Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett heralded a future of greater collaboration between Ithaca and New York City at a Sept. 21 reception in honor of her inauguration as the university’s 13th president.
Closed for six years of storm-related repairs, the Cascadilla Gorge Trail – from College Avenue to Treman Triangle Park in downtown Ithaca – reopened Monday, Sept. 15, with the ceremonial exhortation: “Go take a hike!”
The Starr Foundation, chaired by Maurice R. Greenberg, has committed $6 million to the College of Veterinary Medicine. The gift will create two endowed professorships in clinical research.
For freshwater environmental education projects and for helping save the American eel throughout the New York City region, Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources Institute, has won a U.S. EPA Environmental Quality Award.
On April 19, Cornell received 10,100 individual gifts, raising $6,105,484 for the university as part of Giving Day 2016. Gifts came from more than 40 countries and all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
Evan D. Wade, 23, a senior in the College of Engineering and a member of Navy ROTC, was fatally injured Oct. 25 in a motor vehicle accident. The Tompkins County Sheriff's Office is investigating the accident. (Oct. 26, 2008)
At Cornell's Homecoming, generations of Cornellians joined the local community to take part in pageantry, sports, food and the inauguration of Elizabeth Garrett.
Hundreds of Cornell alumni and students at 37 sites across the country, as well as Thailand, participated Jan. 4-14 in the Public Service Center’s Cornell Cares Day.
Events on campus this week include Cornell Library's Punkfest: "Anarchy in the Archives;" song cycles performed in Klarman Hall and the Johnson Museum; and a gathering of robotics enthusiasts.