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Three years later, Cornell is chartered as <a href="https://landgrant.cornell.edu/">New York’s land-grant university</a> and charged with improving the lives and livelihoods of the state’s citizens through teaching, research and public service.</div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC_2022_0158_Adobe1998rgb-A.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">A pasture on Ezra Cornell's former farm.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-1">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-186"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Composite image of the Cornell University Charter seal and Ezra Cornell." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/charter-seal-16x9.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1865</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell charter signed into law</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>On April 27, state senators Andrew Dickson White and Ezra Cornell win passage of the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/inside-look-cornells-charter">bill that charters Cornell University</a> establishing the university at the location of Ezra Cornell’s farm in Ithaca. Three years later, Cornell admits its first students and inaugurates A.D. White as <a href="https://president.cornell.edu/the-presidency/andrew-dickson-white/">Cornell's first president</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-2">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-186"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1868</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell chimes ring for the first time</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The original set of nine bells first rings out at the university's opening ceremonies. Over time, the <a href="https://chimes.cornell.edu/about">chimes</a> have been recast and expanded to 21 bells. Presently three concerts are performed each day while classes are in session.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2004_0095-chimes16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Chimes in McGraw Tower, date unknown.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-122">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-186"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1868</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell University opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Initially divided into two parts — the Division of the Special Sciences and Arts and the Division of Science, Literature and the Arts — Cornell opens its doors on October 7 under the leadership of its first president, A.D. White. The university welcomes 26 professors and 412 students, the largest entering class at any American university.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/01597-1871-campus-opens.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Sage College, circa 1873</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-123">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-187"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1870s</div> </div> </div>   <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-187"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1870</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Sibley funds creation of engineering college</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Hiram Sibley, one of the 10 incorporators of Cornell, provides funds to house and support the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts. In 1921, a unified <a href="https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/">College of Engineering</a> combines mechanical and civil engineering. Today, Sibley Hall is the headquarters for the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2014_0079-sibley-college-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Postcard of Sibley College (Sibley Hall)</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-124">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-187"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1871</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Trustees approve School of Architecture</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Persuaded by the advocacy — and architectural book collection — of President A.D. White, the trustees agree to found a school of architecture, the first four-year course in the United States. Charles Babcock is appointed as the first professor of architecture. Today's <a href="https://aap.cornell.edu/about/who-we-are" target="_self">Architecture, Art and Planning</a> is an internationally-recognized leader.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Babcock-aap.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Charles Babcock, Cornell’s first professor of architecture, circa 1885.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-3">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 tag-21 yValue-187"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1873</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Eastman is first female graduate</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Emma Sheffield Eastman 1873, a transfer student from Vassar, becomes the <a href="https://math.cornell.edu/math-women">first woman to graduate from Cornell</a>. After teaching science and math for a year in Portland, Maine, she works for women's suffrage for much of her life.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-21" role="button">whm</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2006_0078-eastman-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Emma S. Eastman, circa 1872</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-129">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 tag-21 yValue-187"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2011_0157-female-students-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Seven female Cornell students, circa 1887</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1875</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Coeducation: the 'Great Experiment'</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>Sage College, constructed to house women students at Cornell, welcomes 25 female students, making Cornell a pioneer in coeducation and attracting many applicants. Early graduates include two college presidents, Julia Josephine Thomas Irvine 1875 (Wellesley) and Martha Carey Thomas 1877 (Bryn Mawr); a publisher and author, Ruth Putnam 1878; and noted Cornell professor and scientist, Anna Botsford Comstock 1885.<br></div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-21" role="button">whm</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-53">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 tag-17 yValue-187"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1876</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Daniel Salmon earns first DVM degree in America</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell confers the first <a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/education/doctor-veterinary-medicine">Doctor of Veterinary Medicine</a> (DVM) degree in the United States to <a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/alumni/alumni-association/salmon-award">Daniel Elmer Salmon</a> DVM 1876, who later serves as the first chief of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry. He is best known today for pioneering the fight against contagious diseases.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Daniel_Elmer_Salmon-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Daniel Salmon</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-121">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-188"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1880s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-188"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1880</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Preston is first female doctoral graduate</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>American educator and suffragist <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/cornells-first-female-doctoral-grad/">May Preston Slosson</a> Ph.D. 1880 becomes the first woman in the country to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy. She is also Cornell's first female doctoral graduate.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2021_0302_may-preston-slosson-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">May Preston</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-120">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-188"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1885</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Smith pioneers medical research</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Theobald Smith 1881, an epidemiologist who studied Texas cattle fever, anaphylaxis, and hog cholera, discovers the first Salmonella bacterium while working for the United States Department of Agriculture. He names the species after fellow Cornell graduate Daniel Elmer Salmon DVM 1876.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2006_0081-theobald-smith-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Theobald Smith, 1881</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-125">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-188"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1887</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>College of Law holds first classes</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The College of Law begins operations in Morrill Hall with Judge Douglas Boardman as the first dean. The department is renamed <a href="https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu" target="_self">Cornell Law School</a> in 1925.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Boardman_Hall_Cornell_University_postcard_1915-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Boardman Hall, circa 1915</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-126">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-188"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1888</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Agriculture college formed</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The Department of Agriculture (established in 1874) merges with the departments of agricultural chemistry, botany, entomology and veterinary medicine to form the Cornell <a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/about/our-values-impact/our-history">College of Agriculture</a>. Sixteen years later, the New York state legislature followed the federal lead and voted to provide ongoing funding to the college, establishing the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, adding “and Life Sciences” in 1971.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2008_0108-ag-college-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Senior Class, College of Agriculture 1912</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-4">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-189"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1890s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-189"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1890</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First African American graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://diversity.cornell.edu/our-story/our-historic-commitment?field_decade_value=1850-1899">Charles Chauveau Cook</a> 1890 and <a href="https://blogs.cornell.edu/sipshistory/2020/01/24/jane-eleanor-datcher-first-african-american-woman-to-obtain-an-advanced-degree-at-cornell/">Jane Eleanor Datcher</a> 1890 become the first African Americans to graduate from Cornell after a four-year course of study. <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/07/first-black-law-school-grad-was-former-slave">George Washington Fields</a> 1890, a formerly enslaved person, becomes the first African American graduate of Cornell Law School and one of the first people of color to graduate from any law school in the United States.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/jane-datcherx640-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Jane Eleanor Datcher '90</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-27">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-189"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1894</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Veterinary college chartered</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The state legislature charters the <a href="https://www.suny.edu/campuses/cornell-vet/">New York State Veterinary College</a>, the first state-supported college at Cornell, though veterinary medicine <a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/our-history">had been taught at Cornell since the university opened</a>. The college opens officially in 1896 in the current location of Uris Hall and later moves to east campus when Shurman Hall is completed in 1957.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A room full of well-dressed young men working on lab equipment." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2009_0437-vet-college-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Bacteriological laboratory, New York State Veterinary College.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-119">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-189"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1894</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First woman in the U.S. earns a Ph.D. in psychology</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Margaret Floy Washburn Ph.D. 1894 is the first woman in the United States granted a Ph.D. in psychology.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Margaret_Floy_Washburn-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Margaret Floy Washburn Ph.D. ’94</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-28">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-189"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1898</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Medical College founded in New York City</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://medicaleducation.weill.cornell.edu/">Cornell's Medical College</a> is founded, officially opening in New York City in 1900. Today, in a joint campus with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College is among the most esteemed clinical and medical research centers in the country.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="37 men and 8 women pose in front of a building." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2009_0178-medical-college-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Portrait photo of faculty and students of Cornell Medical College, circa 1909.