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$50M Verizon Gift To Fund Cornell Tech Education Center By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor
With a $50 million gift from Verizon, Cornell Tech will develop the Verizon Executive Education Center, where students, faculty and other members of the tech community will be able to collaborate and bring “cutting-edge” ideas to life. The gift, announced Monday, will fund construction of the executive education building, according to Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher. The center will be part of the campus’ first phase, which broke ground last month and is slated to open in the summer of 2017, according to a University press release. However, the executive education center will open
A ‘transformative’ gift | Pictured is a rendering of the Verizon Executive Education Center that will be built on the Cornell Tech campus.
at a later date than the rest of phase one. Huttenlocher said the building will be used for activities that do not generally fit in the “normal full-time academic class schedule,” such as workshops, conferences and executive education classes. “Many of these will attract people from companies, both large and small, both in New York City and beyond,” Huttenlocher said. “The benefit to students and faculty will be these additional kinds of academic functions and increased interaction with companies and practitioners.” Programs and events at the center will also allow Verizon to “develop customized center-based programs for its executives and customers,” according to the University. See VERIZON page 4 COURTESY OF KILOGRAPH
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Open for business | Gregar Brous, who purchased Rulloff’s Restaurant last year after it was closed down, said he plans to reopen the restaurant tomorrow.
Rulloff’s to Reopen Tomorrow Revamped restaurant returns under new owner By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer
For an establishment that has stood on College Avenue since 1977, the silence and darkness at Rulloff’s Restaurant and Bar during the fall semester has been unusual. However, all that may soon change when
the Collegetown staple reopens its doors on Wednesday with a revamped menu and spruced up restaurant. Gregar Brous — the owner of the AGAVA Restaurant and Collegetown Bagels — purchased Rulloff’s after the restaurant’s previous See RULLOFF’S page 4
Horticulture Director Announced By PAULINA GLASS Sun Staff Writer
Rhoda Maurer — a horticulturist from Geneva, N.Y. — will be the new director of horticulture for the Cornell Plantations, the University announced Monday. As director, Maurer will be in charge of garden development, management of greenhouse and other Plantation staff and the continued cultivation of over 40,000 plants on the Plantations’ property, accord-
Most recently, Maurer was ing to a University press in Geneva leading the greenrelease. houses at Cornell’s Maurer directNew York State ed, curated and Agricultural worked at numerExperiment ous horticulture Station, according programs both to the release. domestically and Maurer said she abroad before looks forward to coming to bringing her Cornell, accord“affection for pubing to the release. MAURER lic horticulture” to Notably, she worked at the gardens of the University and commuSwarthmore College in nity. Pennsylvania and Wisley See PLANTATIONS page 4 Garden in England.
Rand Hall Renovation Will Expand Current Fine Arts Library By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer
A major renovation — funded by a $6 million donation from Mui Ho ’62 B.Arch ’66 — is planned for the Fine Arts Library in Rand Hall, according to the University. The new library will be expanded to occupy the top
two floors of Rand Hall, ers the renovation to be a Arts Library as soon as pos- “We aim to provide a stateaccording to a press release “key academic priority” for sible since it is a critical of-the-art library that will teaching and learning offer direct access to the from the College of the college. fine arts collection as Architecture, Art and Planning. “The Fine Arts Library ... is a critical teaching and well as public computand visual resource There is currently no learning source for many faculty and students.” ing support.” construction timeline or Kent Kleinman In an announcement design for the construclast July, the University tion, according to Kent “The University librari- resource for many faculty named alumnus Wolfgang Kleinman, dean of the architecture college. an and I are very commit- and students across the Tschapeller M.Arch ’87 as However, he said he consid- ted to rebuilding the Fine University,” Kleinman said. the main architect for the
Fine Arts Library. Students had mixed opinions on the project, with current architecture students expressing both excitement and concern. “Many architecture students share the sentiment that we are excited to have additional space for the See RENOVATION page 5