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Alumni couple gives $1.5M to Cornell men's tennis

Andy Noel, the Meakem*Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education, announced Richard A. Johnson '57 and Dale Reis Johnson '58 made a $1.5 million gift to the Cornell men’s tennis program.

Shelley Wong reflects on time, race, knowledge

Time, says Shelley Wong, "is socially constructed, continually made and remade in culturally specific ways." Wong’s book project focuses on race, time and narrative.

N.Y. ag commissioner brings good budget news from Albany

State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball came to Cornell Jan. 27 with an upbeat message about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2017 budget: it's good for the middle class and it's good for agriculture.

Cornell Police implements body-camera program

As of Jan. 16, all uniformed police officers have been equipped with body-worn cameras to aid in their investigations and enhance public confidence and support.

New video, workshop encourage peer intervention

A new bystander intervention video, "Intervene," developed by the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives at Gannett Health Services, helps students come forward to aid fellow students in distress.

Online photo collection documents African-American life

Hundreds of rare photographs documenting the journey of African-Americans from the slavery era to the 20th century are digitized and freely accessible to students and scholars around the world.

Grad students find support in creative writing group

Participants in Cornell's Historians Are Writers! grapple with tone, diction and style, read widely and receive valuable feedback from group members.

New high-pressure processor destroys foodborne pathogens

The Hiperbaric 55 high-pressure food processor at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station has become the nation's first commercial-scale validation facility.

Students test Hyperloop pod at SpaceX competition

An 18-foot-long pod engineered by a team that included Cornell students was put to the test during Hyperloop Competition Weekend, Jan. 27-30, at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Obamacare Medicaid expansion improved preventive care

New research by John Cawley demonstrates for the first time that the state-level expansions of Medicaid that were promoted by the Affordable Care Act succeeded in improving preventive care among low-income Americans.

Fulton, Viramontes to read from their work Feb. 9

Faculty writers Alice Fulton and Helena María Viramontes will read from their recent work, including poetry and a novel in progress, Feb. 9 in Klarman Hall.

Winter Employee Celebration capped by basketball win

More than 2,300 Cornell employees, retirees and family members enjoyed dinner and basketball at the Winter Employee Celebration, Jan. 28.