CALS junior earns national award for addressing social change

Christina Ochoa, who advocates for incarcerated people serving life sentences in New York state through the Cornell University Parole Initiative, earned the Newman Civic Fellowship for her dedication to transforming systemic injustice in prisons and parole policies.

Collaboration is a good fit for wearable sensor startup

A Cornell startup is working with the Performance Apparel Design Lab to take its wearable sensor technology, which can track the movement of athletes, and use it to monitor pilots undergoing high-gravitational-force training.

2022 Kessler Fellows reflect diversity of disciplines

The Kessler Fellows program welcomes fifteen new student entrepreneurs from across Cornell's colleges for entrepreneurship training and startup internship experience. 

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Event to provide resources, insight on war in Ukraine

Faculty experts and Ukrainian students will speak about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens lives, the post–Cold War international order and the stability of the global economy at an event March 17 at 4:30 p.m.

Board of Trustees approves 2022 budget parameters

At its January meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees approved parameters for the university’s 2022-23 budget, including tuition rates for the coming academic year.

ILR creates workplace inclusion, diversity education program

The new ILR Workplace Inclusion and Diversity Education program will develop and deliver innovative teaching methods, conduct research and develop partnerships with leading organizations to help promote workplace inclusion and study approaches that foster a culture of inclusive leadership through empathy and dialogue-based interventions.

NYC, Cornell artists produce ‘quarrelsome’ opera

Rebecca Harris-Warrick’s opera project, “The Pleasures of the Quarrel” will be shown March 27 at Bailey Hall. This is a collaboration between the New York Baroque Dance Company, the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, four professional singers and students.

Ilya Kaminsky to read from poetry collections March 24

Poet, translator, and essayist Ilya Kaminsky will read poems, discuss his collections “Dancing in Odessa” and “Deaf Republic,” and speak about his new work on March 24.

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Nigerian virologist builds lasting legacy in animal health

Kehinde Adesegun Abayomi Majiyagbe, M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’79, worked to control many diseases, including African swine fever and rinderpest, impacting not only animal health, but food security and the economy for people in the region.

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