April 23, 2021
Today, April 23, 2021, marks both the 90th birthday of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56 and the official unveiling of Feeney Way on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, honoring the man who has been called the university’s “third founder.”
Feeney, the founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, and through the foundation invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell over a four-decade period.
His giving was anonymous for years and, even after the impact of his philanthropy was revealed in the late 1990s, Feeney still chose not to connect his name in any form to the many institutions he supported; consequently, until now, neither his name, nor Atlantic’s, had ever appeared on a building, program, scholarship, professorship or any other entity at Cornell.
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Walter F. LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History. Walter LaFeber, revered history professor, dies
March 10, 2021
Walter F. LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, in the College of Arts and Sciences – who won ovations from students for classroom lectures and whose mastery of U.S. foreign relations guided historians, political scientists and politicians for decades – died March 9 in Ithaca. He was 87.
“Walter LaFeber was the most distinguished historian of American foreign policy in the last 60 years,” said Glenn Altschuler, Ph.D. ‘76, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, in Arts and Sciences.
March 5, 2021
Cornell’s J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, and composer Roberto Sierra have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States in their respective fields, the academy announced March 5.
Yoon, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will join the academy’s field of architecture. Her designs examine intersections between urbanism, technology and the public realm, both in the U.S. and internationally. Martien Mulder/Provided
Architect J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
2020 in review: COVID-19 was the story
December 21, 2020
The first mention of the word “coronavirus” in a Cornell Chronicle story in 2020 came on Jan. 29, when the university designated mainland China as an elevated-risk destination, and imposed travel restrictions on students, faculty and staff.
Since then, there have been more than 300 stories or university statements that mention COVID-19 posted on news.cornell.edu. It has been the story of the year.
The most-read Chronicle story of the year was a Weill Cornell Medicine-produced research FAQ from April 20, “Why is COVID-19 mild for some, deadly for others?” Given the fact that so much remains unknown about this mysterious virus, it’s no surprise that more than 60,000 readers – and counting – clicked on this story.
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