René Kizilcec named Jacobs Foundation Fellow

René Kizilcec has been named a 2022-2024 Jacobs Foundation Fellow and will examine effective, affordable hybrid learning in secondary-school education in low-resource areas.

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Exhibition features pioneering erotic magazine

On Our Backs' first decade highlighted by library show.

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Cornell celebrates Morrison’s birthday with screening, roundtable

Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion.

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New Conversations Project partners with ILO on grant

Improving working conditions in the dangerous and largely unregulated commercial fishing industry is the focus of the project.

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ILR names new assistant dean for HR

Lawrence Mancuso has been named the ILR School’s assistant dean for human resources. He will begin his duties on Feb. 21.

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Former NYC sustainability head Ben Furnas ‘06 to direct University Climate Initiative

Ben Furnas, ’06, has been hired as executive director of The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative.

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“Startup Cornell” podcast features founder of Cure Rare Disease

The eighth episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Rich Horgan ‘14, founder of Cure Rare Disease, a non-profit biotech company.

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A Q&A with Dr. Karen Hirsch of the veterinary college

Hirsch joined the College of Veterinary Medicine as a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

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Professor named chair of state humanities organization

Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.

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