The visiting critic discusses the importance of social design shaped by community partnerships, and a collaboration with AAP students and Black high schoolers in Brooklyn.
Solving a 140-year old taxonomic puzzle, Cornell researchers have identified and described a new species of electric fish from the Ogooué River in Gabon, Africa.
The Cornell community continues to be a welcoming place for women and minorities, Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, told the Cornell Board of Trustees on May 27. Other universities may be getting more press for increasing attention on diversity, Harris said, but Cornell's hiring and enrollment statistics show a consistent, positive trend toward attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and student body.
In the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture March 2, Gerard Aching drew parallels between the calls to action in two books and the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Model minority is a 'myth of the American dream,' says a panelist at the April 20 'Deconstructing the Model Minority' discussion, sponsored by the Asian Political Action Committee, a Cornell student group. (April 25, 2007)
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa makes his last official visit to Cornell in his role as a visiting scholar Oct. 26-28, when he'll meet with students on campus and speak at public events in Ithaca.
Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues finds that the closer to Valentine's Day we get, the more chocolates – and red roses – spell out "l-o-v-e."
In a letter to the editor, Elizabeth Hoare Cowles writes in to agree with May Berenbaum's premise that there are too few women entomologists. (April 6, 2012)
Candace Mingins '70, Hasbrouck's youth and family coordinator for the past 14 years, helps Hasbrouck Apartment residents from 47 countries form a community. (March 15, 2012)