Two freshmen earn top Learning Ally awards

For their advocacy for people with learning disabilities, Brian Meersma ’18 and Mara Schein ’18 will each receive the Marion Huber Learning Through Listening National Achievement Award.

Cornell Perspectives: Student marches in Selma, 50 years later

On March 8, Thaddeus Talbot retraced the steps of civil-rights marchers 1965 trek from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Things have changed, but more remains to be done, Talbot writes.

Second International Faculty Fellows cohort chosen

A medical doctor fighting the spread of HIV around the world, international legal and foreign relations scholars and a labor scholar are among the second cohort of International Faculty Fellows.

Scholarship sends ILR student to study Indonesian language

ILR School student J. Lowell Jackson ’17 will study Bahasa Indonesian for three months this summer through the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.

ILR program for people with disabilities funded through 2019

The ILR Employment and Disability Institute’s New York State Partners in Policymaking program will receive $250,000 annually for the next five years. The money will fund a Web-based model of leadership training.

Cornell sinks teeth into four new MOOCs

Cornell will offer four new massive open online courses - or MOOCs - in 2016. Learn abouts sharks, GMOs, engineering simulations and how mergers and acquisitions get done.

Institute for the Social Sciences names 13 faculty fellows

Thirteen social scientists from across the university are joining the Institute for the Social Sciences as fellows-in-residence during the 2015-16 academic year.

Students teach, learn valuable lessons on trip to Honduras

Cornell students and mentors traveled to Honduras Jan. 12-19 to work with a group, Mayor Potencial, focused on improving education opportunities in rural areas of the nation.

Upperclass students connect undergrads to research

The Cornell Undergraduate Research Board's peer mentoring program seeks to connect experienced student researchers with new students. Deadline to apply as a mentor or mentee is Feb. 6.