi Varvayanis, Executive Director, Careers Beyond Academia, Cornell Graduate School

Nancy Wells, Professor of Design and Environmental Analysis

Mariana Wolfner, Goldwin Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

Alan Zehnder, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Colleagues Now Elsewhere

These individuals served as advisory committee members or staff during their appointments at Cornell.

Anat Barnea, Past Professional Development Program Assistant (Spring 2020)

Eric Baumer, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University (Postdoctoral Alumnus)

Tilman Baumstark, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Research Associate Professor for Microbiology and Immunology, University of Buffalo

Robin Bjorkquist, Assistant Teaching Professor, Seattle University (Ph.D. ’19)

Francis DiSalvo (1944-2023), John A. Newman Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Allison Kitchner-Meyer, Past Communications and Outreach Assistant, Cornell Graduate School

Sally Kral, Past Communications and Outreach Assistant, Cornell Graduate School

Lincoln Larson, Associate Professor of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University (Postdoctoral Alumnus)

Jessica Metzler, Arts Editor for House Mountain Review (Past Teaching Support Specialist, Center for Teaching Excellence)

Travis Park, Professor, Agriculture and Extension Education, North Carolina State University (Past Cornell Faculty)

Theresa Pettit, Cornell Retiree (Past Director, Center for Teaching Excellence)

Katrina Porter, Biology Instructor, Penn State University (Postdoctoral Alumna)

Lauren Schnabel, Associate Professor, Equine Orthopedic Surgery, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine (Ph.D. ‘2013)

Brian J. Smith, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Bucknell University (Postdoctoral Alumnus)

Laurel Southard, Cornell Retiree (Past Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Research)

Maria Terrell, Cornell Retiree (Past Director of Teaching Assistant Programs, and Senior Lecturer of Mathematics)

Linda Tompkins, Cornell Retiree (Past Associate Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives)

Allison Tracy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (Ph.D. ’19)

Kimberly Williams, Academic Coach and Educational Consultant (Past Teaching as Research Mentor and Teagle Grant Coordinator, Cornell Graduate School and Center for Teaching Excellence)

Catharine Young, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (Postdoctoral Alumnus)

Kelly Zamudio, Cornell Retiree (Goldwin Smith Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Madeline Zehnder, Postdoc at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Past Communications and Outreach Assistant, Cornell Graduate School)