Events on campus include panel discussions with films on climate change and Beyoncé, race and gender; the Farmers Market at Cornell, and faculty book talks by Peter Enns and Rodney Dietert.
More than 100 students presented their work in local and global communities April 16, and discussed the impact those projects have had on the community and their learning.
“About Cornell,” a sesquicentennial magazine containing essays by students in an intermediate Chinese reading and writing course, will be sold in the Cornell Store later this spring.
Richard Bensel, professor of government at Cornell University, predicts that Joe Biden will win Iowa, in part because the Iowa Caucuses structure encourages voters to switch candidate preferences. Elizabeth Sanders says that this primary season is round two in the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.
Heritage language learners - students who know a language and have perhaps spoken or heard it since birth - are taking courses to address gaps in in reading, writing, pronunciation and vocabulary.
Students in architecture, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture and Asian and religious studies spent several days together this fall exploring conditions in Southeast Asian cities.