Cornell joins coalition dedicated to student access, success

Cornell is among more than 80 schools to join the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a new initiative to improve the college application and admissions process for all students.

Fund lets undergrads gain ecological field experience

A graduate student and two undergraduates spent the summer studying zooplankton species in Adirondack lakes to learn to determine whether they can live in different environments.

Bluemercury founder Beck shares brand-building advice

Entrepreneur Barry Beck ’90 returned to campus Sept. 25 to share business advice with ILR School students. He is the founder of Bluemercury, a fast-growing luxury beauty products and retail spa chain.

Coalition seeks to enhance lives of working families

Cornell University became part of a coalition to help enhance the quality of life for working parents and their newborns at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting Sept. 29.

CUSLAR celebrates 50th anniversary

CUSLAR, the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, celebrated its 50th anniversary with events on campus that brought back former members to reflect on future challenges facing Latin America.

Law alum visits his archives in ILR's Kheel Center

William B. Gould IV, LLB '61, returned to Cornell to visit the papers he gave to the ILR School's Kheel Center covering baseball, workplace racial discrimination and conflict resolution procedures.

Cornell Law panel focuses on lives of two former slaves

Two law professors, the authors of new books, spoke on campus Sept. 25 about evidence they had uncovered that identifies the first African-American Cornell Law School graduate and a Civil War veteran.

Chemist Will Dichtel earns MacArthur 'Genius Award'

Will Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, whose innovations may allow for ample electricity and for detecting trace amounts of explosives, has received a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Cornell recognized with 2015 Healthy Campus Award

Cornell University was announced as one of five universities to receive the 2015 Active Minds Healthy Campus Award because of its student-focused efforts to create a caring, healthy campus environment.