Cornell's Latino Studies Program, founded 25 years ago, offers an intellectual and interdisciplinary hub for students and faculty with intersecting interests. (Oct. 17, 2012)
Historian Carol Kammen discussed the experiences of black students early in Cornell's history Oct. 15 at the Africana Studies and Research Center. (Oct. 23, 2009)
The difficulty of finding a job in the current economy when a candidate has the additional handicap of a criminal record was the focus at the Richard Netter Conference, Oct. 9 in New York City. (Oct. 23, 2009)
A panel of Cornell food entrepreneur experts, including a chef, sommelier, restaurateur and executive, pondered the successes and challenges of this growing industry, Dec. 6 in New York. (Dec. 9, 2010)
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson gave a lecture Oct. 20 to launch Cornell Library's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth and a new exhibition on Lincoln.
In his campus visit Oct. 15, Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, said he is still optimistic about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. (Oct. 20, 2009)
A new study identifies the types of thinking among jurors that may predispose them to reasoning rationally or emotionally, which can have a dramatic effect on sentencing. (May 11, 2010)
Michelle Rhee '92, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, returned to campus to discuss her plans to reform one of the nation's most troubled districts. (Oct. 8, 2009)
During the Jewish Diaspora, rabbis maintained a sense of community by developing eruvim - ritual boundaries around communities, said a Jewish scholar May 4 in an Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture. (May 6, 2010)