In a presentation marking the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act Oct. 28, Angela Winfield, J.D. ’08, who is blind, recalled the ways the law has had a positive impact on her life.
Kenneth A. McClane ’73, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor Emeritus of Literature, spoke about friendship in a Phi Beta Kappa lecture on campus Oct. 28. He drew on experiences growing up in Harlem.
Timothy Murray, the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities, will present “In the Name of the Hero" at an art history panel Nov. 8 at the 2015 Beijing Forum in Beijing, China.
Several Cornell organizations gathered at a resource fair in downtown Ithaca Oct. 30 to share information with the Ithaca and Tompkins County communities about ways the university contributes to them.
Boyce Thompson Institute are working to apply a method that boosts beta-carotene into in potatoes to cassava plants. Biofortified cassava could help alleviate vitamin A deficiency in children.
The 4,000-square-foot Center for Nanomaterials Engineering and Technology is open for business with students, researchers and companies looking to use its state-of-the-art equipment.
Twenty-five boxes of Velvet Underground material recently were donated to the library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections by collector and author Johan Kugelberg.
