Keynote Speaker
Every year the EYH organizers invite a prominent female scientist or engineer to share her experiences and interest in science/engineering with the participants of the EYH Conference. This Keynote Address kicks off the conference, bringing all the participants and their accompanying adults and buddies together before they head off to a full day of workshops. The keynote address is open to the entire Cornell community.
2012 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Odessa Petzold joined Corning Incorporated as a Senior Research Scientist in 2001, after a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. During her graduate school experience at Cornell, she participated in the re-establishment of Graduate Women in Science as the co-chair. She has almost 10 years of experience with Corning, and has served in various roles as a scientist and technical leader, a project manager, and as the research manager of Glass Surface Research. She has led workshops at EYH in the past and served as a buddy.
Last Year’s Speaker
The 2011 conference keynote speaker was Dr. Robin Davisson, professor of molecular physiology at Cornell University since July 2006. She has a joint appointment in the College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca and in the Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC. With laboratories and research teams in both places, Dr. Davisson splits her time between the two campuses. Professor Davisson earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1988 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a master's degree in psychology (1991) and her doctorate in pharmacology (1994), also from the University of Iowa. She completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Iowa Cardiovascular Research Center and the Center for Hypertension Genomics before joining the UI faculty as an assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology. Professor Davisson's research focuses on the basic mechanisms of function, control, and signaling in the cardiovascular system in health and disease. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying hypertension, heart failure, and the pregnancy-induced cardiovascular syndrome pre-eclampsia are the main focuses of her research efforts. She has published numerous original research and review articles and book chapters and has given invited presentations throughout the United States as well as in South America, Europe, and Asia. [webpage]
The 2011 keynote speech, given by Dr. Robin Davisson