The first CU Downtown community event, Sept. 3 from noon to 4 p.m. on the Ithaca Commons, will welcome Cornell’s incoming class with student group performances and encourage students to explore Ithaca.
Twelve high school students from as far away as Romania and Honduras took part in the Life Changing Summer program this year, supported by Entrepreneurship at Cornell and run by Life Changing Labs.
The Department of Mathematics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences offers a Senior Seminar in which graduate students teach Ithaca High School advanced topics in math.
The Engaged Learning + Research center hosted an open house April 19 to show off renovated offices; afterward, the Service-Learning Showcase featured students engaged in service-learning projects.
Historic preservation planning student Ana Huckfeldt, M.A. ’16, helped bring local history to life during an internship with Historic Ithaca, with a project for the organization's 50th anniversary.
Panelists will discuss a national effort being organized by lawyers and activists to end the practice of family detention of refuge seekers in a panel discussion on campus April 16.
New and returning Cornell students heading to campus for the fall semester are learning how Ithaca spent its summer vacation: very dry. Campus water-use restrictions remain in effect.
Nearly 70 government, nonprofit and university representatives met April 7 in Ithaca to discuss some of their more prevalent town-gown concerns and the ways colleges and universities can collaborate with local officials.
A makeathon to develop affordable assistive technology for people with disabilities, sponsored by Cornell, will be held April 21-23 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Students in Tom Whitlow’s Restoration Ecology class spent the fall semester examining Lake Treman’s many components, and they worked with the New York State Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a plan for managing it.