Engaged Curriculum Grants support courses, curricula

Fourteen new projects funded with 2016 Engaged Curriculum Grants are underway. With an additional eight teams receiving renewal funding, the grants involve 93 faculty and staff team members, and 29 departments.

United Way leaders stress basic needs in campaign kickoffs

Both the county and Cornell United Way campaigns for 2016-17 kicked off last week, focusing on how gifts to the United Way help local agencies meet the basic needs of donors' friends and neighbors.

Ithaca Mayor Myrick to present drug plan Sept. 29 on campus

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick '09 will discuss the Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy at noon Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.

Extension specialists shine in disaster response role

Cornell Cooperative Extension specialists excelled in a recent statewide disaster response simulation administered by New York State's Office of Emergency Management.

Breaking Bread will focus on police, post-election America

The campus community is invited to join discussions of police-community relations Sept. 21 and politics in America Nov. 9, hosted by the university's Breaking Bread initiative.

Adirondack Fishery Program establishes faculty fellowship

Cornell's new faculty fellowship in fisheries and aquatic sciences named for Dwight A. Webster, the professor of Fishery Biology who laid the groundwork for the Adirondack Fishery Research Program.

Engaged Cornell 2016 Faculty Fellows named

Twelve faculty members from seven departments have been named Engaged Cornell Faculty Fellows for 2016–17. The program supports faculty who do community-engaged teaching or research.

Homecoming showcases today's Cornell, Sept. 23-24

Cornell's Homecoming 2016, Sept. 23-24, will start with a bang – the popular fireworks and laser light show – and continue through a weekend of fun events for the university and area communities.

Popmaster Fabel teaches community to pop and lock

Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon led the first of five workshops this semester at the Schwartz Center in the popping style he’s famous for, electric boogaloo.