The ninth annual Soup & Hope series opened with a talk by Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo ’08, who described her personal journey toward authenticity, letting herself learn how to express and control her emotions in public.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi discussed a plan to address student housing on the Ithaca campus while advancing investments in academic initiatives.
The U.S. economy will continue to expand slowly, thanks to a projected gross domestic product (GDP) of 2 percent, no inflation and a 5 percent unemployment rate, according to a Cornell economist.
The Office of the Title IX Coordinator, dedicated solely to Title IX concerns, is headed by Sarah Affel, and includes two Title IX investigators, Elizabeth McGrath and Kareem Peat, and a case coordinator, Jessica Reynolds.
Cyberinfrastructure will provide remote captioning, mentoring and tutoring for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in science and technology fields. (Dec. 21, 2011)
Restaurateurs have traditionally opposed modest hikes to the minimum wages, saying the boosts hurt their industry. But School of Hotel Administration experts say those worries are unfounded.
LaWanda Cook, extension associate and training specialist for the Northeast ADA Center within Cornell's Employment and Disability Institute, discussed affordable ways to make local small businesses' goods and services accessible to the public.
Jennifer Silverstein, a junior in the College of Human Ecology, has won Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for study abroad this coming spring semester. (Dec. 6, 2010)
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.