Cornell employees, retirees and their families enjoyed the 2016 Winter Employee Celebration Jan. 23, with a winning Cornell women's basketball game and dinner.
Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Janaya Khan of BLM Toronto will speak Feb. 3 at the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
The College of Art and Sciences’ Program on Ethics and Public Life hosts a semester-long, in-depth lecture series on inequality starting Feb. 8. Lectures are Mondays at 4:30 p.m., Goldwin Smith Hall.
Venture capitalist Leland C. Pillsbury ’69 has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2016. He will be honored April 14-15 at Cornell’s annual entrepreneurship Celebration conference in Ithaca.
The ninth annual Soup & Hope series opened with a talk by Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo ’08, who described her personal journey toward authenticity, letting herself learn how to express and control her emotions in public.
Cornell Cares Day – a worldwide student-alumni service event held each January that connects Cornellians to serve their local communities through direct, hands-on service projects – united alumni and students in more than 30 cities in a day of service.
Steven D. Tanksley, a molecular geneticist who pioneered concepts essential to modern plant breeding while a professor at Cornell University, has won the prestigious Japan Prize worth $420,000.
Since the early 1970s, Cornell students have begun their dive training in the pool of Teagle Hall and making deeper dives in Cayuga Lake. The program has certified about 2,000 divers in its history.
