Though Glenn Morgan Parker '25 shared what it was like to take an online course as a Precollege student, thanks to the Atkinson scholarship, and how it helped prepare her for her first year at Cornell.
Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion.
Thomas Wyatt Turner, Ph.D. 1921, was the first Black person at Cornell to earn a doctorate and the first Black person in the nation to earn a doctorate in botany. He was also a pioneer in the civil rights movement.
Speakers at the 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 3 spoke about topics including their writing, their families, Black history and literature, and what it means to be Black and American.
Cameron Wesley Scott, M.M.H. ’21, and Jeremiah Swain, M.M.H. ’20, hope to create one of upstate New York’s first boutique cannabis hotels and make social change at the same time.
Refugees are less likely to be employed the longer they live in the United States, despite unique and early access to employment services, according to new research co-authored by Shannon Gleeson of the ILR School.
The stories of fictional freedom seekers ring out on the new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website, a collaborative effort between Cornell students and community members.
