Scientist Marilyn Jacox, Ph.D. ’56, who died in 2013, bequeathed $1.5 million from her estate to fund scholarships for female undergrads studying science and math at Cornell.
Maureen Quilligan, the Department of English’s M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, will present “When Women Ruled the World: the Synergies of Female Sovereignty in the Renaissance” Nov. 5.
Members of the Cornell International Affairs Society spent their fall break piloting a program that taught Model United Nations, public speaking and debate skills to students at two New York City public high schools.
Attorney David Boies, who argued in the Supreme Court to successfully defeat California's same-sex marriage ban in 2008, spoke Oct. 22 on the law's ability to effect social change.
Joseph H. Holland ’78, M.A. ’79, a Harlem-based lawyer, minister and activist, said that a religious revival on a scale seen previously in the U.S. may solve racial injustice on campus Oct. 23.
Following the announcement that the archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies will be donated to Cornell Library, Atlantic President and CEO Christopher Oechsli and Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett discussed the foundation's work.
In her first State of the University address Oct. 23, President Elizabeth Garrett laid out an agenda "in keeping with Cornell's tradition of pushing boundaries and expanding horizons through innovation."
On Oct. 23, The Blackstone Charitable Foundation announced a three-year, $4.5 million grant to Cornell and other upstate New York universities to encourage entrepreneurship education and support.
The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed permanently at Cornell. The archives document roughly $8 billion in Atlantic grants over three decades.
The Society for the Humanities will hold its annual theme conference Oct. 23-24 in A.D. White House. Titled “Celebrating Society@50: Time, on the Critical Edge,” it features international speakers.
Researchers observed a mass of atoms cooled almost to absolute zero so that they could "tunnel" from place to place. But as long as the observation continued, no tunneling occurred.
Events on campus include a Chinese fashion exhibit, a Phi Beta Kappa talk by Kenneth McClane, a Beethoven concert, a lecture on natural medicines of ancient Greece, and 'Ideas for a Better World.'
