GLW Corning Inc

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) has announced that Kurt M. Landgraf, president and chief executive officer of Educational Testing Service (ETS), today was appointed to the company�s board of directors. The Corning board also determined that he qualifies as an independent director. He will serve on the Corning board effective immediately. Landgraf will hold office until Corning�s annual meeting of shareholders on April 24, 2008, when it is expected that he will be nominated to serve a three-year term. His appointment brings the number of Corning directors to 16. The size of the board has ranged from 13 to 18 directors since 1990. Landgraf, 60, brings a broad financial and operational perspective to the Corning board. He joined ETS in 2000 as president and CEO. For the preceding 30 years he was with DuPont, where he held a number of management positions in DuPont�s worldwide pharmaceutical business, retiring as executive vice president. His other positions at DuPont included: president and CEO of the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company; chief financial officer; chief operating officer; and chairman of DuPont Europe. Landgraf is a director of ETS, IKON Office Solutions, AAIPharma, Christiana Care Health Services, and Louisiana-Pacific. He is chairman of the board of Pharmaceutical Advisory Services. He graduated from Wagner College with a B.S. degree in economics. He holds masters� degrees from Western Michigan University, Rutgers University and Pennsylvania State University. About Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.