Ezra Update - March 2015


	CORNELL'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS MARCH 2015

Events

Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration - April 16-17, Ithaca

Cornell Club of Los Angeles: Homeboy Industries tour - April 16, Los Angeles

"Eat, Drink, Love - Big Red!" - April 24, The Cornell Club-New York City

Charter Day Weekend - April 24-27, Ithaca

Global Charter Day celebrations - April 27, worldwide

CAA travel: Botswana Family Safari - June 28-July 11

CAU travel: The Isles of Shoals, with David Bonter - Sept. 3-6

Spotlight

Corey Earle Willard Straight Hall video still

Join us for the inauguration of the new Institute for Pale Blue Dots May 9 and find out what it was like to discover the first exoplanets, what the limits of extreme life on Earth – or elsewhere – might be, and the latest results from the groundbreaking Kepler mission.

Obituaries

• Patrick W. Concannon, Ph.D. '71

• Francis H. Fox, DVM '45

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From Ezra magazine: Special sesquicentennial issue celebrates Cornell's 150th, predicts future For our spring issue celebrating the university's 150th birthday, we asked professors, administrative leaders and students: What will your area of expertise be like in the year 2065, when Cornell celebrates its bicentennial?
	Epic trek to Ezra Cornell's birthplace At first it was more of a joke than a plan: Visit Ezra Cornell's birthplace on the date of his birth. But two recent graduates may have started a new tradition.
	Alumna's varied career benefits students weighing options Carol Rattray has worked in finance, philanthropy and as an entrepreneur; she now shares her experience through Arts and Sciences' career services.

Giving Day raises nearly $7M

Donations for colleges and units came in from more than 9,600 people and from every U.S. state and 52 countries on six continents.

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