Political analyst Jonah Goldberg will examine divisiveness in U.S. politics and discuss possible solutions in his talk, “Suicide of the West,” Nov. 29.
Three of the four generations of Meinigs who have attended Cornell thus far were on hand to accept the award, which recognizes engineering alumni whose leadership and vision have transformed the world and brought distinction to the College of Engineering and Cornell.
Creators of an exhibit will photographs and stories of residents of La Gloria, a Guatemalan refugee community of 3,800 people in Chiapas, Mexico, speak Nov. 9 in Rockefeller Hall.
Faces transmit social information about goals and motivations that can help learners overcome the inherent difficulty of sharing a teacher's visual perspective, new Cornell psychology research finds.
Cross-campus gathering will focus on the biggest challenges facing the world, and help determine a theme on which the university will focus in the 2019-2020 academic year.
Uriel Abulof, a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government department and professor at Tel-Aviv University, says the peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates makes official a relationship that has developed over time as a result of joint regional interests.
Mitchell Duneier of Princeton will visit campus April 11 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, to talk about his book, “Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea.”
Winnie Ho ’19 has received the 2019 Campus-Community Leadership Award. The annual honor, given by the Division of University Relations, is presented to a graduating senior who has shown exceptional town-gown leadership and innovation.
The iconic photograph of planet Earth from distant space – the “pale blue dot” – was taken 30 years ago. Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute and a professor of astrophysics, says that 30 years after that iconic picture we now have the technical means to spot other pale dots orbiting distant stars.
Nilay Yapici, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2017 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
