James Garbarino, Cornell University professor of human development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center, has been elected the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor, Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology.

The Cornell Board of Trustees approved the election of Garbarino to the endowed professorship at its May 29, 1999, meeting; it will be effective July 1, 1999.

Vincent was the second dean of the College of Human Ecology, then called the College of Home Economics, from 1946-1953. She was a psychologist, receiving her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the Teachers College at Columbia University. During her tenure, she played an important statewide role in home economics. She served with the State University of New York in coordinating and developing home economics and allied areas in the State University units.

Garbarino has won national and international recognition for his research in child development, recently in the area of maltreatment and violence. His research has earned him numerous awards from the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He is the former president of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development in Chicago, the author of numerous books, including Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them, Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment and Understanding Abusive Families, as well as the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles or chapters on child maltreatment and child welfare, child development, schools and instructional materials.