Amara Lakhous spoke on campus Nov. 4 about his experience as an immigrant. and his book “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio,” the 2014 New Student Reading Project selection.
Public affairs students took on projects this fall for nonprofit, for-profit and government organizations around the world, from Danby, New York, to Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Panama.
Six Cornell student-athletes, past and present, will represent four different countries when the 2016 Olympic Summer Games kick off Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
University of Havana professor Emanuel Mora, who came to campus this summer to teach a course in biopsychology, is the first visiting professor from Cuba to teach at Cornell and return.
A top engineer from the city of Los Angeles visited Cornell July 20-22 as researchers tested a new earthquake-resilient pipeline designed to better protect southern California's water utility.
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.
Economics student Eric Krasnow ’15 wrote in Spanish about his Cornell Abroad experience in Spain for an essay contest, and will present his essay at a United Nations youth forum June 27 in New York City.
A a $4.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enable Cornell University Library to expand a database of scientific knowledge in the developing world.