Whitsons leave $2.5 million to Cornell scholarship in son’s name
September 26th, 2008MOUNT VERNON – A $2.5 million estate gift will further endow a Cornell College scholarship in honor of an alumnus who died of leukemia in 1974. Read More…
Relay for Life of Cornell College Ranks Fourth Nationally
September 24th, 2008MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Cornell College Relay for Life was awarded the “Nationwide Top Five Per Capita Award” at the fifth annual American Cancer Society Midwest Youth Leadership Summit on Sept. 21. Read More…
Kutcher, Moore to visit Cornell in get-out-the-vote drive
September 24th, 2008Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore will be speaking on behalf of Senator Obama at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, on the Orange Carpet in the Cornell College Commons. Read More…
International pianist to perform at Ringer
September 23rd, 2008Pianist Ksenia Nosikova will be performing in Ringer Recital Studio on Wednesday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. Read More…
Marchionda first 2008-2009 Music Mondays performer
September 19th, 2008MOUNT VERNON — Guitarist Stephen Marchionda opens Cornell College’s 11th season of Music Mondays Oct. 6. Read More…
Cornell Mortar Board receives national award
September 18th, 2008MT. VERNON – The Torch chapter at Cornell College was among the outstanding chapters to be honored for their excellence at the 2008 Mortar Board National Conference, held July 25-27 in Columbus, Ohio. Read More…
Amity Shlaes is third Roe Howard lecturer
September 11th, 2008MOUNT VERNON – Amity Shlaes, senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, will deliver Cornell College’s Roe Howard Freedom Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Hedges Conference Room, The Commons. Admission is free and open to the public. Read More…
National security lecture series comes to Cornell
September 9th, 2008MOUNT VERNON—National security experts will speak at Cornell College this fall as part of a National Security Network’s “Around the Country” series. The National Security Network, based in Washington, D.C., is a foreign policy organization dedicated to strengthening public understanding and support of international relations, global affairs, and national security. Read More…
Emeritus professor donates for Cornell chaplain, chapel
September 9th, 2008MOUNT VERNON – A $60,000 gift from Linda and Truman Jordan, professor emeritus of chemistry, will help endow the Cornell College chaplain position and further improvements to King Chapel. Read More…
Garner published in Chronicle
September 8th, 2008President Les Garner’s Op-Ed on the need for further discourse on higher education in the Presidential race was published in the Sept. 12 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read More…