Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will speak on “The Morality of Fundamental Physics” April 21 in a public lecture as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at 7 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, will speak on “Six Degrees of Separation” Sunday, April 26, 1-2:15 p.m. at Bailey Hall, as part of Charter Day.
More than two dozen Himalayan scholars gathered at Cornell last month to chart a way through a political and economic landscape that is increasingly hostile to area studies.
Rebecca Stoltzfus, vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of nutritional studies, has been announced as the candidate of choice to become the 18th president of Goshen College, her undergraduate alma mater.
Eleven graduate student artists are showing their individual approaches to what art can be and how to create in times of crisis, in a group exhibition of their work April 28-May 7 in Brooklyn. (April 29, 2011)
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.
Chemistry faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences have changed the curriculum to offer more options for their students, two-thirds of whom pursue careers that don’t require a graduate degree in chemistry.
Cornell’s Polson Institute for Global Development will host “Reducing Campus Food Waste: Innovations and Ideas,” a lecture and workshop May 2-3 on campus.
