An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Eight first-year students from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, are visiting Cornell Sept. 25-Oct. 6 as part of a leadership training program. (Sept. 29, 2011)
The 15th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Harmony and Understanding was presented April 15 to MOSAIC - For Queer and Same Gender Loving People of Color. (April 16, 2009)
ROTC cadets were commissioned as second lieutenants, ensigns and captains at the Tri-Service ROTC Brigade Commissioning Ceremony, May 24 in Barton Hall.
The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR has developed a mobile phone application to prevent wage theft and violations of worker rights in cooperation with laborers, organizers, developers and lawyers.
Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City is helping elementary school children grow healthy produce to improve nutrition throughout the New York state. (Oct. 17, 2012)
Several Cornell organizations gathered at a resource fair in downtown Ithaca Oct. 30 to share information with the Ithaca and Tompkins County communities about ways the university contributes to them.
Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund translation of Russian science fiction spanning the revolution to the 1990s.
Kate Walsh, MPS ’90, has been named the seventh dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced June 16. She is the first female dean of the Hotel School and the second alumnus to lead it.