In a review of thousands of peer-reviewed studies, the What We Know Project an initiative of Cornell’s Center for the Study of Inequality, has found a strong link between anti-LGBT discrimination and harms to the health and well-being of LGBT people.
For faculty and students affiliated with the Asian American Studies Program and the Southeast Asia Program, online events and social media campaigns are taking on deeper meaning during the COVID-19 crisis.
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba began her term as director of the Einaudi Center's Institute for African Development July 1. She is leading IAD’s contributions to the center’s new thematic initiative on global racial justice.
The Institute for African Development has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to strengthen African studies and languages for Cornell undergraduates.
Cornell undergraduates have formed a broad coalition of student organizations to amplify black voices on campus, and promote activism and education to fight explicit and implicit racism.
The Cornell student chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects was recently awarded second place in the annual student design competition.
The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative will bring together scholars from across the university and beyond to study the links between racism, dispossession and migration.
Among the events this weekend to honor veterans, two recognize the end of WWI: a centennial celebration Nov. 10 in Risley Hall and a wreath-laying ceremony Nov. 11 at the Baker Flagpole and WWI Memorial on West Campus.
In a “Racism in America” webinar, four Cornell faculty members elaborated on ways the COVID-19 pandemic has shown race-based discrepancies in health care and health outcomes.
Mark E. Lewis, director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, are the recipients of this year’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.