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.
The Cornell in Turin summer study abroad program June 2-22 brings students to Turin, Italy, for an accelerated course on European and Italian politics.
Associate professor of Africana studies Noliwe Rooks advocated adoption of a second Emancipation Proclamation to ensure U.S. racial integrations at a June 7 Reunion talk.
Cornell historian Fredrik Logevall outlined how the Vietnam War happened and the lessons the war teaches today in his Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture June 7 during Cornell Reunion 2013.
Events on campus in June include a Reunion book signing, outdoor film screenings, a Savoyards performance and other free summer concerts, and Bound for Glory shows.
Hirokazu Miyazaki, associate professor of anthropology, studied a group of Japanese derivatives traders for his new book, 'Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance.'
