By Jacquie Powers
Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Oct. 16 for Cornell's 53rd annual Trustee-Council meeting and the inauguration of the university's 11th president, Jeffrey S. Lehman.
The meeting of the more-than-700-member council and a quarterly meeting of the board of trustees are scheduled on campus every fall so that the groups can attend joint sessions and hear the Cornell president's State of the University address. The council is an advisory body made up of alumni and friends of the university who are elected by the trustees.
Lehman, whose term as president began July 1, will be inaugurated in ceremonies on three Cornell campuses across the world Oct. 12-16, culminating in ceremonies in Ithaca Thursday, Oct. 16. He will deliver his first State of the University address Friday, Oct. 17, at 9 a.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall, on campus.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in open session Friday afternoon at 2:15 and Saturday morning at 9 in room B09 of Sage Hall. The open portion of the Friday meeting will include a report from Lehman and a financial report on fiscal year 2002-03. A limited number of tickets for the full board's open session will be available starting at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall on campus.
Several board committees will have open sessions. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the committees:
The theme of this year's meeting is "Cornell Celebrates a New Beginning," with events centering around inauguration activities. On Friday afternoon at 2:15 and Saturday morning at 9 and 10:15, council members can choose from a series of seminars offered by Cornell faculty on a variety of subjects. The seminars include "Addressing Food Security and Global Nutrition," "Museums: New Definition, New Roles, New Impacts," "Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Business," "The Future of Space Exploration," and "Forever Young: A Timely Wrinkle on Age Issues," among others.
A special panel from 10:45 to 11:45 Friday morning in Statler Auditorium will address "University Outreach: From Academic Research to Startup Company -- A Faculty Perspective." Panelists include Carl A. Batt, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, Department of Food Science, director, Cornell University/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Partnership and co-director, Nanobiotechnology Center; Kenneth P. Birman, professor, Department of Computer Science; Bruce Ganem, J. Thomas Clark Professor, Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program, Franz and Elizabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Department of Chemistry; and David A, Putnam, assistant professor, chemical engineering, School of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and member, Biomedical Engineering Program.
On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18, trustees and council members can attend the Big Red vs. Georgetown University football game at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field. From 5 to 6:30 that evening, a reception and tour will be held at the newly completed Cornell Lab of Ornithology building, which opened in June.
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