News & Events

University editor Jo Ann Wimer dies at 66

Wimer worked in Cornell's Office of Publications and Marketing from 1978 until her retirement in 2007. She died at Cayuga Medical Center Jan. 22 after a long bout with cancer. (Jan. 27, 2009)

Four professors named 2008 Weiss Presidential fellows

Bruce Ganem, Ronald Harris-Warrick, Mary Beth Norton and Richard Rand have been chosen for the 2008 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for excellence in teaching and advising. (Jan. 26, 2009)

Jay Walker named 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Walker '77, chairman of Walker Digital and founder of Priceline.com, will be honored on campus during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration April 16-17. (Jan. 26, 2009)

Taking control of life in a time of uncertainty

Linda Starr of Cornell's Employee Assistance Program suggests ways to cope with the winter blues and financial uncertainties. (Jan. 23, 2009)

Credit counseling service helps employees control spending

Cornell has contracted with Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Central New York to provide financial counseling at no cost to faculty and staff members.

Work/life teleconferences are new time-saving aid

New 20-minute monthly teleconferences are available to inform employees about Cornell's work/life programs and services.

Alumni authors recall their Cornell years in writing program

In a panel discussion Feb. 20, novelists Melissa Bank '98, Junot Diaz '95 and Julie Schumacher '86 praised Cornell's Creative Writing Program and gave advice to aspiring authors. (Feb. 23, 2009)

Riché Richardson shares art quilts and American perspective as cultural envoy in Paris

Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)

Pioneering legislator Constance Cook, CU trustee and first woman vice president, dies at 89

Constance Knowles Eberhardt Cook, a lawyer, legislator, pilot, Congressional candidate, Fulbright scholar and Cornell's first woman vice president, died Jan. 20. (Jan. 22, 2009)