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-5">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1900s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="featured-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-190"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="A metallic, green dragon with scales surrounded by students and staff." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2016_0362_047-dragon-day-16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">Dragon Day, 2016.</div> <div class="item-year">1901</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Architecture students stage first 'Dragon Day'</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">Inspired by an idea from <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/03/cornell-rewind-straight-creates-more-human-place">Willard Dickerman Straight</a> 1901, the first <a href="https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/about/dragon-day">Dragon Day</a> is held. Over a century later, the beloved Cornell tradition features an enormous dragon created by first-year architecture students that parades across campus, accompanied by <a href="https://aap.cornell.edu/">AAP</a> students in outrageous costumes. The dragon battles on the Engineering Quad with a phoenix created by rival <a href="https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/">engineering students</a> before ending its journey at the Arts Quad.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">Dragon Day, 2016.</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-29">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1901</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First Chinese student graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://diversity.cornell.edu/our-story/our-historic-commitment?field_decade_value=1900-1959">Sao-Ke Alfred Sze</a> 1901, Cornell's first Chinese student, graduates. He becomes China’s first ambassador to the U.S. and a founding member of the World Bank.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2005_0239-sao-ke-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, 1901</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-78">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1901</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Inaugural 'Spring Day'</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The first-recorded <a href="https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/SPRING14/CornellHistory.html">Spring Day</a> takes place April 15, celebrating the end of winter. Students skip classes and mount variety shows and festivities. Today, <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/come-back/cornell-traditions/slope-day/">Slope Day</a> is a student-favorite tradition held on <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/uphill-both-ways/">Libe Slope</a> to celebrate the last day of classes with live music and entertainment.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Numerous tents and crowds of people on the football field." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2012_0165-spring-day-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Tents on Schoelkopf Field for Spring Day.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-118">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1902</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Carrier creates a new way to stay cool</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Engineer Willis Carrier 1901 invents the first electrical air conditioning unit and goes on to found the Carrier Corporation, which remains a world leader in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Willis_Carrier_1915-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Willis Carrier ’01, 1915</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-116">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1905</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Groundbreaking author Fauset graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://africana.library.cornell.edu/thesis/the-muses-themselves-would-bear-witness-to-this-jessie-redmon-fauset-a-biographical-portrait-and-literary-analysis/">Jessie Redmon Fauset</a> 1905 excels in her studies and is one of the first Black women elected to <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/education/phi-beta-kappa">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Fauset becomes the literary editor of the magazine Crisis (published by the NAACP) in 1919 and in addition to writing essays, poetry and short stories for Crisis, she publishes four novels and comes to be regarded as the “midwife” of the Harlem Renaissance for guiding writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/jessie-redmon-fauset-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Jessie Redmon Fauset ’05</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-117">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 tag-20 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1905</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>A colorful nickname for Cornell</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell's colors were carnelian red and white since its founding, but the university didn't acquire a nickname until <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/honors/hall-of-fame/romeyn-rym-berry/244">Romeyn Berry</a> 1904 sat down to write a song for the <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/sports/football">Cornell football team</a>. To urge the team on to victory, Berry refers to Cornell simply as the “big red team”. It catches on. Since that time the chant of “Go Big Red” is the common thread at every Cornell sporting event.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Cornell_art_7-2-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-115">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1906</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Black fraternity, is founded</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/05/first-black-fraternity-build-monument-its-birthplace">first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity for Black men</a>, Alpha Phi Alpha, is founded at Cornell. It builds approximately 900 chapters across the country and has championed civil rights; its illustrious alumni include Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, Duke Ellington and Thurgood Marshall.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/APhiA_411EState-A-9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The birthplace of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.</div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-127">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1907</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Department of Home Economics created</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The Department of Home Economics is created within the College of Agriculture. In 1925, the program becomes the first state-chartered college of Home Economics in the country. The college is renamed the New York State <a href="https://www.human.cornell.edu/">College of Human Ecology</a> in 1969 to reflect its interdisciplinary exploration of the human experience.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="12 women posing for a group photograph, in Edwardian era clothing." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2003-home-ec-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Faculty of the Department of Home Economics, date unknown.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-30">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-190"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1909</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First Native American student graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/american-indian-indigenous-studies/about/history">Marvin Jack</a> (Tuscarora) 1909 becomes Cornell's first Native American student to earn a bachelor's degree. The first true cohort of Indigenous students would arrive at Cornell in the 1920s, in part due to the work of <a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA00790.html">Dr. Erl Bates</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2005_0236-marvin-jack-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Marvin Jack, 1909</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-79">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1910s</div> </div> </div>   <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-18 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1910</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell Orchards' first fruit trees</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The first fruit trees are planted at the <a href="https://cuaes.cals.cornell.edu/farms/cornell-orchards/">Cornell Orchards</a> and some are still thriving today. Cornell Orchards has more than 22 acres under cultivation, with apples being the main product. Scientists in the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have released <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/09/crunchy-complex-cornell-releases-three-new-apples">more than 69 apple varieties</a> throughout the college’s history.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A sign for Cornell Orchards retail sales." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0503_14_012-cornell-orchards-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-114">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 tag-19 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1910</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Kimball is first woman DVM in the country</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/celebrating-womens-history-month">Florence Kimball</a> DVM 1910, the first woman in the United States to receive the <a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/education/doctor-veterinary-medicine">Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)</a> degree, graduates from Cornell. Seven of the first 11 women to become licensed veterinarians in this country are Cornell graduates.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/florence-kimball-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Florence Kimball</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-6">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1914</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Shih graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/hushih/">Hu Shih</a> 1914 revolutionizes the Chinese language with a movement to change literary writing from a strict classical style to a modern, vernacular style. Shih is later president of Peking University, China's ambassador to the United States and nominee for a Nobel Prize in literature. In 2021, a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/residence-hall-names-honor-mcclintock-hu-cayuga-nation">North Campus residence hall</a> was named in his honor.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2006_1393-hu-shih-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Hu Shih '14</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-31">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1914</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cooperative Extension service formalized</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/cornell-cooperative-extension">Cornell Cooperative Extension</a> is established, following the <a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/about/our-values-impact/our-history">Smith-Lever Act</a>. Rooted in every county of the state, Cornell Cooperative Extension translates Cornell's <a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/research">world-class research</a> into practical, real-world knowledge that helps New York state residents, businesses and communities to thrive.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A parade float with a banner "Extension service leads to better living"." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/extension_float-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">CCE Sullivan County float in a parade in Liberty, NY, year unknown.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-80">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-191"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Sheet music for the Cornell Alma Mater." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2021_1254_NH_017-alma-mater-16x9.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1914</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First-known recording of the Alma Mater</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>On <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH0R5DyyQCI">January 5, 1914</a>, the Cornell Daily Sun reports that the Cornell Glee Club had recorded the <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/hail-all-hail-cornell/">Alma Mater</a> at the Columbia Phonograph Company in New York City. Records become available for purchase within two or three months.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-7">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 tag-18 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1915</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell Lab of O takes wing</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/">Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology</a> is established. Today, the laboratory is a <a href="https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/about/our-work/">world leader in the study, appreciation and conservation of birds</a> with a goal to “advance the understanding of nature and to engage people of all ages in learning about birds and protecting the planet.”</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A man stands above a gathered crowd listening to him speak." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2013_0028-lab-of-o-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The first field day at the Henwick Wildwood Bird Sanctuary at the Cayuga Bird Club, 1915.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-82">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-20 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1915</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First Big Red gridiron test</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell defeats Gettysburg, 13-0, in its first football game on <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/facilities/schoellkopf-field/18">Schoellkopf Field</a>. Cornell finishes the season undefeated, marking its first national championship year.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/1915_td_1st_on_Schoellkopf_Field-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">1915 football game.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-32">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 yValue-191"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Seven men in uniform work around a large weapon on wheels in an open field." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2016_0329-wwI-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Student military training.