The event, a chance for students, staff and faculty to come together and celebrate the conclusion of this year’s Summer Wellbeing Adventure, is set for July 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the Ag Quad.
Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.
The Employee Assembly presented the award to Adrienne Mason, the administrative director for two departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, on Aug.29.
Cornell Tech researchers unveiled a robot that helps emergency room teams locate life-saving supplies faster, revealing how design can shape collaboration under pressure.
Police Chief Anthony Bellamy, a member of the Cornell University Police Department for more than 21 years, including the last 3 ½ as chief, will retire from CUPD on Oct. 1 and join the Ithaca Police Department as a deputy chief.
Kyle Kimball, vice president of government relations and community engagement at New York University, has been named Cornell’s vice president for university relations.
Cornell’s Muslim chaplain Numan Dugmeoglu, and the Diwan Center for Muslim Life received the 29th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony during a ceremony April 21 at Willard Straight Hall.
Smolka, a biochemist and former interim director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, will support life sciences across the university.
Best-selling writer and technology blogger Cory Doctorow will make the A.D. White Professor-at-Large program’s second dual-campus visit, ending his week at Cornell Tech in New York City. Four other professors will visit Cornell this fall.
Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary “The Accelerator” on April 8 at 6 p.m. Producer David Raubach will attend the screening and participate in a discussion following the film.