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In the hours after the fatal incident, the Cornell community reacted strongly on social media — not to the stabbing, but to a series of alerts sent out by the CornellALERT system.
Tour groups — we’ve all seen them: clusters of high school students and parents roaming across campus, listening intently to a person at the front who’s walking backwards and smoothly rattling off stories and facts about every aspect of life at Cornell. But there is a lot more to being a tour guide than meets the eye. Here are a few things you might not have known.
While this is not an immediate health concern, contamination does point to a larger issue regarding how waste disposal impacts the environment, according to researchers Dr. Jose Luzano M.S.’88 Ph.D. ’91 and Prof. Susan Allen-Gil of Ithaca College.
Four proposals were selected from a pool of 30 applications. A committee surveyed Cornell students and faculty from both campuses in order to make their final decisions on the recipients of $250,000 in grant money.
The suspect fled from the scene, and is considered “armed and dangerous.”
On the night of July 5, while spending the holiday weekend with friends at Jersey Shore, Ryan Maloney ’20 suffered a spinal cord injury. Since then, he has been unable to move his legs, but has maintained sensation below his waist, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up by his Cornell lacrosse teammates.
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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “People, Prosperity and the Planet” grant program has named Cornell University’s AguaClara student team as the recipient of a $15,000 grant to fund the development of a pump that can treat drinking water without the use of electricity.
After enduring pregnancy and childbirth, many new mothers experience an additional challenge –– breastfeeding. Hoping to make it easier for mothers to feed their babies, Cornell alum Max Spivak ’07, MBA ’14, MILR ’15 and his wife Kate Spivak co-founded Laally and created their own device in 2017 to provide a solution.
Prof. James Henderson Jr., Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law Emeritus, died on July 2 at 81. For nearly 30 years, he taught tort and product liability law at Cornell creating a lasting impact on the field.