Karen Mercer, vice president for business affairs, is resigning from Cornell College effective Aug. 31. A national search to find Mercer’s successor will begin early this summer. In the interim, Mercer’s duties will be shared by Special Assistant to the President and Interim Vice President for Enrollment Jim Brown and Controller Lois Mulbrook. Brown will assume the business services functions while Mulbrook will assume the chief financial ones.
Cornell College graduated 264 seniors on May 12, 2013. Here we’ve gathered photos, videos and social media posts about the event to give a sense of the occasion.
Beginning Tuesday, May 14, a number of offices and services will be temporarily moved from the Thomas Commons to accommodate summer construction.
During Commencement week and over the summer, some offices and services will have reduced hours.
The college began converting used cooking oil from the dining hall into biodiesel to fuel campus vehicles in January, and maintenance workers say the exhaust smells just like French fries.
Cornell College will hold its annual Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 12 at 10 a.m. in the quad bordered by South, Norton and College halls. More than 260 students from around the nation and the world will be granted degrees.
Cornell College’s Orchestra will perform selections from a number of works, including many by Russian composers, in a concert titled “Vodka and Caviar.” The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 26 in King Chapel.
The Department of Theatre at Cornell College will present Caryl Churchill’s comedy Cloud 9 April 26 and 27 and May 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m. and May 5 at 2 p.m. in the Plumb-Fleming Studio Theatre. Directed by Janeve West, Cloud 9 reveals the ties of colonial oppression and the bindings of post-colonial identities through cross-dressing, gender switching, and uproarious laughter.
Ocie A. Trimble, the most successful running coach in Cornell College history, passed away Monday at the Solon Care Center. He was 81.
David Hilmers graduated from Cornell College in 1972, went into the Marines, and became an astronaut. He flew on four space shuttle missions, and after retiring became a physician. He visited Cornell College April 2 and spoke about his experiences and how he followed his lifelong dream of becoming a physician.
Nine graduates of the Class of 2013 share their plans for the future and the Cornell experiences that helped them along the path.
Liane Olson received the Steve Wieting Award for best paper integrating theory and research at the 2013 annual meetings of the Iowa Sociological Association.
James Martin, professor of music at Cornell College, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a course designed to study an enduring question. Martin’s course will examine the relationship between tradition and innovation.
Cornell College Registrar Jonna Higgins-Freese’s poem “The Scars” won the inaugural poetry contest for The Examined Life, a literary journal published by the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
Kalissa Holdcraft ’13, a politics major who will attend the University of Iowa College of Law next year, has been named the Class of 2013 Young Trustee.
Steven DeAngeles ’84, a physician in Chicago, has been named to the Cornell College Board of Trustees. DeAngeles is a physician in Internal Medicine with teaching positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
David Hilmers graduated from Cornell College in 1972, went into the Marines, and became an astronaut. He flew on four space shuttle missions, and after retiring became a physician. He visited Cornell College April 2 and spoke about his experiences and how he followed his lifelong dream of becoming a physician.
Cornell College offers extensive advising and support to students pursuing careers in the health sciences through Dimensions: The Center for the Science and Culture of Healthcare. Graduates have been accepted to medical school at the University of Chicago, Creighton University, Northwestern University, the University of Iowa, and many other programs.