In her fourth State of the University Address, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack announced that two residence halls will be named for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55.
The Cornell Defender Program virtually teamed undergraduates and law students with trial attorneys to support indigent defense in Tompkins County and a more diverse pipeline of students interested in law careers.
Cornell’s Adult University is hosting free and pay-to-view live online seminars open to the public this fall, beginning with “The 2020 Presidential Election – an Online Seminar.”
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies, has finally reached a goal that was decades in the making: giving away his entire fortune during his lifetime.
Professor Jonathan Boyarin studied at Mesiytha Tifereth Jerusalem, New York’s oldest institution of rabbinic learning. His new book describes his experiences in “Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side.”
As part of StayHomecoming, Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D. ’66, spoke with NBC News journalist Kate Snow ’91 in a virtual discussion that ranged from the search for a COVID-19 vaccine to Fauci’s experience battling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Cornell astronomy professors Alex Hayes and Jonathan Lunine have been named chairs for two of the six panels for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032.
