MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will establish endowed scholarship funds in music and politics with a gift of approximately $1.5 million from the estate of an alumna and former high school music teacher. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — The Ames Piano Quartet, the resident chamber music ensemble at Iowa State University, performs as part of Cornell College’s Music Mondays series at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in King Chapel.
MOUNT VERNON — Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a nonpartisan youth organization, will hold a Youth Voice Youth Vote summit for area college students at Cornell College from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in The Commons. This is the only Iowa location for this series of summits designed to ensure that young people’s calls for a more interconnected, collaborative role for the United States on global issues are heard in the upcoming election.
MOUNT VERNON — One of the nation’s leading prairie and savanna restorationists will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Cornell College’s Kimmel Theatre. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — Leading political historian Kevin Phillips will discuss the role of radical religion in American politics at Cornell College at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, in Kimmel Theatre. Admission to the lecture is free. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — Seventy works on paper by internationally recognized American painter Ben Frank Moss will be exhibited at Cornell College’s Peter Paul Luce Gallery in McWethy Hall beginning Sunday, Nov. 4. A closing reception will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, following a 2 p.m. lecture by the artist in Room 222 of McWethy Hall. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College has received multimillion-dollar commitments from two alumni – $15.1 million from Richard Small of Tulsa, Okla., Cornell’s most generous benefactor, and $5 million from John Smith, president and CEO of Cedar Rapids-based CRST International – moving the college closer to a $92 million campaign goal that will be celebrated with a public launch at homecoming Saturday night. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON - The college is deeply saddened to report that Paul Christiansen, professor emeritus of biology, died early this morning. Paul taught at Cornell for 29 years, retiring in 1996. He was known for his work on Iowa prairies. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College has received a $250,000 pledge from the Esther and Robert Armstrong Charitable Trust to fund a new campus bookstore in The Commons, Cornell’s student union that was built during Esther Armstrong’s tenure on the college’s board of trustees. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College has joined hundreds of private colleges and universities nationwide in the University & College Accountability Network (U-CAN), a Web-based project launched today to provide comprehensive public information to help prospective students and their families judge the quality of higher education institutions. Read More…