A letter by Ezra Cornell, who met Abraham Lincoln on the eve of his inauguration, reflects the founder's plain-spoken optimism. The letter will be on display Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Kroch Library.
Fifteen students from the Dryden and Spencer-Van Etten middle schools made movies at Cornell this summer in a program that emphasized visual interpretation and expression, and technical and teamwork skills needed to develop a story from idea to film.
Shoshana Das ’16 has been awarded a Goldwater scholarship, the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
A memorial fund to benefit minority students interested in geosciences has been established in the name of Cornell undergraduate Michael Augustin, who died June 3.
Six doctoral students in the field of government presented papers and met fellow Ph.D. students and faculty interested in global security at a workshop May 23-25 in Sweden.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that the survival rate of treated Haitian AIDS patients is equal to American patients, despite poverty and economic and political obstacles.
Cornell's Homecoming 2015, Sept. 18-19, begins with the inauguration of Cornell's 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett, and includes athletic and musical events and a 5k race to benefit the United Way of Tompkins County.
Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Janaya Khan of BLM Toronto will speak Feb. 3 at the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.