A search committee appointed by Cornell Board of Trustees Chair Bob Harrison will receive input from various constituencies on who should be the university's next leader. The 19-member committee includes faculty, students, staff, alumni and trustees.
The 17th annual Bits On Our Minds exhibition shows off student computing projects from games to robotics, as faculty and potential employers look on with interest.
Events on campus in the next two weeks include a reading by Teju Cole; the 2014 Atkinson Symposium on earth art; a lecture on sustainable housing; and "Total Recall" director Paul Verhoeven.
The Big Idea Competition and the new first Student Business of the Year award are part of this year’s Entrepreneurship@Cornell’s Celebration conference, April 10-11.
The design phase has been completed for a new university health center that expands and updates the current Gannett Health Services facility. It is planned to open in 2017.
The university, fraternities, sororities and students in general are pitching in to help 12 students whose Collegetown residence was destroyed by fire.
The library has acquired more than 100 items from the latter half of the 19th and the 20th centuries; items include sashes and fabrics printed with presidential portraits and scarves that were souvenirs from World Fairs.
With more than 43,000 applications for admission to the Class of 2018, the highest number of freshman applications in university history, Cornell's prospective undergraduates are diverse and academically strong, while admissions have become more selective.
