MOUNT VERNON – When Henry Winokur ’74 made plans to return to Cornell for his 35th class reunion, he knew there was only one way to make the 1,000 mile trip.
By motorcycle. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON – Fiction Writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will read from her new novel Ms. Hempel Chronicles and discuss her work Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Conference Room of The Commons at Cornell College. Admission is free and open to the public. Read More…
Mount Vernon is called a lot of things. Charming, quaint, welcoming. And now, Mount Vernon is also officially “cool.” Read More…
MOUNT VERNON – What does 11 million look like?
That’s the question Whitewell, Tenn., students featured in the documentary Paper Clips set out to answer during a classroom project that started in 1998 as a way to show the immensity of life lost during the Holocaust. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will celebrate its homecoming Oct. 9-11 by honoring alumni and former professors. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON – Steven Hemelt, new Cornell College assistant professor of politics, is off to an impressive start in his young academic career after his thesis was named one of the best in the country. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON — The Georgia Guitar Quartet opens Cornell College’s 12th season of Music Mondays Oct. 12 with a diverse program ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the 21st century. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON – A geology student unearthed a small piece of history on Cornell College’s National Historic District campus: an 1889 penny lost sometime in the last 120 years. Read More…
Brittany Atchison is trying to save the world.
Listening to this energetic Randolph High School graduate leaves one with the impression that her goals are awfully lofty for someone who hasn’t quite graduated from college. She talks readily about working with others to make collective changes, about the injustices of position and privilege, about racism and the power of language, and helping the forgotten sections of society. Read More…
MOUNT VERNON – As one of the four winners of the Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square national poetry contest, Ben Miller ’86 will showcase his winning poem “Pipe Birds” in an unusual location: Times Square. Read More…
