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Cornell’s quarterly magazineWinter 2009Structuresof lifeAdvanced buildingsfoster research,collaboration anddiscovery3 - Responding to Economic Crisis 18 - Schwartz Center's 20th 26 - Remembering Ned Harkness
From the PublisherAlthough this is the second issue of Ezra, Cornell’s quarterlymagazine, it is the first full-size issue, with 32 pages, four morethan our fall inaugural issue. We are debuting several new standingfeatures: In addition to our cover story package, you will find twonew sections, Arts & Humanities and Research Spotlight, which willappear in each future issue.An update on Ezra’s fall issue cover story, which took an in-depthlook at Cornell’s new financial aid initiative: As our story onPage 3 details, that package has now been enhanced even further.Increasing our investment in need-based student financial aid isespecially important in today’s economic climate, but it is even more crucial for us to makeCornell affordable for as many students as possible.This issue’s cover story is about an investment of a different kind: the newly opened WeillHall, a complex research facility that brings life scientists together from across campusand uses proximity, collaboration and lots of open space to position Cornell at theforefront of life sciences research. Facilities like Weill Hall are important not just becausethey encourage cutting-edge science, but also because they help attract promising youngscientists and researchers – as well as giving established scientists room to grow.The stories that appear in Ezra come from quite a few of Cornell’s talented writers. Inparticular, I want to thank our student writers, such as Jennifer Wholey ’10, whose talentsare indispensible to the success of this fledgling publication.Thomas W. BruceVice President, University CommunicationsEZRACornell’s quarterly magazineVol. I, Issue 2Winter 2009Publisher: Thomas W. BruceManaging Editor: Joe WilenskySenior Editors: David Brand, Susan S. LangContributing Editor: Bryce T. HoffmanCopy Editors: Susan Baldwin, Karen WaltersContributors: Daniel Aloi, JenniferCampbell, Lauren Gold, Jeremy Hartigan,Bryce T. Hoffman, George Lowery, KrishnaRamanujan, Bill Steele, Diane Wallace,Jennifer Wholey ’10Designer: Lorraine HeasleyCirculation Manager: Paulette ChrzaszczProduced by the Cornell Chronicle and theOffice of Publications and MarketingAll photography by Cornell UniversityPhotography unless otherwise indicated.Cornell University is an equal opportunity,affirmative action educator and employer.For subscription information, e-mail ezramagazine@cornell.edu 12/08 50M CP 090119On the cover: Photo illustration byRobert Barker and Matthew Fondeur/University Photographyhttp://ezramagazine.cornell.edu
contents2Cornell’s quarterly magazineUPDATESUniversity responds to current financial situation, anotherboost for financial aid, Kent Fuchs named provost, Frank H.T.Rhodes on KAUST board.416Cover Story‘Intellectual crucible’ open for businessBy Krishna RamanujanWeill Hall opened officially in October, a modern,collaborative facility well positioned to be at the center of anera of research breakthroughs.68Campus-to-campus collaboration is essentialBy Lauren Gold18Leading donors made building a realityBy Bryce T. Hoffman10New incubator will bring technology to lifeBy Jennifer Campbell12VIEWPOINTIt began as an ‘intellectual exercise’By Rick Cerione14CENTERSPREAD26Lifting the lid on Weill HallIllustration by Jim HoughtonArchitect Richard Meier on how his designs bringpeople together20Stories by Bryce T. Hoffman and Bill SteeleBy Daniel Aloi1817Building receives LEED gold awardCAMPUS LIFERESEARCH SPOTLIGHTCell phone games and modeling sustainability1622ARTS AND HUMANITIES‘Power of the page’By Daniel AloiThe Schwartz Center turns 2023 OUTREACHVet students cross the globeBy Daniel AloiBy Jennifer Wholey ’1024WORTH SUPPORTINGGifts support recruitment and opportunity26 BIG RED ATHLETICSTeaching life lessons to hundreds ofCornelliansBy Jeremy Hartigan28CAMPAIGN UPDATECornell's students: A safe, smart investment2029END NOTEArchitects’ design team: eight years oflistening and learningBy Renny Logan
UpdatesEngineering Dean Kent Fuchs named CU’s 15th provostW. Kent Fuchs, the Joseph SilbertDean of Engineering at Cornell since2002, will be the university’s nextprovost. Fuchs (pronounced “Fox”)will assume the office Jan. 1, 2009.President David Skorton made theannouncement in his State of theUniversity address at the annualmeeting of the Cornell Board ofTrustees and Cornell UniversityCouncil in October. “Kent brings tothis post great knowledge of Cornell,strong leadership abilities and aclear vision of the future,” he said.Fuchs said that among his toppriorities will be to bolster individualacademic departments and toencourage optimism acrosscampus.