Rebecca Heller, co-founder and director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, will deliver the annual Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service Lecture Oct. 18.
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity has been placed on interim suspension, pending an investigation, according to a statement issued by Vice President Joel Malina.
The Cornell Veterinary Biobank celebrated its International Organization of Standards accreditation with a ceremony May 22. It is the first biobank of any kind in the world to be so accredited.
Cornell is No. 14 among the world's universities in the 2018 QS World University Rankings, released June 7. That is two spots up from last year's ranking of No. 16. And it is up five rungs from its No. 19 ranking in 2015.
New York State Sen. Catharine Young, R-57th Dist., has been named director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell AgriTech.
President Martha E. Pollack on May 21 endorsed the consensual relationship policy outlining constraints on romantic and sexual relationships between faculty members and students.
A panel discussion and screening of "Human Again," professor Bruce Levitt's documentary about a theater program in the Auburn Correctional Facility, is June 10 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled and the support they received. A series of events are planned for the year.
Ed Intemann, senior lecturer in performing and media arts and resident lighting designer at the Schwartz Center for more than two decades, died Feb. 21.