Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Professor Fredrik Logevall will give a weeklong Cornell Adult University summer seminar, “America’s Vietnam: How Did it Happen?” July 6-12 on campus.
At the annual Community Engagement Showcase April 15, awards recognized student and faculty outreach projects that build relationships across racial, geographical and class backgrounds.
His three-year term, to begin July 1, results from a canvassing of the Africana faculty. Earlier this semester, the faculty voted unanimously to make Aching a full professor in their department, also starting July 1.
Music professor Cynthia Johnston Turner and Tyler Ehrlich '14 are inviting Cornellians to become official Google Glass Explorers, and are taking entries via Twitter through Dec. 15.
Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, and her colleagues found that people continue to be influenced by another person's appearance in a photograph even after interacting with them face-to-face.
When is an hour not 60 minutes long? When it's an hour of television, Amy Villarejo quipped in a July 9 lecture that illuminated the impact television viewing has on our perceptions of time. (July 25, 2012)
Bernd Lambert, an authority on kinship among Pacific islanders of the Republic of Kiribati and professor of anthropology emeritus, died Jan. 3, 2015 at his Ithaca home. Lambert joined Cornell faculty in 1964.
Events on campus this week include music and culture from Turkey, Java, Japan and Korea; student film screenings, a Glacier Gala, a 5K walk/run benefiting local pets, and a talk on math and crocheting.