FOR RELEASE: June 7, 2001
Contact: Linda Grace-KobasOffice: 607-255-4206E-Mail: [email protected]
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, for a personal visit June 26-28.
On campus, Lee will see his granddaughter, a Cornell undergraduate student who is taking summer courses. The university will use the occasion of his visit to announce the establishment of the Lee Teng-hui Institute for Scientific Research in honor of its distinguished alumnus. He has previously been honored by the university with the endowment of the Lee Teng-hui Professorship of World Affairs, made possible by a $2.5 million endowment gift to Cornell in 1994, presented anonymously by friends of Lee in Taiwan.
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