The Center for Transformative Action (formerly CRESP) at Cornell has created the Performing Arts for Social Change, an initiative to make a social impact through theater, music and dance. (June 26, 2008)
Cornell broke ground Nov. 1 for a new child-care center with space for 158 children of Cornell staff, faculty and students. The 16,240-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in fall 2008. (Nov. 5, 2007)
Gerard Aching's book 'Freedom from Liberation' is a social, psychological, historical and literary study centered on a 19th-century Cuban poet's slave narrative, the only such work to surface in the Spanish-speaking world.
Graduate students serving on the General Committee of the Graduate School now have full voting privileges on legislation and policy, the Graduate School has announced.
A Filipino-American graduate student and a Lebanese-American alumnus are among 30 new Soros fellows, who are immigrants or children of immigrants. (March 10, 2010)
The leader of a group that advocates for low-wage workers urged students to pursue work that changes lives at the ILR School's Union Days. (April 15, 2011)
More than 900 people flocked to campus for Entrepreneurship@Cornell's Celebration 2010, April 15-16, to learn about and network for all things entrepreneurial. (April 22, 2010)
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.