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Cornell faculty vote ‘no confidence’ in university leadership after alleged fraternity gang rape • Nov. 6, 2026, 5:30 PM ET (AP)

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Cornell rape investigation will be led by a former prosecutor in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs case • Nov. 4, 2026, 4:23 PM ET (AP)

Man accused in Cornell rape lawsuit wants Letitia James removed from investigation over her posts • Oct. 29, 2026, 7:49 PM ET (AP)

Cornell faculty to move forward with no-confidence vote over handling of sexual assault allegations • Oct. 28, 2026, 9:08 PM ET (AP)

Facts

Date	1865 - present
Areas Of Involvement	higher education
Notable Alumni	Urie Bronfenbrenner • Freeman Dyson • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Thorstein Veblen • Toni Morrison • Tsai Ing-wen • Ratan Tata • Elissa Slotkin • Anthony Fauci • Claudia Goldin • Vera Rubin • Robert F. Smith • Bruce Ames • Leonard Leo • Ruth Westheimer • Rem Koolhaas • Thomas Pynchon • Eileen Higgins • John J. Mearsheimer • Gillian Anderson • Jane Lynch • Harold Bloom • Richard Meier • Gabby Giffords • Francis Fukuyama • Gilles Brassard • Thomas Midgley, Jr. • Sanford I. Weill • Eric Betzig • Jack W. Szostak • Jill Tarter • Peter Eisenman • Steve Reich • Keith Olbermann • John J. Hopfield • Margaret Bourke-White • Pearl S. Buck • Robert Schenkkan • Barbara McClintock • Irene Rosenfeld • Janet Reno • Diane Ackerman • Monir Farmanfarmaian • Mark Kirk • Ann Coulter • Florence Kelley • Mae Jemison • Junot Díaz • William F. Friedman • Paul Wolfowitz • David Thouless • M. Carey Thomas • George Wells Beadle • W.E. Moerner • Lee Teng-hui • Arthur Ashkin • Edmund Muskie • William H. McNeill • Theobald Smith • Edward Bernays • Alice Evans • Robert F. Engle • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Steven Weinberg • Julian Steward • David Starr Jordan • Robert William Fogel • June Etta Downey • Frank Hyneman Knight • William Chandler Bagley • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Sheldon Glashow • Douglas Osheroff • Robert William Holley • Pietro Belluschi • Frank Albert Fetter • Gerard K. O’Neill • Edmund M. Clarke • George Jean Nathan • George Robert Stibitz • Willis Carrier
Related People	Andrew Dickson White • Ezra Cornell

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