Assistant Professor of Music Catherine M. Appert looks at Senegalese hip-hop, its mythology and ethnography in her book “In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal.”
More than 300 young people from 45 New York state counties gathered on Cornell’s Ithaca campus for the annual Career Explorations Conference, where they learned about college life and career opportunities.
An event for students interested in agriculture was held April 26 and brought together 220 high school students from 17 Finger Lakes-area school districts.
Alum Phyllis Weiss Haserot '65, MRP '67, and other diversity experts spoke about recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce at the 12th annual Cornell Diversity Update Conference, Nov. 8. (Nov. 16, 2010)
In its next webinar, the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S) yearlong webinar series, “Racism in America,” will examine how protest movements and civil disobedience have sought to both end and uphold white supremacy and racial discrimination. The Feb. 24 event, in partnership with the Cornell Law School, is free and open to the public.
Students from Ithaca’s Beverly J. Martin Elementary School recently were treated to an unusual culinary experience, thanks to a new program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County.
The 2013 Dean’s Fellow in the history of home economics in the College of Human Ecology gave an account of Flemmie Kittrell’s life March 20. Kittrell was the first African-American woman in the country to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 20, 2012)