Author Valarie Kaur to kick off new CURW speaker series

Author, attorney and filmmaker Valarie Kaur will be the first speaker in a new series, “Into and Out of the Echo Chambers,” from Cornell United Religious Work. The virtual talk is scheduled for March 22 at 7 p.m.

Walter LaFeber, revered history professor, dies

Walter F. LaFeber, 87, professor of history, who won ovations from students for class lectures and whose mastery of U.S. foreign relations guided political scientists, died March 9.

Yoon, Sierra elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Cornell’s Meejin Yoon and Roberto Sierra have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, considered the highest artistic recognition in the U.S.

Klarman postdoc conducting ‘radical critique’ of meritocracy

Charles Petersen, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, studies 20th-century American history to better understand the rise of social and economic inequality in recent decades.

Latino and Black students less swayed by college-bound friends

According to new research, having college-bound friends increases the likelihood that a student will enroll in college but that effect is diminished for Black and Latino students.

Oluo offers practical antiracism strategies in MLK Lecture

Ijeoma Oluo, author of “Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,” was the featured speaker at the virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, held March 1.

Alumnus Josef Konvitz to give talk on trends in tolerance

Historian and Cornell alumnus Josef Konvitz ‘67 will explore and compare trends in tolerance in France and the United States in a digital talk on March 15. This talk is sponsored by the Cornell University Jewish Studies Program.

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Milstein program offers events on data privacy, virtual reality

The Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity is hosting two events this semester open to the public, starting with “A Life Making Your Software Secure and Your Data Private… or Trying To,” an “In Focus” talk with Ulfar Erlingsson PhD ’04 on March 2.

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Music duo contributes to new album

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, interim director of the Cornell Vocal Program, and pianist Ryan McCullough, DMA ’20, a visiting music faculty member, are featured on a new recording, “Beauty Intolerable: Songs of Sheila Silver.”

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