About 60 people attended the first diverse supplier event offered by Procurement Services to highlight businesses, many of them local, owned by women, minorities and veterans.
The U.S. Senate will likely pass a bill to overhaul immigration laws but the House will probably not vote on it this year, said adjunct professor of law, Stephen Yale-Loehr '77, J.D. '81, at a press briefing May 17 in Washington, D.C.
Diversity MBA Prep, an online community that brings together women and minorities interested in pursuing MBA degrees, recognized Johnson for diversity in recruitment practices.
The sixth Cornell Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference, held April 19-21 in Shanghai, drew record-high attendance of nearly 100 Cornell alumni, parents, friends and faculty members.
Finishing its first year as a university-supported organization, SWAG: Scholars Working Ambitiously to Graduate had 30 pairings of mentors and mentees, with 13 seniors on track to graduate this May.
Cornell’s College of Engineering has received a five-year, $908,000 grant from a joint National Science Foundation, Intel and GE program called Graduate 10K+.
On May 1 President David Skorton updated the Cornell community on the diversity planning effort Toward New Destinations, highlighting engagement with such off-campus constituents as community organizations and vendors.
Doctoral candidates Chavez Carter, Christian Guzman, Michael Mitchell and Luisa Rosas were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at an April 19-20 conference at Yale University.
