Cornell administrators and staff are getting ready to welcome members of the Tulane community to campus. As many as 75 students are expected to spend the Labor Day weekend making their way to Ithaca.
As a direct result of a meeting of the Cornell faculty with members of the Presidential Search Committee, two additional members of the faculty will be added as full members to the committee, Charles Walcott, dean of the faculty, has announced.
Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings announced today the university's decision to open its doors to students and faculty of Tulane University, which was closed due to devastating damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina.
Cornell administrators, aided by the American Red Cross, are reaching out to the nearly 700 Cornell students from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Don Ohadike, the prominent Cornell scholar of West African history and former director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center, died Sunday, Aug. 28.
Experts have confirmed that two new species of crane flies (Tipula paludosa and a close relative T. oleracea) have invaded New York state for the first time and are likely to emerge as two of the most serious insect pests, threatening lawns, golf courses, pastures and hay fields.
Heat and dryness from this past summer created a bumper crop of insect pests. Information on controlling the insects is available from Cornell Cooperative Extension offices.
A new family leave for staff policy becomes effective today, Sept. 1. This new policy is intended to grant benefits-eligible staff members time off to care for their newborn, newly adopted or foster-care children and for seriously ill family members.
A new monthly column in the Cornell Chronicle will feature interesting real-world examples of how Cornell serves the state. These stories will be about real people in New York state and how Cornell has touched their lives.