For endowed college and nonresident contract college students living on campus, the cost of attending Cornell, which includes tuition, room, board and mandatory fees, will rise 3 percent in 2015-16.
Cornell's new Sutton Road solar farm, a facility that will offset 40 percent of the electricity at the university's agricultural experiment station in Geneva, New York, has become operational.
Minglin Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has won a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, worth $300,000 over three years.
The Dump & Run sale held last weekend raised close to $55,000 to benefit local charities. A remaining amount of excess furniture from Balch Hall will go on sale Aug. 31, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at a warehouse on Warren Drive.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
L. Joseph Thomas has been appointed interim dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, following the Jan. 30 resignation of Soumitra Dutta. Thomas, who was dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management 2007-12, will lead the college until a permanent dean is appointed.
Around 470 graduates were honored at the Recognition Ceremony for 2018 December Graduates, held before an audience of 2,000 family members and friends on Dec. 15 at Barton Hall.
Twelve teams of eLab students pitched their start-up business ideas to 54 alumni and prospective advisers at a New York City event Dec. 4. Ideas included an equine water monitoring system.
The university has donated the proceeds – almost $42,000 – from Charter Day Weekend registration fees to the Student Support Fund, the Emergency CARE Fund and the Tompkins County Library Foundation.