Ph.D., Cornell University, 1996
Major:  Environmental Toxicology
Minors:  Microbiology and Ecology

M.S., Cornell University, 1993
Major:  Environmental Toxicology
Minor:  Microbiology

A.B., Lafayette College, 1990
Majors:  Geology and English
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Excerpt from The Holy Earth, by Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1915
First Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University:
If the earth is holy, then the things that grow out of the earth are also holy.  They do not belong to [us] to do with them as [we] will.  Dominion does not carry personal ownership. There are many generations of folk yet to come after us, who will have equal right with us to the products of the globe.  It would seem that a divine obligation rests on every soul.  Are we to make righteous use of the vast accumulation of knowledge of the planet?  If so, we must have a new formulation.  The partition of the earth among the millions who live on it is necessarily a question of morals: and a society that is founded on an unmoral participation and use cannot itself be righteous and whole.