College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University Faculty 1958 – 1980
William T. Keeton was a beloved professor, known for his enthusiasm for research and passionate teaching style.
Because of its popularity on campus, his introductory Biology class became known simply as “the Keeton course.” His lectures for this course were often standing-room only, with students flowing into the hallway to hear his spellbinding presentations.
Lorenzo is a Professor of Computer Science. His research investigates the theory and practice of distributed computing, the discipline behind everything “cloud”.
Sam Buggeln is a Canadian theater director and translator, and the founding Artistic Director of the Cherry Arts.
Sarah is the Director of our Campus Sustainability Office with a vision for Cornell as a carbon-neutral living laboratory for sustainability innovation.
Steve Ceci received his doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Exeter, England, where he studied children’s recollections—a topic that would later be expanded to include children’s eyewitness testimony in criminal cases.
Irene Eibenstein-Alvisi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies where she teaches writing. Her expertise is in Medieval and Renaissance Italian
literature with an emphasis on women writers and gender issues.
Dr. Greeshma Gadikota is an Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a field appointment in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University.
Emily is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Nutritional Sciences where she also directs the Dietetic Internship.
Dr. Jada Hamilton, MD, a Buffalo native and enthusiastic Bills fan, serves as Cornell Health Interim Medical Director.
Natasha studies teaching and learning in college physics courses, particularly instructional labs.
Benjamin Z. Houlton is the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a Cornell University professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as Global Development.
Steve is an Associate Professor of Information Science and Science and Technology Studies, former Chair of the Cornell Information Science Department, and former House Professor-Dean at Keeton House.
Gilly Leshed is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science, where she also directs the professional masters degree program (MPS).
Ofer Leshed is the Associate Dean for Administration and Finance at Cornell Law School.
Dr. Karl Lewis joined the Meinig School as an assistant professor in July 2020. Dr. Lewis’s research interests center on understanding the interplay of mechanical cues and biological changes in musculoskeletal tissues.
Felix Litvinsky is a Managing Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Cornell University, an experiential university wide entrepreneurship program offering coaching, ideation and venture creation support to students, alumni, staff and faculty.
Henriette Lundgren is an international scholar-practitioner in the field of human resource development (HRD). As talent manager at Corning Inc., Henriette helps people to learn, expand and work together with better results and more fun.
Beth is a Clinical Professor of Law and founder of Cornell’s Farmworker’s Legal Assistance Clinic.
Vida is a professor in the Sociology Department and studies social inequality and how it comes about.
Alan Martinez is Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability where he focuses on building and managing partnerships that connect the expertise and research capacity at Cornell with sustainability partne
Jessica Levin Martinez is the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She is a leading advocate for museum-based interdisciplinary teaching with global collections.
Doug McKee is a senior lecturer in Economics where he teaches a variety of big intermediate level courses and runs the department’s Active Learning Initiative
Mostafa Minawi is an Associate Professor of history. Broadly, his research focuses on the study of Ottoman imperialism at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
As Dean of Students at Cornell Law School, Markeisha J. Miner guides all aspects of the student experience from Orientation to Convocation, in addition to supervising the Academic Support, Career Development and Registrar’s Offices.
Bob Sternberg is a professor of human development in the School of Human Ecology at Cornell. He spent 30 years as a professor of psychology and education at Yale.
Wendy M. Williams is a Psychology Professor, studying real-world intelligence (and how to increase it), the culture of academic institutions (and how they are changing), and women’s and girls’ experiences and career trajectories in science.
Malte Ziewitz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Science & Technology Studies.