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1917</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>United States enters World War I</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The United States Congress declares war on Imperial Germany. By war's end, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/01/cornell-rewind-great-school-faces-great-war">Cornell provides a total of 4,598 commissioned officers</a> to the war effort. Five Cornell pilots become aces, three physicians serve as the first American women to hold Army rank after receiving commissions from the French army and 265 Cornell alumni <a href="https://veteransmemorials.cornell.edu/the-war-memorial-at-lyon-and-mcfaddin-halls/">give their lives serving in the armed forces</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-113">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-191"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1918</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>“The Elements of Style” is published</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/18663/William_Strunk_Jr_1946.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y">William Strunk</a> Ph.D. 1896 writes “<a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/03/omit-needless-words-elements-style-turns-50">The Elements of Style</a>” — later expanded by E.B. White 1921 — considered one of the most influential books written in English.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2004_2049-strunk-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">William Strunk, Jr., in his office.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-54">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-192"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1920s</div> </div> </div>   <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-192"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1921</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Author E. B. White graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2013/08/room-whites-own">E. B. White</a> 1921, New Yorker essayist, author of “<a href="https://rare.library.cornell.edu/the-e-b-white-collection/">Charlotte's Web</a>” and co-author of the revised version of “<a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/03/omit-needless-words-elements-style-turns-50">The Elements of Style</a>,” graduates with a degree in <a href="https://english.cornell.edu/">English</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A plaque dedicated to E. B. White '21." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/ebwhite-plaque-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-112">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-18 yValue-192"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1922</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>The world’s first undergraduate hospitality degree program is born</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://sha.cornell.edu/">Cornell School of Hotel Administration</a> (later named the Nolan School of Hotel Administration), the <a href="https://sha.cornell.edu/about/history/">world’s first undergraduate hospitality management degree program</a>, was created at the request of leading hotel magnates and the American Hotel Association. The program launches with 21 students under the direction of a single professor, <a href="https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/19280/Meek_Howard_Bagnall_1969.pdf">Howard B. Meek</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A teacher holding a pointer in front of a blackboard, 6 students at a table taking notes." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2004_2023-sha-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">School of Hotel Administration professor and students in class.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-55">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-192"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1923</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Van Rensselaer named one of 12 "greatest" women in the U.S.</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The League of Women Voters names <a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/bios/marthavanrensselaer.html">Martha Van Rensselaer</a>, professor of home economics, one of the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/12/cornell-rewind-influence-eleanor-roosevelt" target="_self">12 greatest women</a> in the United States (alongside the Class of 1877's Anna Botsford Comstock and M. Carey Thomas). Under Van Rensselaer's and <a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/bios/florarose.html">Flora Rose’s</a> leadership, the Department of Home Economics becomes the School of Home Economics in 1919, and eventually the <a href="https://www.human.cornell.edu/about/history">New York State College of Home Economics</a> in 1925.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2015_0057-mvr-9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Professor Martha Van Rensselaer, circa 1908</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-56">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-192"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1925</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First African American to earn mathematics Ph.D.</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2002/02/math-department-honors-cu-pioneer-elbert-cox-first-black-math-phd">Elbert Cox</a> Ph.D. 1925 becomes the first African American in history to earn a doctorate in <a href="https://math.cornell.edu/">mathematics</a> and is later the first African American to be inducted into the American Mathematical Society. Cox goes on to teach at Howard University from 1930 to 1966 and serves as head of the mathematics department from 1954 to 1961.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Elbert_Cox-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Elbert Frank Cox</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-8">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-192"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1928</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Researcher develops cancer test</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://library.weill.cornell.edu/george-papanicolaou-biography">George Papanicolaou</a> (Dr. Pap) at <a href="https://medicaleducation.weill.cornell.edu/">Weill Cornell Medical College</a> first presents a research paper explaining his ideas of using vaginal smears to detect uterine cancer. Now known as the Pap smear, the simple procedure has become the standard in screening for cervical cancer.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/georgepap_0-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Dr. George N. Papanicolaou</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-57">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-193"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1930s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-193"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1931</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Designed by a Cornellian, Empire State Building opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The Empire State Building, the world's tallest building from 1931 to 1970, opens in midtown Manhattan. The building is designed by Cornell graduate <a href="https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:574269">Richmond Harold Shreve</a> 1902, co-founder of the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon later designed <a href="https://housing.weill.cornell.edu/our-buildings/olin-hall">Olin</a>, <a href="https://www.fs.cornell.edu/fs/facinfo/fs_facilinfo.cfm?facil_cd=2037k">Kimball</a> and <a href="https://www.fs.cornell.edu/facinfo/fs_facilInfo.cfm?facil_cd=2037T">Thurston</a> halls on the Cornell campus.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2010_0225-richmond-shreve-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Richmond Harold Shreve</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-58">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-193"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1932</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Buck wins Pulitzer Prize</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Pearl S. Buck, M.A. 1925, wins a Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, “The Good Earth.” In 1938, Buck would go on to win a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/10/nobel-laureates-affiliated-cornell-university">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>, becoming the first American woman to do so.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/pearl_s_buck-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Pearl S. Buck</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-111">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-193"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1935</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell bread is born</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Clive McCay’s nutrition research led to the development of nutritionally-sound rations during WWII and the creation of <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/classic-cornell-bread/">Cornell bread</a>, an inexpensive alternative to other great staples.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A counter with cooking implements and a fresh loaf of bread with a 'C' sifted on top." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2021_1249_RY_004-cornell-bread.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-110">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-193"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2006_0155-bourke-white-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Margaret Bourke-White</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1936</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First female photojournalist for Life magazine</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08790.html">Margaret Bourke-White</a> 1927 was the first American female war photojournalist and the first female photographer for Life magazine.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-59">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-193"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1937</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Playwright, screenwriter and director Laurents graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Arthur Laurents ’37, the playwright, screenwriter and director who would go on to write two of Broadway's landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, graduates from Cornell. His film credits include “The Way We Were,” “Anastasia,” with Ingrid Bergman and “The Turning Point,” with Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Arthur_Laurents-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Arthur Laurents ’37 in front of theater marquee.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-33">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-194"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1940s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-17 yValue-194"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1941</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>United States enters World War II</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The attack on Pearl Harbor brings the United States into World War II. After Pearl Harbor, Cornell reacts swiftly to the crisis, enlarging and accelerating its programs. By the war's end in 1945, <a href="https://veteransmemorials.cornell.edu/anabel-taylor-hall/">more than 480 Cornell alumni give their lives</a> while serving in the U.S. armed forces.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2004_0287-wwII-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">World War II Army ROTC students.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-34">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-194"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1945</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>New York State legislature establishes ILR School</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The New York State legislature passes the bill to establish the <a href="https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/">School of Industrial and Labor Relations</a> to improve industrial and labor conditions in the state. The <a href="https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/about-ilr/our-history">first four-year school of its kind</a>, ILR builds community partnerships and brings thought leadership into practice for workers, unions, organizations and communities to improve the world of work.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Nov 5 1945 first ILR class-1280x720.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Nov 5, 1945; The first ILR class.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-35">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-194"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1946</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>School of Business and Public Administration opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell’s School of Business and Public Administration begins operation, offering business programs to graduate students. Today, the <a href="https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/">Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management</a> has over 15,000 alumni and works with 65 corporate partners to create better business solutions across the globe.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Old adding machine - School of Business and Public Administration." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2007_0002-business-public-admin-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-72">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-194"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1947</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Correspondence with Einstein leads to creation of television camera tube</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>While working at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/07/remembering-physicist-sternglass-who-helped-world-see-man-moon">Ernest Sternglass</a> ’44, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’53 observes a phenomenon different from Albert Einstein's photoelectric effect. Sternglass’s research, informed by a meeting with Einstein in 1947, leads to the development of a highly sensitive television camera tube that enables millions to watch Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon in July 1969.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0717_sternglass-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Ernest Sternglass ’44, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’53, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was a professor of radiation physics.