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Former Navy pilot and healthcare professional Rebecca Bennett ’09 will face incumbent Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) for New Jersey’s seventh congressional district after comfortably winning the Democratic nomination on June 2.
Prof. Jessica McArt, DVM ’07, Ph.D. ’13 has been named the next Austin O. Hooey Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine effective July 15, announced Tuesday by the Cornell Chronicle.
When the students leave town, the Ithaca community comes together. Over the past weekend, the 49th annual Ithaca Festival was held in the Ithaca Commons and throughout the downtown area, featuring live music, over 150 crafts vendors and cuisine from around the world.
Flock Off! Ithaca demonstrators went downtown Saturday afternoon to cover up five Flock security cameras that were still up after the Ithaca Common Council unanimously voted to end Ithaca’s contract with Flock Safety at their March 4 council meeting.
National Dinosaur Day is on June 1 each year. To celebrate, The Sun enlisted the help of Prof. Warren Allmon, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Dr. Brendan Anderson, an earth and atmospheric sciences professor at SUNY Oneonta. Both are paleontologists from the Paleontological Research Institution and spoke with The Sun to answer readers’ dinosaur questions on just about everything — hot takes, feathers, intelligence and, of course, sex.
As the summer kicks off, Ithaca is springing to life. The Sun captured the Ithaca Festival's lively Thursday parade.
Cornell University is suing to take back possession of the closed Graduate by Hilton hotel, located on Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus.
For 30 years the U.S. government tracked how many hungry kids were in American households. They stopped in September. The Trump administration says that surveys used to measure child hunger and inform food stamp policy are nothing more than “subjective, liberal fodder” and that they “fear monger.” Yes, “liberal fodder” is in a USDA press release. The survey that was defunded is called the Household Food Security Report. It ran for 30 years under both Republican and Democratic presidents, contained no policy recommendations and is considered the “gold standard” for tracking food insecurity by Harvard researchers.
I have had enough of being told that I’m more than my grades. Every semester, final exams bring a painful end to an already-difficult 15 weeks and the outcome is still the same: a numerical or letter grade. That outcome could be good or bad news, but the classic reassurance we consistently hear that we are more than this valuation isn’t doing us any better. The solution is to change how we think about success.
Paul Kurgan '27 is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Government and Philosophy. He can be reached at pjk239@cornell.edu.
This piece is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Grace is like rain; it falls on every person. It does not discriminate. The art is to know when to cup one’s hands and receive its awe-inspiring insights with humility and gratitude.
Despite pouring rain, cold temperatures and blustering wind, students from Cornell’s Class of 2026 gathered across two commencement ceremonies on Saturday to receive conferments of their degrees.
The undersigned issue this joint statement to express our outrage about the conduct of the Board of Trustees and President Michael Kotlikoff in response to the April 30 and May 1 sequence of events involving President Kotlikoff and Students for a Democratic Cornell.
From the sound of the first drum beat, the dancers matched each movement precisely. Every footstep echoed forward carefully, their ghungroos, traditional anklets with brass bells, following each movement.
Joseph Margulies (CAS ’82) is a Professor of the Practice of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Did you know that among respondents to The Sun’s polling, the college with the greatest percentage of legacy students in the Class of 2026 was the School of Industrial Labor Relations? Or that the home region of respondents with the highest GPA was the South?
I’m the Cornell alum who, along with four students, conversed and walked with President Michael Kotlikoff to his car after the Cornell Political Union Israel-Palestine debate featuring Norman Finkelstein on April 30.
Paul Sawyer is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
The first time you saw my name was likely in a byline.
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