Interim President Hunter Rawlings and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi appeared at the Oct. 13 meeting of the Student Assembly to discuss the university's public safety efforts.
A drainage issue created unsafe conditions on part of the Cascadilla Gorge trail, necessitating its temporary closure between Treman Triangle at Linn Street and College Avenue.
Communication professor Drew Margolin studies human dynamics through social media and has been tracking how people react to presidential candidates on Twitter.
Cornell will hold town hall meetings Oct. 24-26 to answer questions regarding the new array of retiree health plan options that will be available to endowed retirees of Cornell University effective Jan. 1, 2017.
A working group has formed to reduce some of the administrative burdens felt by faculty and academic staff, beginning with developing metrics to calculate the hidden costs associated with implementing new policies and procedures.
"Witness Project" art installations on sites across campus are featuring representations of and responses to police violence, including photographs from the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Cornell faculty Senate on Oct. 12 passed a resolution encouraging the board of trustees to approve "Cornell Botanic Gardens" as the new name of Cornell Plantations.
In giving the 10th annual President's Address to Staff, Interim President Hunter Rawlings stressed the need for staff involvement in university concerns and collaboration across campus and among Cornell's three New York state campuses.
Award-winning author and literature scholar Seth Lerer, a visiting professor at Cornell this fall, will give the 2016 M.H. Abrams Lecture, Oct. 20 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
