Instead of taking his economics degree and leaving after graduation, Turkel Anwar ’15 decided to spend an extra semester at Cornell leading Student Agencies. The organization that runs seven local businesses and employs more than 200 Cornell undergrads.
Campaign co-chairs Jan Rock Zubrow '77 and Stephen Ashley '62, MBA '64, announced the milestone Nov. 18 at 'Cornell on the Charles,' an event attended by hundreds of Boston-area Cornellians. (Nov. 18, 2010)
A nor’easter, combined with a winter storm from the Great Lakes, bore down on the Northeast Tuesday and Wednesday. For the first time in three years, Cornell closed the Ithaca campus due to a snow storm.
The 17th annual Bits On Our Minds exhibition shows off student computing projects from games to robotics, as faculty and potential employers look on with interest.
The library has acquired more than 100 items from the latter half of the 19th and the 20th centuries; items include sashes and fabrics printed with presidential portraits and scarves that were souvenirs from World Fairs.
At a May 23 dinner, College of Arts and Sciences faculty members received awards for exceptional teaching and advising, and graduate teaching assistants won prizes for teaching.
The list of enjoyable things to do in the two scenic ravines flanking Cornell's central campus is practically endless. But there are a couple activities to always avoid: swimming and departing from designated trails.
Provost Biddy Martin will present the second annual Academic State of the University Address, March 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, is retiring after 43 years at Cornell. Friends, colleagues and many former students packed the A.D. White House May 30 to attend panels on his scholarship, teaching and contributions to Cornell.
The 2013 Dean’s Fellow in the history of home economics in the College of Human Ecology gave an account of Flemmie Kittrell’s life March 20. Kittrell was the first African-American woman in the country to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition.