David Skorton Named President
Saturday January 21, 2006 Category: News Permanent Link
Lots of interesting news from the Hill in the last week (it seems that CU makes a lot of important announcements while the students are away on winter break), but this is certainly the top item. Can someone with more PR savvy explain to me why CU would make the announcement on a Saturday afternoon?
David J. Skorton has been named the 12th president of Cornell University. The following are short versions of today’s stories from Cornell University News Service about the appointment. Full texts, as well as photos and other graphics accompanying some stories, are available by following the link.
U of Iowa’s David J. Skorton named Cornell’s 12th president
The six-month search for Cornell University’s 12th president has ended with the announcement that David J. Skorton, president of the University of Iowa, will be assuming leadership of New York state’s land-grant university and world-renowned research institution. The 56-year-old cardiologist, computer scientist, jazz musician and national leader in research ethics will take up Cornell’s highest office in the coming months.
Jazz and haiku: Skorton sees arts and humanities as university’s ‘soul’
His love of jazz adds a soulful dimension to David J. Skorton, Cornell’s newly named president, who has achieved national recognition as a supporter of the humanities and arts.
The physician as computer scientist: Skorton and medical imaging
One part of David Skorton’s career echoes a recent major theme in Cornell scholarship: the application of computer technology and computer science ideas in other disciplines.
Cornell’s new first lady: Respected researcher in her own right
As an associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, and radiation oncology, at the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine, Robin Davisson, Cornell’s next first lady, focuses her research on the basic mechanisms of function, control and signaling in the cardiovascular system.
From Big Ten to Ivy League: two institutions with much in common
Both Hunter Rawlings and David Skorton hail from the University of Iowa—known as the Hawkeyes in the athletic arena. And yet the transition from the Big Ten to the Ivy League is one between two institutions that on many accounts are surprisingly similar.
Search committee sought advice from campus and around the world
The formation of a search committee for Cornell University’s 12th president began less than a month after President Jeffrey S. Lehman’s sudden resignation on June 11, 2005.
