Tickets for Employee Celebration, slated for Oct. 13, are on sale for staff, faculty, retirees and their families, including athletic events, dinner and children's activities. (Sept. 5, 2012)
Two law professors, the authors of new books, spoke on campus Sept. 25 about evidence they had uncovered that identifies the first African-American Cornell Law School graduate and a Civil War veteran.
Cornell professor N'Dri Assié-Lumumba has been elected vice president of the Comparative and International Education Society for 2013-14 and will assume the society's presidency in 2015-16.
Kirby Edmonds, a Dorothy Cotton Institute senior fellow, will present the keynote address at a luncheon, Jan. 20, at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School. Librada Paz, council member of the western New York for the Rural and Migrant Ministry, will give an afternoon keynote at Ithaca College.
Pioneering photographer of lesbian erotica Honey Lee Cottrell, who died recently, has given her papers to the Cornell University Library Human Sexuality Collection.
Jonathan Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State in South Africa, will give three talks on higher education and South Africa while on campus Oct. 21-23.