Cornell University will be naming two residence halls after alumnae U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, according to a Cornell press release.
The announcement came in Cornell President Dr. Martha E. Pollack’s State of the University address.
“For both of these extraordinary Cornellians, we wanted to create a memorial that would be seen by, and have its doors open to, ‘any person’ at Cornell,” Pollack said, “reminding all of our Cornell students, not just those in a particular field or college, that their path from Cornell can take them anywhere.”
Pollack announced the creation of the Ruth Bader and Martin D. Ginsburg Program – established by alum Jeff and Christie Weiss and supported by other donors – which will be used to create a new program at Cornell honoring the interests of Ginsburg and her husband, Martin.
In the address, among other things, Pollack discussed the school’s faculty accomplishments, COVID-19 response and research news and spoke about Cornell’s financial difficulties – “an additional $90 million in financial need related to the pandemic just this year,” according to the press release.
