Cover Story
'There's hope': A new aid package is opening doors
This academic year, about 4,500 students are benefiting from Cornell's new financial aid initiative, which greatly reduces the amount of loan debt for students from families whose income levels are below $120,000. Students from families that make $60,000 or less per year were offered a financial aid package with no student loan obligation. For others, student loan debts have been capped at $3,000 per year.
Ezra takes a look at the financial situations of several freshmen who might not have considered Cornell without the new plan, and at several returning students who are also benefiting from the aid. Read more
COVER STORY SIDEBAR
Some returning students also need aid
The new financial aid initiative is not just for freshmen. Returning undergraduate students also are eligible for assistance. Read more
VIEWPOINT
A need to better fund education in the U.S.
The cost of college is still too high -- not just at top universities but at public and private colleges across the country. Read more
Endnote
Looking back from 2047
How will this year's incoming freshmen, the Class of 2012, look back at their Cornell days 35 years from now? Read more
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In our winter issue
Complex, modern research facilities like Cornell's recently opened Weill Hall are crucibles of ideas and innovation for the biological sciences. Weill Hall, designed by architect Richard Meier, is home to the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, as well as to researchers from biomedical engineering, nutritional sciences, computational biology and a business incubator.
Find out how Weill Hall was designed and how collaboration is flourishing across its open lab spaces, positioning the facility to be at the center of what is expected to be an era of innovative and exciting research breakthroughs.