Cornell faculty members are finding answers to questions related to a world on the move with a boost from Cornell’s first Migrations grants, awarded by the “Migrations” Global Grand Challenge.
Increases in support for child care and research assistant stipends and a reduced tuition for self-pay doctoral students in their sixth or seventh year were announced Aug. 31 at the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting.
Dorothy Cotton, former Southern Christian Leadership Conference education director, will speak on 'Lessons From the Past, Visions for the Future,' Feb. 20. (Feb. 13, 2007)
Cornell University is a state of mind, and both a beginning and a destination, much like the "Ithaka" of C.P. Cavafy's poem about Ulysses' journey home, said President Elizabeth Garrett at her inauguration as Cornell's 13th president.
Turnover in four key administrative positions is giving Cornell University Provost Kent Fuchs the opportunity to reassess responsibilities in his division.
MSNBC host and scholar Melissa Harris-Perry put the history of black struggle in America in perspective in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, saying "The stories of struggle that we tell our children are incomplete."
Winners of the Cornell-based Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced. The award recognizes excellent writing in African languages and encourages translation.
Kimberlé Crenshaw '81, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, School of Law and Columbia Law and specialist in race and gender theory, will present a lecture and several other talks and participate in meetings.
Student veterans Adam Klier, Ryan Kokell '19 and Piragash Swargaloganathan '19 have been selected to attend the Student Veterans of America Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C., later this month.