Events at Cornell this week include Lessons and Carols at Sage Chapel; an indoor bouldering event for climbers and an outdoor gear sale; a United Way celebration and Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood story.
Queers for Economic Justice, founded in 2002, was among the first LGBTQ groups to advocate for equality by fighting systems that create poverty. Now Cornell University Library is preserving and organizing the group's records.
Visiting artists and directors will join local artists, scholars and activists for “Feminist Directions” March 15-16 at the Schwartz Center, a public symposium with interactive lectures, performances and workshops.
A gift from Joel I. Picket ’60 and David L. Picket ’84 has endowed the Picket Family Chair of the Department of English, in honor of the family’s long association with Cornell and the humanities.
"Baltimore," a play by Kirsten Greenidge that runs April 28 to May 6 at the Schwartz Center, references the Ferguson riots, the Black Lives Matter movement and the deaths of Trayvon Martin and others.
Cornell will honor Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock, renowned Chinese scholar Hu Shih and the Cayuga Nation with names for new North Campus residence hall buildings.
Doctoral student Benedetta Luciana Sara Carnaghi didn’t have to wait long to retrieve her research material and continue her work, thanks to a double-time effort by Cornell University Library staff.