Cornell License Plates Support Baker Scholarship Fund
You've seen them…you like them…you want one for yourself. Let others know you're a Cornell alum with Cornell license plates. The plates feature the Cornell seal in red. Plates are $50.00 per set, a portion of which supports the W. McNeill Baker '43 and Marguerite Moore Baker '45/Cornell Club of Maryland Scholarship Fund -- a program that helps qualified undergraduate students attend Cornell.
For more information contact Mike McGowan '86 at 410-268-4583
(H) or 410-659-1919 (W)
or by email at mjm87@cornell.edu.
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From Tiffany McClaskey '08:
Sept. 8, 2007
To the Cornell Club of Maryland:
Thank you for your continued support of my studies at Cornell University.
I worked with Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. this summer. I was officially interning with the engineers but I also got to work with the Scientists, Surveyors, and the Tech departments, as interns go on rotation to experience all or many of the aspects of the company.
While working with the engineers I participated in designing, proposing, and implementing a sediment transportation project. This project involved deciding what types and sizes of rocks to use, the number of rocks. measuring the physical aspects of each rock, deciding on a location to conduct the experiment. acquiring the specialized equipment including RFID tags (also used to track animals) and learning how to use the locater system. Once the rocks had been prepared we went out with the surveyors and surveyed the exact location of each rock as we put the 181 rocks into the stream along a 300ft stretch of a stream. There was only going to be 180 placed in the stream, but as I spent so much time classifying and measuring rocks I found one that looks like a potato and decided to name it Mr. Potato. I had it as my own personal rock since it did not fit into any of the mass classes that were used. The experiment involved surveying the location of each rock after rain events to see how far they move with a given rain event. Unfortunately. North Virginia was in a drought so the project will be passed to the co-op students, but I plan on going back during winter break to check up on the project.
Through WSSI I also took a wetland delineation course, and a plant identification class for which I had to be able to identify approximately 90 plants, knowing the common name, scientific name. and wetland indicator status. I am also now CPR certified.
This summer I was privileged to gain experience in many fields and gained a lot of field experience. WSSI is a company I would consider working for full time after I graduate.
Today was the first day of classes, thus a little hectic, but I am pretty sure I have my schedule ironed out. I will be taking Environmental Systems Analysis (BEE 475), Aguaclara Sustainable Water Supply Project (CEE 455), Communications for Engineering Management (ENGRC 335 or 350), Evolution (S&TS 287). I am excited for this semester since it looks like I will be taking a lot of interesting classes, though I am a little sad that this is my last undergraduate year at Cornell.
I hope the summer treated you well, and have a great rest of the year.
Sincerely,
Tiffany McClaskey
t1m44@cornell.edu
The students who received the Baker Scholarship last academic year are:
Shabnam Bastansiar '06
sb369@cornell.edu
Annapolis, MD
Jefferson Kohler '06
jck34@cornell.edu
Pikesville, MD
Shawtair Thompson '08
smt39@cornell.edu
Baltimore, MD
This current recipient of the Cornell Club of Maryland scholarship is from the Turners Station section of Dundalk. She is a junior with a double major in Sociology and Near Eastern Studies. She works 9 hours a week as a fitness monitor at Cornell Fitness Centers. Besides marching band, she is in a group called PAC (Prison Activist Coalition) and along with a number of other Cornell students, go to MacCormick, a local maximum security, male, juvenile facility, and tutor on the weekends for a couple of hours. Next semester they are trying to extend the group to Lansing, which is a female institution.
Since Cornell raised tuition by $900 per semester and kept the aid the same, she is very thankful to the Cornell Club of Maryland for extending her a scholarship.
The courses she is taking this semester are Evidence in Statistics, Introduction to Sociology, Holy War, Jihad and Crusades, and Origins of Mesopotamian Civilizations. She has also turned in an application to study abroad in Egypt at The American University in Cairo.
...Anne C. Lee