Environmentalist photographer kicks off A.D. White Professors-at-Large sequence

Rothenberg is a molecular immunologist whose analysis explains how blood stem cells grow to be T-cells within the immune system. Her analysis reveals how networks of genes, regulatory proteins and mobile alerts work collectively, usually on the degree of particular person cells, to information important developmental selections that form immune operate. Her analysis has offered a unifying framework for understanding how cells make steady developmental decisions inside complicated organic methods. 

Voraakohm is a panorama architect who makes use of city design as a software to revive ecological operate, empower communities and create equitable, climate-resilient cities. Her signature “porous city” method in Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park integrates a constructed wetland, rain backyard and million-gallon retention system to supply public inexperienced area whereas mitigating seasonal flooding in a few of Bangkok’s most weak neighborhoods. Her work illustrates how considerate panorama design can ship each ecological resilience and social advantages. 

Voraakohm is certainly one of six new professors-at-large with 2026-32 phrases. The others: 

Jeff Chang (social sciences), an American journalist and music critic, writes about hip-hop’s cultural and political evolution. His e book, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation,” gained the American Book Award in 2005. In 2008, he gave the keynote tackle for the Cornell Hip Hop Collection opening. 

Greg Graffin, Ph.D. ’03, (humanities, life sciences) co-founded the punk band Bad Religion in 1980, and champions free considering and difficult norms. He has lectured on ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell and has written a number of books that look at the intersections of scientific reasoning, spiritual perception, inventive expression and identification. He combines evolutionary analysis with interdisciplinary inquiry and public outreach by means of music. 

Agricultural ecologist David Lobell (life sciences) has finished pioneering work that has formed our understanding of how local weather change impacts crop manufacturing and international meals safety. He is the Benjamin M. Page Professor at Stanford University within the Department of Earth System Science and directs the Center on Food Security and the Environment. 

Somini Sengupta (social sciences) has been the New York Times’ worldwide local weather correspondent for greater than 30 years. She writes about local weather change, human migration and political battle, with storytelling targeted on individuals impacted by these forces. In 2023, she gained the National Press Club Award for publication journalism for her “Climate Forward” sequence. 

Historian and theorist Dorceta Taylor (social sciences) focuses on justice‑centered environmental analysis. Her scholarship reconceptualizes environmentalism as a power-saturated social formation formed by race, class, gender and privilege. She integrates educational evaluation with community-based mobilization, illuminating the lived realities of marginalized communities. She is the Wangari Maathai Professor of Environmental Justice at Yale University. 

Twice throughout their six-year phrases, A.D. White Professors-at-Large go to campus for a couple of week whereas courses are in session to work together with college students and school to enliven the mental and cultural lifetime of the campus and group. 

Previous A.D. White Professors-at-Large embody Pulitzer-Prize winner Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55; Nobel laureate and geneticist Barbara McClintock, B.S. ’23, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ’27; primatologist Jane Goodall; author and actor John Cleese; and jazz musician and educator Wynton Marsalis.