In the days following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Cornell students, faculty and staff responded with memorials, relief efforts and a teach-in. Later, campus forums discussed specific plans and problems, and Cornellians offered their expertise as well as concrete assistance.

Ceremonies and other events immediately following the attack

Teach-in to try to understand roots of terrorism
Hundreds of students anxious to ask questions both about the cause of the terrorism and the likely U.S. response attended a faculty panel in Kennedy Hall September 24.

Rawlings describes relief efforts under way on campus
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings today (Sept. 13, 2001) issued a statement describing relief efforts under way for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist acts

University will hold campus wide memorial Friday
Cornell will hold a memorial convocation for the victims of the terrorist attack Sept. 14, 2001. Noontime classes will be cancelled.

Cornell athletic events for the weekend are cancelled
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Director of Athletics J. Andrew Noel Jr. have announced the cancellation of all of the university's intercollegiate athletic events for Sept. 14-16, 2001 in consideration of the recent national tragedy.

CCE mobilizes statewide resources
Cornell Cooperative Extension's statewide network has been mobilized to help New Yorkers cope with Tuesday's tragedy and its aftermath.

Rawlings praises campus response to terrorist bombings
Cornell president Rawlings issues a statement on campus support services on the day after terrorist bombings.

How to help children cope with news of terrorist attacks
James Garbarino, Ph.D., co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell University, offers advice to parents on how they can help their children cope with the news of terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States.

President Rawlings speaks at vigil
The text of remarks made by President Hunter Rawlings at a vigil Sept. 11 for the victims of the terrorist acts. Remarks made by Rev. Kenneth I. Clarke.

Rawlings issues statement on U.S. attacks
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings today (Sept. 11, 2001) issued a statement to all students, faculty and staff about the attacks on the United States.

Recent news of interest

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses food safety during Nov. 19 forum on campus

Database that tracks path of virulent bacteria via the web is developed by Cornell students
Cornell University food science and computer science students have developed Web-based software to track and compare genetic footprints of bacteria. This helps researchers to analyze outbreaks and epidemics of infectious diseases and to assess the biodiversity of bacteria in general.

Summit: Better U.S.-Canada cooperation needed on bio-security threat
Cooperative measures already in place between the United States and Canada to control "natural" diseases in animals should be enhanced to face possible terrorist threats against the food supplies of North America, according to participants in a Nov. 30 meeting at Cornell on agro-terrorism and bio-security.

CU volunteers deliver tokens of support to WTC site
Volunteers from Cornell have visited the World Trade Center site twice this month to deliver food, supplies and memorial tributes from campus.

Utility systems beneath the World Trade Center "held up remarkably well"
Cornell University engineer Thomas O'Rourke reported at an NSF workshop in New York Dec. 12 and 13 that damage to gas, steam, electrical, potable water and waste water systems was confined to the immediate vicinity of ground zero.