Hartwell award to fund study of mitochondrial disease in children

Joeva Barrow, assistant professor of molecular nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has won a 2022 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which funds biomedical research to advance children’s health.

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Inclusive Excellence Podcast: "Any Person, Any Purpose" with Cyrus Hamilton-Ferguson

In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel are joined by Cyrus Hamilton-Ferguson, assistant director of Student Disability Services at Cornell, for a conversation about how his personal and professional lives have intertwined over time and while working at the university.

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New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

The award was created to recognize novel approaches to community engagement in each college that haven’t historically been honored.

Christopher J. Cowen named chief financial officer

Christopher James Cowen, senior vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been named Cornell’s next executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1.

A movement brings community, visibility to neurodiversity at Cornell

Through community-building and advocacy, Neurodiversity @ Cornell is helping neurodivergent students and staff flourish at Cornell. 

New hires, new focus enhance academic initiatives at Einhorn Center

The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement’s new Academic Initiatives team will focus on the Engaged College Initiative, faculty development and global engagement programming, and research examining the institutional impacts of community-engaged learning.

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Workshops to address legal challenges in higher ed

Cornell’s Office of General Counsel, to engage proactively with groups across campuses, is planning a series of four workshops designed to educate Cornell community members on common legal challenges in higher education.

Inclusive Excellence Podcast: Meet editor, Grace DePaull

In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel invite Grace DePaull, the editor of the podcast, to help wrap up Women’s History Month by honoring this year’s theme of celebrating women who tell our stories.  

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Edward Wolf, first Cornell NanoScale Facility director, dies

Edward Dean Wolf, a pioneer in nanofabrication who joined Cornell in 1978 as the first director of what would become the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, died March 11 in Ithaca. He was 87.

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