Heritage speakers deepen language skills through classes

Heritage language learners - students who know a language and have perhaps spoken or heard it since birth - are taking courses to address gaps in in reading, writing, pronunciation and vocabulary.

Trevor Pinch book traverses tech, sociology, sound

“Entanglements: Conversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound” features interviews with Trevor Pinch, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies and professor of sociology.

Teacher, mentor, trustee Daniel Sisler dies at 87

Daniel G. Sisler, Ph.D. ’62, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics and a Cornell trustee emeritus, died Nov. 23 in Ithaca. He was 87.

Mukoma combines personal, political in 'Logotherapy' poems

Assistant professor of English Mukoma Wa Ngugi discusses the work in his second collection of poetry, "Logotherapy," as "playful and personal" as well as political.

Visiting ACE fellow learns from Cornell's 'complexities'

Cornell is hosting SUNY Oswego administrator and communication professor Kristen Eichhorn as an American Council on Education fellow, a national university leadership development initiative.

Undergrad researchers make pitches at CURBx

At Cornell's version of TEDx Talks – CURBx – seven undergraduate students explained their humanities and STEM research in five-minute presentations Nov. 21 in McGraw Hall.

Freshmen tackle upper-level math in special course

Every Wednesday night, students gather in the math lounge of Malott Hall and spend 2.5 hours huddled around chalkboards and poring over textbooks as they seek solutions to vexing math problems.

Rawlings reaffirms Cornell's commitment to founding principles

Interim President Hunter Rawlings reaffirmed Cornell's commitment to the principle of "any person, any study" in message to the entire community Nov. 22.

Rawlings offers lessons in leadership to economics class

Dealing with controversy, and consulting with the right constituencies, are part of the job of leading a university, Interim President Hunter Rawlings told students as guest lecturer in the class Economics of the University.