Maxwell Mayhew Upson was a member of the

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Board of Trustees for over 35 years. Upson graduated in 1899 from Cornell with a bachelor's degree in engineering. Upson was elected to the

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as a senior. He was awarded the

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from the

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in 1940. At the bequest of his widow, Upson is the namesake of Upson Hall on the Cornell campus. The building originally cost $1,988,083 and was designed by the architects

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and was finished in 1958. The building houses the Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.Cornell University - Search Cornell
/ref> A professorship named for him at

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is currently held by

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