Forty-one Cornell graduates have joined the incoming Teach For America corps of 5,900 individuals this year, making Cornell the eighth-largest contributor of new teachers this year among schools of its size.
Like thousands of other Cornellians who have volunteered for the Peace Corps, Amanda Freund ’06 and Janet Smith, M.S. ’19, share common ground: learning from the people they served.
The Sustainable Cornell Council, announced Sept. 9, will direct and coordinate Cornell’s role as an international leader in addressing climate change and promoting sustainability. It replaces two previous sustainability groups.
With support from the Cornell Board of Trustees, the university has instituted a moratorium on new private investments focused on fossil fuels and plans to grow the endowment's investments in alternative energy technologies.
W.E. (Women Entrepreneurs) Cornell and Black Entrepreneurs in Training are programs encouraging and enabling underrepresented groups in entrepreneurship. The deadline for joining either group is Sept. 11.
Almost half the participating Graduate School and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences graduate fields were included within the top 10 range of rankings in a National Research Council survey.
Weill Cornell Medicine celebrated a successful Match Day, with 94 percent of the class matching to postgraduate positions at academic medical centers ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News and World Report.
In its 2011 rankings, U.S. News and World Report ranks Cornell third in undergraduate engineering science/engineering physics programs and fifth in biological/agricultural engineering.