M.H. Abrams memorial set for Sept. 12

Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett and Department of English faculty and staff will honor the late M. H. Abrams as a towering figure in literary and cultural studies at a memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium.

Orientation offers new students wide range of activities

Starting with Move-in Day Aug. 21, Orientation will include a president's reception, Convocation, Big Red Blowout and a variety of concerts, performances, lectures and sales.

Public health fellows provide 'near-peer' perspectives

Three recent Cornell graduates have returned to the Ithaca campus to help promote student health and well-being as part of the Public Health Fellows program at Gannett Health Services.

Influential theater professor Stephen Cole dies at 82

Stephen Cole, who helped establish one of the nation’s first master’s programs in acting at Cornell in the 1960s and whose students included Jimmy Smits and Christopher Reeve, has died.

Cornell welcomes its most diverse freshman class

Of the 3,219 students in the Class of 2019, a record number are students of color – 1,488, or 46.2 percent; and a record number of freshmen self-identify as underrepresented minority students – 756, or 23.5 percent.

Accounting professor Mark Nelson honored as a top teacher

Mark Nelson, the Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, won the Cook Prize for excellence graduate accounting teaching.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi writes of exile in new novel

Three post-colonial exiles in the 1990s are brought together by common histories of betrayal and violence in Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s latest novel, 'Mrs. Shaw.'

Undergrad researches the desecration of cultures

Anjum Malik ’16 is researching why Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria have destroyed museums and heritage sites and reminds us that Western powers did the same thing a century ago.

Dean Dutta promotes women in business at White House

At an Aug. 5 White House event, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Dean Soumitra Dutta joined leaders of elite business schools in committing to producing more women executives.