Rubacha Featured Speakers Susan Rodriguez ('81, B.Arch. '82) and Michael Manfredi (M.Arch. '80) will deliver lectures on Thursday, October 23, at 5:30 p.m. in the Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium on Cornell's Ithaca campus. In advance of their talks, Rodriguez and Manfredi share insights drawn from their professional trajectories.
The Varian Edge linear accelerator provides state-of-the art, non-invasive radiotherapy treatments. The closest comparable facilities are in New York City, and while approximately 40% of veterinary schools have radiation oncology programs, few have access to such technology. Cornell’s Varian Edge replaces machinery previously installed in 2000.
The gift from philanthropist Tom Secunda, co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., will help fund artificial intelligence-related research at Cornell Tech in New York City and at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science in Ithaca.
More than $520 million in contributions from David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64 – including a new pledge of $371.5 million and a 2025 commitment of $100 million, combined with previous gifts – will establish the Cornell David A. Duffield College of Engineering.
Vice President and General Counsel Donica Thomas Varner has announced plans to step down from her position effective Feb. 6, 2026. The university will conduct a national search for her replacement.
COVID-19 prevention methods such as masking and social distancing also suppressed the circulation of common respiratory diseases, leaving young children lacking immunity to pathogens they otherwise would have been exposed to, a new study reveals.
Sixteen doctoral candidates traveled from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City to Capitol Hill April 9 for the annual Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day.
Music professor Judith Peraino explores the outsider spirit of punk, and how it has been documented, in “We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond.”