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-60">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-194"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1948</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Nabokov arrives in Ithaca</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/nabokov-seminar-gets-lesson-butterflies">Vladimir Nabokov</a> and his family arrive in Ithaca, with Nabokov beginning his duties as a professor of Russian literature at Cornell. During his more than 10 years at Cornell, Nabokov becomes famous as the author of “<a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lolita/cornell/index.html">Lolita</a>” and “Pnin” and becomes known on campus as a lecturer not to be missed.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2004_0428-nabokov-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Professor Vladimir Nabokov writing at his desk.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-83">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-18 yValue-194"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="A handwritten copy of the first two paragraphs of the address." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/gettysburg-address-16x9.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1949</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Noyes donates copy of Gettysburg Address</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>In recognition of her husband's nearly 50 years of service to Cornell and its ideals, Marguerite Lilly Noyes presents the <a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/footsteps/exhibition/foundingcollections/foundingcollections_5.html">Nicholas H. Noyes Collection of Historical Americana</a>‚ including a copy of the <a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/good_cause/CU_copy.htm">Gettysburg Address</a> handwritten by Abraham Lincoln‚ to Cornell University Library. Nicholas Noyes was a member of the Class of 1906.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-84">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-195"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1950s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-18 yValue-195"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1953</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>America's first accredited wine course offered at School of Hotel Administration</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The first accredited wine appreciation course in American collegiate history is offered to <a href="https://sha.cornell.edu/">School of Hotel Administration</a> (SHA) juniors and seniors, with guest lectures from seven leading New York and California vintners.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="An open bottle of wine and three empty wine glasses sit at the font of a full auditorium." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/1171_05_016_select-wine-class-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-9">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-195"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1958</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Greatbatch and the first pacemaker</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Surgeons at the Veterans Administration hospital in Buffalo, New York, test the first practical implantable pacemaker, designed by <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2011/09/greatbatch-pacemaker-inventor-dies">Wilson Greatbatch</a> ’50. His pacemaker, patented in 1962, is regarded as one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2005_1099-greatbatch-1986-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Wilson Greatbatch with pacemaker batteries.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-10">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1960s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1960</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Future U.S. Attorney General Reno graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/11/janet-reno-60-first-female-us-attorney-general-dies-78">Janet Reno</a> ’60 graduates with a degree in chemistry. Reno would go on to be nominated for U.S. Attorney General by President Bill Clinton in 1993, becoming the first woman to serve in the post and the second-longest serving attorney general in U.S. history.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/reno_yearbook-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Janet Reno's yearbook photo.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-61">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 tag-20 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1961</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Gogolak transforms place kicking</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://cornellbigred.com/honors/hall-of-fame/peter-k-gogolak/414">Peter Gogolak</a> ’64 kicks a 41-yard field goal soccer-style against Princeton. Gogolak, who went on to kick for the Buffalo Bills and New York Giants, revolutionized place kicking and making soccer-style kicking the norm throughout football.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Gogolak_Pete002-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Pete Gogolak demonstrating his kicking style.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-11">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1963</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Chicken takes on a new form: chicken nuggets</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/03/food-and-poultry-scientist-robert-c-baker-dies-age-84">Robert C. Baker</a> and his colleague Joseph Marshall propose a first-ever chicken stick, made of ground, blended and frozen chicken. Baker, a professor of poultry science, also creates over 50 other products made from chicken and eggs, including chicken hot dogs.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2006_0104-robert-baker-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Professor Robert Carl Baker</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-73">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1963</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Arecibo Observatory opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://guides.library.cornell.edu/arecibo">Arecibo Observatory</a> opens in Puerto Rico. Designed by Cornell physicist and astronomer William E. Gordon Ph.D. ’53, the observatory's 1,000-foot radio telescope is the world's largest single-aperture telescope for several decades. The <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/11/nsf-decommission-cornell-designed-arecibo-telescope">telescope closes permanently</a> in November 2020, following the breaks of two cables that support the structure.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2007_0857-arecibo-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Aerial view of Arecibo Observatory.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-85">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 tag-18 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1963</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Puff, the Magic Dragon born at Cornell, not Honalee</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary (including <a href="https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/FALL09/People.html">Peter Yarrow</a> ’59) releases the single “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” which is based on a poem written in 1959 by then-freshman Lenny Lipton '62. The single reaches number two on the Billboard Hot 100.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0422_09_059A_select-peter-yarrow-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Peter Yarrow '59 performs at 2009 Reunion.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-38">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1964</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Committee on Special Educational Projects launches</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>First convened in 1963, the <a href="https://oadi.cornell.edu/about/our-history">Committee on Special Educational Projects (COSEP) officially launches by </a><a href="https://president.cornell.edu/the-presidency/james-a-perkins/">Dr. James Perkins</a>, the seventh president of Cornell. The first program of its kind at a major American university, increases the number of Black students enrolled from eight to over 250 during Perkins’ presidency.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2015_0137-james-perkins-cosep-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Cornell president James A. Perkins at Centennial celebration.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-109">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1964</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>A new sound defines an era</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/03/cornell-celebrates-electronic-music-pioneer-robert-moog">Robert Moog</a> Ph.D. ’65 debuts the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer, one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. The invention introduces a new landscape of sound to the music world, with organic, rich tones embraced by greats such as the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Stevie Wonder.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2005_0727-moog-9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Robert Moog in front of his synthesizer, 1968.</div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-62">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1966</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Future NIAID director Fauci graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/fauci-documentary/">Anthony Fauci</a> M.D. ’66 graduates with his Doctor of Medicine. Fauci goes on to serve as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden. President George W. Bush awards Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008 for his contributions to an AIDS relief program, PEPFAR.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/anthony-fauci-bw-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Dr. Anthony Fauci</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-12">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-18 tag-20 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1967</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Men’s hockey team wins first NCAA title</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Playing in its first Frozen Four, the <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster/1966-67">Big Red hockey squad</a> defeats Boston University, 4-1, at the War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York to win its first NCAA hockey championship. The team again <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster/1969-70">wins the title in 1970</a> with a 29-0-0 record‚ the only unbeaten, untied national championship season in NCAA hockey history.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2017_0172-hockey-1967-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Cornell Men's Ice Hockey vs. Boston College, 1967.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-130">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-18 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1967</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Innovation underground</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>At its opening, the Wilson Synchrotron is Cornell's largest single construction and the world's largest particle accelerator, for use in physics, materials science and biology. With <a href="https://www.chess.cornell.edu/index.php/about/history">expansions over the years</a>, the facility includes a tunnel buried 40 feet beneath Cornell's track complex, creating a giant ring with a half-mile circumference.<br></div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Three men working in a circular lab.." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2014_0068-synchotron-ring-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">One of the Newman Lab synchrotrons.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-64">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1968</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Collingwood is first U.S. network journalist in North Vietnam</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>CBS News broadcasts an Emmy Award-nominated personal documentary on the North Vietnamese capital by <a href="https://digital.library.cornell.edu/?f%5Barchival_collection_tesim%5D%5B%5D=A.J.+Liebling+collection">Charles Collingwood</a> ’39 titled “Hanoi: A Report By Charles Collingwood.” The chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, Collingwood is the first American network journalist to visit North Vietnam and his reports earn him an Overseas Press Club Award.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2004_0003-charles-collingwood-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Charles Collingwood (standing) with journalist A.J. Liebling.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-107">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1968</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>RNA structure discovery leads to Nobel Prize</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://www.cornell.edu/video/dedication-of-the-robert-w-holley-center-for-agriculture-and-health">Robert W. Holley</a> wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work interpreting the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. Holley was the first to isolate and map the structure of transfer RNA‚ or tRNA‚ a key molecule that carries amino acids to ribosomes to produce proteins.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2008_0538-robert-holley-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Robert W. Holley in front of Federal Nutrition Lab.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-108">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1968</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Sagan arrives at Cornell</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>A star of science and the small screen, astronomy and space sciences professor and director of the <a href="https://research.astro.cornell.edu/">Laboratory for Planetary Studies</a>, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1996/12/carl-sagan-cornell-astronomer-dies-today-dec-20-seattle">Carl Sagan</a> shares his sense of wonder about nature through the 1980s PBS series “Cosmos; A Personal Voyage” and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Dragons Research Stations of Eden.” In 2015, the <a href="https://carlsaganinstitute.cornell.edu/">Carl Sagan Institute</a> was founded at Cornell to explore other worlds both inside and outside our solar system.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2012_0215-carl-sagan-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Carl Sagan giving a speech in Rockefeller Hall, 1995.