Veterans' rights activist Gus Kappler ’61, M.D. ’65, spoke on campus Sept. 23 about his experiences as a surgeon in Vietnam and ongoing poor treatment of U.S. veterans.
Historian Edward Baptist provides an account of slavery's role in America becoming a global superpower in his new book, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."
College of Human Ecology legend Urie Bronfenbrenner, who taught at Cornell for 50 years and died in 2005, was the subject of a symposium on campus Sept. 18.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '54 held a conversation with College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gretchen Ritter '83 at the New-York Historical Society Sept. 18.
Sara J. Horowitz ’84 will receive the 2015 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, and Beth Florin, M.S. '85, will receive the 2015 Jerome Alpern Award at ILR’s Groat and Alpern Celebration April 9 in New York City.