Events this week include a panel offering local perspectives on the Vietnam War; "Dunkirk' and "Justice League" at Cornell Cinema; a Cornell Symphony Orchestra concert; and Tesla coils at Science Cabaret.
More than 200 books published by the Negro Universities Press, reprinting rare historical materials on the black experience, have been donated to the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.
Professors N'Dri Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo have each received the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association. (April 15, 2010)
The winner of the 2011 Cornell Fashion Design Award for High School Students is Tiffany Zhang of California for her design of a fanciful extraterrestrial outfit. (April 18, 2011)
Twenty-five years ago public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 wrote an essay called “The End of History.” A campus panel Nov. 18 challenged many of Fukuyama's premises.
Events on campus include a Thanksgiving feast, an exhibition featuring supernatural beings in Asian cultures, a display of student public affairs projects and an opera composed by Patrick Braga ’17.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts has expanded its international learning opportunities this fall with visitors teaching students about global theatrical traditions and techniques.
The Africana Studies and Research Center will host a 40th anniversary conference, 'Looking Back/Moving Forward: The Future of Africana/Black Studies,' April 15-17. (April 8, 2010)
Cornell writer-in-residence and visiting professor in the Department of Government Irakli Kakabadze was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award 2009 in The Hague, Nov. 18. (Nov. 24, 2009)