The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-alumni/)
In recognition of a $50 million donation from alumni Peter Nolan ’80, MBA ’82 and Stephanie Nolan ’84, the hotel school will be renamed the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.
After 23 years, owners Bruce Lane and Heather Lane are retiring and have offered the business for sale.
SpeakUp Ventures, launched this spring by Jeffrey Zhang ’20, will provide mentorship opportunities and funding to startups by Asian entrepreneurs.
Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the Governor and Cornell alum, confirms underreporting scandal for death numbers in New York nursing home.
This election cycle, six Cornell alumni are listed on ballots across the country, vying for seats in the 117th United States Congress. With the exception of Dana Barrett ’88 — the lone challenger in this group — the other five are incumbents.
As of 2020, TIME Magazine’s 100 “Most Influential People” List features three Cornell alumni: Robert F. Smith ’85, Tsai Ing-wen LLM ’80 and Anthony Fauci M.D. ’66.
According to the University’s coronavirus update page, the annual alumni Reunion Weekend “will become a virtual celebration for all alumni,” to be held on the weekend of June 5.
Widely considered one of the most prestigious honors a student can earn, the Rhodes Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship that provides students the ability to study at the University of Oxford without paying tuition fees and receive an annual stipend of £13,000. The Scholarship bears the name of British businessman and politician Cecil John Rhodes, who founded the award over a hundred years ago in the hopes of bringing English-speaking nations closer together.
Susan Choi MFA, a graduate of Cornell’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, was recently awarded the National Book Award for her fiction novel Trust Exercise. This prestigious award recognizes work in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, young people’s literature, poetry and translated literature once every year.
Tan is seeking a reduced sentence based on ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing. Rochester criminal defense attorneys James Nobles and Brian DeCaroli represented Tan during sentencing for the gun charges and during the state murder trial.