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-13">   <div class="featured-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-196"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2009_0070-eric-evans-WSH-takeover-16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">Eric Evans reading a statement after the end of the takeover.</div> <div class="item-year">1969</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Students occupy the Straight</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">On April 19, members of the Afro-American Society <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/04/campus-takeover-symbolized-era-change">occupy Willard Straight Hall for 36 hours</a>, protesting against racism and Cornell's judicial system, as well as the university's slow progress establishing a <a href="https://africana.cornell.edu/history-africana-studies-cornell">Black studies program</a>. The takeover receives national attention as thousands of Black and white students become involved, sparking broad discussions about race relations and educational matters.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">Eric Evans reading a statement after the end of the takeover.</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-39">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 tag-19 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1969</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>The Cornell Conference on Women convenes</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/conference-on-women">Cornell Conference on Women</a> takes place over a four-day period during winter intersession. Sessions attract more than 2,000 attendees from Cornell and the Ithaca community. <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/02/betty-friedan-womens-movement-icon-taught-cornell">Betty Friedan</a> and Kate Millett return to campus for the conference. Three years later, on March 31, 1972, the <a href="https://fgss.cornell.edu/">Women's Studies Program</a> is founded, one of the earliest programs of its kind in the country.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/7301.183.09.01-betty-friedan-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Betty Friedan speaking at an event.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-74">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-196"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1969</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Grumman helps humanity reach new heights</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>An aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist, <a href="https://engineering.library.cornell.edu/early-cornell-engineering-alumni-inventors/">Leroy Randle Grumman</a> 1916 co-founds Grumman Aeronautical Engineering in 1929. On July 20, 1969, the Grumman-made Apollo lunar module carries astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to make the first landing on the moon.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2005_1095-leroy-grumman-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Leroy R. Grumman (left) and Leon A. Swirlbul.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-65">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1970s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 tag-19 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1970</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Redding is first African American full professor in Arts and Sciences</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/19226/Redding_J_Saunders_1988.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y">J. Saunders Redding</a> is named the Ernest I. White Professorship in American Studies, making him the first full African American professor in the <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/">College of Arts and Sciences</a> and the first African American to hold an endowed professorship in literary criticism at an Ivy League university. At Redding’s insistence, Humane Letters was added to the professorship's title and remains there to this day.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2015_0065-redding-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Professor J. Saunders Redding</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-106">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1970</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>DNA sequencing and fundamental tools for DNA cloning developed</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Plant genetics pioneer <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/02/ray-wu-acclaimed-pioneer-genetic-engineering-dies-79">Ray Wu</a> invents the first method for sequencing DNA, enabling researchers to more closely understand how genes work. Wu’s invention leads to further development of widely grown rice plants resistant to pests, drought and salt.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/BYB-5_select-9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Ray Wu, professor of molecular biology and genetics, in the lab, 1990.</div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-86">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-20 yValue-197"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/1971_MLAX-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">1971 men's lacrosse team.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1971</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Big Red lax wins first NCAA title</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>In the first-ever NCAA lacrosse tournament the <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/1971">Big Red</a> beats Maryland, 12-6, to win its first NCAA championship.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-87">   <div class="featured-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-20 yValue-197"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2018_0398-womens-hockey16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">Cornell women's hockey team, date unknown..</div> <div class="item-year">1972</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Women’s hockey debuts</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">The <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster/1971-72">women’s hockey team</a> plays its first game, losing 14-0 to McMaster University. The second collegiate women's hockey team in the nation (Brown was first), the team <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/schedule/1975-76">won the Ivy League championship</a> in 1976, starting a six-year run of championships.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">Cornell women's hockey team, date unknown..</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-88">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 tag-18 tag-20 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1972</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Sy Katz starts a little rogue parade</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Following the Cornell-Columbia rivalry football game in New York City, Cornell and Big Red Band enthusiast Seymour “Sy” Katz ’31 drums up a one-block parade down 50th Street to the Cornell Club. Today, the semi-annual <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/come-back/cornell-traditions/sy-katz-31-parade/">Sy Katz ’31 Parade</a> is a chance for the Big Red Band to shine and for Cornellians to showcase their Big Red pride.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Two women hold a banner, followed by parade members in NYC at night." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2018_1016_SyKatzParade_084-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The Sy Katz ’31 Parade, 2018.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-14">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-18 yValue-197"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2003.0075-johnson-museum-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art under construction, 1972.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1973</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Designed by I.M. Pei & Partners, the <a href="https://museum.cornell.edu/">museum</a>‚ named for its benefactor and graduate of the class of 1922‚ typically welcomes more than 80,000 visitors annually. Holdings include 35,000 works from cultures around the world representing six millennia.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-66">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1974</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Actor Reeve graduates</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/11/actor-superman-hero-cornell-honors-christopher-reeve-74">Christopher Reeve</a> ’74, a film and stage actor best known for his portrayal of Superman, graduates with a degree in English. Reeve followed in his father's footsteps to attend Cornell and following an equestrian accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed, became a tireless advocate for the disabled and for medical research until his death in 2004.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/christopher-reeve-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Christopher Reeve</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-40">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">1976</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cook is Cornell's first female vice president</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/01/constance-cook-obituary">Constance Knowles Eberhardt Cook</a> becomes vice president for land grant affairs, the first female vice president in Cornell history. Widely respected for her support for the expansion of the State University of New York system, she serves as vice president until 1980.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-15">   <div class="featured-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-18 yValue-197"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="The etched golden record on a black background." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/voyager_record20171201-16-golden-record16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">The Golden Record cover with its extraterrestrial instructions.</div> <div class="item-year">1977</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Voyager spacecraft launches</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">Voyager 2 is launched August 20, followed 16 days later by its sister spacecraft, Voyager 1. <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/10/cornell-celebrates-voyager-missions-panel-exhibit">Cornell astronomers and astrophysicists</a> are extensively involved in the missions to explore the outer solar system. A committee chaired by Cornell professor Carl Sagan decides on 115 images and natural sounds to include on a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/10/cornellians-celebrate-voyagers-historic-golden-record">Golden Record</a>, offering insight to life on Earth; the record is included in both spacecraft.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">The Golden Record cover with its extraterrestrial instructions.</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-75">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">1977</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Rings discovered around Uranus</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell researchers led by James Elliot identify rings around the seventh planet in our solar system. The observations are made from the Kuiper Observatory and represent the first major structures discovered in the solar system since Pluto's discovery in 1930.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-89">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-197"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Grateful dead flag in front of McGraw Tower." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_2017_0613_025-grateful-dead-flag-16x9.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1977</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Deadheads at Cornell</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Based solely on audience recordings, future Grateful Dead archivist Dick Latvala declares one show in the band's 1977 tour possibly their best performance ever. That show? The <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/05/campus-community-celebrate-cornell-77-grateful-dead-concert">Grateful Dead's concert in Barton Hall</a>, a you-had-to-be-there moment.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-104">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">1979</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>LGBT alumni organization founded</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://cornelluniversity.imodules.com/s/1717/cc/club.aspx?sid=1717&gid=60">Cornell Pride LGBTQIA+ Alumni Association</a> is one of the oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ university alumni organizations in the country. Originally called the Cornell University Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association, Cornell Pride’s mission is to engage alumni to foster an inclusive, global Cornell by leading, programming for, communicating to and supporting the LGBTQ community and by serving as the voice of LGBTQ alumni.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-105">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-197"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">1979</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Canine parvovirus vaccine stays rampant infections</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>As canine parvovirus ravages the world starting in 1978, scientists at the <a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/baker-institute">Baker Institute of Animal Health</a> in the <a href="https://www.vet.cornell.edu/">College of Veterinary Medicine</a> isolate the virus and develop the first vaccine for “parvo.” By 1981, they create the improved attenuated vaccine, still in use today.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-16">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1980s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1983</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>McClintock receives Nobel Prize in Medicine</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cytogeneticist <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/05/senior-honors-nobel-laureate-mcclintock-library-display">Barbara McClintock</a> ’23, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ’27 receives the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements, also known as genetic transposition. She becomes the first woman in history to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 2021, Cornell honors her memory with a name for a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/residence-hall-names-honor-mcclintock-hu-cayuga-nation">new North Campus residence hall</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2005_1109-mcclintock-regalia-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Barbara McClintock '23.