News & Events

Seahawk Bryan Walters '10 fulfills Super Bowl dream

This Sunday Bryan Walters '10, the former record-breaking wide receiver at Cornell, lands on football’s biggest stage – Super Bowl XLVIII – playing for his beloved, boyhood-favorite Seattle Seahawks.

Temps affect roofing at Goldwin Smith; Klarman dig on track

Digging begins on schedule Feb. 3 for Klarman Hall, the College of Arts and Sciences’ new humanities building.

Students scale Mount Kilimanjaro to fund surgeries

Students in the Cornell founded group Mountains for Moms climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds and awareness of obstetric fistula.

Grove atop Libe Slope will honor Cornell's sesquicentennial

The grove of trees, benches and a walkway will overlook West Campus and Cayuga Lake; it will begin construction this summer and be completed by fall.

New partnership helps students manage debt

A new financial literacy and debt management program, SALT, offers members of the Cornell community, especially students, tools and resources to manage debt.

$5 million gift funds Johnson chair at Cornell NYC Tech

The gift from the Dyson Foundation will create a faculty chair for a new MBA program at Cornell NYC Tech.

Cornell junior brings change home to Nigeria

Kelechi Umoga ’15 spent this past summer leading the construction of a health care clinic in the Jeida village of Abuja, Nigeria.

Zubrow gift endows economics professorship

Cornell trustee Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 fulfilled a lifelong dream in December with a year-end gift to Cornell’s Department of Economics to establish the Zubrow Professorship of Economics.

Thermostat setbacks over holiday lead to fiscal bonus

By turning down temperatures and unplugging electric devices over the holidays, the Cornell campus combined to save 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide from getting pumped into the atmosphere.