Professor María Cristina García, Cornell's Howard A. Newman Professor in American Studies, has received a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship supporting her work in migration studies.
Cornell doctoral students in the fields of government, history and anthropology invited graduate student scholars to an interdisciplinary conference on peace and conflict April 16.
Melodramatics Theatre Company and Teatrotaller, Cornell’s Hispanic and Latinx Theatre Troupe, have collaborated on an innovative take on the classic musical “West Side Story,” playing April 22-24.
Only 2.5 percent of people who have a medical emergency in a public place got help from strangers before emergency medical personnel arrived. African-Americans were less than half as likely as Caucasians to get help.
Several events on campus this month provide an opportunity for students, staff, faculty, visitors and the local community to engage in conversations around diversity, politics, higher education and other topics.
A new History of Capitalism initiative from Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences and the ILR School brings together scholars from across the university to examine the nature of capitalism.
Historian and award-winning author Scott Ellsworth will recount this extraordinary story in the Cornell Department of History's 2016 Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History April 21 at 4:30 p.m.
"Blacks and Jews in America: A Conversation" will be held April 18 at 5 p.m. in Milstein Hall auditorium, with the Rev. Kenneth Clarke and professor Ross Brann.
