Important Student Health Information
for 2012-2013
While Cornell College does not carry a sickness insurance plan for students, we highly recommend that all Cornell College students have health insurance coverage. Please click on the link below to learn more about this.
What You Need to Know About Student Health Insurance for 2012-13
Questions?
Contact Student Health Services 319-895-4292 or email student_health
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Cornell's New Dining Service Provider
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Thomas Commons Renovation
The Thomas Commons renovation project will bring sweeping changes to
the College's student center, adding a majestic entrance and lobby,
glass-enclosed dining and more.
Click here to read more about this exciting project.
May 23, 2012Cornell College honored the academic achievements of its students on Tuesday night at the annual Academic Awards Dinner. ALL-COLLEGE AWARDS Phi Beta Kappa Molly Abbattista Kirtley Hitt Thu Ra Jeff Butke Amanda Johnson Namita Shah Erin Daly Taylor Koch Megan Sloter Elizabeth Davis Laura [...]
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May 1, 2012Eighteen Cornell students were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the country’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society, on April 21. The students inducted were: Molly Rose Abbattista, Jeffrey Gregory Butke, Erin Elizabeth Daly, Nga Dinh, Matthew William Ewer, Kirtley G. Hitt, Laura Elizabeth Lindsay, Lauren Marie Morris, Christine T. Nguyen, Tara Kristen Ohrt, Thu Ra, Namita [...]
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April 16, 2012Cornell College’s Mock Trial team went 3-5 at the national tournament on April 14 and 15, capping a strong season that saw the team win numerous individual and team awards. More than 800 teams from across the country started the competition season in fall 2011, and Cornell’s team finished among the top 48 for the [...]
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April 11, 2012Dear Members of the Cornell Community: As some of you are aware, during spring break there were two incidents of graffiti containing racial epithets appearing on campus, one on the door of a Russell Hall suite and the other on the exterior of Bowman-Carter Hall. We abhor these expressions of intolerance on our campus. As [...]
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April 6, 2012The 16th annual Student Symposium will offer research from dozens of students on topics ranging from math to literature to sociology.
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April 3, 2012Cornell College has purchased a house with historic ties to its English and creative writing department that will serve as home to the newly-created Center for the Literary Arts. The house on Third Street SW in Mount Vernon was built in 1937 by Bernard Van Etten ’26 and author and highly-respected Cornell English professor Winifred [...]
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March 30, 2012This summer several geology majors will be participating in prestigious off-campus research and outreach experiences.
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March 26, 2012Students in Emily Walsh’s Igneous Petrology class got an explosive demonstration on volcanoes. Walsh and UI assistant professor Ingrid Uktins Peate used water, a trash can and liquid nitrogen to explain how volcanic pressure builds and then explodes.
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March 23, 2012Work has begun to modernize and expand the oldest building on campus--the Garner President's House. The building, built in 1850, serves as more than just the home of the President and family. It also serves as a space for entertaining alumni, friends and the community.
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March 19, 2012For the third time, Cornell is sending a Mock Trial squad to the national championship tournament. The squad earned one of six bids offered at the Opening Round Championship Series March 16-18.
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March 15, 2012Claire LaBarbera, a sophomore geology major from Chicago, had a paper she co-wrote published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. LaBarbera performed the research that led to the publication of “Traveling supraglacial lakes on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica” at a summer program at the University of Chicago, but the article lists her affiliation with [...]
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March 13, 2012For the third consecutive year Cornell College was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Cornell was one of 17 Iowa colleges and universities on the list. The honor roll recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of community service and celebrates the transformative power and volunteer spirit that exists within the [...]
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February 20, 2012Tahllee Baynard ’97 was named 2012 Scientist of the Year by Black Engineer magazine. The award was presented in February and is part of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, which honors engineers, research scientists and students. Baynard is vice president for program management of space systems at Lockheed Martin.
