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Pollack’s colleagues from the University of Michigan praised her strategies to promote diversity and mediate tensions on campus as the University’s provost.
In his most recent email, Rawlings reaffirmed that once admitted, these students will be eligible for need-based financial aid for the duration of their time at Cornell.
“There is a great divide between southern Florida and northern Florida, but even parts of southern Florida voted for Trump, parts that I didn’t expect to vote for him,” she said.
“We had a lot of issues because of the rain, unfortunately,” Zerbib said. “[Saturday] was not the best of days, and unfortunately a lot of the projects are outside, because that’s the type of work a lot of agencies need help with. They just don’t have the money or the resources to do any of that.”
His ‘mantra’ includes reviewing undergraduate curriculum, mending racial divisions and encouraging Cornell to act as an example by being a “unified community” — all ideas that Rawlings has previously addressed before the Faculty Senate and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly.
Stern said at a housing master plan forum Tuesday that new student housing may be built where the CC lot currently sits, and would house around 1,000 students.
The undergraduate demand for computer science is by no means a movement restricted to Cornell. “It’s a national phenomenon,” Schneider said. “Different universities have dealt with it in different ways.”
Barton Hall will be closed for the remainder of the fall semester as a team renovates the building’s floors and equipment, according to Associate Project Manager Chris Davenport. A project team is improving the building’s track floor and athletic equipment, as well as the foundation of the Navy ROTC blockhouse. Davenport said the renovations — which began June 20 and will finish by 2017 — will cost a total of $3.6 million. The project’s main goal is to fix Barton’s floor, according to Davenport. “The wood flooring underneath the track was deteriorating and causing soft spots, which made it unsafe for recreational use and unsafe for collegiate competition,” he said.
Ma’s research, which will be published in the journal’s September issue, pioneered a new technique for coating cells in nanoparticles that aid in drug delivery.
This spring and summer, a construction team worked to improve the infrastructure of the quad’s eastern end — which includes Mann Library, Warren Hall and the Plant Sciences Building.