The Building Ourselves through Sisterhood and Service (B.O.S.S.) Mental Health Summit April 11 on campus examined mental health issues among minority women.
An early morning fire on the 400 block of Stewart Avenue in Ithaca displaced 44 Cornell students and two staff members. No injuries were reported in connection with the incident. The fire is under investigation.
Union Days 2015 - themed "Labor on the Line: Breaking Boundaries, Building Movements" and held April 7-8 - featured a talk by Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.
Fredrick Blaisdell '16 and Steven Ingram '16 have received 2015 Udall scholarships, for students who show potential for careers in environmental public policy, health care and tribal public policy.
Cornell sociologist Laura Tach as 2015 William T. Grant Foundation Scholars will receive a five-year, $350,000 award to fund research on U.S. families.
Veterinary medicine researchers have found that stem cells inside capsules secrete substances that help heal simulated wounds in cell cultures. The capsules need to be tested to see if they will help healing in humans.
Activist, scholar and writer Barbara Ransby led a community conversation April 8 about the state of the current civil rights movement in the U.S., including the "black lives matter" push.
At the 60th Service Recognition Dinner – the last one he and Robin Davisson would host and Vice President Susan Murphy would emcee – President David Skorton recognized 368 staff members who have served Cornell for 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years.
President Skorton announced that a floor of the University Health Services facility will be named in honor of Vice President Susan H. Murphy ’73, Ph.D. ’94, at a gathering held April 7 to celebrate her career.
