University Counsel Madelyn F. Wessel has announced plans to retire from Cornell, effective at the end of June 2021. The university in the coming weeks will launch a national search to select a successor.
McMullen, an expert in campus and public health with more than a decade of experience leading university health programs, will join Cornell to oversee its student health services, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
The annual Stephen E. Garner Day of Caring and Food Drive Challenge, sponsored by the United Way of Tompkins County, was held Sept. 18 in Stewart Park.
Twenty faculty members from eight colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines.
Anthony Jack, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will address diversity at elite institutions in a lecture Oct. 3 in the Biotechnology Building, Room G10.
President Martha E. Pollack and Kavita Bala, dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, talked about the future of the college at Cornell Silicon Valley 21, held virtually March 30.
Rick Burgess, vice president for facilities and campus services, encourages the campus community to join in conserving energy during winter break, Dec. 22, 2018-Jan. 2, 2019.
James Clarence Preston ’50, Ed.D. ’68, a former Cornell Cooperative Extension agent and a professor of rural sociology from 1968 to 1988, died Sept. 2. He was 92.