Christopher James Cowen, senior vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been named Cornell’s next executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1.
The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement’s new Academic Initiatives team will focus on the Engaged College Initiative, faculty development and global engagement programming, and research examining the institutional impacts of community-engaged learning.
Cornell’s Office of General Counsel, to engage proactively with groups across campuses, is planning a series of four workshops designed to educate Cornell community members on common legal challenges in higher education.
Edward Dean Wolf, a pioneer in nanofabrication who joined Cornell in 1978 as the first director of what would become the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, died March 11 in Ithaca. He was 87.
The Inclusive Wellness Series, sponsored by Cornell’s Department of Inclusion and Belonging in partnership with the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, hosted a well-attended public talk with Dr. Leah Hollis on March 10 about her research on workplace bullying in higher education.
In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Cassie Pierre Joseph, director for employee engagement at Cornell, joins cohosts Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel to explore the experiences of new hires and understand how the university is responding.
