Monday, March 7, 2016

Cornell’s President Elizabeth Garrett Dies at Age 52

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President Elizabeth Garrett died last night at Weill Cornell Medicine after receiving treatment for colon cancer, the University announced this morning. The thirteenth Cornell president and first female president was 52.

“It is with utmost sadness that I write to inform you that our president, colleague and friend, Elizabeth Garrett, passed away late last evening after a brave battle with colon cancer,” the Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert Harrison ’76 wrote in an email to the Cornell community this morning. “There are few words to express the enormity of this loss.” 

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Source: The Cornell Daily Sun 



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