An earlier version of . Gilles was a 2021 GEM Employer Fellow and enjoyed reading and volunteering. Miaoxiu Tina Tian '18, a student in the College of Engineering, was found dead in her apartment in Ithaca on Dec. 13. He was 97. (https://cornellsun.com/2023/04/13/cornell-first-year-student-dies/). He was 81. Cornell University has identified the young man whose body was found in the Fall Creek gorge near Ithaca Falls on Saturday as Phillip Zukowski, a sophomore who transferred to Cornell last fall from Grinnell College. 2021 May 27 . Shannon Jones, a 23-year-old upperclassman in the College of Engineering, died Nov. 27 in Cayuga Heights. In one room, the recruits had to down a bottle of vodka among them. Charlotte Jirousek, associate professor of textiles and apparel in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, died unexpectedly Feb. 12 in Ithaca at age 75. Please keep them in your thoughts during this difficult time.. John Murray Elliot, Ph.D. 58, professor emeritus of animal science, died Nov. 26 in Ithaca. Originally from Marlboro, New Jersey, Friedman volunteered in his hometown Emergency Medical Service before coming to Ithaca this fall and was exploring ways to use his EMT experience on the Cornell Campus. Around 8 p.m., Mr. Tsialas told his mother that he had to get back to campus to work on a project and that he would meet her in the morning. This is the first death of a student reported during the fall 2021 semester, after four student deaths in the spring. He was 79. James McConkey, professor emeritus of English literature, died Oct. 24 in Ithaca. The Cornell Sorority & Fraternity community dates to the first months of University operation during the autumn of 1868. He was 64. Jane Hardy'53, a longtime senior lecturer in the Department of Communication, died May 21 in Ithaca after a brief illness. West had been a Code Next fellow at Google before attending Cornell. James Turner, the founding director of Cornells Africana Studies and Research Center and a pioneer of the multidisciplinary approach to exploring the African diaspora, died Aug. 6. Sorority & Fraternity Life | Student & Campus Life - Cornell University Juris Hartmanis, a Turing Award-winning pioneer who was instrumental in establishing computer science as an independent field, and founding chair of Cornells Department of Computer Science, died July 29 at 94. There are 20k students at Cornell, so 2-3 suicides per year is right in line with expectations. April 2023 The University recently learned of the passing of these Cornellians March 2023 Valerie Mae Paurus Ota, a doctoral student in the graduate field of development sociology, died April 3 in Brooklyn, New York. Reached by phone recently, Mr. Hanuch said he did not want to talk. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Dr . Mr. Hanuch told the police the next day that Mr. Tsialas had called him once from a bathroom and asked him to come to the party, according to the police file. Toni Morrison 55, Nobel Prize-winning author, who was also an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell from 1997 to 2003, died Aug. 5 in New York City. He was 88. Residents in Ujamaa were informed of his death earlier on Friday afternoon, according to multiple students present. Olaf F. Larson, emeritus professor of rural sociology, died Nov. 14 in Mount Dora, Florida. In Fall 2022, the university received over 71,000 undergraduate applications for the class of 3,441 . [We] provided support in person and virtually to try to make sure those that were closest to Shawn had the support they needed in the moment of learning of his passing, Lombardi told The Sun. Students in need of professional mental health support can call Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at 607-255-5155 and employees can call the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) at 607-255-2673.
