Actor and activist Danny Glover discussed unions, activism and the role of art in effecting social change on campus Sept. 25. He also met with ILR School students and faculty. (Sept. 26, 2012)
Maren Vitousek, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has received a $500,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to study links between stress, social connectedness, health and future performance.
The Institute for Food Safety at Cornell, announced Dec. 15 with a $2 million state grant, establishes a comprehensive center that connects training and research to check foodborne illness.
Events on campus this week include historical play "Jennie's Will," Robert Sternberg on challenges for land-grant institutions, and sustainable agriculture talks by alternative farmer Joel Salatin.
Landscape Architecture’s Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder, University at Buffalo, received a $1.6 million grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for creating ecologic gold from shipping port sediment.
Associate professor of Africana studies Noliwe Rooks advocated adoption of a second Emancipation Proclamation to ensure U.S. racial integrations at a June 7 Reunion talk.
Professor of English Jane Juffer examines the effects of Latino migration to small towns in her new book, "Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion and Migration in the U.S. Midwest."
Murad Idris, a postdoctoral associate in the government department and a Mellon Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow, discussed peace across the history of political thought on campus March 8.
Cornell Reunion took place online, bringing together alumni from across the globe. Cornellians from six continents tuned in June 10-13, with alumni from Ithaca to the United Kingdom to Japan joining in the celebration.