Charles W. Jermy Jr. was honored with the title of Senior Associate Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions Emeritus in April for his extraordinary service to Cornell. His proposal for an online bachelor’s degree for nontraditional students has been taken up by the University and SCE’s new dean, Mary Loeffelholz. Jermy retired in February after 50 years with SCE.
While a student at Cornell, Hu Shih 1914 imagined and later led a literary movement resulting in the adoption of a common, accessible language in China. The language reforms that emerged with Hu Shih at Cornell went on to change an entire nation. A stone bench and interpretive sign invite community members to the northwest corner of Beebe Lake, where they can learn more about Hu Shih.
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
Ten Graduate School doctoral candidates, joined by one student from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medicine, traveled from Ithaca and New York City to Capitol Hill for Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day on March 29.
Eight doctoral candidates and two postdocs were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes scholarly achievement and promotes diversity in doctoral education.