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-41">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 tag-19 yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1985</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>The world as a campus</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://abroad.globallearning.cornell.edu/">Cornell Abroad</a> program begins, offering a wide array of opportunities for a meaningful international experience as part of a student's education‚ university study, language skills, fieldwork, service learning, internships and research.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A canal with sailboats lined by colorful buildings on both sides." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/study-abroad-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Copenhagen, Denmark</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-67">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 tag-20 yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1985</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Harmon becomes first Cornellian to win Super Bowl ring</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Following a stellar football career at Cornell, <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/honors/hall-of-fame/derrick-t-harmon/412/kiosk">Derrick Harmon</a> ’84 is a ninth-round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers in 1984. In the following season he becomes the first Cornellian to win a Super Bowl ring.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A Cornell football player runs with the ball in between defensemen." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/derrick-harmon-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Derrick Harmon '84</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-90">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1985</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell in Washington program celebrates permanent D.C. home</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://sce.cornell.edu/ciw">Cornell in Washington</a> (CIW) program celebrates its permanent home at 2148 O Street NW. Supporters mark the occasion by transplanting ivy from the <a href="https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/">Cornell Botanic Gardens</a> on the walls of the building and soaking it with water from Beebe Lake. The Dupont-neighborhood building is renamed the <a href="https://sce.cornell.edu/ciw/student-life/life-in-dc">Cornell University Wolpe Center</a> in 2003.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Entrance to the Cornell in Washington building." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/cornell-in-washington-building-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-42">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1987</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Asian American Studies program founded</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell's <a href="https://asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu/">Asian American Studies program</a>, the first of its kind in the Ivy League, focuses on the transnational, comparative and interdisciplinary dimensions of Asian America. Courses provide a cultural, historical, social and political context for understanding Asian Americans' place within the university and beyond.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt=""AASP" embroidered on graduation stoles." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/asian-american-studies-program-9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-103">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-198"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">1987</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>OLED technology shapes the future of screens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Ching W. Tang Ph.D. ’75 and a colleague build the first practical organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device in 1987. OLED screens employ a thin layer of organic compounds that lights up when a current passes through it. The technology is now employed in an array of consumer products, from smartphones to television screens.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-68">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">1990s</div> </div> </div>  <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1990</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>WuDunn shares Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/04/sheryl-wudunn-81-deliver-iscol-lecture-april-20">Sheryl WuDunn</a> ’81, a history major, and her husband, Nicholas Kristof, share the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn is the first Asian-American journalist to win the prize.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_2016_0512_012_select-sheryl-wudunn-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Sheryl WuDunn '81 delivers the 2016 Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-17">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1991</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Public Service Center is created</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><a href="https://president.cornell.edu/the-presidency/frank-h-t-rhodes/">President Frank H.T. Rhodes</a> establishes the Public Service Center at Cornell to coordinate, expand and institutionalize faculty and student community engagement and outreach. The Public Service Center merges with the Office of Engagement Initiatives in creating the <a href="https://scl.cornell.edu/get-involved/public-service-center">David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement</a> in <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/06/new-center-expands-community-engagement-opportunities">summer 2021</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Several young adults use brooms to scrub a city sidewalk." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/1140_07_050_select-public-service-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Student volunteers at Into the Streets, 2007.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-43">   <div class="featured-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-199"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="A purple Hiawatha belt painted on the second story of the grey house." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/akwekon-house-photo-2-16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="item-year">1991</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Akwe:kon residence hall opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="special-characters">The residence hall, named the Mohawk word for "all of us," becomes the first university residence in the U.S. built to <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/09/akwekon-celebrates-20-years-native-life-campus">celebrate Native American heritage</a>. In 2021, Cornell celebrates the Cayuga Nation with the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/residence-hall-names-honor-mcclintock-hu-cayuga-nation">naming of Ganędagǫ: Hall</a>, literally meaning it's in the hill in the Gayogo̱hó<span>:</span>nǫ<sup>Ɂ</sup> language. The ancestral name for Ithaca area, the naming is supported by the Cayuga Nation's current leadership.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-18">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-199"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="A smiling Mae Jemison is helped into her space suit by a NASA employee." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/ksc-92pc-1881-mae-jemison-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">STS-47 launch day.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1992</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Jemison takes Cornell to new heights</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Serving as a mission specialist on STS-47 Spacelab-J, a mission flown on the space shuttle Endeavour, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/04/astronaut-credits-programs-helping-her-soar">Mae Jemison</a> M.D. ’81 becomes the first African American woman to travel in space. Jemison resigns from NASA in 1993 to found the Jemison Group, Inc., which researches, markets and develops science and technology for daily life.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-19">   <div class="featured-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-199"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0766_09_045-morrison-16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">Toni Morrison speaking on campus in 2009.</div> <div class="item-year">1993</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Morrison earns Nobel Prize in Literature</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">The 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to author Toni Morrison MA ’55 who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. Morrison, whose works highlight the Black American experience, is the first African American woman to win the prize. Cornell celebrates her memory in 2020, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/10/pollack-announces-residence-hall-namings-annual-address">naming a residence hall</a> after her.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">Toni Morrison speaking on campus in 2009.</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-20">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1993</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Bader Ginsburg joins Supreme Court</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Ruther Bader Ginsburg ’54 is sworn in as an associate justice of the United State Supreme Court, becoming the second woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. Ginsburg’s commitment the advancement of the rights of all people, particularly women, helps transform American society. Cornell celebrates her memory in 2020, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/10/pollack-announces-residence-hall-namings-annual-address">naming a North Campus Residence Hall</a> in her honor.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Chief_Justice_William_Rehnquist_Administers_the_Oath_of_Office_to_Judge_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_as_Associate_Supreme_Court_Justice_at_the_White_House_-_NARA_-_131493872-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Ruther Bader Ginsburg ’54 is sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-102">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1993</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Bill Nye the Science Guy premieres</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The beloved television creation of William Nye ’77 debuts in syndication, featuring Nye's unique brand of kinetic and quirky science education. The show airs 100 half-hour episodes over five seasons. Nye remains closely connected to Cornell, returning on several occasions including as <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/05/nye-grads-dont-let-fear-stop-you-changing-world">Convocation speaker</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2019_1282_JK_013-bill-nye-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">2019 Senior Convocation featuring Bill Nye '77.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-44">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 tag-19 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1994</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Lesbian, bisexual & gay studies established</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>To expand and institutionalize the sexuality component of the Women’s Studies program, a minor in Lesbian, Bisexual & Gay (LBG) Studies is established at both the graduate and undergraduate levels‚ around the time when queer theory was taking root in academia. In 2009, LGB Studies changes its name to <a href="https://lgbt.cornell.edu/">LGBT Studies</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A stack of books relating to LGBT studies." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/LGBT Books.43 PM-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-91">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1997</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>“Pumpkin watch” begins</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The morning of October 8, Cornellians notice a large pumpkin impaled on the spire of McGraw Tower. The pumpkin, its placement and purpose <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/10/pumpkin-prank-perpetrator-puzzle-persists-20-years-later">shrouded in mystery</a>, remains on the tower — 173 feet in the air — for 158 days, causing a buzz throughout the campus and beyond with non-stop coverage reports carried by the Associated Press, CNN and MTV.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_1230_97_004_select-pumpkin9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">A pumpkin atop McGraw Tower in 1997.</div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-45">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 tag-19 yValue-199"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">1998</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell’s first credit online classes</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions offers its first credit-bearing online course <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/01/winter-session-celebrates-25-years-digital-learning">during the 1997-1998 winter session</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-46">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-199"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2019_1575_JK_056-prison-program-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Professor Joseph Margulies interacts with his students at Cayuga Correctional Facility in Moravia, New York.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">1999</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell Prison Education Program begins</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The program begins to offer courses for credit, charging neither tuition nor fees. The <a href="https://cpep.cornell.edu/">Prison Education Program</a> provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn, Cayuga and Five Points correctional facilities, helping them build meaningful lives inside prison and prepare for successful re-entry into civic life.