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Cornell’s K-12 programs foster creativity, community

When the pandemic abruptly shuttered school buildings across the nation in March, units across Cornell’s campuses swung into action to support K-12 learning virtually.

Yoon: Enslaved laborer memorial invites healing, reflection

The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA has won praise for an inclusive design approach led by Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP co-founder Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Architecture, Art and Planning.

China’s green plan displaces villagers, forces inequity

As China creates more green space near its cities, the modernization plan – relocating 250 million rural villagers into urban centers by 2025 – has a dark side: socioeconomic inequity.

Milstein Program bridges tech and humanities virtually

The 2020 summer segment of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, held virtually because of the pandemic, immersed students and instructors in imaginative explorations of sound, color, curation and culture.

VP Ryan Lombardi provides update on new COVID-19 cases

Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi announced that a cluster of nine, new positive cases within the student body has been linked to several small gatherings over the past week.

Philosopher Nicholas Sturgeon dies at age 77

Nicholas Sturgeon, Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus in the Sage School of Philosophy and an expert in the foundations of ethics, died Aug. 24 of complications from Parkinson’s disease at a local hospice. He was 77.

Alumni-fueled startups pitch clean-energy solutions

This year’s 76West Clean Energy Competition featured three Cornellian-led startups that could potentially generate economic development in the Southern Tier with clean-energy technology.

Brothers’ nonprofit feeds hungry in native Puerto Rico

Héctor Ibáñez ’20 and his brother, Joey Ibáñez ’23, have started a nonprofit, A Comer Puerto Rico, that has helped feed more than 13,000 people and continues to distribute food weekly in their homeland.

‘Lone wolves’ seen as more creative, ILR research finds

Workers who signal their independence from other people are judged to have more creative potential than those who seem more socially connected, according to a new study from researchers in the ILR School.

Peer pressure: Students promote culture of responsibility

Modeling public health best practices, distributing PPE and helping to reimagine campus life during a pandemic, hundreds of students have volunteered to serve as COVID-19 peer ambassadors and consultants this fall.

Pollack encourages new Cornellians to ‘move past barriers’

President Martha E. Pollack and Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, delivered their New Student Convocation address via video, welcoming new Cornellians to the university.

New research may help revive New York’s fall berry industry

The effectiveness of exclusion netting in protecting New York state's berries from the invasive spotted wing drosophila is documented in new research from Greg Loeb, professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech.