Avery August is Building A Pipeline For Faculty Diversity

Avery August, Ph.D. ’94, is a professor of immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the university’s vice provost for academic affairs and co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, which spans the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine. Last year, in recognition of his research and help getting Cornell transfer students involved in undergraduate research, he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor.