Events on campus include Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel, a sale of outdoor gear and clothing, an end-of-semester salsa party at the Big Red Barn, and "Back to the Future" film screenings.
Basil Safi, a team leader and program director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, has been named executive director of Cornell University’s Engaged Cornell initiative.
Using the Lean process, The Cornell Store has completely revamped its textbook selling process, resulting in efficiencies and a rethinking of the store’s entire retail and online businesses.
Amara Lakhous spoke on campus Nov. 4 about his experience as an immigrant. and his book “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio,” the 2014 New Student Reading Project selection.
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, with 18 project installations and performances on the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival," launched Sept. 28-29 with a tour of outdoor projects on campus, artist panels with Cornell contributors and lectures by featured artists Carrie Mae Weems and Xu Bing.
A new Cornell minor tackles climate change through interdisciplinary study of the basic physical, ecological and social science of the planetary crisis.
Sital Kalantry, clinical professor of law, talked about sexual discrimination and racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the U.S. and oppression of women in India March 15.