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CORNELL'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR
ALUMNI & PARENTS
AUGUST 2017

Events
Conversation and Q&A with President Martha E. Pollack - Sept. 26, Boston

Cornell Costume & Textile Collection fashion show and auction - Sept. 28, New York City

"Tiki Exotica and Alfresco Succulence at Musical Fantasia" at Cornell Club of Los Angeles - Oct. 7

Save the date for Homecoming 2017 - Oct. 20-21

CAU Travel: "Tucson, Arizona: Springtime in the Desert" with Cole Gilbert and Linda Rayor - April 4-9, 2018

Cornell Alumni Association Travel Program: Classic China and the Yangtze River - March 27-April 9, 2018

Spotlight
Cornellians watch Aug. 21 solar eclipse

Good heavens! Cornellians spied the sky – with special safety glasses – to view the partial solar eclipse Aug. 21 over Ithaca.

Obituaries

• Alfred (Fred) H. Koetter Jr., M.Arch. '66

• Herbert Schryver, DVM '54

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President Martha Pollack inauguration collage
Pollack champions 'educational verve,' humane and rational values >>

Martha E. Pollack plumbed the depths of Cornell history and spoke to current times in her inaugural address Aug. 25, following her installation as the university's 14th president. See full Cornell Chronicle coverage of inauguration events, including the Street Fair, Festival of Scholarship, the symposium "Universities and the Search for the Truth" and more.
McGraw Tower
Alumni giving, engagement breaks records in 2017 >>

Cornell University raised a record $743.5 million in cash gifts for all campuses, a 21 percent increase over total cash gifts in FY16.
Jeffrey Gettleman
Pulitzer Prize-winning alum pens book about global adventures >>

Jeffrey Gettleman '94 has chronicled his career in journalism, his relationship with his wife, Courtenay Morris '94, and his time at Cornell in "Love, Africa."
  Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island
Cornell Tech dedication

Bookmark this page and tune in at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 13 to join fellow alumni around the globe in a Big Red celebration of the dedication of the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
 

News from Cornell Chronicle
Class of 2021 students
Class of 2021 boasts TV producer, authors, logroller >>

Diverse, fascinating people are among the 3,375 class members.
Lynn Wooten
Meet Lynn Wooten, new dean of the Dyson School >>

She recently discussed her new role and her strategic vision for the school.
neuroscience
$9M grant will create neurotech research hub >>

The five-year grant will help develop new tools for neuroscience.
Sara Xayarath Hernandez and Gary Harris
Gary Harris '75 honored for diversity, inclusion efforts >>

The award is the Graduate School's Turner Kittrell Medal of Honor.
 
 

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