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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 underwent three weeks of radiation therapy to treat a tumor on her pancreas in early August, the court shared in a statement on Friday. The malignant pancreatic tumor was detected through a routine blood test in early July.
In the aftermath of recent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick announced plans to use economic leverage to pressure gun manufacturers into incorporating greater firearm safety measures.
Summer interns in Washington, D.C. struggle to find affordable housing, while Cornell in Washington participants reside in a reserved apartment complex.
“Don’t be in last place, Cornell,” Adam Levine, the newly declared candidate for Ithaca mayor, told The Sun in a Friday interview. Levine wants to “leverage” Cornell to contribute more to the City of Ithaca — and it’s just one part of his vision for a city that supports the working class individual.
Prof. Gretchen Ritter ’83, government, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the next executive dean and vice provost of the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences starting August 1.
As the world witnessed the Notre-Dame Cathedral, a marker of centuries of French history crumble over in fire, one Cornellian was on the ground battling to save the historic structure.
In 2017, a campus climate survey detailed that 55 percent of Cornell students had experienced sexual harassment. Sexual Assault Awareness Week, starting on April 29, aims to change these statistics.
Bombings roiled Sri Lanka early Sunday morning, leaving a wake of casualty and eliciting feelings of shock, fear and confusion from people around the world.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center placed Tompkins County under a tornado watch Sunday night, effective until 5 a.m. Monday morning. The threat of storms includes the possibility of isolated hail, wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour and a few isolated tornadoes.
Rohit Verma, dean of external relations at the SC Johnson College of Business, is moving on to new frontiers: In July, he will become the founding provost of VinUniversity, a new non-profit university in Vietnam developed by Vietnamese real estate conglomerate VinGroup in partnership with Cornell and other American universities.