Abby Cohn, professor of linguistics, finds that Indonesia's "official" language is endangering hundreds of other languages spoken by small groups of people.
Two Cornell Public Service Center programs, the Patient Care Advocacy Team and Translator Interpreter Program will present at the 2016 IMPACT Conference for their volunteer service work, Feb. 18-22.
To celebrate the opening of the Cornell University Library archive honoring synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, Ph.D. ’65, the university is hosting “When Machines Rock: A Celebration of Robert Moog and Electronic Music,” March 5-7.
Interim Provost David Harris, a scholar on race, ethnicity and public policy, is one of four Cornell social scientists leading a series of interactive seminars on inequality and socio-economic mobility. (Aug. 29, 2008)
Cornell has joined nearly 50 universities in a commitment to address global hunger. University leaders will sign the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security Dec. 9 at the United Nations.
The arguments we have throughout our lives help form our ethical consciousness, anthropologist Webb Keane said in his Nov. 9 Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture. (Nov. 23, 2010)
On May 11 eight nations that adopted the first Arctic Invasive Alien Species strategy and action plan – a section of the Arctic Council’s Fairbanks Declaration – authored by scientists led by the Atkinson Center's David Lodge.
A new program will train graduate students for emerging opportunities at the intersection of sustainability, the environment and finance. (Nov. 14, 2011)
Natural resources major Apollonya Porcelli '10 spoke on violence against nature and the social and economic structures that can prevent it, from grassroots to governmental levels. (Feb. 11, 2009)
Avery August, Ph.D. ’94, is a professor of immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the university’s vice provost for academic affairs and co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, which spans the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine.