I moved to college when I was 18 years old. For a remarkable 20 years — until I took my first sabbatical as a faculty member — I never spent more than three consecutive weeks away from a college campus. I’ve been an undergraduate student (Go Gators!), a graduate student (Go Crimson!), a post-doctoral fellow (Go Tritons!) and now a professor (Go Big Red!) and the Dean of Faculty (Go … Faculty?). At Cornell, I’ve taught graduate and undergraduate students on topics ranging from physics, biology and engineering to public policy and gourmet cooking. These classes have ranged from fewer than a dozen to hundreds of students. I co-lead the Schaffer-Nishimura lab studying neurodegenerative and........

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