Class Notes: 1992
Matt Biggar, Ph.D. ’92, has a new and timely book, Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Communities, and Local Economies through Systems Change (Cornell University Press, November 2025). Connected to Place is about changing the systems that shape how we live and hold us in patterns harming nature and people. Matt shows how systems change can reorient people’s lives around the places where...
Dianne Chipps Bailey has been selected as the new chair of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) Council. WPI is a program of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Stella Ngai is the chief campus counsel for UC Merced. She advises on a wide range of matters affecting faculty, students, and staff, including employment, business transactions, academic affairs, research,...

