To journey to Cornell for starting the fall semester in the university's early years, train travel, ships and steamers served as viable options for arriving on campus.
Cornell’s Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST) program celebrates two decades of bringing first-year and transfer students into the Ithaca community to do serve at nonprofit organizations.
The Prefreshman Summer Program helps first-generation students, students of color and students from low-income backgrounds make a successful transition from high school to Cornell.
Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett and Department of English faculty and staff will honor the late M. H. Abrams as a towering figure in literary and cultural studies at a memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium.
Starting with Move-in Day Aug. 21, Orientation will include a president's reception, Convocation, Big Red Blowout and a variety of concerts, performances, lectures and sales.
Three recent Cornell graduates have returned to the Ithaca campus to help promote student health and well-being as part of the Public Health Fellows program at Gannett Health Services.
Stephen Cole, who helped establish one of the nation’s first master’s programs in acting at Cornell in the 1960s and whose students included Jimmy Smits and Christopher Reeve, has died.
Of the 3,219 students in the Class of 2019, a record number are students of color – 1,488, or 46.2 percent; and a record number of freshmen self-identify as underrepresented minority students – 756, or 23.5 percent.
Mark Nelson, the Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, won the Cook Prize for excellence graduate accounting teaching.
