Interim President Hunter Rawlings sent his condolences Tuesday to the family of Nellie Corson, widow of Cornell's eighth president, Dale Corson. Nellie Corson died Monday, Jan. 23, at the age of 102.
Cornell helps set its students on the path to the American Dream, according to the Equality of Opportunity Project's "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility."
On Feb. 3-4, the English department will host an international conference to address the theoretical impact and importance of the groundbreaking "Theory of the Lyric" by professor Jonathan Culler.
Edward Buckler, United States Department of Agriculture and Cornell plant geneticist, has received the inaugural 2017 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences.
An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant of $1.1 million will extend the interdisciplinary seminar series Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, established in 2014.
The new Engaged Cornell Hub on the third floor of Kennedy Hall offers a central location and shared collaborative space for public and community service and engagement units on campus.
Cornell’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program seeks to increase the public impact of top underrepresented thinkers in the U.S. and to help them contribute to public conversations.
Events on campus include four new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, Cornell Cinema reopening after renovations with free films for students, and the first-ever Animal Health Hackathon.
