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Qatar Campus Expands Despite Current Economy

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While Cornell faces a $200 million budget shortfall and University-wide budget cuts, the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar is continuing to expand. The Qatari campus, which is largely funded by a non-profit organization established by the Qatari government, expects a larger budget and expanded research program next year.
Cornell’s campus in Qatar, a small nation on the Persian Gulf, was established in 2002. It has not yet reached its “full maturity,” said Stephen Cohen, the associate provost of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
“Overall, the student body is still growing and faculty is growing,” he said.

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Early Preparation Enables ILR to Better Face Budget Cuts

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This is the third article in a series examining the effects of the University’s budget cuts on individual schools and colleges.

As some of Cornell’s seven colleges scramble to meet Provost Kent Fuchs’ call for a five percent University-wide budget cut, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations has taken it in stride. With the need to cut $1.7 million from ILR’s $34 million unrestricted budget, Dean Harry Katz has pledged that the cuts would not directly affect students, classes, professors or other faculty members on campus.

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Anthem For A Ex-13-Year-Old Girl

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It’s been almost two weeks since the Grammy’s. In fact, it’s been exactly 12 days since I sat in front of my television in awe of three presenters. Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker –– the members of the pop-punk sensation, Blink 182 –– stood on stage together to announce their reunion.

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C.U. to Evaluate Building Projects During Pause

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The construction freeze an­nounced by President David Skorton on Oct. 30, 2008 will not affect all building plans and instead will permit several projects to progress.
The construction pause will give the University a chance to re-evaluate “every project that has not got the shovel in the ground,” according to Simeon Moss ’73, director of Cornell Press Relations. The University will, for example, make use of the pause to prioritize and look into the funding of such projects.

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Alumni Hope to Increase Early Involvement Despite Recession

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The Cornell Association of Class Officers held its annual meeting this past weekend to discuss the University’s past, present and future.
The Mid-Winter Meeting, which was held in Philadelphia this year, is one of the largest alumni training programs for Cornell class officers, attracting over 600 people. Founded in 1905, CACO’s mission is to “assist class leaders in organizing their activities and managing their alumni classes,” according to their website.
At this year’s meeting, alumni involvement despite the economic environment was a major topic of discussion.

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Recession, Evangelicals, Abortion, and the LHC

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Recession. Evangelical. Abortion. Large Hadron Collider. What do these words have to do with each other (outside of the triviality the word “real” is spelled using the first letter of each word?) Sure, words have been tossed about in the news of late, but what does the world’s largest (and non-functional at the moment) particle accelerator have to do with “hot button” political buzz-words? Absolutely nothing. And that’s precisely the point.