Cornell announced an update March 2 of university travel guidelines with relation to the coronavirus that are consistent with direction from the New York State Department of Health.
Donica Thomas Varner, vice president, general counsel and secretary at Oberlin College, has been named vice president and general counsel at Cornell. Her appointment was approved April 8 by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees.
As Cornell employees and students work together in lifelong learning partnerships with the Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP), a wealth of accomplishments and comradery builds up over the semester.
The university’s long-term investments, primarily consisting of the endowment, lost 1.3% during the fiscal year ending June 30, after gaining 41.9% the year before.
More than 150 attendees – including Cornell alumni and students from the classes of 1967 through 2022 – converged in New York City on March 5 for the inaugural Women in Entrepreneurship Conference.
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $4.6 million grant to create a center aimed at developing technology to help older adults who have cognitive impairments.
Teams from eLab and Cornell Tech’s Runway Startups program shared their business ideas at the Student Startup Showcase, presented by Cornell Silicon Valley, on March 30. Krystyn J. Van Vliet delivered the keynote.