Deane Waldo Malott (July 10, 1898 – September 11, 1996) was an American academic and administrator.
[1] While serving as Chancellor of the university, he helped oversee the transition of a peacetime campus to a wartime one, and enabled KU to train thousands of military personnel.
His 12-year term as president brought about the era of 'Big Science' at Cornell: in 1961 sponsored research funding came to over $39 million.
His term also saw the construction of new campuses for the School of Labor Relations and the Colleges of Engineering and Veterinary Medicine as well as other major facilities, including the Arecibo Observatory and Lynah Rink.
Though a social conservative, Malott was publicly very critical of McCarthyism; he saw it as a major threat to academic freedom.