The Comparative and International Education Society sponsors a conference in Washington, D.C., March 8-13 on "Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globally."
John Hubbel Weiss, a history professor at Cornell University whose research and teaching focuses on genocidal regimes, says the Rohingya crisis is similar to the Darfur genocide in several key ways.
In his new book, 'The Intellective Space,' Romance studies professor Laurent Dubreuil looks the distinction between thinking and thought by drawing on a variety of academic disciplines.
Panelists will discuss a national effort being organized by lawyers and activists to end the practice of family detention of refuge seekers in a panel discussion on campus April 16.
Since Sofia Aumann ’19 uncovered the complicated issues behind human sex trafficking as she worked on a research project, she has supported schooling for girls in developing nations.
In a ceremony on campus Nov. 4, the papers of Fidelia “Flying Bird” Fielding, were transferred from Cornell University Library to the Mohegan Tribe. Tribal Historic Preservation Officer James Quinn received the rare manuscripts.
Cornell researchers have identified three genes responsible for changing the color of common buckeye butterfly wings, depending on what time of year the egg hatches and larvae develop.
The Society for the Humanities fall interdisciplinary conference, "Performing Skin," explored the year's focal research theme: "skin," Oct. 21 and 22 in the A.D. White House.
Cornell's Third Internationalization Symposium, "The Globally Engaged Campus: Defining and Redefining Where We Are," will be held Wednesday, May 18, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in G-10 Biotechnology Building.
