On Oct. 16, President David J. Skorton sent a letter to the CEO of VF Corp., severing the university’s business relationship with JanSport, citing deep concern over the ongoing issues surrounding worker and factory safety in Bangladesh.
The university is putting in place travel restrictions, given the evolving Ebola situation and its responsibility to protect the health of the community. Messages have been emailed to all students, faculty and staff.
Cornell Provost W. Kent Fuchs has been named the 12th president of the University of Florida, the UF board of trustees announced Oct. 15. He expects to begin his new position Jan. 1.
Venture capitalist Dan Miller '78 asked Cornell students to leverage their degrees in agriculture, engineering and business to become clean tech entrepreneurs in a campus talk Oct. 7.
Months before the first students arrived for the first-ever semester at Cornell University, the school’s tiny faculty and administration – chiefly President Andrew Dickson White – set about placing figurative cornerstones for educational success.
With the state’s dairy industry tearing through an economic boom, Cornell hosted the second New York State Yogurt and Dairy Summit Oct. 15, featuring Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, Agriculture and about 100 industry and government leaders.
Influential African scholar Ali Mazrui, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and a senior scholar in Africana studies at Cornell, died Oct. 13. He was 81.
Nobel economics laureate Robert F. Engle, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69, will give a Sesquicentennial lecture, "The Prospects for Global Financial Stability," Oct. 24.
College of Arts and Sciences students face a bewildering array of choices of major and is offering Exploring Majors and Careers workshops to help them decide.
