College of Arts and Sciences students face a bewildering array of choices of major and is offering Exploring Majors and Careers workshops to help them decide.
Cornell veterinary students have launched a student chapter of the Women’s Veterinarian Leadership Development Initiative at Cornell to facilitate and encourage more women to take veterinary leadership roles.
Celebrations, commemorations and a festival of ideas and imagination will overflow for four days, April 24-27, during Charter Day Weekend in Ithaca. Events require advance registration.
William J. Dress, Ph.D. '53, professor emeritus of botany at the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium at Cornell, author of 10 plant books and for whom two plants have been named, died Dec. 15 at age 93. (Jan. 5, 2012)
Paul Salvatore '81, J.D. '84, and Eileen (McManus) Walker '76, MBA '78, have been elected by alumni to the Cornell Board of Trustees. They will serve four-year terms starting July 1. (April 14, 2009)
Nemo, a Hampshire pig, is believed to be the first pig to be treated for lymphoma and to undergo chemotherapy. He's been living at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals.
Stephen Hilgartner, chair of science and technology studies, has been tapped to serve on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. (Jan. 20, 2010)
To learn from Andy Bernard to “be a fool” was the message actor Ed Helms imparted to the Cornell Class of 2014 as its Senior Convocation speaker, May 24.
During the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony in Statler Auditorium, 16 graduating Cornell ROTC students received their commissions and stepped on stage to pledge to defend the Constitution.
W. David Curtiss, professor emeritus of law, died Jan. 26 at his home in Ithaca. Curtiss served as a faculty trustee and as associate dean of the Law School. (Jan. 31, 2011)