The fifth annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell was awarded to the campus Multicultural Living Learning Unit at a ceremony April 7 in Willard Straight Hall.
The Center for Transformative Action (formerly CRESP) at Cornell has created the Performing Arts for Social Change, an initiative to make a social impact through theater, music and dance. (June 26, 2008)
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks candidly about her experiences in and out of the courtroom as the Law School's 2007 Jurist in Residence. (Oct. 24, 2007)
David Macdonald, head of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University, will deliver a public lecture in April during his first visit to Cornell as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large.
Robert Constable will step down as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science when his second five-year term ends, June 30, 2009. (June 11, 2008)
How the safety of "Frankenfoods" and genetically modified organisms or World Bank economic advice become political hotbeds are examples of what the Cornell Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) will explore in its third theme…
Academic women of color today aren't hindered so much by a glass ceiling, but one made of concrete, said Akanke Omorayo, the program coordinator of the University of Michigan's Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP). She…
President David Skorton's first grand rounds lecture at Weill Cornell Medical College Jan. 18 broadly discussed the public service and outreach roles of academic health centers both within Cornell and the community at large. (Jan. 19, 2007)
The CU-ADVANCE Center and Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble held a Sept. 21 seminar to raise awareness for department chairs and search committee representatives about unconscious gender bias and equity in faculty searches. (Sept. 25, 2007)
More than 50 years ago, a Cornell mission to a small village in Peru made profound changes, some good, some bad. Today, Cornell may help the community again. (July 23, 2009)