Hadas Kress-Gazit, the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named the next associate dean for diversity and academic affairs for Cornell Engineering.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers and the TB Drug Accelerator have received two grants totaling $6.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study tuberculosis drug development.
The Graduate School welcomed nearly 70 new Dean’s Scholars. The Dean’s Scholars program honors students for their commitment to academic excellence and advancing diversity, access, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Cornell’s endowment returned 8.7% in the fiscal year ending June 30, adding nearly $860 million in net investment gains to close with a value of approximately $10.7 billion, according to the Office of University Investments.
President Martha E. Pollack gave her final Commencement speech – and a little advice – to the Class of 2024 and their guests in Schoellkopf Field on May 25.
Local farmers and growers, Cornell officials and others observed the 100th anniversary of the Hudson Valley Research Laboratory, part of Cornell AgriTech, in a celebratory event Aug. 18 in Highland, New York.
A survey of farmers in four Northeast states, including New York, found that incentive payments encouraged participants to plant twice as many acres of cover crops as they did prior to receiving funds – a change that can both improve their farms and mitigate climate change.