{"id":42972,"date":"2024-10-22T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=42972"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:04:42","slug":"pollack-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/pollack-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"President Emerita Honored With \u2018Pollack Plaza\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">At TCAM, Big Red leaders unveiled an East Hill homage\u2014which, fittingly, will be located near Computing and Information Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This story was adapted from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2024\/10\/new-plaza-heart-cornell-bowers-cis-be-named-martha-pollack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>a report<\/em><\/a><em> in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A plaza dedicated and named in honor of Cornell\u2019s 14th president, Martha E. Pollack, will be part of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bowers College of Computing and Information Science<\/a> building and complex, connecting it with Gates Hall. The announcement was made at a gala dinner held in Barton Hall in Pollack\u2019s honor as part of the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting (TCAM) events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollack retired in June 2024 after seven years at the University\u2019s helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow to appropriately acknowledge Martha Pollack\u2019s contributions to Cornell is almost impossible,\u201d said Board of Trustees Chair Kraig Kayser, MBA \u201984, noting her strong connection with students, her commitment to academic verve, her dedication to and reiteration of Cornell\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/president.cornell.edu\/initiatives\/university-core-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">core values<\/a>,\u00a0and her leadership through the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>How to appropriately acknowledge Martha Pollack\u2019s contributions to Cornell is almost impossible.<\/p>\n<cite>Trustee Chair <strong>Kraig Kayser, MBA \u201984<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaza\u2014expected to be completed in spring 2025\u2014will be \u201ca lasting tribute to one of the key successes of [her] administration and leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kayser spoke about Pollack\u2019s distinguished academic background and accomplishments in computer science and the strides the University made across that field during her tenure\u2014from the opening of the Cornell Tech campus in NYC to the naming and expansion of Bowers CIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction began in spring 2023 on a new <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2024\/04\/construction-schedule-new-cornell-bowers-cis-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four-story, 135,000-square-foot building<\/a> that will be connected to Gates Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building will support the fast-growing college, adding instructional and research space while also bringing together its three departments: computer science, information science, and statistics and data science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of &quot;Pollack Plaza&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-42976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-1536x870.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-1264x716.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-632x358.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-316x179.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/TCAM-rendering_10102024-A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Provided<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A rendering of Pollack Plaza, with the new Bowers building at right and Gates Hall in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Martha E. Pollack Plaza will be located \u201cat the growing heart\u201d of Bowers CIS, Kayser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be traversed by thousands, used every day, and will forever be a reminder of the contributions that [she] made: not just in computer science, but to the entire university.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interim President Mike Kotlikoff, who served as provost with Pollack for seven years, said that one of the things that most impressed him about her was \u201cher total commitment to access\u201d to Cornell for students, which helped inspire the current <a href=\"https:\/\/greatestgood.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philanthropic campaign<\/a>\u2019s emphasis on financial aid and affordability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe got that immediately,\u201d he said. \u201cShe questioned what our legacy was, what our founding commitment was, and whether we were living up to that commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Kotlikoff: \u201cI saw how she gave her full measure to Cornell University, how much of herself she poured into the University, and I\u2019ll always value what [she] has done for Cornell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I saw how she gave her full measure to Cornell University, how much of herself she poured into the University, and I\u2019ll always value what [she] has done for Cornell.<\/p>\n<cite>Interim President <strong>Mike Kotlikoff<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking the stage, Pollack recounted how she was recruited to Cornell from her position as provost at the University of Michigan, noting that she typically had ignored offers from search consultants before\u2014\u201cbut this was Cornell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollack said she had long known of the University\u2019s reputation for excellence, innovation, and collaboration; its diversity of schools and subjects; its land-grant mission and public engagement; and its balance of public and private and rural and urban campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut it had one more thing\u2014one that I couldn\u2019t have fully appreciated until I came here,\u201d Pollack said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was this amazing community, this shared ethos amongst Cornellians\u2014not only shared amongst the people on our campuses, the faculty, the staff, and the students, but shared in the 300,000 living alumni. And more than anything, tonight, I just want to thank you, that community, for making me a part of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: Kayser and Pollack at TCAM with a rendering of the plaza. 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