Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rae McGrath spoke in a class March 13 about the profound impact that abandoned weapons have on civilians and the responsibility of countries to clear such countries as Afghanistan of old explosives. (March 14, 2008)
Economist Robert Moffitt, a leading expert on the economics of welfare reform, recently spent a week at Cornell to lecture in classes and work with students. (March 2, 2010)
Members of the Campus-Community Coalition discussed mental health strategies and services at Cornell, the Ithaca City School District, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College Sept. 22. (Sept. 24, 2010)
Liberation, not equality, should be the goal of social justice, asserted Amber Hollibaugh, an activist for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in Cornell's Lewis auditorium, March 4.
Cornell students affiliated with the Immigrant Farmworker Initiative visit farms to teach these workers English. They also work on campus to raise awareness about farmworker issues.
Rural preschoolers in poor communities in New York state have significantly less access to quality early education programs than their urban and suburban counterparts, finds a new Cornell study. (March 3, 2008)
A new study finds that who we perceive as responsible for fixing the digital divide - those with and without Internet access - depends on how the issue is presented. (March 29, 2011)
On March 23 Cornell held a Library Salon at Lighthouse International in Manhattan that focused on the 1911 Triangle factory fire and the ILR School's Kheel Center collection and website about the fire. (March 28, 2011)