Students from across campus came together April 1 to hear Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick '09 speak about volunteering and diversity at Cornell during an event called 'Class of 2017: Engage, Impact, Inspire.'
Events this week include Jason and Alicia Hall Moran in Barnes Hall; 'Chasing Ice' at Cornell Cinema, a community project with artists and survivors of assault, and the American Indian Program's 30th anniversary conference.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Cornell's public engagement mission was showcased March 12 to about 225 Bay-Area alumni, parents and friends. Also in March, Cornellians hosted an event at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
The connection between Cornell and the Akron, N.Y.-based ice cream company Perry's goes back generations, to when Marlo Perry '35 took knowledge acquired in his dairy science classes back to the family dairy.
Staff member Mar Perez describes how her and her family's loss of most of their material possessions led her to value people and gave her the guiding lights of her life: her parents' courage, faith and hope.
Three prominent Republicans will speak on campus during April. They are S.E. Cupp '00, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), and former Republican presidential nominee Herman Cain.
