Ferdows, who served as an Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Army, says Cornell welcomed him with academic support, financial aid and camaraderie with other veteran students.
The history department's Carl Becker Lecture Series March 15, 16 and 17 on J. Edgar Hoover will be held in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, and are free and open to the public.
Stephan Loewentheil, J.D. ’75, has donated a rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln to Cornell University Library in honor of retiring university librarian Anne Kenney.
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.
Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center Center for Advanced Genocide Research and a USC professor, will talk about defiance and protest of the Nazi regime by Jews on March 17.
In his new book "How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning," Cornell English professor Daniel Schwarz draws on 48 years of teaching experience to offer advise for college success.
Events this week include Locally Grown Dance at the Schwartz Center; a book talk with Rachel E. Dunifon on grandparents raising grandchildren; and guest filmmaker Lawrence Loewinger with “Bogdan's Journey.”
Cornell’s fourth annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, March 8 at Olin Library, contributes to enhancing and expanding the site’s coverage of notable women and a range of topics across feminism, gender and the arts.