As a member of the Cornell Concert Commission, he is responsible for bringing major musical bands to campus. Dave Matthews was one. Bob Dylan was another. Last year, Lesser produced the entire Dylan show-an exhaustive job that meant overseeing everything from sound, lights, road closings, and schedules to band accommodations, police, security, admissions, and more. Next semester, Lesser will finish his honors thesis on what happens to the physical activity levels of students when they make the transition from high school to college.
Many theories suggest that periods of transition are critical points for making heath decisions.
The two-part study, supervised by Professor Carole Bisogni, will survey 150 freshmen on campus who are in a new environment away from home for the first time. Lesser will pay special attention to those varsity high school athletes who previously had regimented exercise schedules. Always thinking ahead about how to improve health, it's only natural that Lesser will be off to medical school in the fall to study preventive medicine. I imagine this huge place with a gym, dietitians, exercise physiologists, health classes, and research studies on health behavior. I would be a doctor doing traditional medicine and also doing health promotion.