A $20 million gift from the Milstein family will launch the new Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and Cornell Tech that will pioneer a new approach to liberal arts education for the digital age. It is the first undergraduate program to link the Ithaca and Roosevelt Island campuses.
The next Cornell Recreation Connection trip to New York City is May 12. The day will be your own to see a show, visit a museum, go shopping, do some sight-seeing – the choice is yours.
“We want you to feel you belong at Cornell,” said Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Mary Opperman, opening the 20th annual Staff Development Day of workshops and displays that drew more than 500 staff in person and several hundred online.
On Giving Day 2019, held March 14, the university recorded the highest number of gifts received on any day in its history, breaking last year’s Giving Day record: 13,858 donors contributed $7,869,264 to Cornell.
What began as family recipes from Bisharo Ali's native Somalia are now commercial products, thanks in part to help from the Cornell Food Venture Center.
The annual Winter Employee Celebration drew more than 2,300 employees, retirees and relatives to campus Jan. 25 for dinner, athletics events and family activities.
Political scientist Steven Levitsky, the Sundance Institute’s Keri Putnam and biomedical engineer Stephen Quake have joined the ranks of leading scholars and public intellectuals at Cornell as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.