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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Rural Humanities will offer a webinar, “Black Land Matters: A Rural Humanities Webinar on Black Farming and Food Security,” on March 4 featuring author Natalie Baszile and activist Karen Washington, co-founder of Black Urban Growers.
Richard Newell Boyd, the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters Emeritus, died in his sleep in Cleveland, Ohio on Feb. 20. He was 78.
