The second annual BEAR (Be Engaged and Responsible) Walk Sept. 1 brought students and permanent residents of Collegetown together for snow cones, ice-cream and musical performances.
Three Cornellians are among eight recipients of the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, awarded to families and individuals worldwide who have dedicated their private wealth to the public good.
With gifted oratory, scientific insight and humor, Cornell icons Steve Squyres ’78, Ph.D. ’81, and Bill Nye ’77 fired their main engines and launched the “idea” portion of the university’s Charter Day Weekend festival.
Cornell sponsored Turkish academics Azat Gündoğan, a sociologist, and his wife, historian Nilay Ozok-Gündoğan, when they were threatened by their government.
William J. Lynn III, J.D. '80, has been nominated by President-elect Barack Obama for deputy defense secretary, the No. 2 position at the Pentagon. (Jan. 14, 2009)
The nonprofit Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, co-founded in 2012 by Ajay Chaudhary '03, integrates teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences into the lives of working adults.
Juvenile offenders sentenced to life without parole in the state of South Carolina recently won the right to new sentencing hearings, thanks to Cornell Law School efforts.
Fifty-two high school junior and senior girls spent a week at the CURIE Academy at Cornell to examine engineering as a possible career, and to do some real engineering on their own.