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.
High school students from Native American backgrounds visited campus March 21-22 to learn about Cornell, celebrated Haudenosaunee culture with a symposium and exhibit and talk to Cornell Native American students about attending Cornell.
The 2013 Dean’s Fellow in the history of home economics in the College of Human Ecology gave an account of Flemmie Kittrell’s life March 20. Kittrell was the first African-American woman in the country to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition.
At a March 22 workshop aimed to encourage grade-school girls to pursue science and technology, Girl Scouts decoded secret messages and investigated a scene to earn scouting detective badges, among other activities.
“The Long Wait," a four-minute film written by Juliette Ramírez Corazón, College of Arts and Sciences advising dean and Latino Student Success Office adviser, premieres March 24.
Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94, an expert in property law and land use, and Cornell faculty member from 2006 to 2012, has been named the next Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, effective July 1.
