Christine Lovely, vice president and chief human resources officer, is leaving Cornell to become vice chancellor for campus human resources and chief people officer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Vice President and General Counsel Donica Thomas Varner has announced plans to step down from her position effective Feb. 6, 2026. The university will conduct a national search for her replacement.
First Amendment law and trying to “figure out what’s true” are guiding principles for free speech on college campuses, said constitutional scholar Cass R. Sunstein in the annual Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on Oct. 30.
Dr. Mike Webster, Robert G. Engle Professor of Ornithology and Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, will speak about how the bright plumage and complex songs of Australian fairywrens shape mating, behavior, and evolution, in the 2025 Paul C. Mundinger Distinguished Lectureship on October 16.
Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers the Konvitz Memorial Lecture, Oct. 30 in Myron Taylor Hall.
Eric Stickel, interim chief of the Cornell University Police Department, has been promoted to chief of police, effective immediately, after serving as interim chief since Sept. 20 following the retirement of Chief Anthony Bellamy.