The Cornell University Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association held its first-ever reunion in conjunction with Cornell’s Reunion Weekend 2014, celebrating its 35th anniversary and bringing together an incredibly diverse membership.
President Martha E. Pollack recently spoke to the Chronicle about how universities innovate, the critical importance of free speech and academic expression on campus, and what has surprised her most about Cornell so far.
About 250 West Coast Cornellians gathered for Big Red by the Bay to celebrate Cornell connections, hear from talented professors and students and learn about Cornell's strategic direction. (March 24, 2010)
The Bioproduction Facility in Cornell's Stocking Hall has produced the first batch of a cancer vaccine that is now being used in clinical trials for patients facing either ovarian cancer or melanoma. (Aug. 21, 2009)
Internationally acclaimed environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy has a new work tucked away in a quiet corner of Cornell's Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary -- a stone cairn standing sentinel beside a trail. (April 22, 2008)
Allyn Bryson Ley, M.D., Cornell professor emeritus, physician and former director of Gannett Health Services, died Sept. 29 from complications following a fall. He was 87.
Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.
Cornell historian Rachel Maines' scholarly book, 'The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women's Sexual Satisfaction,' has been made into a documentary that will premiere at Lincoln Center, July 28. (July 19, 2007)
Actor Tom Demenkoff will present a DrillingCompaNY actors workshop open to the campus community Nov. 19 in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (November 9, 2005)
David Lipsky, an early proponent of distance learning and director of the Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell, has been named director of educational planning and review for eCornell. The announcement was made on March 21 by Francis Pandolfi, president and chief executive officer of the university's distance-learning subsidiary.