Engineer Max Zhang makes a concerted effort to improve the world through collaboration. “Ideas will only stay in my lab, will only stay on paper, if we don’t engage or work with the community.”
Thanks to multilingual Cornell students, 500 Ithaca-area children learning English as a second language each have a new book personalized just for them, with the English text translated into their native language.
More than 100 local and Cornell community members attended the seventh annual Town-Gown Awards ceremony Dec. 2. This year the celebration featured the three new presidents of Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Demonstrating the importance they place on town-gown relations, the presidents of Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College will speak at the annual town-gown awards event Dec. 2.
A Cornell student, representing global youth constituencies at the Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, delivered a strong climate change statement to the convention delegates.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County will hold its 2017 annual meeting and local foods breakfast Dec. 5 from 8 to 10 a.m. at The Space @ GreenStar, 700 West Buffalo St. in Ithaca. The public is invited.
Climate science, theater and civic engagement come together in a new Performing and Media Arts course that culminates in student-created multimedia performances Dec 1-4.
