Cornell professor N'Dri Assié-Lumumba has been elected vice president of the Comparative and International Education Society for 2013-14 and will assume the society's presidency in 2015-16.
Students from across campus came together April 1 to hear Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick '09 speak about volunteering and diversity at Cornell during an event called 'Class of 2017: Engage, Impact, Inspire.'
Cornell has accepted 6,062 applicants for admission to the Class of 2017 this fall, out of 40,006 applications received, the highest number of applications to date and 5.8 percent more than in 2012.
Cornell University Library's Hip Hop Collection has recently acquired several collections of graffiti art, photography and other materials, to be featured in an exhibition opening April 4.
Hip-hop pioneers return to Ithaca April 4-7 for the opening of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection’s first major exhibition and a community-wide celebration of 40 years of hip-hop culture.
More than 200 books published by the Negro Universities Press, reprinting rare historical materials on the black experience, have been donated to the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.
The 'Hooray for Gay: Pre-Stonewall Images from the Collection of Harry Weintraub' exhibition in New York city marks the 25th anniversary of the library's Human Sexuality Collection.
A student-led initiative begun in 2010 has resulted in the establishment of a Muslim cultural center on campus. The space in Willard Straight Hall will be formally dedicated in the fall.
