Diversity Includes Disability: Carrying the Conversation Forward

As National Disability Employment Awareness Month comes to a close, the conversation doesn’t have to. Creating a more inclusive workplace happens through the everyday choices to listen, make space for different experiences and recognize what each person brings to the workforce. 

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CLASP joins Einhorn Center, expanding employee-student learning partnerships

In Fall 2025, Chloe Kritas ‘27 and Oksana Sikora, a cook at Cornell’s Morrison Dining, got together for an hour of English practice each week. Kritas, a hotel administration major interested in learning how to teach, came…

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‘A seat at the table’: Cornell expands access to multiple AI tools for faculty, staff, students

Most faculty, staff and students will have free access to a range of AI platforms – an effort to level the playing field, spur exploration and reduce the costs and vulnerabilities of individual consumer licenses.

RISE Award winners highlight ‘the best of R&I’

Eight employees across Cornell Research and Innovation were recognized Sept. 23 as part of the inaugural Research and Innovation Staff Excellence Awards.

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Reeve Parker, professor emeritus of literatures in English, dies at 89

A. Reeve Parker, professor emeritus of literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences and a scholar of British Romanticism, died Sept. 16 in Ithaca, New York, at age 89.

Tove Helland Hammer ’69, first female editor of ILR Review, dies at 80

Tove Helland Hammer ’69, professor emerita of organizational behavior in the ILR School and the first female editor of the ILR Review, died on Sept. 12 in Ithaca. A professor at Cornell for 47 years, Helland was 80.

Bryan Isacks, geophysicist who helped shape theory of plate tectonics, dies at 90

Bryan L. Isacks, the William and Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences Emeritus in the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering who transformed the understanding of Earth’s surface, died Sept. 9 in Ithaca. He was 90.

Cornell military community climbs to honor the 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

The annual 9/11 Memorial Workout is organized by Cornell Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and honors the first responders who lost their lives during the attacks on the World Trade Center. The workout brings together hundreds of Cornell cadets, veterans, staff and community members.

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Environmentalist photographer kicks off A.D. White Professors-at-Large series

James Balog will discuss his work documenting the worldwide rapid retreat of glaciers on Sept. 17 as part of the visiting professors program.