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Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula

The Office of Engagement Initiatives recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university.

Kessler Fellows internships completed amid trying times

This year, the College of Engineering’s Kessler Fellows Program had to navigate summer internships amid a global pandemic, but the program’s staff was able to place all 13 students in summer programs.

Endowment holds steady in FY 2020 despite pandemic

With long-term investments earning 1.9%, assets at the end of the fiscal year stood at $7.2 billion, slightly down from last year’s record total of $7.3 billion.

Expert on domestic worker rights to give ILR lecture Oct. 15

McGill University law professor Adelle Blackett, will deliver the Industrial and Labor Relation's annual Cook-Gray Lecture, Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m.

Four Cornellians tapped for NYS climate advisory panels

Four Cornellians have been appointed to three climate advisory panels that will inform the NYS Climate Action Council to draft a plan toward a zero-carbon state economy by 2050.

ILR research: Workers selling their creativity short

Brian Lucas, assistant professor of organizational behavior in the ILR School, reports that while people think their creativity wanes as they work on a project, on the whole it remains constant – or actually improves.

Dyson student tells Assembly how to fix NYS food insecurity

Food insecurity can be blamed on unemployment economics rather than on coronavirus hot spots, doctoral candidate Anne Byrne said in testimony Sept. 9 before at a New York State Assembly hearing.

Passion for 3D printing, engineering fuels veterinary startup

First-year veterinary student Sean Bellefeuille’s startup creates anatomical models of animals with a 3D-printer. These models help veterinary surgeons better prepare for surgery on their patients.

Algorithm boosts efficiency, nutrition for food bank ops

Cornell systems engineers examined data from a busy New York state food bank and, using a new algorithm, found ways to better allocate food and elevate nutrition in the process.