Archives: Announcements
Donating Time, Developing Community
By Katya Hrichak What does it take to orient 1,600 incoming graduate and professional students? Eleven-hundred red bags, thirteen-hundred cups of coffee, and a team of 80 student and staff…
New Service Available for Locating Caregivers and Helpers
Your 3-year-old’s day care provider is closed for the day, and you need to find backup care. You need someone to care for your pets while you are away on…
Hourly Graduate Student Positions Open at the Center for Transformative Action
The Center for Transformative Action is seeking graduate student applicants for two open positions: Community Collective Impact Assistant and Collective Impact Community Management Assistant. The Community Collective Impact Assistant will be serving the Tompkins County…
Recruitment Resource Fair Informs Admitted Students
By Sally Kral Knowing exactly what resources are available at a large institution like Cornell can be a challenge. For prospective graduate students who have been admitted and are in the process…
Graduate Students Host Second Annual Diversity Preview Weekend
By Sally Kral While the numbers of underrepresented minorities, women, students with disabilities and first generation college students in STEM fields have increased steadily over the last decade, they remain…
Unspoken Needs: Enabling (Aging) Women Leaders
Unspoken Needs: Enabling (Aging) Women Leaders with Dr. Jennifer Leeds, GPWomeN-PCCW Speaker Series held on February 23 Takeaways: Women in positions of senior leadership continue to face disproportionate challenges due to…
Graduate School Makes Commitment to Data Transparency
Joining the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science Originally published in the Cornell Chronicle President Martha E. Pollack has committed the university to a new multi-institution initiative to make public…
Five Questions for President Martha Pollack
Recently, Cornell’s new president, Martha Pollack, spoke to the Graduate School about her experiences in graduate school, her personal philosophy, and the role she thinks Cornell should play on the…
Preparing PhDs for a Range of Career Paths
By Susi Varvayanis, Senior Director of Cornell’s BEST Program Traditionally an academic career appears like a ladder, with each rung representing a stage in academic development. The first rung often happens…
Future Faculty Learn Inclusive Teaching Practices
By Sally Kral Effective teachers engage in a practice known as reflective teaching. Through a process of self-observation and gathering evidence of student learning, these teachers make incremental improvements in…