Students, faculty and staff were recognized for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and excellence within the graduate community at the 2021 Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration.
Events this week include traditional Javanese and new electronic music, a talk on the history of synthesizers, the Locally Grown Dance Festival, a panel on Latin American violence and Slope Day.
A multidisciplinary team from Cornell won the $50,000 first prize in the annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Competition, for urban design and development scenarios to revive neighborhoods in Toronto.
Kip Thorne, founder of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, will give a talk on black holes and gravitational waves April 6, at 5 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who developed a new technique in genome engineering that allows DNA to be edited almost as easily as editing text, will deliver the Racker Lecture on campus Nov. 19.
Events on campus this week include a film on a killer whale that kills; artist talks; a reading by visiting writer Cynthia Hogue and the last days of Cornell Library's Hip Hop Collection exhibition.
Events this week include a play about pioneering scientist Barbara McClintock; a concert tribute to Steven Stucky by Ensemble X; a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock and an experimental film series.
Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."
An endowment bequeathed by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, professor of physical anthropology at Cornell for 41 years, will fund a lecture series and visiting professorship in human evolutionary biology.