The 3,681 first-year students and 603 transfers who begin moving to campus Aug. 17, hail from 49 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and 62 countries.
Through a partnership between Cornell’s School of Continuing Education (SCE) and 4‑H, high school students from across New York state receive scholarships to Cornell’s Precollege Studies program and take Cornell courses for credit on campus or online during the summer.
Vardan Khachatryan and Lilit Abrahamyan did not plan to stay in the U.S. when they left Armenia in 2016 and moved to Virginia. That changed in 2018, when they arrived in Ithaca.
A longtime extension educator and vegetable specialist, Reid will lead Cornell Cooperative Extension's statewide Regional Agriculture Teams, strengthening connections between Cornell research and New York's agricultural communities.
Students and faculty will help the city transform its parks and their care – with new landscaping features and a proposed maintenance plan and governance structure.
Cornell Botanic Gardens has expanded its self-guided walking tours to Spanish and Mandarin, the two most spoken languages other than English among Cornell students and their families. The gardens partnered with two campus programs, where students translated 10 tours into the two additional languages, and recorded audio for 26 stops around the cultivated gardens and F.R. Newman Arboretum.
Middle and high school students from across New York state spent three days discovering potential career paths during the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, held June 30 to July 2 at Cornell.
Cornell’s Einhorn Center for Community Engagement works with the School of Continuing Education to identify local STEP and Upward Bound students ready to enroll in Cornell courses through Precollege Studies
Thanks to a new civil and environmental engineering course, adjunct professor Charlie Trautmann helps students hone their engineering skills by designing and building a series of community bridges.
