Sital Kalantry, clinical professor of law, talked about sexual discrimination and racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the U.S. and oppression of women in India March 15.
Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.
A medical doctor fighting the spread of HIV around the world, international legal and foreign relations scholars and a labor scholar are among the second cohort of International Faculty Fellows.
Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, discussed tensions in the U.S.-Russia relationship on campus March 16 in the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship lecture.
Palestinian-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, who writes in Hebrew, has a hit Israeli TV series and several novels to his credit. He will speak at Cornell on "The Foreign Mother Tongue" on March 25.
The System of Rice Intensification, a method of growing rice that enhances crop yields and is resilient to climate change, won the international Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security.
ILR School student J. Lowell Jackson ’17 will study Bahasa Indonesian for three months this summer through the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.
Dice-like knucklebones and poker-chip colored stones aren't evidence of a 3,500-year-old casino, Cornell archaeologists explain. "House of Cards" President Frank Underwood might agree.
Culturally diverse food and performances highlight Taste of Culture, the Translator Interpreter Program’s semi-annual food festival, Monday, March 16, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
