Save the Date: ELSO's 10th Birthday Celebration!
Celebrate ELSO's 10th Birthday!
Fall 2024 ELSO Tutoring Schedules Open!
Schedules for ELSO Fall 2024 Pronunciation and Writing & Presenting are now available.
ELSO Faculty Welcome New Graduate and Professional Students
Meet ELSO faculty and get your questions answered at ELSO Info Session and orientation resource fairs.
2024 Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates
The summer Write Together at Home Program will be running again this year! The Write Together at Home Program provides graduate students, professional students, and postdocs with community, structure, and resources to support their writing. This fully online program is designed to help you establish writing practices and peer writing networks that will sustain your writing throughout the summer.
ELSO Info Session for DGSs and GFAs
DGSs and GFAs are warmly invited to join ELSO faculty on Friday, April 26, 1:00-2:00 EDT via Zoom to learn more about ELSO services that are available to multilingual graduate and professional students.
ELSO Spring Break Tutoring Hours
ELSO's Writing and Presenting Tutoring service will run through Spring Break! The Pronunciation service will be closed March 31-April 7.
ELSO Senior Lecturer Melissa Myers Recognized with Innovative Teaching Award
ELSO Senior Lecturer Melissa Myers was recognized with an Innovative Teaching Award Honorable Mention for “Creative Responses to Generative AI.”
Sign-up for the Spring 24 Speaking Groups Program!
Sign-ups for the SP24 ELSO Speaking Groups Program are open!
2024 Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference
ELSO, in conjunction with the John S. Knight Institute, is hosting a Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference Sunday, April 21, 2024 10:00-4:00 pm in Biotech G10.
ELSO Tutoring is Now Open!
Spring 2024 ELSO tutoring is now open
2024 Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference
ELSO and the John S. Knight Institute will be hosting a Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference in April 2024.
2023 Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates
The 2023 Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates information and registration links are now available!
Thank you for making Giving Day 2023 a success!
Generous donations helped raise funds for ELSO programming for multilingual domestic and international graduate and professional students.
Spring 2023 ELSO Tutoring Schedules Now Available
Spring 2023 ELSO tutoring schedules are now live!
ELSO Writing and Presenting Tutoring runs through finals!
ELSO Writing and Presenting tutoring will run through finals week
Speaking Groups Program Registration is Open!
Registration for the Speaking Groups Program is now open!
Fall 2022 ELSO Tutoring Schedules Now Available
ELSO Tutoring Schedules for Fall 2022 are Now Open!
ELSO Welcomes Students in Fall 22
ELSO welcomes new students and welcomes back returning students at the start of Fall 22.
Spotlight Faculty | Dr. Michelle Crow, ELSO Director, awarded for her book and outstanding scholarship
English Language Support Office (ELSO) Director Dr. Michelle Crow was presented with two awards at the 2021 International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference: Best Monograph and Distinguished Fellow Award.The Best Monograph Award is presented by the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) and the WAC Clearinghouse to an...
ELSO Expands Services to All Multilingual Graduate Students
Cornell’s English Language Support Office (ELSO) has expanded to support all multilingual graduate students – both from the U.S. and abroad. Previously available only to international students for whom English was not their first language, now multilingual graduate and professional students from anywhere in the world can participate in ELSO...
Spotlight Tutor | Meet ELSO Tutor Hugo Milan
I’m Hugo Milan, a writing and presentation tutor for international graduate students and post-docs.I am from Brazil and I started my Ph.D. in Biological Engineering in the Fall 2015. During my first semester, I started getting involved with the ELSO and never stopped.What motivated you to begin tutoring writing? My main motivation to become a...
Spotlight Tutor | Meet ELSO Tutor Sudan Kariuki
Who are the English Language Support Office tutors? Stop by 260 Caldwell Hall, and you'll meet friendly graduate student and professional tutors from across the disciplines who are eager to meet with full-time matriculated international graduate and professional students and all post-docs meeting and to talk with them about their writing,...