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-101">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">2000s</div> </div> </div>   <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2000</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Lake source cooling brings Cayuga’s chill to campus</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>After a 1994 launch, Cornell’s <a href="https://fcs.cornell.edu/departments/energy-sustainability/utilities/cooling-home/cooling-production-home/lake-source-cooling">Lake Source Cooling program</a> begins operation, using cold water from the depths of Cayuga Lake to chill water circulated through campus, cooling buildings while using a fraction of the electrical energy. The system — the first of its kind — <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/01/lake-source-cooling-project-wins-prestigious-new-york-governors-award-pollution">wins several awards</a>, including the New York Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention in 2001.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2020_1278_067-lake-source-cooling-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Teresa Jordan and Steve Beyers look out at Cayuga Lake near the Lake Source Cooling Facility.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-47">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2001</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell establishes medical college in Qatar</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar is <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/04/cornell-university-establish-medical-school-qatar">established in Doha, Qatar</a>, via a partnership with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. With its dedication in October 2003, it is the first American medical school overseas.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/1105_12_043_select-wcm-qatar-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The campus of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Doha, Qatar.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-100">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2001</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First-year students move into North Campus</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Move-In Day marks the first time that all first-year students will live in one place: the new residence halls on North Campus. The North Campus Residential Expansion, reaching completion in 2022, creates even further enriched living-learning experiences for students.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/RMC2003.0086-north-campus-9x16.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The North Campus dorms, 2001.</div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-76">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2004</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Mars Rover discoveries are Science’s Breakthrough of the Year</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The Mars rover Spirit lands on Mars, followed by Opportunity three weeks later. Astronomy professor Steven Squyres is principal investigator on both missions. The rovers, outfitted with Cornell-designed scientific instruments, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2004/12/science-names-mars-discovery-breakthrough-year">find evidence</a> that liquid water existed at some point in Martian history. Initially expected to have 90-days of roving, Opportunity ends its mission in 2019.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="An artist's rendering of robot on the surface of Mars." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/rover-spirit-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Mars Rover Spirit</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-21">   <div class="featured-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-200"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="A collection of slides from the Hip Hop Collection, with a magnifying glass over a portrait of Queen Latifah." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2021_1138_SH_036-hip-hop.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="item-year">2007</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Hip Hop Collection donated</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">Author and collector Johan Kugelberg donates the foundation of <a href="https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/hiphop/">Cornell's Hip Hop Collection</a>. Kugelberg’s donation stems from his concern that the true origins of Hip Hop culture will be lost if someone does not intentionally locate and save surviving documentary evidence. The growing collection currently features more than 250,000 items.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-99">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 tag-20 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2007</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>A Madison Square Garden hockey tradition is born</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>In what becomes a Thanksgiving weekend tradition, Cornell takes on Boston University in the first-ever sold out college hockey game at the Garden. The “Red Hot Hockey” game between Cornell and Boston University alternates with the Frozen Apple Series played against a slew of opponents, drawing the Lynah Faithful to the city in droves every year.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0956_09_100_select-red-hot-hockey-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Red Hot Hockey Game at Madison Square Garden in NYC, 2009</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-69">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2008</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Díaz wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Author Junot Díaz MFA ’95 <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/04/junot-diaz-mfa-95-wins-pulitzer-prize-fiction">receives the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</a> for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Díaz is the third Cornell graduate (after Toni Morrison MFA ’55 and Pearl S. Buck MA ’25) to receive the award.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2015_0696_075_select-junot-diaz-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Junot Díaz MFA '95 signs books following the Olin Lecture, 2015.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-93">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-20 yValue-200"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2008</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Women’s basketball claims first Ivy Title</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The Big Red women’s basketball team completes its <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/03/womens-basketball-team-heading-its-first-big-dance">best season in its history</a> by winning its first Ivy League championship, earning an invitation to the NCAA basketball tournament. The team finishes with a 20-9 record (11-3 Ivy).</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A Cornell basketball player surrounded by UConn defenders protects the basketball." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0258_08_360_select-womens-bball-ivy-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The 2008 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in Bridgeport, CT.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-22">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">2010s</div> </div> </div>   <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">2010</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability opens</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The <a href="https://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/">multidisciplinary center</a> receives permanent endowment by David Atkinson ’60 and his wife, Patricia. Since its inception, the center has supports more than $28M in faculty research for a more sustainable future.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-48">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2012</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Human Ecology Building earns LEED Platinum Rating</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>With certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, the Human Ecology Building <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/09/human-ecology-building-earns-leed-platinum-rating">earns a LEED Platinum rating</a> — the highest rating for sustainable structures — making it the first building to achieve the distinction on the Cornell campus. <a href="https://sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/campus-initiatives/buildings-energy/green-buildings">Four more Cornell buildings</a> later earn LEED Platinum ratings, among the 28 total certified green buildings.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_0220_12_185-hec-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Human Ecology Building</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-70">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 tag-20 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2013</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Dake named SI College Athlete of the Year</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Kyle Dake ’13 is the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/05/sports-illustrated-names-dake-college-athlete-year">inaugural Sports Illustrated Male College Athlete of the Year</a>. The four-time Academic All-American finishes with a collegiate record of 137-4, including winning his final 79 matches. Dake continues his wrestling career, winning back-to-back World Championships and earning a <a href="https://cornellbigred.com/news/2021/8/6/wrestling-kyle-dake-13-claims-bronze-in-tokyo.aspx">bronze medal</a> in the 2020 Summer Olympics.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-20" role="button">Athletics</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="An NCAA referee raises Kyle Dake's hand at end of a wrestling match." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/Dake_2012A.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Kyle Dake wrestles for Cornell at the 2012 NCAA Championships.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-23">   <div class="featured-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-201"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/1245_13_056_select-michael-king-16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">Michael King, professor of biomedical engineering, with graduate students Elizabeth Wayne and Michael Mitchell in the King laboratory.</div> <div class="item-year">2014</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>King makes breakthrough in cancer treatment</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">Michael King, professor of biomedical engineering, and his team <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/01/metastatic-cancer-cells-implode-protein-contact">find a way</a> to use two proteins to create killer white-blood cells that obliterate metastatic cancer cells on contact and prevents them from spreading.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">Michael King, professor of biomedical engineering, with graduate students Elizabeth Wayne and Michael Mitchell in the King laboratory.</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-71">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-17 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2014</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Abrams receives National Humanities Medal</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cited “for expanding our perceptions of the Romantic tradition and broadening the study of literature,” English Professor Emeritus M.H. Abrams <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/07/mh-abrams-receive-national-humanities-medal">receives the National Humanities Medal</a> from President Barack Obama and the National Endowment for the Humanities.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/0317_08_092_select-mh-abrams-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Meyer Howard Abrams, professor emeritus of English, 2008.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-98">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2014</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Rev incubator supports entrepreneurs in Ithaca</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell is a key partner in the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/09/revs-first-members-welcomed-grand-opening">launch of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works</a> in downtown Ithaca. A place for regional entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, use workspace and receive mentorship from seasoned professionals, Rev is a partnership among Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A closed door with the Rev logo etched on the window." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_2018_0596_001-rev-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-25">   <div class="featured-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-19 yValue-201"> <div class="featured-item-spacer"> </div> <div class="featured-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2015_1245_086_select-garrett-16x9.jpg"> </div> <div class="featured-item-content-block"> <div class="featured-item-caption featured-item-caption-mobile item-caption ">President Elizabeth Garrett at her 2015 Inauguration Ceremony.</div> <div class="item-year">2015</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Garrett becomes first woman to serve as president of Cornell</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p class="">An attorney and a professor of law, Elizabeth Garrett came to Cornell from the University of Southern California, where she served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs before becoming <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/07/new-era-begins-president-garrett-arrives-campus">Cornell’s 13th president</a>. Garrett’s tenure as president is tragically cut short when she dies on March 6, 2016, after battling colon cancer.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> <div class="featured-item-caption item-caption ">President Elizabeth Garrett at her 2015 Inauguration Ceremony.</div> </div> </div>     </div> <div id="timeline-id-97">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2015</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>First puppies born by in vitro fertilization</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Research at the Baker Institute for Animal Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine leads to the world's first litter of <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/12/research-leads-first-puppies-born-vitro-fertilization">puppies born by <em>in vitro</em> fertilization</a>, opening the door for conserving endangered canid species, using gene-editing technologies to eradicate heritable diseases in dogs and for study of genetic diseases.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Two beagle puppies with brown and white markings." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/CVM_Dog_IVF-Puppies_2015 (13)-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The world's first litter of seven "test tube" purebred beagle puppies.