Two newly renovated spaces – eHub Collegetown and Rev: Ithaca Startup Works – opened their doors last week to students and community members, offering many new resources for local entrepreneurs.
A plaque commemorating the original home of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center at 320 Wait Ave., destroyed by fire in 1970, was unveiled Sept. 24 following a dedication ceremony.
Faculty members M. Diane Burton and Gerard Aching have accepted appointments as Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement, serving the university's public engagement mission over the next three years.
From using drones to track nutrient management in upstate corn fields to working with Head Start programs in Harlem, Cornell Cooperative Extension interns helped New York communities this summer.
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.
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 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.
Cornell Cooperative Extension specialists excelled in a recent statewide disaster response simulation administered by New York State's Office of Emergency Management.
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.
