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Table of Contents VOL. VI NO. 2, WINTER 2014

Sandy Weill and Laurie Glimcher
THE ESSENTIALS

The Essentials

New Weill Cornell campaign launched, Jane Lynch gets her star, Cornell ranked a 'best value,' alumni entrepreneurs in NYC, Ronnie Coffman's world agriculture prize, and more. Read more

Shelby McClelland at goat cheese farm store in France
COVER STORY

Set course for global. Engage.

A new era refocusing attention on global Cornell - internationalizing the curriculum along with the student experience - is well underway. Read more

Fredrik Logevall signs agreement with Keystone Foundation in India
COVER STORY SIDEBAR

Just a taste

A sample of some of the projects, programs and partnerships Cornell is involved with around the globe. Read more

international alumni infographic
COVER STORY SIDEBAR

Where in the world are Cornell's international alumni?

Where are Cornell alumni living today? The university's data, shown on this map, is a rough snapshot only, and the numbers are conservative. Read more

James McCormick, Marsha McCormick and James McCormick Jr.
CORNELL NOW

Cornell Now-2015

New chair of the Cornell Annual Fund, McCormicks give a leg up for engineering teaching, and the enduring gifts of Bob Brunet. Read more

Gretchen Ritter, Haym Hirsh and Javaid Sheikh
DEAN's Q&A

Q&A with Cornell's deans

Haym Hirsh, Gretchen Ritter '83 and Javaid Sheikh on "Eureka!" moments, the noblest profession and mind melds in computing. Read more

Atkinson Center directors
WORTH SUPPORTING

New Atkinson gift enhances sustainability leadership

David '60 and Patricia Atkinson recently made a gift to fully endow the Atkinson Center's directorship and to establish a challenge campaign to endow three faculty director positions. Read more

Martin Tang
WORTH SUPPORTING

Martin Tang and friends increase international scholarships, fellowships

The Martin Y. Tang International Scholarship Challenge has reached a successful conclusion, resulting in $4.39 million in endowment gifts from 12 families. Read more

students involved with AguaClara program
WORTH SUPPORTING

You can make it happen: Winter 2014

Examples of real and needed ways to give to Cornell, from the AguaClara summer program to bunk beds in Arnot Forest. Read more

Ulysses Smith and other students at a recent 626 Thurston event
CAMPUS LIFE

At 626 Thurston, talk is not cheap

Since fall 2011, 626 Thurston has served as Cornell's hub for conversations about differences - in race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender and sexuality. Read more

toboggan slide on Beebe Lake, early 1900s
CORNELL HISTORY

Cornellians at play, in winter's snow and ice

For earlier generations of Cornellians, East Hill was home to an alternate array of winter activities and traditions. Read more

Ethel Waring and Carl Becker
FACULTY

Faculty Legends: Carl Becker & Ethel Waring

Carl L. Becker was a professor of American and European history; child behavior expert Ethel Waring's arrival at Cornell marked the start of the study of child development in the College of Home Economics. Read more

cows
FACULTY

Smart farmers, happy cows

Julio Giordano, assistant professor of dairy management, plans to attach high-tech collars to 800 cows on a commercial farm. Read more

Atticus DeProspo on the field for Big Red menÕs soccer
LET'S GO BIG RED

Athlete Ally chapter helps LGBT athletes

Atticus DeProspo '15 launched an Athlete Ally chapter on the Ithaca campus "to break down barriers and show that LGBT individuals can be anyone and anywhere." Read more

hotel room
NEW YORK CITY

Programming, hospitality of Cornell Club offer 'oasis' in New York City

Event programming at the Cornell Club in New York City echoes the diversity of Ezra Cornell's "any person ... any study" philosophy. Read more

We Cornellians page scan
WE CORNELLIANS

Another page from 'We Cornellians': an illustrated Cornell history, ca. 1940

Another page -- this one exploring the region -- from 'We Cornellians,' an illustrated Cornell history, ca. 1940, by Steve Barker '41. Read more

Alumni and friends at reception in Shanghai
END NOTE

Growing an international Cornell

Cornell, long one of the most international and internationally active universities, is on the cusp of a new era of internationalization. Read more



From The Publisher

Tracy Vosburgh

We are opening the world to our students more than ever before. It's no surprise that we sometimes call Cornell the "land-grant university to the world" - it's in our DNA.

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