Virtual events and resources at Cornell include a panel discussion on protests and democracy, a series of staff forums, virtual tours of Cornell Botanic Gardens and the Fall Creek gorge, and a new online gallery of art students' senior thesis projects.
Fifty-five Cornell graduates have joined the incoming Teach for America corps of 5,900 individuals this year, making Cornell the eighth-biggest contributor of new teachers this year among top colleges and universities of its size.
To help the Cornell community think critically about human diversity and to appreciate it, the university has launched a new Web gateway on diversity and inclusion. (Feb. 1, 2007)
On Feb. 27, 90 students from public high schools across New York City participated in Big Red STEM Day, designed to inspire high school students to consider STEM fields.
Cornell's Office of Community Relations will receive the Judges' Citation from the State University of New York Council for University Advancement for its outreach efforts concerning race relations. (May 17, 2010)
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a symposium at Cornell Plantations March 15. The event is free and open to the public.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
A new Cornell study finds the darker a white man's skin is, the more likely he is to be arrested, compared to lighter-skinned white men. In contrast, black men, no matter how dark or light their skin, get arrested at the same rate.
Alumni, faculty and members of the incoming Class of 2012 attended the Cornell Mosaic conference, which offers Cornellians, particularly African-American, Latino and Asian alumni, opportunities to network and keep current on Cornell events.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts presents "Mother of Exiles/Madre de Migrantes," commissioned from playwright Elaine Romero, April 5-6 and April 12-13 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.