Diversity lecturer Jane Elliott said racism is still rampant in this nation in delivering the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative lecture April 5 in Sage Chapel. (April 7, 2010)
Educators need to be honest about racial histories of locations and provide more mentorship for Native students, said two speakers Nov. 4 in a discussion on fostering culturally competent contexts. (Nov. 8, 2010)
Katherine Kies is the 2011 winner of the School of Hotel Administration's Drown Foundation Prize, awarded annually by the Joseph Drown Foundation to a graduating senior. (May 25, 2011)
The U.S. government has awarded the Arthur S. Fleming Award to Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station (USDA-ARS) research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and an…
Ellen Barry, founding director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, discussed African-American women prisoners in the United States while she was on campus Oct. 28. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Leading activist writers Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez will give a joint poetry reading and hold a book signing on campus April 1. On April 8, the Africana Center will host poet and literary critic Édouard Glissant for a 4:30 p.m. panel discussion at the center. (March 26, 2010)
In a panel discussion Nov. 12, four women from the Cornell community addressed complex questions about education, career and family during the all-day Women of Color conference. (Nov. 21, 2011)
The Leadership Initiative in the College of Human Ecology teaches that we are all born with the potential to lead, but that most leadership traits require effort and experience to develop.
A movement to immortalize famed Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan with a U.S. postage stamp was launched Feb. 11 for local media at the Ithaca Sciencenter. (Feb. 12, 2008)
Time management, a healthy diet, exercise and a regular sleep schedule are some of the most effective tools available to students to help combat mental illness, agreed a panel of experts Feb. 8. (Feb. 12, 2008)