Veteran civil rights activist Robert Moses encouraged educators, parents and students to join a national debate and a movement for change in public schools in a community forum held June 7 in the Ithaca High School cafeteria. The second Community Forum on Education and Society, titled "Equity and Excellence: Quality Education as a Civil Right," was presented by Cornell University in partnership with other local educational institutions.
GENEVA, N.Y. -- Writing in the medical journal, The Lancet, scientists from Cornell University and Seoul National University offer a more precise explanation for vitamin C's anti-cancer activity. And they suggest that a natural chemical from apples works even better than vitamin C. Their report appears in the Jan. 12, 2002, issue of The Lancet, (Vol. 359, No. 9301), the weekly journal for physicians published in London. (January 22, 2002)
A profile of Roberto Einaudi, B.Arch. '61, a founder and the first director of the Cornell in Rome Program, son of International Studies Program founder Mario Einaudi, and member of a prominent Italian political family. (Dec. 6, 2007)
Although hard-working gardeners look forward to the end of another growing season, a few precautions during the winter months will make plants healthier in the spring, according to experts at Cornell Plantations.
"My talk today will be mostly from the vantage point of black Americans, which, of course, is my perspective. But I want to be clear that I view the celebration of diversity to be inclusive of all groups in our society." The Hon. Harry Edwards '62, chief judge emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, prefaced his speech with these words April 30 when he spoke about his experiences as an African-American student during the 1960s and about issues facing minority students, then and now. Edwards, who received a standing ovation after his speech in Bartels Hall at Cornell, was one of several keynote speakers at last weekend's conference, "Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion."
When Yolanda King, the eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, visited the Cornell campus last February and performed "Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Discovering the Power of Diversity" in Sage Chapel, she received a standing ovation from the audience. That visit has now garnered the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony for the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee, which organized the event. The prize was awarded in a special ceremony April 29 in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Many of the Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
Presenting the case that a lifetime of poor health - from coronary artery disease and stroke to obesity and diabetes - can start with poor conditions in the womb, says Cornell researcher and author Peter W. Nathanielsz, M.D., Ph.D.