</div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-26">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-201"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_2017_0870_008C_select-tech-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Cornell Tech campus buildings. L-R: The Bloomberg Center, The House, the Bridge Building.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2017</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell Tech campus is dedicated in New York City</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>After <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/12/nyc-chooses-cornell-technion-build-tech-campus">winning a highly publicized competition</a> among the country's top research universities to build the campus with its partner, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Cornell dedicates the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. Seen as a powerful symbol of possibility at its dedication, Cornell Tech offers a graduate and professional education that focuses on research, education and innovation for the digital world.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-49">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2017</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Gift names Cornell SC Johnson College of Business</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Following a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/01/150m-gift-founds-cornell-sc-johnson-college-business">$150 million gift</a> from H. Fisk Johnson ’79, M.Eng. ’80, M.S. ’82, MBA ’84, Ph.D. ’86, and SC Johnson, and in recognition of the Johnson family’s multigenerational legacy of philanthropy to Cornell, the Board of Trustees approves a name change for the College of Business, renaming it the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/UP_2017_0123_731B_select-jcb-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Fisk Johnson takes a selfie with attendees at the 2017 SC Johnson College of Business Community Celebration.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-95">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-201"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2019</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell veterinarians become the official vets of Westminster</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine and its satellite clinic in Stamford, Connecticut are now the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/02/caring-best-cornell-westminster-dog-show">official providers of veterinary care</a> at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="A woman with a dog standing on its hind legs, paws on her chest." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2022_1182_Westminster_Still001.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Lisa Mitchell, a licensed veterinary technician with the College of Veterinary Medicine, with her seven-year-old golden retriever, Rook.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-50">  <div class="timeline-marker-container timeline-item yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-marker" > <div class="time">2020s</div> </div> </div>     <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-202"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Five people wearing lab coats and face masks work in a laboratory." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2020_1206_JK_014-covid-testing-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Cornell COVID-19 Testing Laboratory (CCTL) at College of Veterinary Medicine.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2020</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell adapts, gives back in face of COVID-19 pandemic</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The Cornell community <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/03/cornell-suspends-classes-virtual-instruction-begins-april-6" target="_self">rises to the challenges</a> of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cornellians also band together to donate crucial medical supplies and continue Cornell’s core education and research missions while maintaining safe health practices and implementing a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/robots-know-how-drive-covid-labs-massive-testing-effort">massive testing effort</a>.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-17" role="button">Cornellians</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-51">   <div class="timeline-item square-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2020</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell forms school of public policy and university-wide departments</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>The university reveals plans to launch a new school of public policy alongside university-wide departments drawing faculty from multiple colleges or schools in the disciplines of economics, psychology and sociology. A gift <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/06/gift-endows-names-cornell-jeb-e-brooks-school-public-policy">endows and names</a> the school the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Red lamppost banner for the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2021_1142_RY_003-SPP-1x1.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-square"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-52">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 tag-16 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2020</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Gift establishes new college of computing and information science</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>A <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/12/gift-ann-s-bowers-59-creates-new-college-computing-and-information-science">transformative gift</a> from a Silicon Valley champion and longtime philanthropist Ann S. Bowers ’59 lays the groundwork for and names the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, supporting Cornell’s preeminence in these fields and enabling construction of a new building.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2021_1079_008-gates-hall-16x9.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">Gates Hall</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-77">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-202"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/NASA_Perseverance_Rover-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption ">Swati Mohan '04 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission control on Feb. 18, 2022 prior to the Perseverance landing.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2021</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Perseverance Lands on Mars</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>Launched seven months prior, the Perseverance rover lands on Mars’s surface. Several Cornell researchers are <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/02/raring-rove-perseverance-land-mars-feb-18">involved with instrument design and development</a> on the rover, from cameras to radar imagers. Swati Mohan ’04, a NASA aerospace engineer and the mission’s guidance, navigation and controls operations lead, <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/02/touchdown-confirmed-swati-mohan-04-called-mars-landing">calls the play-by-play landing</a> of the rover.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-96">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">2021</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Landmark gift names school of hotel administration</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>A <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/09/landmark-gift-establishes-cornell-peter-and-stephanie-nolan-school-hotel">historic $50 million gift</a> from Peter Nolan ’80, MBA ’82, and Stephanie Nolan ’84 establishes the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration. The gift, which supports financial aid in the school, also provides scholarship funding to expand educational access for future generations of hospitality business leaders.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-92">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-15 yValue-202"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Students walking in front of two new dormitories." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2021_1180_RY_001-ncre-16x9.jpg"> <div class="emphasized-item-caption item-caption special-characters">Toni Morrison and Ganędagǫ: Halls in the early evening.</div> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2022</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>North campus reshapes campus residential community</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p>With the final projects reaching completion in 2022, Cornell’s North Campus Residential Expansion creates new capacity for housing, dining, recreation, community building and more and provides intentional and consistent support during the most formative years of the <a href="https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/north-campus-new-buildings-shape-community/">student experience</a>. New buildings, named for a diverse group of Cornellians and the Cayuga Nation, include Toni Morrison Hall, Ganędagǫ: Hall, Barbara McClintock Hall, Hu Shih Hall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall.</p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-15" role="button">Milestones</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-128">    <div class="timeline-item landscape-image-item timeline-featured show-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2022</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Two-mile deep borehole explores potential for carbon-neutral heat</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>The drilling of the <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/06/2-mile-borehole-reveal-viability-campuss-geothermal-future">Cornell University Borehole Observatory</a> enables researchers to obtain data that will allow the university to determine whether it can move forward with <a href="https://earthsourceheat.cornell.edu/">Earth Source Heat</a>, a deep geothermal system that would use the Earth's internal heat to warm the Ithaca campus without the use of fossil fuels. The system could also provide a blueprint for similar renewable energy efforts elsewhere.<br></div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="Aerial image of the drilling site." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2022_1121_AER_042_Still001.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-landscape"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> <div class="item-caption ">The Cornell University Borehole Observatory.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> <div id="timeline-id-132">    <div class="timeline-item no-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-18 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-year">2023</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>2030 Project takes on climate change</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>Cornell’s <a href="https://climate.cornell.edu/">signature climate initiative</a> launches, bringing together experts across disciplines and spurring new research to address the climate challenge. A Dead & Company <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/05/phenomenal-dead-co-concert-awes-grateful-crowd">concert</a> in Barton Hall — exactly 46 years after the Grateful Dead’s <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/dead-co-play-benefit-barton-hall-honoring-legendary-77-show">mythic performance</a> in the same space — raises money for the project.<br></div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-16" role="button">Research & Innovation</a> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> </div>    </div> <div id="timeline-id-133">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-18 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2023</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Cornell embarks on Freedom of Expression Theme Year</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>Free expression and academic freedom have always been core parts of Cornell’s institutional identity and essential to its founding. The 2023-24 <a href="https://www.cornell.edu/expression/">theme year</a> offers students, faculty and staff opportunities to build knowledge and inspiring discussions around these topics and to further develop the fluency and skills necessary for democratic participation with events and activities across the university.<br></div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-18" role="button">Uniquely Cornell</a> </div> </div> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="item-figure"> <img alt="quotation marks." src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/FoE_quotes_vertical_black.jpg"> <div class="item-image-expand expand-portrait"> <span class="material-symbols-rounded icon icon-expand"> open_in_full </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="timeline-id-134">      <div class="timeline-item emphasized-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-19 yValue-202"> <div class="emphasized-item-wrapper"> <div class="item-image clearfix"> <div class="emphasized-item-figure"> <img alt="Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff greets Midshipman David Diao ’27, as Midshipman Marris Karpinski and Midshipman Nathan Li ’27 look on" src="https://www.cornell.edu/about/img/timeline/2023_1107_SH_287.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2023</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Purple Heart designation demonstrates commitment to veterans</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>Cornell becomes the first Ivy League institution to be <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/08/cornell-celebrates-veterans-earns-purple-heart-designation">recognized</a> as a Purple Heart University, acknowledging the university’s efforts to support veterans who have received a Purple Heart Medal resulting from combat injuries.<br></div></p> </div> <div class="item-categories" role="group"> <a href="item-list" class="filter-button-js category-button tag-19" role="button">Any Person Any Study</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="timeline-id-135">     <div class="timeline-item portrait-image-item hide-item-js timeline-item-list tag-16 tag-17 yValue-202"> <div class="timeline-item-inner"> <div class="item-content"> <div class="item-year">2023</div> <div class="item-title"> <h3>Goldin wins Nobel Prize for study of women’s progress in the workforce</h3> </div> <div class="item-desc"> <p><div>Claudia Goldin ’67 becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics individually rather than sharing the prize. 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