Actor and environmental activist Ted Danson delivered the 2015 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture “Fish Tales: How Ocean Conservation Became My Passion” on campus April 20.
Nine Cornell doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in April at the Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education.
Social scientist Scott Page discusses the search for excellence in academic institutions and the benefits that people of diverse perspectives and backgrounds offer, in a campus lecture April 22.
Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, and writer, scholar and performer Qwo-Li Driskill, will offer performances and student workshops on campus April 28-May 2.
The McNair Scholars Program, which seeks to increase the number of first-generation, low-income or underrepresented students in doctoral programs, inducted 15 new members April 11.
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.
Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies, talked about the availability and quality of food, who gets it and where it's found in an April 10 campus talk.
The Building Ourselves through Sisterhood and Service (B.O.S.S.) Mental Health Summit April 11 on campus examined mental health issues among minority women.
Fredrick Blaisdell '16 and Steven Ingram '16 have received 2015 Udall scholarships, for students who show potential for careers in environmental public policy, health care and tribal public policy.
