This news item is about: Dr. Colin Parrish, the John M. Olin Professor of Virology, will assume the directorship of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Baker Institute for Animal Health and the Feline Health Center, effective December 1, 2010. Dr. Judith Appleton, the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Immunology, stepped in as the interim director in July 2009, and led the national search for this position.