This news item is about: On July 1, Dr. Judith Appleton, the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Immunology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, began her tenure as director of the newly merged James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health and Cornell Feline Health Center (FHC). Appleton succeeds Dr. Douglas Antczak, who has returned to his full-time faculty position as the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine after fifteen years at the helm of the Baker, and Dr. Fred Scott, who came out of retirement to serve as interim director for the FHC.