A cultural center on the Cornell campus that serves the Asian and Asian-American community is one step closer to reality after President David Skorton gave his support during a March 31 forum.
Lynette Chappell-Williams, director of the Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality at Cornell University, has been named a 2006 Rising Star by Human Resource Executive magazine for "having demonstrated leadership…
Kwame Amponsah is one of several alumni entrepreneurs to establish businesses in Ithaca. He founded Xallent, a semiconductor device and test equipment manufacturing startup, while doing postdoctoral research at Cornell in 2013.
The 2010 Perkins Prize for interracial harmony and understanding went to the Cornell Farmworker Program. Cornell IthaQatar Student Ambassadors and Cornell Urban Mentor Initiative received honorable mentions. (April 29, 2010)
Searching vast cosmic communities like real estate agents rifling through listings, Cornell astronomers now hunt for aging, habitable exoplanets flourishing in old star, red giant neighborhoods.
James J. Eyster Jr., Ph.D. ’77, a School of Hotel Administration professor emeritus of finance, accounting and real estate, died April 7 in Ithaca after suffering a stroke.
Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, and writer, scholar and performer Qwo-Li Driskill, will offer performances and student workshops on campus April 28-May 2.
Diversity is more than skin color, language and family differences. To 3- and 4-year-olds, it can be as simple as wearing glasses, knowing how to tie shoes, eat with chopsticks or simply having a different point of view.
Events on campus this week include concerts by Ensemble X and Violons du Roy, and lectures on politics and the 2012 election, the Morrill Act, and minorities in engineering and tech fields. (Oct. 11, 2012)