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Make your giftA historic $15 million gift from Joanne Knight in honor of her late husband, Charles “Chuck” Field Knight ’57, BME ’58, MBA ’59, has established the Charles Field Knight Deanship of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and provides the dean with discretionary resources to seed innovative, high-reward research projects for faculty and students across the college.
Voting is now open for the Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. This year's candidates are: Dr. Deborah J. Arrindell ’79, Dr. Nathan Theodore Connell ’01, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell ’06, and Reginald Fils-Aimé ’83. Meet the candidates and cast your vote before February 28.
Sigma Chi fraternity endows new scholarship in honor of Harry A. Nash
Cornellians across the U.S. gathered safely January 8 in their hometowns to celebrate Cornell Cares Day, an annual day of collective service in partnership with the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Pictured here, volunteers with the Cornell Club of Minnesota gathered safely to help fight food insecurity by packing bags of food with the organization Every Meal, for children to take home on Fridays for their families.
An adaptive climbing program, open to the public, accommodates people with physical and neurological disabilities, like paralysis, autism, limb differences and hearing and visual impairments.
A new $1.5 million gift from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang ’74 has established the Christopher W. Clark Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics in honor of Clark, the retired director of the bioacoustics program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The Northeast ADA Center, in collaboration with the ILR School’s Yang-Tang Institute, is developing a 10-episode cartoon series that teaches children, their families and educators about disability issues such as … Read more
A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.
A $4 million gift to Cornell, $3 million of which will fund two new scholarships for low-income students who are immigrants or the children of immigrants, honors alumni who triumphed over tragedy.