Jack and Meryl '81 Mann recently donated $100,000 to endow a pre-major advising fund in the Office of Admissions and Academic Advising at the College of Arts and Sciences. (Sept. 30, 2011)
Sara Furguson '10, who suffered a high-level spinal cord injury at age 3, says Cornell has done a 'fantastic job' in accommodating her needs. (April 7, 2010)
Bill Nye, TV's popular advocate for science education, returns to Cornell on April 3-12 in his role as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. He will deliver a public lecture April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.
Events this week include a community panel with police, hip-hop artists and scholars; an Oscar party; Karl Pillemer on making love last; plays at the Schwartz Center and films by Amie Siegel.
Cornell's plans to address its financial difficulty are taking shape, said Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman at a March 25 brown-bag lunch.
Irwin Mark Jacobs '54, founding chairman and CEO emeritus of Qualcomm, and his wife, Joan Klein Jacobs '54, have made a $133 million gift to create the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Biophysicist Michelle Wang is the first researcher on Cornell's Ithaca campus to be named an HHMI Investigator, an award that recognizes innovative and promising researchers in the biomedical sciences. (May 28, 2008)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)