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.
Partisanship and bureaucratic fragmentation are major challenges today's U.S. foreign policy, professors said during the discussion "America and the World," June 7 during Reunion.
On July 1, Sol Gruner will step down as director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, to be succeeded by Joel Brock, professor of applied and engineering physics.
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.
The planet can vibrate like a bell within periods of a few hours, and these oscillations cause gravitational tugs that in turn create the spiral patterns in Saturn's rings, Cornell astronomers said.
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.
