For the next eight weeks, the university will seek to raise $10,000 a week in pledges to the United Way, announced University Librarian Anne Kenney, chair of the Cornell United Way campaign.
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity has been placed on interim suspension, pending an investigation, according to a statement issued by Vice President Joel Malina.
At last week's Soup and Hope talk, Brian Patchcoski, associate dean and director of the Cornell LGBT Resource Center, shared his “unexpected and unanticipated” journey toward finding and affirming community.
Bruce Wallace, professor emeritus of genetics, died Jan. 12 in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the age of 94 from a stroke-related illness. Wallace taught at Cornell from 1958 to 1981.
The Cornell Undergraduate Research Board's peer mentoring program seeks to connect experienced student researchers with new students. Deadline to apply as a mentor or mentee is Feb. 6.
The spring 2015 Engaged Cornell Speaker Series will host three speakers who will talk about indigenous approaches to research. Among the speakers will be Cornell professor Karim-Aly Kassam.
More than 100 economics majors read “The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life” over winter break. The department also offered credit to students to write papers about the book.
The seven-year-old Physics Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program supports Cornell students considering a career in teaching high school physics. The program has grown to over 60 participants this year.
