Professor Cutberto Garza was granted emeritus status effective November 3, 2005. An internationally recognized expert in infant and maternal nutrition, he served as professor in and director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences and from 1998 to 2000 as vice provost. Before moving to Cornell, Garza held the rank of professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, where he also served as associate director for the USDA Children’s Nutrition Research Center.
Garza has served on numerous national and international advisory groups, including as director of the United Nations University’s Food and Nutrition Program and chair of the Steering Committee of the World Health Organization’s Multicenter Growth Reference Study.
He was the recipient of the 1996 Feinstein World Hunger Prize for Research and Education awarded by Brown University and other prestigious honors. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences and was named a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences in recognition of his extraordinary service to the National Academies.
The 40-year career of Jean-Pierre Habicht, the James Jamison Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, Emeritus, was celebrated in October with a special symposium, “The Changing Face of Human Nutrition: 1965-2005.” Habicht, a medical doctor, has been at Cornell for 28 years. He serves as an adviser to the United Nations and government health and nutrition agencies and is a member of various advisory boards. He is a past president of the Society for International Nutrition Research and has served as special assistant to the director of the Division of Health Examination Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, World Health Organization medical officer at the Instituto de Nutricion de Centro America y Panama, and professor of maternal and child health at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala.
Robert Pool, professor of viticulture in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at Geneva, has been granted emeritus status after 31 years on the Cornell faculty. Pool’s research has addressed a very broad range of issues, including mechanized vineyard management, sustainable viticulture, disease, and rootstock cold hardiness.
Pool formed and for 10 years chaired the Grape Commodity Advisory Committee to the National Plant Germplasm Committee. He received the Cantarelli Prize for 1995-96 from the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine. He is a member of the American Society of Viticulture and Enology, International Society for Horticultural Science, and the American Society for Horticultural Sciences.
Richard Straub of the Department of Entomology at Geneva has retired as professor emeritus after 35 years of service. Straub has been stationed at the Hudson Valley Laboratory, where his research programs on the biology, occurrence, and management of arthropods affecting fruit and vegetable crops in the Hudson Valley region are primarily allied with the development of pest management strategies. He is a member of the Entomology Society of America, South Carolina Entomological Society, Gamma Sigma Delta, and the New York State Horticultural Society.