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Sarah Skinner is a member of the class of 2021 in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the managing editor of the 137th Editorial Board and was an assistant news editor on the 136th Editorial Board. She can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com or managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
Five teams pitched projects to a panel of judges in Syracuse last month, and Italian firm Sentient Blue — founded by Saïf-Deen Akanni ’90 — emerged with the top bid in the GENIUS NY competition. The state-sponsored award goes to initiatives to up the development of unmanned systems technology within New York in hopes of boosting the economy as well.
On Tuesday night, Prof. Ariana Kim, music — who has spent time in residence at places from New York to Italy and enjoyed teaching to students of all backgrounds — will serenade an audience in a more familiar location: The Carriage House Cafe.
The Cornell Convocation Committee delayed its announcement of the 2019 convocation speaker Thursday, attributing the last-minute change to a contentious Student Assembly vote earlier in the evening.
Co-owners Mark Kielmann ’72 and Harold Schultz ran the business for almost 40 years, serving up deep-dish pizza and trivia nights to students and local Ithacans alike. Their retirement plans — sale of the property for housing development to Visum, another local developer — were pushed back, however, after the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission filed a proposal to designate the property as a historic landmark in 2017.
Charles Dwight Dixon was behind the wheel of a Big Red Bullet bus when it veered off a Pennsylvania road last October, killing a Cornell alumna onboard. Dixon — who had traces of cocaine in his system the night of the crash, hospital testing revealed — will go to trial on 26 charges, including homicide by vehicle while under the influence and involuntary manslaughter.
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who spends her days covering the tumultuous Trump administration, began her Statler Hall speech on Monday with something she said is rare under this regime: an apology.
Cornell yearbook fraternity rosters from the 1980s feature altered names such as “Ku,” Klux” and “Klan.”
Bell argues that a significant force behind growing trends of biases is that of capitalism, and the perceived threat to upper classes of an “other.”
The rover was meant to last 90 days. Instead, it roamed the surface of Mars looking for signs of past life for over a decade longer.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in an interview Sunday that students receiving University financial aid will see “no net increase” in tuition owed next year, even as the sticker price increases.