A radical shift in playing style has helped fuel a Cornell men’s basketball resurgence. The Big Red has posted its third straight winning season and is the No. 3 seed heading into this weekend’s Ivy League Tournament, at Columbia.
Michael I. Kotlikoff assumes the role of Cornell’s interim president following the retirement of Cornell’s 14th president, Martha E. Pollack. He will serve until 2026.
Cornell’s new baseball stadium on Ellis Hollow Road will be called Booth Field, honoring Richard L. “Rich” Booth ’82 for his extraordinary leadership and generosity – much of it anonymous – over the last four decades.
While pursuing her master’s in apparel design, Tulasi Elangovan, M.A. ’23, researched and designed a prototype for a shoulder pad made especially for female hockey players, with help from members of the Big Red women’s team.
Charles H. Moore ’51, an Olympic gold medalist who went on to set Cornell athletics on firm footing as athletic director in the 1990s, died Oct. 8 at his home in Pennsylvania. He was 91.
Nicki Webber Moore, vice president and director of athletics at Colgate University, has been named Cornell’s Meakem Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education. She will be Cornell’s first female director of athletics.
Wrestler Kyle Dake ’13, one of five Cornellians in Paris for the Olympic Games, defeated Hetik Cabolov of Serbia, 10-4, in the 74-kilogram division on Aug. 10 to win his second consecutive Olympic bronze medal.
JT Baker ’21, a senior in the School of Hotel Administration and student-elected trustee, would be unrecognizable to any of the nurses who cared for him after he was born three months premature, weighing little more than a football.