For the first time in Cornell Engineering’s history, every school and department currently has, or will soon have, a woman faculty member on the college’s executive leadership team. The milestone comes as the college celebrates the 140th anniversary of its first woman engineer.
Time, says Shelley Wong, "is socially constructed, continually made and remade in culturally specific ways." Wong’s book project focuses on race, time and narrative.
Events on campus include a Cervantes conference, guest filmmaker Tia Lessin '86, a collaborator of Michael Moore; and book talks on Icelandic history and the ghostlike photography of postwar Spain.
Cornell has long been a leader in ethnic-related identity studies, with programs in Africana studies; Asian American studies;Latina/o studies; Jewish studies; and American Indian studies.
Events at Cornell include a statewide student film festival, a book and CD release for J. Robert Lennon, and Cornell's annual all-campus traditional Thanksgiving feast.
The principal investigator from Antartica's IceCube Neutrino Observatory will present the 2016 Hans Bethe Lecturer in Physics Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
“The Long Wait," a four-minute film written by Juliette Ramírez Corazón, College of Arts and Sciences advising dean and Latino Student Success Office adviser, premieres March 24.