Chinelo Onyilofor ’15, a dual major in chemistry and art history who will graduate Saturday, credits the liberal arts with expanding her combine subjective and objective disciplines to solve problems.
Vijay Pendakur brings diverse life experiences to his role as the new Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students. Pendakur started his work at Cornell on Jan. 3.
Cornell's new Writing Groups Program is composed of peers who help motivate, support and advise domestic and international graduate students and postdocs on their writing.
Students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a gallery installation at the Johnson Museum in a course in the "Connecting Research With Practice" initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Jonathan Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State in South Africa, will give three talks on higher education and South Africa while on campus Oct. 21-23.
Kirby Edmonds, a Dorothy Cotton Institute senior fellow, will present the keynote address at a luncheon, Jan. 20, at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School. Librada Paz, council member of the western New York for the Rural and Migrant Ministry, will give an afternoon keynote at Ithaca College.
Peter Gierasch, Cornell professor of astronomy, has been awarded astronomy’s prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society on July 2.
Cornell was among 15 institutions of higher education hosted by the White House June 10 as founding partners launching the Obama administration's Fair Chance Higher Education Pledge.