Yusef Salaam, one of the five teenagers wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case in 1990, gave the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 17 in Sage Chapel.
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
In the 2016 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today, Cornell University was ranked No. 15 among top national schools. The Dyson School and the College of Engineering both ranked in the top 10, respectively.
Native American sites abound in the Ithaca area but are hard to reach due to subsequent development and poor documentation, according to Kurt Jordan of the American Indian Program in a talk Sept. 19.
Cornell's newly named Department of Performing and Media Arts (formerly Theatre, Film and Dance) has announced its lineup for next year and two new faculty members.
Artist Leo Villareal talked about creating sculptures from light at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at a public lecture Oct. 22 in Milstein Auditorium. (Oct. 24, 2012)
Four new trustees were elected to four-year terms at the Cornell Board of Trustees’ May 28 meeting. They join five recently elected trustees representing graduate and professional students, faculty, employees and alumni.
Chen Jian, Cornell’s Michael J. Zak Professor of History for U.S.-China Relations in the Department of History, has been named a Woodrow Wilson International Center global fellow.
President Trump’s decision to reverse a campaign promise to repeal the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a relief for those children of undocumented immigrants. Maria Cristina Garcia, professor of History and Latino studies at Cornell University, says that Trump’s decision, while a relief to many DACA children, will not impact the status of their parents.
