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Addressing gaps in legal services for veterans

Read the full story by Eileen Korey in the Cornell Chronicle. In 2023, Cornell Law School launched a new practicum course that serves military veterans. The Veterans Legal Practicum—designed by … Read more

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Paying it forward to first-generation students at Cornell

Read the full story by Kelly Kuehn from Student & Campus Life. “I view it as my story, and it’s a matter of using your story to your advantage,” says … Read more

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Celebrating first-generation college students

Read the full story from Student & Campus Life. First-generation students—the first in their families to attend college—bring a unique perspective to the Cornell campus. These students are trailblazers, overcomers, … Read more

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Enhancing affordability for first-generation students

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Cornellian is bringing care to thousands in rural Ghana

Osei Boateng '18 has made it his life’s mission to bring health care to remote communities in Ghana.

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Accelerating the transformation of global agrifood systems

Read the full story by Blaine Friedlander in the Cornell Chronicle. In 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations introduced its Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations … Read more

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Chuck Feeney, Cornell’s ‘third founder,’ dies at 92

Read the full story by Joe Wilensky in the Cornell Chronicle. Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. … Read more

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Can you cool a particle accelerator using only lake water?

The Wilson Laboratory, which houses the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, is now tapped into the university’s  Lake Source Cooling system, allowing the lab to be more efficient and sustainable while achieving greater precision for its experiments.

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$13.5M gift to Human Ecology supports cross-college design research, collaboration

A new $13.5M gift will fund a new 15,000-square-foot design makerspace on the Ithaca campus, a 2,500-square-foot design studio in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, and a new scholarship fund for Human Ecology undergraduates in the Department of Human Centered Design.

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Milstein Symposium explores the complexity of free expression

The inaugural Milstein Symposium featured leading First Amendment scholars as part of a series of events addressing the university's theme year, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

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