As part of an effort to broaden Cornell's international diversity, Lee H. Melvin, associate vice provost for enrollment, traveled to India to meet with five Tata scholars and other admitted students.
Cornell's John Blume and a team of law students worked on the mental retardation litigation in the case of Edward Lee Elmore, who was recently released from prison after 30 years of incarceration. (April 9, 2012)
In a letter to the editor, Elizabeth Hoare Cowles writes in to agree with May Berenbaum's premise that there are too few women entomologists. (April 6, 2012)
The Cornell DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act) Team are this year's winners of the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony.
Melissa Lukasiewicz, chair of the University Assembly, answers questions about the assembly's resolution to recommend changing the process for resolving allegations of sexual violence by students. (April 5, 2012)
An undocumented Chinese immigrant who expects permanent U.S. residency within weeks shared her story with an audience of about 80 at Sage Chapel, March 29 at the last of the 2012 Soup and Hope series. (April 5, 2012)
Entomologist May Berenbaum, department head at the University of Illinois, discussed the lack of women in her field April 3 as part of the two-day Frontiers Symposium of leading women life scientists.