A grant from the Teagle Foundation will allow Cornell faculty and staff to launch a new civic education program for high school students, opening pathways to higher education.
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, former President of Iceland (2016–2024) and current Professor of History at the University of Iceland, visited Cornell University last week to deliver three Messenger Lectures, reflecting on his experience as Iceland’s head of state and the changing geopolitical and cultural landscape of Iceland.
Adjunct professorsMohamed ‘Arafa and Menachem Z. Rosensaft discussed the urgency of discourse between the intertwined communities April 14 at Cornell Law School.
Scholar of law Philippe Sands will give the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture in History on March 5, considering "Lessons from History and Literature, from Nuremberg to Pinochet and Beyond.”
Jens David Ohlin has been appointed to a second term as the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, effective July 1. The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee voted March 9 to approve the new term.
Fred Rubinstein ’52, LLB ’55, has honored his late wife’s dedication to civic engagement by endowing a professorship in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Cathy Creighton, director of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and former field attorney for the NLRB, says the new changes allow for unprecedented political control over career civil servants.
On March 12, the Provost’s Committee on the Future of the American University will host Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, for a discussion on how institutions can break free from entrenched systems and reimagine their role in serving students and society.
