Events this week include a community panel with police, hip-hop artists and scholars; an Oscar party; Karl Pillemer on making love last; plays at the Schwartz Center and films by Amie Siegel.
Emeritus professor Marty Hatch discusses the roles food pantries play in communities such as Brooktondale and Caroline and how the United Way in supporting them.
Cornell will offer four new massive open online courses - or MOOCs - in 2016. Learn abouts sharks, GMOs, engineering simulations and how mergers and acquisitions get done.
Reflecting on her heart transplant and all that occurred since, Rebecca DeRoller said at the Feb. 12 Soup and Hope event that hope comes from deciding to be victor rather than victim.
Faculty members and writer Amara Lakhous discussed the status of Muslims in Europe in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France. It was the first of two discussions organized by the Einaudi Center.
Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will deliver the 2015 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Feb. 25.
Columbia University scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin will deliver the annual Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature on Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, Thursday, March 5.
Thirteen social scientists from across the university are joining the Institute for the Social Sciences as fellows-in-residence during the 2015-16 academic year.
Ernest Sternglass ’44, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’53, whose correspondence with Albert Einstein led to an electron amplification discovery that allowed millions to watch Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the moon, died Feb. 12 in Ithaca.
