Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City has just 'graduated' its inaugural class of young professionals in a new program, Strength Through Diversity -- Young Professionals Leadership Program. (April 7, 2008)
Afif Safieh, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United States, advocated intervention from the U.S. and others outside the Middle East to resolve the region's problems. (March 5, 2008)
In 1968, Robert Summers was asked to serve as a co-consultant in the founding of the Council of Legal Education Opportunity. Since then more than 8,000 students have participated in the program. (Feb. 29, 2008)
Professor of food science Joe Regenstein discussed the koshering of Nabisco's famous Oreo cookie and other food adventures, Feb. 20, in a talk given as part of Cornell's Jewish Faculty Lecture Series. (Feb. 26, 2008)
Novelist, literary scholar and Cornell professor Edmundo Paz-Soldan was named to a list of the 50 most influential Latin intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine. (Oct. 8, 2008)
'Cognitive advantages follow from becoming bilingual,' says Barbara Lust, a developmental psychology and linguistics expert. 'These cognitive advantages can contribute to a child's future academic success.'
The charter of Cornell University includes a remarkable statement: "And persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments."
Ushari Khalil is on campus this year to lecture and write about his advocacy on behalf of children and displaced populations in Sudan -- work that has put him at risk there. (April 14, 2009)
Interim Provost David Harris, a scholar on race, ethnicity and public policy, is one of four Cornell social scientists leading a series of interactive seminars on inequality and socio-economic mobility. (Aug. 29, 2008)