Jennifer Tavares, president and CEO of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, has been hired as the director of Cornell’s Office of Community Relations, in the Division of University Relations. Tavares will start in her new role on Oct. 16.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is celebrating the reopening of its newly redesigned Visitor Center with a free event, including a special edition of its annual Migration Celebration. The event is Sept. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Items from the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection make up over 75% of the exhibit “Influencers: 1920s fashion and the New Woman” at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York.
In emotional ceremonies attended by hundreds of people, life-size bronze statues of two 20th-century women whose legacies continue to improve people’s lives were unveiled Aug. 17 in downtown Ithaca.
Max Zhang, the Irving Porter Church Professor in Cornell Engineering’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed the provost’s fellow for public engagement.
Since 1986, STEP has been addressing the underrepresentation of marginalized students in science, technology, engineering and math through programs at more than 50 universities across New York.
A critical shortage of powdered infant formula revealed significant challenges in the supply, market competition and regulation of formula in the United States.
