The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/winnysun/)
Despite closures of several businesses, CTB and Green Castle Asian Market remain open in Collegetown — and have not recently laid-off any employees, despite decreases in business.
Some staff called the freeze necessary, while others expressed disappointment and frustration.
The Cornell Roosevelt institute partnered with three other colleges across the U.S. to create the first-ever Global Student Policy Alliance. Hundreds of students interested in public policy will now have the opportunity to share perspectives and pitch viable solutions to important global issues such as racial discrimination, mental health and climate change.
In a university that boasts seven undergraduate colleges, students are neatly sorted into their collegiate home before even arriving to Cornell. But for students who decide their academic interests lie beyond their chosen school, internal transferring helps keep that from being a permanent assignment.
“In the lab, you have a sense of what you do. But when you go to the actual site and speak to people the plant impacts, it was breathtaking,” Sarmiento said. “It was a joy to be able to participate in something that is much bigger than yourself or the team.”
A group of student engineers from the AquaClara project team recently went head-to-head against Cornell facilities with their water filtration technology, powered solely by gravity. And so far, they are not lagging behind.
When Julia Haber — a recent graduate of Syracuse University and the founder of branding company WAYV — approached Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Director Zachary J. Shulman, ’87 J.D. ’90 with a proposal for an entrepreneurship pop-up event on campus, Shulman gladly agreed.
To keep prices low, Anabel’s is now getting bulk orders of essentials like rice and oats. But by enabling customers to purchase individualized quantities using their own containers rather than in prepackaged bags, the store will help reduce both food and packaging waste.
Starting this fall, Cornell’s Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering will no longer require GRE scores for admission to its graduate field of study, the department announced on Monday.
Life jackets emblazoned with the testimonials of refugees have lined the Arts Quad this week — a nod to the over 30 thousand refugees who have perished trying to reach Europe, the Independent reported — in just one in a series of events organized by student groups to highlight one of the world’s most pressing humanitarian crises.