Cornell Heroes is an annual campaign to spotlight and celebrate staff teams for a steadfast commitment to their daily work that serves as a foundation for the university and its mission.
The Inclusive Wellness Series, sponsored by Cornell’s Department of Inclusion and Belonging in partnership with the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, hosted a well-attended public talk with Dr. Leah Hollis on March 10 about her research on workplace bullying in higher education.
The project, dubbed AUGER (Accelerating Use of Geologically-driven Engineering & Reclamation), was awarded $739K of funding from NSF’s Convergence Accelerator to support translational research combining x-ray and hyperspectral imaging capabilities at CHESS with remote sensing techniques to link macroscale data with microscale mineral properties to create predictive mining insights.
Nineteen individuals and three teams received President’s Awards for Employee Excellence – including a new award, Culture of Sustainability – during a celebration held Nov. 15 in Barton Hall and online.
The 2023 VCNG Continuation of Service Award was presented to Jennifer Ross, an Executive MBA Metro NY candidate in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Clarkson head coach Casey Jones ’90, a former Big Red captain and assistant coach, will join the team this year as associate head coach, then succeed Schafer as Cornell’s 13th head coach of men’s hockey in 2025.