President Skorton and Provosts Kent Fuchs and Laurie Glimcher are directing the development of diversity goals through the University Diversity Council, with universitywide accountability.
John Siliciano, senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Yael Levitte, executive director for CU-ADVANCE, have been appointed to lead the university's efforts to increase its faculty diversity. They will also help advance the work of the University Diversity Council.
For Arun Gandhi, grandson of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi, his lifelong education in the principles of nonviolence began with a pencil stub.
Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children, report two Cornell professors.
Part of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies 40th anniversary celebration was a panel discussion, 'Feminism Mapped,' with some of the program's founders and directors, Feb. 10.
Filmmaker Neko Celik led a group of middle and high school students in making socio-political documentaries at a Cornell workshop Feb. 11. 'They have the cameras,' Celik said. 'They have the power.'
The 2.5-acre vineyard will serve as a site where CCE's Finger Lakes Grape Program can conduct applied research projects and demonstrations for current and prospective grape growers in the Finger Lakes region and beyond.
Cornell's Math Club hosts Puzzle Nights monthly (where all, including high school students are invited), which includes cookies and camaraderie. Attendees don't have to be good at computation.
