Table of Contents VOL. 4 NO. 3, SPRING 2012
ESSENTIALS
The Essentials
A first look at Bill & Melinda Gates Hall; new reading project pick; Big Red Bear to suit up for Reunion; citizen science in print; graduate student is walking across the U.S.; and more. Read more
COVER STORY
Real work on CornellNYC Tech now begins
In December, Cornell learned it had won an intensely fought competition to build a 2 million-square-foot tech campus in New York City. The university is on track to break ground on the transformative campus in 2015. Read more
COVER STORY SIDEBAR
Graduate students -- Cornell's future
Helping to attract top faculty and enriching undergraduate education are among the benefits accomplished graduate students provide, and they are a key factor in Cornell's efforts to be a top 10 research university. Read more
COVER STORY SIDEBAR
How a Cornell graduate education is funded
It's not enough for some of the nation's most talented graduate students to want to come to Cornell. Ways must be found to finance their education. Read more
GLOBAL
Celebrating clean water in Honduras
No one who takes clean, drinkable tap water for granted could have guessed the reason for a Jan. 13 party in Honduras -- the "inauguration" of a water filter designed by Cornell engineering students. Read more
ARTS & HUMANITIES
A Milstein Hall montage
This composite image is a unique creation. Made by photographer Brett Beyer from 250 separate images taken on three dates last semester, it gives a bird's-eye view of Milstein Hall's expansive studio space. Read more
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Shoals: Fieldwork on Appledore's rocky shores
Cornell offers a new marine biology concentration for biology majors with courses and fieldwork available at Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island. Read more
CORNELL NOW
Campaign News: Cornell Now--2015
A look at the annual fund's youngest supporter, the biggest gift in Cornell history and the new humanities building, now paid in full. Read more
CAMPUS LIFE
Jefferson Cowie and Shirley Samuels' West Campus 'exit interview'
We talk with two departing West Campus professor-deans about their relationships with students and what students gain from sharing their living space with a faculty member. Read more
CAMPUS LIFE
The Amit Bhatia Libe Café
Amit Bhatia '01 already stands out as one of Cornell's youngest donors to endow a scholarship. Last fall, he decided to make a new gift to Cornell, this time to the library. It was among the four largest gifts to the library last year. Read more
WORTH SUPPORTING
Checking in on enhanced financial aid
Dan Kuhr '13 spent months in fearful anticipation during his senior year of high school, wondering which colleges would accept him -- and just as important, how much financial aid they would offer. Read more
WORTH SUPPORTING
Matching aid, matching interests
The Award Match Initiative -- announced in fall 2011 -- strengthens Cornell's need-based financial aid by offering to match need-based aid packages from other Ivy League schools. Read more
FACULTY
Collections, access key to library's future
Ambitious doesn't begin to describe the task Kraig Adler embarked on three decades ago: writing an encyclopedic tome cataloging every single reptile and amphibian in China. Enter Cornell University Library. Read more
CORNELL HISTORY
Ezra Cornell's legacy of innovation and entrepreneurship lives on
If Ezra Cornell were to peruse Cornell-related headlines today, he undoubtedly would be impressed with the breadth and depth of the university's achievements and innovations. Read more
YOUR IMPACT
Live well while doing good
For two Cornellians, helping Cornell is important, but so is charitable giving that benefits them or their family members. Read more
YOUR IMPACT
Cornell Annual Fund: Gifts of any size, for any person, any study
Unrestricted Cornell Annual Fund gifts offer tremendous possibilities, helping to provide immediate and flexible resources for a variety of Cornell's needs and priorities. Read more
LET'S GO BIG RED
Grappling -- and running -- for Olympic gold
Mack Lewnes '11 and Morgan Uceny '07 are attempting to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. Read more
NEW FACULTY
Q&A with new members of the faculty
Of the approximately 70 new faculty members hired this academic year, seven have been appointed to named professorships. Here are four of them and their answers to Ezra's questions. Read more
From The Publisher
In 2006, Erika Johnson, a young engineer working for a NASA subcontractor in Florida, happened to meet Lance Collins, director of mechanical and aerospace engineering (now engineering dean), at a conference. Read more