Archives: Announcements
Fall Bash 2018
Twenty-five student families gathered at the Cornell Child Care Center to participate in the Fall Bash September 20. During the second hour of the program, Cornell Child Care Center teachers…
Postdocs Honored with Achievement Awards
By Katya Hrichak This story also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle. Six postdocs at Cornell were honored with an inaugural Postdoc Achievement Award Sept. 17 at the Big Red Barn…
Big Red Barn Fellows bring events, sense of community to campus
By Sally Kral On a Saturday evening in late spring at the Big Red Barn (BRB), graduate students and other members of the Cornell community came together for a performance…
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…
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…
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…