Affirmative Action Advisory Board to monitor the status of women and minorities and to propose more effective procedures. During his presidency, university governance was overhauled including the establishment of a faculty-student-employee University Senate and the addition of Student and Employee representatives to the board of trustees. A new campus judicial system and campus code of conduct were established. Special Committee on Space Technology Corson also served on NACA"s Special Committee on Space Technology also called the Stever Committee, named after its chairman. It was a special steering committee that was formed with the mandate to coordinate various branches of the Federal government, private companies as well as universities within the United States with NACA's objectives and also harness their expertise in order to develop a space program. Dr. Corson therefore played a pivotal role in the process of establishing the nascent United States space program. Scientific work He was the author of a very important textbook on electromagnetism with the following two editions: Corson, D.R. and Lorrain, P. Introduction to electromagnetic fields and waves, W. H. Freeman, 1962. Lorrain, P. and Corson, Dale R. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, 2nd ed., W. H. Freeman, 1970 (). The latter incorporated some of the ideas of relativistic electromagnetism. As part of his Ph.D. work in UC Berkeley, Corson was a co-discoverer of the element astatine. In 1987 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Footnotes and references External links Cornell Presidency: Dale R. Corson Cornell University Library Presidents Exhibition: Dale Raymond Corson (Presidency; Inauguration) 1914 births 2012 deaths People from Pittsburg, Kansas Presidents of Cornell University Manhattan Project people UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering College of Emporia alumni Emporia High School alumni Discoverers of chemical elements