President Martha E. Pollack and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi issued a statement March 10 following an assault in Collegetown in which racial slurs were used.
Professor Emeritus Leo Renaghan, one of the first academics to introduce modern marketing methods to the hospitality industry, died Dec. 31 of brain cancer. He was 75.
Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett will deliver her first State of the University Address Oct. 23 at 9 a.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium during Trustee-Council Annual Meeting Weekend, Oct. 22-24.
Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity were treated to a special Q&A session Sept. 26 with Chinese artist and A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing.
Deborah Estrin, professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won a 2017 IEEE Internet Award for for contributions to internet technology.
The Oct. 9 StayHomecoming keynote panel featured the work of four Cornell Law School clinics, which offer students real-world experience while helping people who otherwise may not be able to afford legal services.
Professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering Daniel P. Loucks has been awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Interntional Prize for Water, for his study of water resource management.