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Prof Examines Role of Middle East in Election
October 28, 2008 - 11:00pmLast night, approximately 100 students gathered for a discussion entitled “The 2008 Presidential Election and the Middle East,” which featured Prof. Ross Brann, Alice Cook House Professor-Dean and Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies.
From the very beginning of his lecture and throughout the discussion, Brann emphasized his non-political, strictly analytical examination of the Middle East region and the 2008 presidential election.
“I am not speaking as an advocate for either side,” he clarified.
Former Cornell President Rhodes Joins New Saudi University’s Board of Trustees
October 7, 2008 - 11:00pmFormer Cornell President Frank Rhodes’s newest venture will bring him far from Cayuga’s Waters. Rhodes, who served as Cornell’s ninth president from 1977 until 1995, has been named to the board of trustees of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, according to the University.
The new school, which will open in less than a year, describes itself as benefiting “the region and the world.”
“KAUST is the realization of a decades-long vision of the Custodian of the Twoo Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud,” according to the school’s website.
The new school will train 250-350 graduate students in its first class with a faculty that may approach 400 members.