Christopher Alabi is a faculty member in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 

Toni Alimi has been at Cornell since 2021 as a Klarman Fellow and is very pleased to be joining Bethe as a House Fellow in Fall '23.

Alexandra Blackman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government.

Nico serves as an Assistant Professor at the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics. He is thrilled to join the Bethe House community as a House Fellow in Fall 2023!

Nancy Brooks is an economist and faculty member in the Department of City and Regional Planning.

Via is overjoyed to serve as a House Fellow for Hans Bethe House and contribute to the meaningful work that unfolds within its spaces.

Seema Golestaneh is an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies. Her work explores contemporary Islamic thought in the world today, with a special focus on Persian speaking communities.  Trained as an anthropologist, Prof.

Jesse Goldberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research lab studies how birds learn to sing, how parrots socialize, and how mice can achieve high levels of motor coordination.

Swanne Gordon is a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist currently at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.

Yuval Grossman is currently a professor of physics at Cornell University.

Prof. Hayes and his group specialize in the geological and physical processes that shape planetary surface and atmospheres, including the identification and characterization of potentially habitable environments across the solar system.

Jamie Hom (she/hers) works in Alumni Affairs & Development as an Associate Director of Student Programs on the Student and Young Alumni team.

Nori Jacoby is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University.

Noted by The New York Times for giving “the proceedings an invaluable central thread of integrity and stylishness,” violinist Ariana Kim made her New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall during her doctoral studies at Juilliard and is now a

After working as a GRF in Bethe for four years, Stephen is thrilled to serve as a House Fellow and continue making meaningful connections for Bethe residents.

As the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Peter Loewen leads the largest and most academically diverse college at Cornell.

I am an evolutionary ecologist raised in Spain, with a PhD in Finland who has worked as a scientist in California, France, St. Louis, and now Cornell.

Kathryn Mann is Associate Professor of mathematics and Rosevear faculty leadership fellow at Cornell.

Guillermo Metz joined Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County in 2008, leading their green building and renewable energy program. 

Elizabeth is the Assistant Director of Cornell Public Health and the Manager of the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Professor Pereboom works in free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of religion, and has published articles in each of these areas.

Carmel Raz is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University. She studies the interrelations of music, mind, and body during the emergence of modern European musical cultures.

Amanda first joined Bethe as a GRF in 2018 while completing her doctoral program. She is beyond excited to return as a House Fellow and reconnect with the Bethe community in this new role.

Sonia Rucker is the Associate Vice-President of Inclusion and Belonging and a Presidential Advisor for Diversity and Equity (PADE) at Cornell University. Sonia is a native of Southeast Missouri.

Michelle Smith enjoys working with and teaching undergraduate students so much that it inspired her to switch fields.  Michelle’s Ph.D. is in biology, with an emphasis in genetics.

Aoise is a playwright, so she gets to make a lot of things up. Things she has made up have been performed in theatres in Ithaca, all over the country and overseas.

Charlie came to Ithaca as a graduate student in engineering.  While at Cornell, he and his wife Nancy (also an HBH Faculty Fellow) became firmly attached to the Finger Lakes region and decided to build their careers here.

When Nancy selected Cornell for her Master’s degree, she and her husband Charlie intended to move back to Boston within a couple of years. Instead, both went on for PhDs and careers in Ithaca.

Elaine L. Westbrooks received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998, and her master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999.