The Cornell-sponsored Congressional Staff Peace Games brought high level House and Senate staff members together to game plan a nonviolent response to a simulated international crisis. Steve Israel, director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, directed the event.
In advance of his March 23 lecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Art Department faculty member Wells Chandler shares insights into his studio practice and approach to pedagogy, both of which seek to offer liberating safety and intense delight.
This Q&A features Christina Kerkenpass, a veterinary student at the Free University of Berlin, who participated in the Cornell Veterinary Research Program and conducted research on feline infectious peritonitis this summer.
More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and Entrepreneurship at Cornell.
This award recognizes a veterinary researcher on the basis of lifetime achievement in basic, applied or clinical research. Winners are selected on the total impact their career has had on the veterinary or biomedical professions.
Charles W. Jermy Jr. was honored with the title of Senior Associate Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions Emeritus in April for his extraordinary service to Cornell. His proposal for an online bachelor’s degree for nontraditional students has been taken up by the University and SCE’s new dean, Mary Loeffelholz. Jermy retired in February after 50 years with SCE.
A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast tells the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of 30,000 original documents.
Afghan visual artist Elja Sharifi, currently a visiting scholar at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, sees her escape from the Taliban as a call to action. She will enter Cornell’s PhD program in art history next fall.
A new project from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) aims to estimate the true cost of the PDS by accounting for hidden costs like the health and environmental impacts of the program.