Cornell trustee Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 fulfilled a lifelong dream in December with a year-end gift to Cornell’s Department of Economics to establish the Zubrow Professorship of Economics.
By turning down temperatures and unplugging electric devices over the holidays, the Cornell campus combined to save 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide from getting pumped into the atmosphere.
About 2,400 staff, faculty, retirees and their families attended the 2014 winter Employee Celebration, Jan. 25, which included dinner and athletic events.
NPR host, journalist, and race-relations expert Michele Norris, author of the best-selling "The Grace of Silence," will give the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 4.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Events on campus this week include a new survey of environmental art at the Johnson Museum; a silent screen adventure in Sage Chapel and other films; and Soup & hope speaker Gretchen Ryan '97.
More than 600 Cornell alumni and students came together in early January at 32 sites across the United States to connect and make a difference as part of the Public Service Center’s Cornell Cares Day.