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Cornell Veteran’s Summer Bridge Program BBQ in Taughannock Park. Mary Fisk (far left), student veteran program director, and Kyle Downey (in green jacket), director for transfer/veteran admissions, joined participants and student ambassadors.

Student veterans find a Big Red community at Cornell

Not many university programs achieve a 100 percent success rate—even at Cornell. One exception is the Veteran’s Summer Bridge Program (VSBP), established in 2018 to provide a leg up for … Read more

By Linda Copman November 8, 2024

Cornell crowdfunding draws new and returning student groups

More than 50 Cornell student groups are participating in the 2024 crowdfunding burst, now in its 12th year, to imagine—and create!—a better world. All of the funds raised through the … Read more

By Jennifer Wholey November 1, 2024
Student model simulating water circulation and leachate movement at Seneca Meadows landfill

Listening to the land: bringing Indigenous knowledge into practice

Juniors in Cornell’s landscape architecture design studio are taking on a tall challenge this fall: to imagine the future of Seneca Meadows, New York State’s largest landfill. The landfill is … Read more

By Linda Copman October 25, 2024
Students in Professor Roger Moseley's music and digital gameplay class experiment with sound design, enjoying how their creations interact with a live video game.

Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation: teaching the way people learn

Steve Jackson, Cornell’s vice provost for academic innovation, has a big job. For the past year, he’s been working to ensure that teaching in university classrooms, labs, studios, and field … Read more

By Linda Copman September 16, 2024
Samantha Juber listens to fish at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park.

Listening in: Bioacoustics class records the sounds of Hawaiʻi

The founder of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Arthur Allen, made the first-ever recording of bird songs in 1929. Since then, the Cornell Lab has been recording and analyzing animal … Read more

By Linda Copman March 7, 2024
Detail of “Hidden in Plain Sight,” a 25-foot-tall bamboo sculpture of an Eastern screech owl by The Myth Makers, Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein MFA ’82

Making magic in Florida: Cornellians celebrate art, nature, and local culture

What do 30-foot-tall bamboo sculptures of birds, the Cornell Botanic Gardens, and two Florida Cornell Clubs have in common? The answers include: a shared love of nature, a commitment to … Read more

By Linda Copman February 15, 2024
Harrison Award winner Dana Lerner ’14 playing ice hockey at Madison Square Garden in March 2023 (“A helmet was worn and is out of the frame,” she notes.)

Rising stars: Harrison Award honors recent alumni leaders

This year’s winners of the Robert Harrison ’76 Recent Alumni Volunteer Awards are: Dana Lerner ’14, Katia Lin ’14, Seamus Murphy ’17, and Grace Tucker ’17. This award was launched … Read more

By Linda Copman January 26, 2024
Seamus Murphy ’17 (L) and Paul Rojas ’20, co-founders of the Cornell Military Network (CMN), at the Veteran’s Program House for a CMN event at Homecoming 2023

Seamus Murphy ’17: Building a community for veterans

When Seamus Murphy ’17 arrived at Cornell in the fall 2013, he was one of just over a dozen student veterans. Veterans comprise about 5% of the national student population, but when Seamus … Read more

By Linda Copman January 26, 2024

Meet the 2024 Alumni Trustee Election candidates

Vote now in the 2024 Alumni Trustee Election For 150 years, Cornellians have been privileged to vote for alumni-elected trustees. Celebrate this year’s milestone by voting between February 1 and … Read more

By Jennifer Wholey January 9, 2024

A record fifty student groups rally for Cornell crowdfunding

From fighting food insecurity for veterans to solving novel problems with autonomous tech, Cornell student groups are utilizing crowdfunding to do the greatest good on campus and around the world. … Read more

By Jennifer Wholey November 9, 2023
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