Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, and writer, scholar and performer Qwo-Li Driskill, will offer performances and student workshops on campus April 28-May 2.
The McNair Scholars Program, which seeks to increase the number of first-generation, low-income or underrepresented students in doctoral programs, inducted 15 new members April 11.
Shoshana Das ’16 has been awarded a Goldwater scholarship, the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Chiara Formichi, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies, recalls her recent trip to Iran to study Shi’i Islam, where she observed surprisingly diverse forms of religious expression.
Teams from two downstate schools took top prizes in the second annual Cornell University High School Programming Contest April 7. First and third prizes went to two teams from the Dalton School in New York City.
Hadas Kress-Gazit, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will speak about robotics at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, April 26 in Rockefeller Hall.
Vinay Ambegaokar, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus, has been awarded the 2015 John Bardeen Prize in recognition of his theoretical physics research.
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.
Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies, talked about the availability and quality of food, who gets it and where it's found in an April 10 campus talk.
