The 2017 Cornell United Way Campaign launched Sept. 20, with Andy Noel, campaign co-chair, announcing a goal of $750,000 and a shorter, more intense campaign, concluding at the end of November.
Ferdows, who served as an Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Army, says Cornell welcomed him with academic support, financial aid and camaraderie with other veteran students.
President David Skorton and Vice President Susan Murphy issued a statement thanking the Ithaca and Cornell communities for their response to the fire that displaced 48 people and burned down the Chapter House.
Eighteen projects initiated by faculty to support community-engaged learning have received Engaged Cornell's inaugural Engaged Curriculum Grants, totaling more than $930,000.
On Cornell’s Ithaca campus this week, in the midst of a semester interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a basketball court in Bartels Hall stirred to life with a new, urgent mission and two dozen volunteers who began sewing surgical masks for Cayuga Medical Center.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit is installing nearly 560 bus stop signs, redesigned in partnership with systems engineering students and the Cornell University Sustainability Design group.