More than 100 Arts and Sciences students were awarded Summer Experience Grants, which help students pay for housing, food, transportation and other expenses while they undertake minimally paid or unpaid summer internships or positions.
Three Cornell undergraduates received Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards to honor their significant involvement in community engagement. Ariela Asllani ’26, David Ni’ 24 and Melody Welles ’27 each received a $2,500 prize towards projects that improve the lives of diverse local populations, including adopted and foster children, refugee students, and immigrants.
First-year and transfer students gathered Aug. 25 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation, where they were encouraged to pursue their ambitions while upholding the shared values of the community.
In the season finale of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel are joined by Cal Walker, a retiree of Cornell and longstanding citizen of Ithaca for nearly 50 years. Walker shares his journey from Civil Rights-era Alabama to New York, arriving in Ithaca in 1977 and wasting no time to make a difference in the community.
Benjamin Widom, Ph.D. ’53, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 97.
Bring your dog out for a fun run, hear from experts about the election and the future of democracy, and listen to the music of a 1914 alumnus who experimented with blending Chinese and Western musical traditions.