Even though the Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech campus will not open until 2017, those associated with the project and Cornell University colleagues have become members of the Roosevelt Island community. With sadness, on March 7, Cornell University announced the death of it’s President, Elizabeth Garrett.
Click here for the full Cornell Chronicle article. Here’s Elizabeth Garrett visiting Roosevelt Island in October 2014The Cornell community gathered solemnly across campus in the late afternoon March 7 to pay their respects to Cornells 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett, who died the previous day of colon cancer….
