Mark Sarvary News Today

There are limits — practical and philosophical — on how much faculty members can bend.

On Jan. 25, Prof. Bruce Lewenstein, communication, became Cornells 13th Ombudsman in a vote by the University Assembly.

January 19, 2021 When the semester shifted online amid the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, instructor Mark Sarvary, Ph.D. ’06, and his teaching staff decided to encourage – but not require – students to switch on their cameras. It didn’t turn out as they’d hoped. “Most of our students had their cameras off,” said Sarvary, director of the Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). “Students enjoy seeing each other when they ...