Bad Religion punk rocker Greg Graffin, Ph.D. '03, is co-teaching a course on evolution this semester for non-biology majors; he will do so for at least three years. (Nov. 30, 2011)
Educators need to be honest about racial histories of locations and provide more mentorship for Native students, said two speakers Nov. 4 in a discussion on fostering culturally competent contexts. (Nov. 8, 2010)
Events this week include traditional Javanese and new electronic music, a talk on the history of synthesizers, the Locally Grown Dance Festival, a panel on Latin American violence and Slope Day.
In a panel discussion Nov. 12, four women from the Cornell community addressed complex questions about education, career and family during the all-day Women of Color conference. (Nov. 21, 2011)
This “Rise and Fall of ‘Civilization’” class, taught by Professor Adam T. Smith, examines traditional archaeological topics, partly by looking at our current civilization and imagining the Cornell campus 1,000 years from now.
A visiting Humanities Lecture series speaker used the history of the Soviet Union as a case in point that Islam is much better understood in the context of history. (Nov. 1, 2010)
The Department of Psychology is inviting all Cornell students to explore the human condition through two-dimensional art in a new juried annual competition with a $2,000 prize. (Dec. 3, 2008)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be the first federal organization to use VIVO, a Web application conceived and developed at Cornell, to help scientists network and find potential collaborators. (Oct. 28, 2010)
Author and associate professor of English J. Robert Lennon featured some of the local flavor in his fiction Oct. 26 at a Literary Luncheon at the home of President David Skorton and Robin Davisson. (Oct. 27, 2010)