Students reflect on engaged experiences, leadership

Students reflected on their learning experiences and future goals in community engagement as they completed a leadership certificate program this spring.

CLASP student mentors adjust to learning in place

With the switch to remote learning in April, students in the Community Learning and Service Partnership program had to find creative ways to modify their learning partnerships.

Cornell leads effort to provide masks for incarcerated people

Rob Scott, director of Cornell Prison Education Program, has organized 14 New York colleges and universities to provide masks for every person incarcerated in the state – nearly 43,000 people.

Cornell library gains permanent access to genocide archive

The voices of survivors of the Holocaust and other atrocities will live on through Cornell University Library’s recently acquired permanent access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.

Cornell biologists grow, donate plant kits to local families

The lab of Margaret Frank, assistant professor of plant biology, has helped create nearly 1,000 at-home gardening kits, which they donated to children in the Ithaca City School District during meal delivery May 8.

ILR’s Ithaca Co-Lab to focus on engaged learning, outreach

ILR has announced the creation of the Ithaca Co-Lab, which will focus on engaged learning opportunities and outreach work in Ithaca and the surrounding region. It is modeled after the school’s Buffalo Co-Lab.

AgriTech Center of Excellence helps food, ag startups thrive

Since its doors opened in September 2018, Cornell AgriTech's Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture has supported more than 50 New York-based companies and helped raised $12.3 million to grow businesses.

Cornellians help keep Loaves & Fishes going during pandemic

Threatened with shutting down due to COVID-19, Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County was saved at the last minute by the formation of new partnerships that helped keep the food distribution service going.

Leaders share global climate change stories, solutions

Members of Cornell’s Humphrey Fellowship Program shared stories of struggle and hope, as their countries grapple with climate change, during “Global Climate Stories,” an April 22 webinar.