Cornell has been selected to host the national 2019 Science Olympiad, which will bring 2,500 high school students from across the U.S. to a unique competition.
Four new faculty projects have been selected to receive funding for collaborative, cross-disciplinary opportunities for learning and research in New York City.
Cornell University’s long-term investments earned a 3.4 percent rate of return in fiscal year 2015, and despite challenging market conditions, the endowment reached a record high value of $6.3 billion.
Slope Day 2014 will be held Thursday, May 8. Changes in the 2013-14 academic calendar allowed the date change, and holding the event on Thursday eliminates conflict with academic classes.
Graduate students serving on the General Committee of the Graduate School now have full voting privileges on legislation and policy, the Graduate School has announced.
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.
Robert S. Harrison, chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, announced Monday that President Elizabeth Garrett died Sunday night after battling colon cancer.