The Cornell community gathered solemnly across campus in the late afternoon March 7 to pay their respects to Cornell’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett, who died the previous day of colon cancer.
Beginning in fall 2019, the Kessler Scholars Program will identify 20 academically talented, community-focused undergraduates each year to participate in a system of support, community and financial aid.
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, students in Janis Whitlock’s graduate seminar on translational research found themselves in a unique position – being able to participate in a widespread journaling project to record their hopes, fears and routines, chronicling COVID-19’s effects on their daily lives and relationships.
Professor of physics Peter Lepage has won the$10,000 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for his inventive applications of quantum field theory to particle physics.
The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series will provide a forum for “intellectual discourse on difficult yet timely issues facing the nation.”
Mimi Prober will serve as designer-in-residence at the Jill Stuart Gallery from Oct. 13 to Nov. 9. She will meet with students, critique their work and exhibit her own. She will also create a new garment made from pieces that were slated to be retired from the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection.
A working group has formed to reduce some of the administrative burdens felt by faculty and academic staff, beginning with developing metrics to calculate the hidden costs associated with implementing new policies and procedures.
In collaboration with community partners, students spent winter break addressing issues from police reform in Western New York to women’s rights in Africa.