Marianella Casasola is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Human Development. A native of Los Angeles, CA (and of Costa Rican parents), she obtained her B.A. in Psychology and Spanish Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores the relation between thought and language in infants. Along with her students, she studies several aspects of infant cognitive development and their early comprehension of language, with a particular focus on the interaction between cognition and language during the first two years of development.

Jack Elliott knows what it is like to be a student living away from home. He is from Canada and spent a lot of time in school, having completed an undergraduate degree in Physics with a minor in sculpture from the University of Alberta and Master's degrees in both Architecture and Industrial Design from the University of Calgary. After graduation, Jack worked in a number of prominent architecture firms in both Canada and the U.S. After spending five years in Atlanta, including three years teaching at Georgia Tech, Jack moved to Ithaca with his wife Pauline Morin, and son Christian to take up an appointment as an assistant professor in Design and Environmental Analysis. Here he is teaching design fundamentals, digital communications, and ecological design. In addition, he is researching the idea of "Nature inside the built environment" both theoretically, in terms of aesthetics and ethics, and practically, in terms of the design project.

When Jack is not in the classroom, shop, or office, he can be found working on his house, playing blues piano, or skiing Nastar at Greek Peak.

Michel and Nadine Louge serve as Faculty-in-Residence in the Townhouses. They cultivate a sense of community by taking residents on local trips, such as the Corning Museum of Glass or the Cornell Orchards, and by interacting daily with students. Michel has been a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering since 1985. Nadine has taught French in schools around Ithaca. They have three daughters, two of them with a Cornell degree, and one still in High School. Michel's research interests are on the flow of gas and particles, with application to industrial solids processing, or geophysical phenomena as diverse as snow avalanches and the stability of sand dunes.

Frances Yufen Lee Mehta has been the Faculty-in Residence for the Court-Kay-Bauer residence hall since 2007, and a member of the Cornell faculty since 1994. She received her B.A. in American and English Literature in Taiwan and M.A. in Language Acquisition from Brigham Young University. Also known as Lee Laoshi, she teaches Chinese Mandarin at various levels and in the intensive language program FALCON. She has a passion for teaching and helping and mentoring students. “Teaching has always been an important part of my life”, she says. “I like to take a personal interest in each student and watch them grow not only academically, but also into fine human beings”. She has authored Colloquial Chinese Reader and Modern China: Life, Language and Culture. Frances has been a Faculty Fellow since 1996, a House Fellow at Alice Cook House on west campus in 2004-07, and is the faculty advisor for over 10 student organizations on campus. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award and the Kendall Carpenter Memorial Advising Award.

Her husband Phiroze has degrees in music and engineering and is a professor of piano at Ithaca College. He is also an avid fan of ping-pong and can frequently be seen battling it out with residents in CKB. Frances and Phiroze enjoy outdoor life, exploring local gorges and trails, movies, traveling, singing, and listening to classical music.

"Living with the students in the residence hall has been a most wonderful experience", they say, "they have become a part of our lives, seeing them everyday and doing things together. Hopefully we contribute in making their freshmen experience an enjoyable and memorable one."

Brisa Teutli was born in Mexico City. She earned an M.A. degree in Applied Linguistics at Universidad de las Américas-Puebla in Puebla, Mexico. She also holds a degree in Engineering earned at the same university. Her major fields of specialization are Second Language Teaching, TA Training, Use of Advanced Technology in Language Instruction, Curriculum Design and Development, and Assessment. She started her professional career teaching Spanish as a Second Language and, at the same time, teaching English language courses, in Mexico. While in Mexico she directed the International Center of Culture and Language that provided academic and cultural programs for students and academics from the USA, Canada, Germany, England, Japan, and Korea in Mexico. She continued her professional career in the USA teaching Spanish at all levels to university students combining the teaching activities with the creation and implementation of web-enhanced and media-assisted Spanish programs. She has received several grants for creating web-enhanced programs and implementing new teaching methods in Second Language Instruction. She has held workshops and training seminars on the use of advanced technologies in the Second Language classroom for language instructors. She has been the director of a DELE Examination Centre through which Spain's Ministry of Education issues official accreditation of mastery of the Spanish language. Besides her teaching and administrative activities she has directed and coordinated study abroad programs for U.S. students in Mexico. Her areas of interest include Web-enhanced and Computer-assisted Instruction, Material Development, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Language lab Operation, Teacher Training, and Study Abroad.

Brisa joined the Romance Studies Department at Cornell as a Senior Lecturer in the fall semester 2005, and was the Associate Chair for Language Instruction for Romance Studies from 2007 to 2009. At Cornell, she has coordinated first year Spanish, continuing Spanish, and advanced conversation and Spanish pronunciation and has taught Elementary Spanish I, Elementary Spanish II, Continuing Spanish, Advanced Spanish Conversation and Pronunciation as well as Practicum and Methodology of Romance Language Learning and Teaching for graduate students new to teaching.

Brisa has always said that the best thing Cornell has is its students. She was impressed with her students' performance in class and wanted to get to know them better in a different context, outside the classroom. That is why she decided to be a Faculty in Residence. /"It is truly a pleasure to work with students at Cornell. It is so rewarding to know that my students will not only appreciate all the hard work and effort I put into my classes but will also make the most of them. Now that I have been a Faculty in Residence for a while I know that students here are not only bright and dedicated but also caring, warm, and talented. These young men and women have the whole package..."/ she said. Brisa was a Faculty Fellow in 2006/2007 and has been Faculty in Residence since the fall of 2007.