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s ie D t n e d si e r P le a m e F st Fir After Only Serving 8 Months
. 6, 2016, just diagnosis. She died at age 52 on Mar 2015. July in e offic g min assu after ths nine mon a memoSun Staff Writer On Mar. 17, 2016, the University held and mism opti her g erin emb rem rett, Gar became rial for On Sept. 30, 2014, Elizabeth Garrett s after perseverance. 150 year te, couCornell’s first female president, nearly “Beth was an extraordinarily passiona her life . ding ted foun devo ty’s who versi er Uni lead the that exam- rageous and can-do lic service,” said Board of After an eight-month-long search deemed to scholarship and pub was rett Harrison ’76 at the memorial ined around 200 candidates, Gar h commit- Trustees Chair Robert the “clear winner.” The 19-person searcUniversity’s service. “She was a remarkable role model and friend tee unanimously appointed her the t David J. to so many.” iden ost and 13th president. She succeeded Pres Before Cornell, Garrett was the prov at the tary of the secre as tion posi a rs affai took he emic after acad ton, for t Skor senior vice presiden had worked Smithsonian Institute. University of California, where she served on a rsy rove cont ked spar s ly ious prev also Several of Garrett’s decision had reversal of since 2003. Garrett throughout her tenure, including her 5 carbon nine-member bipartisan Tax Reform Panel, appoint203 s ton’ rge W. Bush in 2005. She President Emeritus David Skor the College ed by President Geo versity of Chicago as a law neutrality goal and her decision to form Uni the at ht taug also ce Thurgood Marshall on Justi of Business. d she was professor, clerked for In February 2016, Garrett announce ram” at the U.S. Supreme Court and worked as legislative t prog id L. Boren (D-Okla.). undergoing an “aggressive treatmen colon cancer director for Sen. Dav a wing follo icine Med Weill Cornell
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GRADUATION
ISSUE 2013
REPORTED ON JAN. 19, 2012 & SEPT. 14, 2017
Tech Campus Launched in NYC By STEPHANIE TOM
Since then, the campus has become a hub for groundbreaking research and On Dec. 19, 2011, entrepreneurship as well as Cornell Tech was offi- home to over 2,00 0 graducially founded after The ate students and hund University won a competi- faculty and staff. Thereds of tion for a new campus to be pus itself is also look caming to built in New York City. be a model of the balance The school was created between sustainability and as a result of both a pub- modernity, located on 12 lic-private partnership and acres of public land one between Cornell and middle of the East Rivein the the Technion Israel Institute located squarely in r, and the of Technology, which is of New York City, midst opposite represented on the campus from the United Nations by the Joan & Irwin Jacobs building. Technion-Cornell Institute. Cornell Tech’s main From 2012 to 2017, focuses include colla the campus was temporari- tion between academicboraly located at Google’s New businesses, with the s and campus York City building while serving as an incu bator for the permanent campus student startups, as well as was under construction on interdisciplinary studies. Roosevelt Island. The first Since 2014, Corn ell completed phase of the offi- has birthed 38 start Tech ups, 98 cial campus was unveiled and percent of which are now opened on Sept. 14, 2017, based in New York City,. initially welcoming 30 fac- Along with the hundreds ulty members and 300 stu- to come, they are proje dents, while the final campus to generate $23 billio cted n in buildout is expected to be economic activity over the completed by 2043. next 35 years. Sun Staff Writer
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Lawsuit: Cornell Destroyed $200K
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