First-Year Parents Weekend is an opportunity for parents to experience Cornell life with other new families, while meeting their student's friends, faculty, academic deans and administrators.
Following input from faculty, staff, students and alumni, the Presidential Search Committee has outlined the desired competencies of Cornell’s 14th president.
Cornell employees, retirees and their families enjoyed the 2016 Winter Employee Celebration Jan. 23, with a winning Cornell women's basketball game and dinner.
Cornell United Way co-chairs Pat Wynn and Rick Burgess look to generate campuswide enthusiasm and involvement among faculty, staff and students for this year's campaign, which will kick off countywide Sept. 18 and at Cornell Sept. 27.
Creating new opportunities for industry partnerships and increasing engagement with the world beyond the lab could help researchers make a broader impact and meet grand challenges, said speakers at the “Deep Tech Eats Social Media for Lunch” panel, held Jan. 28 in the Upson Hall lounge.
"Sustaining the Antique: a 21st-Century Festival of Classics" Oct. 28-29 in Klarman Hall's Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, examines how the ancient world impacts the modern.
The Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law and Economics, a new initiative directed by professors Kaushik Basu and Robert Hockett, hosts its first major conference on April 12-13 in New York City.
The university has pledged $400,000 toward the project, which will improve wellness and life safety for Cornell community members who bike, walk, run or drive along Pine Tree Road.
Cornell takes a multipronged approach to food insecurity among students, and on Feb. 4, a pilot program will allow students who have bonus meals on their meal plans to donate them for students in need.
A faculty committee charged with exploring opportunities to position the social sciences at Cornell for excellence in 10 to 15 years has issued a report that will serve as the basis for campuswide discussion over the coming months.