The McCormick family – James ’69, M.Eng. ’70; Marsha ’70; and son James Jr. ’05, M.Eng. ’06 – longtime supporters of teaching initiatives at the College of Engineering, have made a $5 million gift to endow the Teaching Excellence Institute.
A new Cornell University Council on Hazing Prevention will take a comprehensive, campuswide approach to prevent and respond to hazing that involves ongoing coordination and leadership by staff, students, faculty and alumni.
The renovated third floor of East Sibley Hall is now home to architecture faculty offices, 60 studio desks for architecture students and space for collaboration.
New and transfer students will read Amara Lakhous’ multicultural social satire “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio” this summer, as part of the New Student Reading Project.
Cornell welcomed 10 new graduate students, who were selected as this year's Presidential Life Sciences Fellows, at a reception in Weill Hall on Aug. 26. (Oct. 13, 2010)
In a Dec. 16 ceremony in Barton Hall, President Martha E. Pollack encouraged December graduates to have a positive impact on the world, suggesting they "Start with compassion. Start with understanding. Start with kindness and with love.”