After a year of intense political pressure and financial strains, President Michael I. Kotlikoff used his annual Address to Staff to talk through “some of the tough topics we’ve all been dealing with.”
The event, a chance for students, staff and faculty to come together and celebrate the conclusion of this year’s Summer Wellbeing Adventure, is set for July 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the Ag Quad.
Cornell Tech researchers unveiled a robot that helps emergency room teams locate life-saving supplies faster, revealing how design can shape collaboration under pressure.
More than 75 employees were honored in this year’s ceremony, representing Cornell’s Ithaca campus as well as Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.
Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.
The Employee Assembly presented the award to Adrienne Mason, the administrative director for two departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, on Aug.29.
Kyle Kimball, vice president of government relations and community engagement at New York University, has been named Cornell’s vice president for university relations.
Dr. Lorin D. Warnick, Ph.D. ’94, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine, has announced he will step down following the completion of his second term on June 30, 2026. Provost Kavita Bala has started a search for Warnick’s successor.
Police Chief Anthony Bellamy, a member of the Cornell University Police Department for more than 21 years, including the last 3 ½ as chief, will retire from CUPD on Oct. 1 and join the Ithaca Police Department as a deputy chief.
Cornell’s Muslim chaplain Numan Dugmeoglu, and the Diwan Center for Muslim Life received the 29th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony during a ceremony April 21 at Willard Straight Hall.