An $11.5 million gift from entrepreneur C. Kenneth Grailer ’53 will support the Nolan School of Hotel Administration by expanding the Center for Hospitality Research, helping renovate the Grailer Food Labs and providing scholarships.
A gift totaling $25 million from Irwin M. Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56 and the Jacobs family includes a new $15 million commitment, adding to a $10 million commitment in 2023 that helped establish the center.
The Ceriale Center for Cornell Health will be named in recognition of the major gift from Cornellian parents John and Melissa Ceriale.
Yahlin Chang ’89 was born in Taipei. When she was a young child, her father moved to Williamsport, Pennsylvania to join his extended family. He was a chef and worked in a Chinese restaurant owned by a family friend. Once their father was financially secure, Yahlin and her sister joined their father in Williamsport. It … Read the full story
An alumnae-led fundraising initiative in Cornell Human Ecology (CHE) has achieved a milestone, increasing the number of endowed undergraduate scholarships from women donors to 100.
John McMullen never attended Cornell—or any university, for that matter. But when he died in 1921, the dredging magnate left the bulk of his estate to fund engineering scholarships. Over the past 100 years, more than 4,000 Cornellians have benefited from his gift. McMullen scholars have broadened engineering’s impact on society to a degree that … Read the full story
The lakeview gallery is an iconic space on the Cornell campus, located high above Cayuga’s waters on the 5th floor of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The gallery affords a sweeping view of the Ithaca landscape as it changes over the course of the day and the seasons. Nearly every one of the … Read the full story
In just over 24 hours, Cornell’s 10th Giving Day rallied 18,692 donors to contribute to causes they care about on March 14, 2024.
Read the full story by Kathy Hovis. A new $500,000 alumni gift to the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) in the College of Arts and Sciences will allow the program to increase the number of special events and speakers it brings to campus and provides support for an ongoing oral history project, which connects current … Read the full story
Read the full story by Syl Kacapyr in the Cornell Chronicle. A newly endowed professorship at Cornell, made possible with a multimillion-dollar gift from George Stephen Irwin ’67, M.Eng. ’68, is dedicated to engineering education research. The gift establishes the Dr. G. Stephen Irwin ’67, ’68 Professorship in Engineering Education Research in the Smith School … Read the full story
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