More than 400 Cornell employees and community members attended the fifth annual Inclusive Excellence Summit, gathering virtually and in-person to show their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring this year’s theme, “Appreciating women who advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion,” with Lauren Frederick, colleague and administrative coordinator in Cornell’s Department of Inclusion and Belonging.
Nine campus teams are being recognized as “Cornell Heroes” for their exceptional contributions and dedication to the essential tasks that uphold the university’s operations.
Now in its fifth year, CSMore is a program designed to give prospective computer science majors a head start on future classes, a chance to develop fundamental skills and a community to support them along their journey.
Dr. Jennifer Downs of Weill Cornell Medicine is collaborating with Tanzanian researchers to treat schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm infection affecting 250 million people worldwide.
The Graduate School welcomed nearly 70 new Dean’s Scholars. The Dean’s Scholars program honors students for their commitment to academic excellence and advancing diversity, access, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Students in the SoNIC program developed new models to help people with impaired vision to identify objects around them and citizen scientists to recognize bird species.
In the season finale of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel are joined by Cal Walker, a retiree of Cornell and longstanding citizen of Ithaca for nearly 50 years. Walker shares his journey from Civil Rights-era Alabama to New York, arriving in Ithaca in 1977 and wasting no time to make a difference in the community.
Seniors Jesse Kapstad ‘24, Abhyuday Atal ’24 and Aja'nae Hall-Callaway ‘24 have wildly different interests, but all took advantage of numerous opportunities at Cornell.