The Africana Studies and Research Center will host a 40th anniversary conference, 'Looking Back/Moving Forward: The Future of Africana/Black Studies,' April 15-17. (April 8, 2010)
Robert L. Harris, professor of African-American history at Cornell since 1975, will be the next director of the Africana Studies and Research Center starting July 1.
Cornell will test its emergency notification systems at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. These systems include the sirens/public address system and voice and text messaging. (April 8, 2010)
Internationally renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, designer of Paul Milstein Hall, will visit the campus to give a public lecture and meet with students and faculty.
Writer Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, will speak in Cornell's Bailey Hall April 29 at 6 p.m. Tickets are free from the Willard Straight Hall and Clinton House box offices. (April 7, 2010)
Courtney FitzPatrick '13 earned first place in the 2010 AATCC Concept 2 Consumer Design Competition for her entry 'Hot Hot Hot' in the product design category.
Poets Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez gave a joint reading April 1 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium with words infused with passion and the rhythms of jazz music. (April 2, 2010)
Postcolonial theorist Leela Gandhi delivered a range of approaches to ethics March 30 in Goldwin Smith Hall, in the inaugural talk in the College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Lecture Series.