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December 19, 2011Drawing from the strength and rich history of its English department, next fall Cornell College will launch an academic enrichment program known as the Center for the Literary Arts. The center will foster the cultivation of imaginative writing and communication across departments and disciplines. Four donors have pledged nearly $100,000 over five years to fund [...]
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November 1, 2011Now Cornellians in Iowa can show their pride wherever they drive. For the first time, Cornell College collegiate license plates are available for purchase through the Iowa Department of Transportation. Fees for the purple and white plates are $25 for numbered plates and $50 for personalized plates with a $5 annual validation fee. Information, applications, [...]
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October 27, 2011Cornell College is ranked 32nd among national liberal arts colleges in a list released today that uses a methodology derived from a physicist’s system of ranking international chess players. The inaugural Parchment Top-Choice College Rankings by Parchment.com, an education data company, are the first broad-based college rankings based not on criteria allegedly defining which colleges [...]
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September 7, 2011A gift of $5.6 million from the estate of a Cornell College parent—one of the largest outright gifts in the history of the college—will go toward renovations of the Thomas Commons and endow a scholarship in his daughter’s name. The gift came from the estate of James Russell, father of Dr. Jean Russell ’65. James [...]
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August 23, 2011One of the most visible—and audible—updates to the Hilltop this fall will be felt throughout town as the 1882 King Chapel clock is ticking again and the carillon is ringing. The Seth Thomas clock once again keeps time over campus and rings on the hour after being shut off for a year, and the carillons [...]
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August 22, 2011Cornell College has purchased a building that will reopen next fall as the college’s McLennan Center in Chicago. The center is made possible by a $1 million gift from alumni Bob McLennan ’65 and Becky Martin McLennan ’64 during the college’s recently-completed Extraordinary Opportunities Campaign. With Cornell’s distinctive One Course At A Time schedule, faculty [...]
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July 27, 2011Cornell College is one of 49 “Best Buy” schools, according to the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges. The Fiske guide named 24 public and 25 private schools as Best Buys. All of the Best Buy schools fall into the inexpensive or moderate price category, and most have four- or five-star academics ratings. This is the [...]
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July 27, 2011An alum from the 1960s has pledged $100,000 to Cornell College to fund a program designed to teach students what it takes to lead. Tom Jarom ’66, a member of the Berry Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy advisory board and a life trustee of the college, was instrumental in establishing the Cornell LEADS [...]
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July 22, 2011In a meeting with the (Cedar Rapids) Gazette editorial board, Cornell College President Jonathan Brand spoke about the school’s plan to increase enrollment, as well as about the importance of a liberal arts education. From the article: The type of people who are drawn to the college’s one-course-at-a-time academic schedule and the type of relationships [...]
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July 19, 2011Cornell College is one of the 13 most interesting colleges in the U.S., according to a Huffington Post review of the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2012. Cornell is one of only two Midwestern schools on the list, along with Kalamazoo College. Among other reasons, Cornell was featured because of its close relationship between faculty [...]
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July 5, 2011The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Cornell College as a leader among institutions of higher education for their support of volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. Cornell was admitted to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for engaging its students, faculty and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the [...]
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July 1, 2011The summer 2011 Cornell Report is now off the press and online. The cover story, “How big is big enough?” is a look at how, and why, the college is planning to increase enrollment. A second feature, “Around the world in 18 days,” features National Geographic-worthy student photography taken during off-campus study.The issue also includes [...]
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June 2, 2011Chicago alum Harper Reed ’01 is serving as chief technology officer of the Obama 2012 campaign. According to a June 2, 2011, Chicago Tribune article, Reed will focus on helping field operators improve voter contact. “I am here to make sure technology is a successful force multiplier within the campaign,” Reed said in a statement [...]
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May 19, 2011Midwest Conference Presidents’ Council Chair Thomas Kunkel has announced that charter member Cornell College will return to the storied league in the 2012-2013 academic year. The Rams have been participating in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the past 14 years. “We are excited to celebrate the tradition and history that returns with Cornell’s acceptance [...]
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