Summer Wellbeing Adventure Chillin' on the Quad Event July 30, 11am-1pm, Ag Quad. Rain location: Mann Library lobby. Enjoy the simple pleasures of good company, great music, resource tables, and fun activities! Take a break to reconnect with colleagues and friends or make new connections.
Financial Wellness: Benefits Beyond Your Finances (TIAA) July 21, 10-11am, virtual. Explore the powerful connection between your money and your overall wellness, showing you how taking simple, consistent steps toward financial planning can reduce stress and improve your quality of life today.
Identity Theft: Safeguarding Your Finances (TIAA)
August 6, 2-3pm, virtual. The frequency and format of scams are increasing. Learn how to protect your information and your financial future.
Physical Wellbeing
Plantar Fasciitis and Morton's Neuroma (Weill Cornell Medicine)
July 16, 5-6pm, virtual. Join Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech, and the Good Life on Roosevelt Island Association (GLORIA) for a virtual session exploring common foot pathologies focusing on conditions such as plantar fasciitis, Morton’s neuroma, flatfeet, and fungal nails.
Why Does My Back Hurt? Advanced Treatment Options (Weill Cornell Medicine)
July 23, 6-7pm, virtual. Join Weill Cornell Medicine pain management specialist, Dr. Carolyn Kloepping, for a free webinar to learn about the common sources of back pain and treatments to get you back to living pain-free.
Heat Health Tracker(U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) This dashboard helps you explore local heat exposure, related health effects, and the resources available to protect people during extreme heat events.
Explore Cornell Wellness Consultations
Looking to take your wellbeing to the next level? Cornell Wellness offers a variety of individual consultations - both in person and online - including fitness testing and personalized guidance to support your health goals. Whether you’re just getting started or fine-tuning your routine, their expert team is here to help.
For many in the Cornell community, these services have become a long-standing part of their wellness journey. David A. Hammer, J. Carlton Ward, Jr. Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering, below, shared that he’s been participating in fitness testing every 1–2 years for more than two decades. As he puts it, he’s “still craving fitness after all these years.” Explore all available offerings here.
Environmental Wellbeing
Explore the Robison Herb Garden with Cornell Wellness
July 16, 12-1pm, Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens. Join this refreshing herb walk led by Brinda from Cornell Wellness and wander through the Robison Herb Garden - a living collection featuring more than 500 varieties of herbs and plants from around the world.
What's Bugging You - Managing Spotted Lanternfly at Home August 7, 12-12:30pm, virtual. Each month, experts from Cornell Integrated Pest Management share practical information to help you avoid pest problems in your yard/garden and promote a healthy environment.
U-Pick Berries in Tompkins & Surrounding Counties (Cornell Cooperative Extension) Cherries | Raspberries | Blueberries These Buy Local lists are provided by CCE Agriculture Programs in S. Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Tioga, and Tompkins Counties to help you locate foods grown or produced in our region. Call ahead of your visit to confirm availability and hours. Contact your local CCE office to find picking locations near you.
Mental Wellbeing
Let's Meditate - Guided Meditation Sessions Offered throughout the summer on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays – with both in-person and online options available. Let’s Meditate is open to all Cornell community members.
Culture, ethnicity, and race all play a role in the way that each person experiences the world. These and other factors can significantly impact mental health, particularly among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Resource guides are available for individuals from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, including African, Arab, Asian and Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latine and Hispanic, and multiracial communities.
Cultural Wellbeing
National Disability Independence Day July 26 is recognized annually as National Disability Independence Day, commemorating the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law in 1990, making this year the 36th anniversary.
Check out these resources available through Cornell:
From Me to We: Understanding Community Wellbeing July 28, 2-3pm, virtual. Facilitated by staff from the Dept. of Inclusion & Belonging and Workforce Wellbeing as part of the Community Wellbeing Series.
Join this interactive discussion where we will define what “community wellbeing” is, explore how it both differs and intersects with individual wellbeing, and discuss various ways we can individually and collectively enhance and support community wellbeing in both our personal and workplace lives.
Grieving Together: Online Ongoing General Support Group(Hospicare of Ithaca) This group meets the first and third Wednesday of the month via Zoom and is for anyone 18 years of age or older grieving a loss, regardless of when the death occurred. Open to residents of Tompkins and Cortland County.To register, contact bereavement@hospicare.orgor call Liz Wood at 607-272-0212.
Summer Safety for Pets Michelle Moyal, DVM '07, an alum of the College of Veterinary Medicine, offers tips on how to help your furry friends beat the heat and more.
Perk of the Week
Cornell Employee Microsoft 365 Licenses and Products
Microsoft 365 includes productivity tools like Outlook, Word, and Excel. Standard versions of these classic tools are available online through an A1 license for all Cornell employees.
Occupational Wellbeing
Career Management Toolkit The Career Management Toolkit encompasses a three-stage career developmental process to help you discover how to get the most out of your experience at Cornell and to consider what’s possible for you.
Just For Fun
From Earth to the Solar System: Research and Discovery with SPIF
July 21,12-1pm, hybrid, 317 Space Sciences Building. Hear about exciting current research and future spacecraft missions that hope to uncover how the Earth and other worlds have changed over time, how life formed on Earth, and if life exists on other worlds.
Uncover Cornell’s Hidden Gems
July 22, 12-1pm, virtual. Discover the stories hidden in plain sight with Cornell historian Corey Ryan Earle ’07. From intriguing pieces of campus history to unique plaques, public art, and little-known trivia, you’ll gain a fresh perspective on the places you pass every day.
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