The conference, Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion on the will bring together African-American, Asian, Latino and Native American alumni and faculty to promote interaction and to discuss, issues of concern to their communities.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in April. They are free and open to the public and will be held in the Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell in April.
R. Richard Geddes, associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University since 2002, will be heading to Washington, D.C., for a one-year term beginning Aug. 1 to serve as a senior staff economist with President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Geddes, who was appointed in mid-March by the council members, will be one of 10 senior economists working with the three-member CEA, which analyzes and interprets economic developments, appraises the programs and activities of the government and advises the president on national economic policy. (April 15, 2004)
Twenty-five scholars from the Caribbean, South America and Africa will examine the status of black studies programs abroad at a conference presented by the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell, Sept. 19 and 20.
Valerie Smith, director of African American Studies at Princeton University, will deliver a free public talk, "Memory and Civil Rights," Thursday, Oct. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 258 of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. Smith, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton, specializes in feminism, film studies and African-American and American expressive culture and visual culture. She is the author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings and Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative and the editor of Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, African American Writers and New Essays on Song of Solomon. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. (October 08, 2003)
In honor of the inauguration of the 11th president of Cornell University, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Cornell University Library will feature three special exhibits on campus, together titled "Legacy of Leadership: Cornell's Eleven Presidents." The exhibits, on display in the university's Olin, Kroch and Uris libraries from Oct. 13 through the end of the fall semester, will highlight the achievements of each of Cornell's presidents, through historical letters, documents and photographs. The displays also will include short histories of each Cornell inauguration ceremony. (October 7, 2003)
Slope Day 2008 started slow and ended wet, but even mid-afternoon rain didn't dampen the spirits of students gathered to celebrate the end of classes. (May 2, 2008)