Juvenile offenders sentenced to life without parole in the state of South Carolina recently won the right to new sentencing hearings, thanks to Cornell Law School efforts.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.
Humanist Geoffrey Harpham, the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, lectured on “The Pryvat Spyrit of America, from Dissent to Interpretation” Nov. 13.
Twenty-five years ago public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 wrote an essay called “The End of History.” A campus panel Nov. 18 challenged many of Fukuyama's premises.
Thomas C. Reed ’56, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, spoke at Cornell Air Force ROTC Detachment 520's annual Dining Out event in Ithaca Nov. 14.
The Africana Studies and Research Center held its second forum on issues arising from death of Michael Brown’s death Nov. 17. The event focused on law enforcement, training and policies.
