Community invited to Sept. 6 entrepreneurship kickoff

This year's entrepreneurship kickoff features more than 20 organizations and a pitch competition among student business founders.

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Big Red Buddies support learning in Head Start classrooms

Students in the Big Red Buddies program volunteer their time to assist in classrooms with the Tompkins County Early Head Start and Head Start program, which promotes healthy child development and education for low-income families.

New name for Women’s Resource Center reflects expanded support

As part of an ongoing goal to better meet the needs of both women and students who identify outside the gender binary, The Women’s Resource Center was renamed the Gender Equity Resource Center on August 7, 2023. 

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Pollack welcomes students, previews theme year

President Martha E. Pollack welcomes students to the 2023-24 academic year and introduces the first universitywide theme year, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

Global opportunities take center stage at International Fair

Cornell’s world of opportunities is coming to central campus. Students can take a whirlwind tour through the university’s global offerings at this year’s International Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Uris Hall Terrace.

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Five early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying the formation of the Earth’s crust and wearable technology for daily-life applications are among those at Cornell who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

Students head across globe thanks to Summer Experience Grant funding

Summer Experience Grants in the College of Arts & Sciences helped 139 students to take minimally-paid or unpaid summer positions this year. 

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‘Be curious, not judgmental,’ Pollack tells new Cornellians

Thousands of first-year and transfer students gathered Aug. 20 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation, where they were told there is no better place than Cornell to feed and grow a curious mind.

Hudson Valley Research Lab celebrates its 100th

Local farmers and growers, Cornell officials and others observed the 100th anniversary of the Hudson Valley Research Laboratory, part of Cornell AgriTech, in a celebratory event Aug. 18 in Highland, New York.