Livingston Farrand

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Livingston Farrand, M.D., LL.D. (June 14, 1867 - November 8, 1939) was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and academic administrator.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received in undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D.. He attended the universities of Cambridge and Berlin. After graduating, he went on to serve an adjunct Professor of psychology at Columbia and after joining Franz Boas on expeditions to the Pacific Northwest (notably, the Jesup North Pacific Expedition) he became a full professor of anthropology.

He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and then in 1914 became President of the University of Colorado, and held that position until 1919. During World War I he was director in France of the International Health Board, 1917-19 .His public health work led to his appointment as Chairman the Central Committee of the American Red Cross and he worked to fight tuberculosis for the Rockefeller Foundation in France in 1917.

In 1921, he became the fourth president of Cornell University. Under his leadership, Cornell's enrollment and endowment increased rapidly. He also expanded Cornell-in-China with the University of Nanking and in 1931 saw the arrival in Ithaca of students from the Soviet Union. The unified College of Engineering was created as was the College of Home Economics.

He contributed many articles to psychological and anthropological publications; his articles treat principally of the anthropology of American Indians. He was the brother of Max Farrand.