“I will have a slightly different focusthan we’ve had as an institutionexplicitly in the past 10 years,”W. Kent Fuchssaid Fuchs. “The department andschool are the academic home forfaculty and students, and it’s whereteaching occurs and scholarshipis conducted. My personal goalis to understand the aspirationsof the faculty and students inthose departments, to encouragedepartments and schools to developplans – explicit aspirations – andmake sure that the provost’s office issupporting them,” he said.Cornell history – before acceptingthe chancellorship of the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison in May.While the new provost’s long-termfocus will include leading efforts toimplement Cornell’s strategic plan,among the issues that will take hisimmediate attention will be carefulunderstanding and management ofthe budget in the midst of economicuncertainty. In this, he said, it isimportant to include Weill CornellMedical College and the rest ofCornell’s New York City campusin leading and planning on budgetissues as one institution.“I am delighted that Kent Fuchs hasaccepted the challenge of beingCornell’s next provost,” Skortonsaid. “He is a strong and respectedadministrator who has led theEngineering College with foresight,vitality and innovation – attributes hewill bring to his new appointment. Ilook forward to benefiting from hisleadership and insight as Cornell’sacademic enterprise moves into aneven brighter future.”As Cornell’s 15th provost, Fuchs willsucceed Carolyn “Biddy” Martin,who held the position for eight years– the longest term for any provost inDavid Harris, who had been servingas interim provost, will resume hisdeputy provost position Jan. 1.Christopher K. Ober, Cornell'sFrancis Bard Professor of MaterialsScience and Engineering, will beginserving as interim dean of theCollege of Engineering on Jan. 1.Rhodes to serve on board of new Saudi universitythat will introduce new ideas into kingdomProvidedCornell President EmeritusFrank H.T. RhodesCornell President Emeritus FrankH.T. Rhodes has been named to theboard of trustees of King AbdullahUniversity of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. Setto open in September 2009 with upto 350 international and Saudi students, KAUST will train a cohort ofgraduate students, all on full scholarships. It will be co-educational andhave women on its faculty, which willbe guaranteed academic freedom.Instruction will be in English.Rhodes’ involvement with KAUSTbegan a couple of years ago whenhe was asked to write a charter andbylaws for the new university.“King Abdullah – who is financing this and whose name it bears– wanted to build a university that2 ezra Winter 2009would advance the interests of thepeople of Saudi Arabia in the erawhen petroleum is no longer thedominant basis of the economy,”Rhodes said. King Abdullah binAbdul Aziz Al Saud, who also servesas prime minister, has been the royalhead of the kingdom since 2005.Rhodes consulted the constitutionsof many universities, and produced adocument that introduced such newideas into Saudi higher education asco-education and women faculty;an independent, self-electing boardof trustees; strong guarantees ofacademic freedom; and endowmentincome free of the influence or control of government ministries.“King Abdullah has a very elevatedvision for a great university thatcould become world-class in science and engineering,” Rhodes said.Serving on the 20-member boardwith Rhodes are Mary Robinson,the former president of Ireland; EliasZerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health; Rolf-Dieter Heuer,incoming director general of CERN;Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University; Jie Zhang, presidentof Shanghai Jiao Tong University;and Cornell trustee Lubna SulimanOlayan. “It’s an impressive international spread,” said Rhodes, who ledCornell from 1977 to 1995.The king has provided the universitywith a 10 billion endowment –among the largest for any university(about double Cornell’s endowment)– and separate funds to build a cam-King Abdullah University ofScience and Technology (KAUST),funded with a 10 billionendowment from the king, isslated to open in September 2009as nation’s first independent,international graduate-levelresearch university.pus that will function as its own city.Some 20,000 workers are buildingthe campus, which is located on theRed Sea north of Jeddah in a formerfishing village called Thuwal.KAUST has formed research arrangements with universities andcorporations around the world,including Cornell, which has a 25million partnership. Other projectsunder way: General Electric working on wind and solar power; IBMbuilding a massive supercomputer;Monsanto developing salt-resistantcrops; and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution helping to preserve the coral reef offshore of theKAUST campus.— George Lowery
Cornell confronts economy’s impact with hiring pause,construction delaysefficiencies throughout Cornell. “I’mgoing to be looking carefully andskeptically at anything that says, ‘Weneed to spend a little more moneyto get this done,’ at a time when I’mworried about people’s jobs,” he toldone forum audience. “That’s the firstthing on my mind when I get up inthe morning and the last thing on mymind when I go to bed at night.”President David Skorton issued astatement to the Cornell communityOct. 30 in which he announced that,due to the national and internationaleconomic crisis, the university willinstitute a five-month “hiring pause”and a 90-day pause in construction.At the same time he launched a 45day universitywide review of waysto contain costs and streamlineoperations.Cornell “will remain focused on theneed to attract and retain the bestand brightest students, faculty andstaff,” Skorton said. “To this end,we will maintain our commitmentto our students and their familiesby strengthening our financial aidprograms (see sidebar); sustaincompetitive market-based facultyand staff pay programs; makecritical and cost-effective capitaland infrastructure investments; andsupport our land-grant mission forthe state of New York.”Following the announcement,Skorton hosted two public forums atwhich he explained the university’sPresident David Skorton answers a question during a public forum on costsaving measures, held Nov. 6.planned cost-saving measures andtook questions from faculty and staffmembers. The university, he said, isfollowing four principles in grapplingwith the economic situation: a reviewof operations, engagement with theCornell community, and the pausesin external hires and construction.At the forums, Skorton pledgedto protect the university’s “humancapital,” to step up fundraisingefforts and to look at improvingFour sources of Cornell’s incomehave been hardest hit by theeconomic downturn, Skortonsaid: He predicted that New Yorkstate will reduce its funding, whilefederal dollars for research will, atbest, remain at last year’s levels.The university’s endowment hasshrunk because of the economicdownturn, and, finally, the universitymust moderate its ability to raisetuition so as to maintain Cornell’ssocioeconomic diversity.Cornell must increase its revenuestreams, Skorton said. “We cannotcut our way out of this dilemma. Wehave to grow our way out.”Cornell boosts financial aid for undergradsOn the heels of an initiative announced nearly a year ago that greatlyreduced student loan burdens, Cornell has announced that it will furtherbolster its financial aid program for undergraduate students by eliminatingparental contributions for families with incomes below 60,000 and byfurther reducing student loans.Together with work-study and other grant programs already in place,Cornell’s neediest students will graduate debt free.“In the current volatile and difficult economic circumstances, many currentand prospective college students and their families are concerned aboutthe affordability of a university education. Particularly at this unsettling time,Cornell must open its doors even wider,” said President David Skorton onNov. 13.“Our new policy will allow students, despite the current economicconditions, to be able to choose Cornell and to thrive here. With theseenhancements, we will have the best chance each year to attract thestrongest class,” said Interim Provost David Harris.The three components of the new financial aid initiative are: Eliminating parental contributions for students from families with annualincomes below 60,000 and assets below 100,000; Capping need-based student loans at 7,500 annually for students whohave financial need and whose families have annual incomes above 120,000; Reducing parental contributions for selected students who have financialneed and whose families have annual incomes above 60,000.Cornell already eliminates need-based loans for students from families withincomes below 60,000 (the income level will rise to 75,000 in fall 2009)and annually caps need-based student loans at 3,000 for families withincomes between 60,000 and 120,000.Like many other universities, Cornell has had to respond to the currenteconomic downturn, but the university has maintained its commitment tosupporting a need-based financial aid program.“Ensuring that Cornell remains accessible to students from diverseeconomic backgrounds remains one of our top priorities,” said Doris Davis,associate provost for admissions and enrollment.When considering how to enhance financial aid, Cornell has a uniqueset of challenges, Harris said. Not only is Cornell larger than many of itspeers, it is also more socioeconomically diverse. In fall 2007, Cornell had1,863 undergraduates receiving Pell Grants – federal grants for familieswith less than 45,000 income. That is about 13.8 percent of Cornell’sundergraduates, and, as Harris pointed out, roughly the same number ofPell Grant recipients enrolled at Yale, Princeton and Harvard combined.Cornell plans to spend 138.9 million of its own resources onundergraduate financial aid in 2008–09, 97 percent of which will be spenton grant aid that does not have to be repaid to the institution.in our SPRING Issue:Cornell, like many other universities, is in the midst of a faculty hiring challenge. Competition is high to recruityoung, talented faculty to take the place of many retiring baby boomers. 