Events in August include Latin dance parties, free concerts and movies, an exhibition of art by Cornell botanical illustrators and a two-day workshop for grape growers and startup wineries.
New research by John Cawley demonstrates for the first time that the state-level expansions of Medicaid that were promoted by the Affordable Care Act succeeded in improving preventive care among low-income Americans.
Fourteen Cornell faculty members are contributing columns to The Hill, a widely read policy website in Washington, D.C. Several columns have already appeared, offering faculty an opportunity to influence government decision makers.
Farm-to-Pint tours brought together more than 70 New York hop and barley producers, maltsters, brewers, state officials with Cornell and other industry researchers.
Cornell's educational programs and support for all employees, as well as number of women in executive positions, have earned it a place as one of the nation's top nonprofit employers for executive women.
Civil rights activists Andrew Young, Vincent Harding and Dorothy Cotton will speak at the first Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 10, when the three will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
A new book by English Professor Fredric V. Bogel argues for a new kind of literary analysis to be used in addition to the approaches that have come to dominate the field in the last 50 years.
This fall, the Roper Center, the world's largest public opinion archive, will honor the first political scientist to quantify the country's swings from conservatism to liberalism and back again.
Events this week include a Literary Luncheon with Alice Fulton; dance a la Paris at the Schwartz Center; an environmental film series; and Israel's Consul General on the Mideast peace process. (Oct. 7, 2009)