Cornell University is a state of mind, and both a beginning and a destination, much like the "Ithaka" of C.P. Cavafy's poem about Ulysses' journey home, said President Elizabeth Garrett at her inauguration as Cornell's 13th president.
Mark Weinberger presented the 33rd annual Hatfield Lecture, "Going Long: Leadership Strategies for a Volatile World," Sept. 17 in Statler Auditorium, to a packed audience of students, faculty and alumni.
The effort to mark the tenure of President Elizabeth Garrett includes the largest batch of ice cream Cornell Dairy dairy has ever produced. 24 Garrett Swirl features chocolate, caramel and mocha.
A cast of hundreds – faculty, staff, students, alumni and members of the local community – lent their creativity and enthusiasm in planning an "all-encompassing" inauguration.
The deadline for students with children to apply for child care grant funding is Oct. 16. The funding available for 2015-16 is more than double what it was last year.
Events on campus this week include printmaking activities at the Johnson Museum, a fiction reading by novelist Colson Whitehead
and a talk on eating disorders by Olympic athlete Jamie Silverstein ’08.
