Cornell had its highest number of applications in university history for freshman admission this year, with 44,966 applicants for the Class of 2020. Students were notified of their selection status March 31 at 5 p.m.
The student group Mixed at Cornell received the recently renamed James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony, March 16 in Willard Straight Hall.
Each semester, the Latina/o Studies Program hosts six informal luncheon discussions for students with Cornell faculty and administrators as “a way to bring the community together."
Gerard Aching's book 'Freedom from Liberation' is a social, psychological, historical and literary study centered on a 19th-century Cuban poet's slave narrative, the only such work to surface in the Spanish-speaking world.
In the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture March 2, Gerard Aching drew parallels between the calls to action in two books and the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Non-whites are as concerned with climate change as whites but less likely to self-identify as environmentalists, according to a recent study co-authored by Cornell's Jonathon Schuldt.
Applications are being accepted through March 7 for the 22nd Anniversary James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The winner receives a $5,000 prize.
From the silver screen, the airwaves, the stage and the page, renowned Cornellians return to campus March 5 to share their media-industry savvy at free events sponsored by the President’s Council of Cornell Women.
President Garrett supports the University Assembly resolution for more all-gender single-occupancy restrooms and for greater access to restrooms with universal design, as well as consistent restroom, locker and shower signage.
