Cornell University has announced that its endowment, currently valued at $6.1 billion, generated an investment return of -3.3 percent during the year that ended June 30, 2016.
Interim President Hunter Rawlings thanked law enforcement partners for their work in making an arrest in the fatal stabbing of Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire that occurred Aug. 28 near Campus Road.
Cornell has lowered its water use restriction to a water use advisory, which means water conservation efforts are now strongly encouraged but not required.
A pilot program proposed by two Cornell Law School scholars seeks to attract highly skilled immigrants through a points-based selection process, a change they say would benefit the U.S. immigration system and the economy.
A year after the provost announced plans to create a School of Public Policy, following a multiyear review of how to elevate Cornell’s excellence and prominence in the social sciences, the search for its first dean is underway.
Columbia University historian Jelani Cobb will deliver the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture May 3 on police violence against black people.
In “The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership,” Mukoma Wa Ngugi addresses the critical reception of African literature and its beginnings.