Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, was honored by the White House as a Cesar Chavez 'Champion of Change' March 29. (March 30, 2012)
History of art students have organized a faculty symposium April 27 on the student-curated exhibition “Hair: Untangling Roots of Identity” at the Johnson Museum, examining hair’s political, social, cultural and artistic contexts.
A memorial service for the late Cornell administrator Margaret Mary Reynolds Arion will be held June 23 at 4 p.m. at the Biotech Building Terrace, between Weill Hall and the Biotech Building. (June 3, 2009)
The sixth annual Cornell Town-Gown (TOGO) Awards ceremony was held Nov. 19 at Ithaca High School. The TOGO Awards celebrate the connections between Cornell University and local communities.
Cornell researchers have discovered five new species of a group of bacteria called Listeria – including one named for Cornell, providing new insights that could lead to better ways to detect the soil bacteria in food.
Dan Huttenlocher, founding dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech, talked to Ithaca area business leaders on May 3 regarding the state of the school's campus, under construction on Roosevelt Island.
At a March 22 workshop aimed to encourage grade-school girls to pursue science and technology, Girl Scouts decoded secret messages and investigated a scene to earn scouting detective badges, among other activities.
"My talk today will be mostly from the vantage point of black Americans, which, of course, is my perspective. But I want to be clear that I view the celebration of diversity to be inclusive of all groups in our society." The Hon. Harry Edwards '62, chief judge emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, prefaced his speech with these words April 30 when he spoke about his experiences as an African-American student during the 1960s and about issues facing minority students, then and now. Edwards, who received a standing ovation after his speech in Bartels Hall at Cornell, was one of several keynote speakers at last weekend's conference, "Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion."
College Scholars in the College of Arts and Sciences who studied climate change, local food movements, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other topics, presented their research April 17.