News & Events

Jay Walker named 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Walker '77, chairman of Walker Digital and founder of Priceline.com, will be honored on campus during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration April 16-17. (Jan. 26, 2009)

Taking control of life in a time of uncertainty

Linda Starr of Cornell's Employee Assistance Program suggests ways to cope with the winter blues and financial uncertainties. (Jan. 23, 2009)

Credit counseling service helps employees control spending

Cornell has contracted with Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Central New York to provide financial counseling at no cost to faculty and staff members.

Work/life teleconferences are new time-saving aid

New 20-minute monthly teleconferences are available to inform employees about Cornell's work/life programs and services.

Alumni authors recall their Cornell years in writing program

In a panel discussion Feb. 20, novelists Melissa Bank '98, Junot Diaz '95 and Julie Schumacher '86 praised Cornell's Creative Writing Program and gave advice to aspiring authors. (Feb. 23, 2009)

Riché Richardson shares art quilts and American perspective as cultural envoy in Paris

Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)

Pioneering legislator Constance Cook, CU trustee and first woman vice president, dies at 89

Constance Knowles Eberhardt Cook, a lawyer, legislator, pilot, Congressional candidate, Fulbright scholar and Cornell's first woman vice president, died Jan. 20. (Jan. 22, 2009)

Junot Díaz joins alumni authors to celebrate a century of creative writing at Cornell

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)

Excited students take Big Red to the inauguration: 'It's history in the making'

Among the throngs attending the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama were 100 Cornell students, faculty and staff who took an all-night bus together to brave the cold and witness the historic ceremony. (Jan. 21, 2009)