Baird

Evensen

Mittman

Faculty, staff members and graduate students have elected Barbara Baird, M.S. '75, Ph.D. '79; Alan Mittman '71; and Darrick Evensen, M.S. '11, respectively, to the Cornell Board of Trustees, with terms beginning July 1.

Baird and Mittman have four-year terms, and Evensen has been re-elected to a two-year term.

The board helps determine major policy directions for the university and has an important role in safeguarding the integrity of the university. Cornell is the only Ivy League university -- and one of the few universities across the country -- whose board includes student, faculty and staff representatives as full voting members. There are two faculty and two student trustees and one employee trustee on the 64-member board.

Baird is the Horace White Professor and Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Joining the Cornell faculty in 1980, Baird has recently been director of the Nanobiotechnology Center, of graduate studies in chemistry and of Cornell's National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant in molecular biophysics as well as co-director of the W.M. Keck Foundation Program on molecular and cellular biophysics of signal transduction, run jointly with faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College.

She has served on the Council of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and on scientific advisory/review committees for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mittman is director of Cornell's Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations and Cornell's chief union negotiator. He is also the university's Title IX deputy coordinator, investigating claims of protected status discrimination and harassment, and administers disability and religious accommodations policies for faculty and staff.

He has served as president of the Cornell Club of Long Island, was appointed to the Cornell University Council for a term and served on the executive committee of Cornell's Employee Assembly.

Receiving his J.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1974, Mittman chaired the litigation department at Meltzer, Lippe and Goldstein, P.C., in Mineola, N.Y., before joining Cornell. He is a founding board member and treasurer of Ithaca's Southern Tier Advocacy and Mitigation Project.

Evensen is a Ph.D. student in the field of natural resources. His research focuses on the application of sociology to natural resource management, with an emphasis on public discourse about environmental, economic and social risks and benefits related to natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale region.

He has been president of Cornell's Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) and chairperson of its finance commission, receiving the "Distinguished Student Volunteer Award" and the "Distinguished Leadership Award" from the Student Activities Office for his service to the GPSA. He has also served as the vice chair of the University Assembly Codes and Judicial Committee and as a member of the University Hearing and Review Boards and the Graduate School Academic Integrity Hearing Board.