Mary Opperman, VP and chief human resource officer at Cornell, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, the highest honor an individual in the human resources profession can receive.
Philip Gourevitch ’86, staff writer for The New Yorker, spoke about the Rwandan genocide on campus Nov. 3 as the USC Shoah Foundation's genocide archive comes to Cornell.
Anne Blackburn is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies and a faculty member in Cornell's South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program and the Religious Studies Program.
Cornell's "Freedom on the Move" project will compile all 18th and 19th century North American runaway slave advertisements into a collaborative database of information.
Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund translation of Russian science fiction spanning the revolution to the 1990s.
In June about 180 new Cornell students arrived on campus for the Prefreshman Summer Program, which gives them the opportunity to prepare for the challenges of their first year of college.
A special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly - 'Sovereignty, Indigeneity and the Law' - co-edited by Professor Eric Cheyfitz, has won a best special issue of the year award. (Jan. 23, 2012)
Researchers analyzed the contents of 500 years of European and American food paintings and found indulgent, rare and exotic foods popular in paintings were not available to the average family.