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cover StoryBy Krishna RamanujanStructuresofLifeEver more complex buildings are crucibles of ideasDesigners and faculty planners at Cornell University’sIthaca campus have created the intellectual crucible thatwas once the stuff of life scientists’ dreams: a state-of-the-artfacility with open, overlapping laboratory areas, light-filledrooms and hallways, a commanding atrium and a high-techaudiovisual facility for presentations and long-distancevideoconferencing. And to encourage conversations thatcould lead to new ideas and collaborations, parts of variousdepartments are strategically located near each other.Completion of architect Richard Meier’s life sciencesbuilding, Weill Hall – which had its official opening Oct. 16– marks a giant leap toward advancing Cornell’s leadershipnationally and internationally in the biological sciencesrevolution. And it will be well positioned to be at the centerof a fertile era of research breakthroughs. As researcher ScottEmr observes, “The next 10 years will be an awesome periodof discovery in the biomedical sciences.”Emr is the director of the Joan and Sanford I. WeillInstitute for Cell and Molecular Biology, a key occupant inthe 162 million, 265,000-square-foot building. “The spaceis wonderful,” he said. “It’s open, it’s bright and it’s veryconducive to collaboration” with its large, open labs.The building is also a key component of Cornell’s fourbuilding commitment to research – the others are DuffieldHall (opened in 2004), the East Campus Research Facility(opened in 2007) and the Physical Sciences Building, which isscheduled to be completed in 2012.Cornell is far from alone in building moderncollaborative research facilities to not only advance scientificresearch, but also to attract and retain top faculty researchersand their research programs. Weill Hall is now among thelargest research facilities in New York state, but it is one ofnumerous new structures that have gone up on college campusesacross the nation in the past few years. The word is out, it seems,that big science and its promise of major breakthroughs inhealth, energy and the basic building blocks of matter require bigand bigger buildings.“Many top universities have launched new initiatives in thelife sciences to enhance their efforts in these important areasof research,” Emr said. “Beautiful new buildings, top-notchfacilities and financial resources have been used to establish andenhance basic science research programs.”Among the most notable: The 230 million Life SciencesInstitute at the University of Michigan; the Lewis-Sigler Institutefor Integrative Genomics at Princeton University; the AnlyanCenter for Medical Research, the largest building ever at YaleSchool of Medicine; the 150 million James H. Clark Center atFrom left, Board of Trustees Chairman Peter Meinig, President DavidSkorton, Joan Weill, Sandy Weill and architect Richard Meier attend thededication of Weill Hall, Oct. 16.4 ezra Winter 2009
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cover storyStanford University; the Leichtag Biomedical Researchbuilding at the University of California-San DiegoMedical Center; and planned for 2011 is the 145 millionGenome Science Laboratory Building at the University ofNorth Carolina-Chapel Hill.“Each of these top schools is competing for the bestfaculty, postdocs and students,” Emr said. And thesemega-research buildings are not limited to universities.New York City’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center, nearlydoubled the size of its research facilities in 2006 withthe opening of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman ResearchCenter building as the first part of a 503 million researchcomplex.This is “a very exciting time in biomedical research,”Emr said in explaining the building boom. “Universitiesand biotech companies are making key discoveries ofnovel targets for the development of new therapeutics thatwill more effectively treat devastating diseases like cancer,Alzheimer’s disease and AIDS.”Design fosters a collaborative cultureWith the opening of Cornell’s Weill Hall and the WeillInstitute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell has beenChris Fromme, assistant professor of molecular biologyand genetics.collaboration between Ithaca andNew York City is centralBy Lauren GoldWith its open plan, shared facilities and top-of-theline videoconferencing equipment, Weill Hall isdesigned for big-picture scientists: researchers whothink beyond the confines of their field to tacklechallenges in creative new ways.“One of the main reasons I came to Cornell was thatit was such a collaborative environment – much moreso than other institutions of similar caliber across thenation,” said Chris Schaffer, a
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