Qualcomm founder Jacobs receives engineering alumni award

Irwin Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56, whose invention of code-division multiple access technology unleashed the power of modern wireless communications, received the Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

Things to Do, April 26-May 3, 2019

Events include the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows lecture; the play “Spill” on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Cornell Chorus and Glee Club performing “A German Requiem”; and the Cornell Orchestras’ final performances of the semester. 

Women’s basketball signs 7-year-old Karina Hill

Karina Hill, a 7-year-old second-grader from South Hill Elementary School in Ithaca, has officially joined the Cornell women’s basketball team, a Division I program.

Key role of office professionals celebrated at lunch

The 31st annual Jennie T. Farley Office Professionals Celebration, held April 24 in Barton Hall, focused on the central role employees play in the life and mission of the university.

Staff News

Democracy scholar wins Guggenheim fellowship

Suzanne Mettler, Ph.D. ’94, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Occupation anniversary inspires continued progress

Fifty years to the day that students began an occupation of Willard Straight Hall in protest of racial issues on campus, the Cornell community gathered to reflect on the legacy of the occupation and the people involved.

Alumni reflect on Willard Straight occupation, 50 years later

Frank Dawson ’72 held a public conversation April 18 in Bailey Hall with Harry Edwards, Ph.D. ’73, about social justice and the 36-hour occupation of Willard Straight Hall in 1969.

Students spend spring break studying agribusiness in Spain

Twenty-five students participated in the weeklong trip to the Catalonia region of Spain to visit livestock growing and processing operations, wineries and a hazelnut farm with three faculty advisers.

Five inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Five Cornell doctoral candidates have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.