Before Uyen Nguyen ever got to Cornell last fall, an upperclassman wrote to welcome her to campus and say he'd be her mentor during her first year here. "It's easy to feel lost here because Cornell is such a big university, but having a mentor made me feel like I belonged, that people actually cared about me," said Nguyen.
Black History Month is about "recognizing the fact that African-Americans as a people made major contributions to American history and culture," says Margaret Washington, an associate professor of history at Cornell.
We have pulled the bald eagle from the brink of extinction, we've saved the California condor, and even the alligator and the buffalo have made a comeback.
Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee has issued a document outlining the challenges and opportunities for its next president, as well as qualifications the ideal candidate should demonstrate. The eight-page document, "The Cornell Opportunity," was developed based on input from Cornell faculty, students, staff and alumni over the past several months, as well as input from other friends of the university and community leaders in Ithaca and beyond, according to Edwin H. Morgens, chair of the Presidential Search Committee. (August 21, 2002)
There is fungus among us. George Hudler, a Cornell professor of plant pathology, tells all about it in his new, mycological book, "Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (Princeton University Press, $29.95)," the story of the fungus kingdom and its impact on humanity.
Ronald J. Herring, a Cornell professor of government and chair of that department since 1993, has been named director of the university’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies by Provost Don Randel.
The papers of well-known lesbian author Valerie Taylor, who died in 1997, have been donated to Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection and are being opened to the public Sept. 22. Born Sept. 7, 1913, in Aurora, Ill., Velma Tate published her first lesbian novel, 'Whisper Their Love', in 1957.
The Society for the Humanities has for more than four decades spearheaded propagation of new knowledge and introduced interdisciplinary approaches to study that have had lasting institutional consequences. (Feb. 8, 2008)
One Cornell Law School student helped a mentally impaired local man recover funds that had been mismanaged by a financial adviser. This is just one examples of how 120 Cornell law students each year donate between five and 25 hours a week as part of their clinical course work.
Why has tuition outpaced the Consumer Price Index? The simple answer is that Cornell offers a premium product (an education at an elite institution) in an extremely competitive market, and to stay ahead of the pack, the university must keep getting the best students, faculty and facilities -- and the best rankings. And that costs a lot of money.