Linguistics professor Wayles Browne says the use of the Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian languages can have specific cultural connotations that fuel ethnic tensions.
More than 50 middle and high school teachers were on campus June 24-26 for an International Studies Summer Institute at Cornell called The Cultural Geography of Water.
Martin Gardiner Bernal, professor emeritus of government and Near Eastern studies at Cornell and author of "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization," died June 9, 2013 in Cambridge, England. He was 76.
Astronomer Martha Haynes took an alumni audience on a trip through the universe at the Reunion 2013 lecture, "Our Cosmic History and a New View of our Origins" in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall June 7.
