Women MBA students host NYC Johnson tech conference

Cornell and other top business college students tested the popularity of their technical and marketing skills on March 4 during the third annual Johnson Women in Technology conference in Manhattan.

Alum wins physics prize named for Cornell Nobelists

Mohammad Hamidian, Ph.D. ’11, has been named the 2016 winner of the Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for his discoveries of new forms of electronic matter at the nanoscale and at extreme low temperatures.

With songs, stories, students honor Garrett's legacy

Holding candles flickering in the twilight of March 8, hundreds of students gathered on Ho Plaza to honor Cornell's 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett, who died of colon cancer March 6.

Cancer research fund set up at Weill Cornell in honor of Garrett

On March 8, Dr. Laurie Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, announced the launch of the President Elizabeth Garrett Fund for Colon Cancer Research.

Remembering the 'vital,' 'optimistic' Elizabeth Garrett

Cornellians and colleagues on campus and from across the country reflected on the passing of President Elizabeth Garrett, who died March 6 after a battle with colon cancer.

On slavery and literature in Cuba

Gerard Aching's book 'Freedom from Liberation' is a social, psychological, historical and literary study centered on a 19th-century Cuban poet's slave narrative, the only such work to surface in the Spanish-speaking world.

Dance festival evokes colorful, lurid Mardi Gras

New Orleans surrounded by excess and humanity is the theme of this year's Locally Grown Dance Festival, created by dance senior lecturers Byron Suber and Jumay Chu, March 17-19 at the Schwartz Center.

Aching examines black bodies, Black Lives Matter

In the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture March 2, Gerard Aching drew parallels between the calls to action in two books and the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Acts of defiance in Nazi Germany topic of Cornell talk

Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center Center for Advanced Genocide Research and a USC professor, will talk about defiance and protest of the Nazi regime by Jews on March 17.