The Cornell International Affairs Society and its 80 members hosted 500 high school students April 15-18 for the ninth annual Cornell University Model United Nations Conference. (April 19, 2010)
An assistant professor in anthropology will study plant biology and international intellectual property law to keep African healers from commercialization without remuneration with a Mellon fellowship. (June 8, 2011)
Associate professor of music Steven Pond's book, 'Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album,' received a Guthrie Book Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. (May 21, 2007)
Events this week include actress Marlee Matlin, Darwin Days, a Breaking Bread discussion of race, religion and campus climate, and Oscar-nominated shorts and films featuring cats at Cornell Cinema.
Messages on making schools safer and healthier are going coast to coast starting Nov. 5, when Cornell students began a cross-country bus tour conducting outreach projects along the way. (Nov. 5, 2012)
Apolo Nsibambi, prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, will speak at Cornell on Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall auditorium. His talk is titled "Political Conditions for Economic Reform and Successful Adjustment in Africa."
Educators need to be honest about racial histories of locations and provide more mentorship for Native students, said two speakers Nov. 4 in a discussion on fostering culturally competent contexts. (Nov. 8, 2010)
Bad Religion punk rocker Greg Graffin, Ph.D. '03, is co-teaching a course on evolution this semester for non-biology majors; he will do so for at least three years. (Nov. 30, 2011)
Juliet Schor, a professor of women's studies at Harvard University and author will give a free and open lecture titled 'Time, for a Change' on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at noon in the Faculty Commons of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
The practice of self-injury by students is a growing concern at colleges and universities across the nation. Equally so at Cornell, where medical and counseling staffs at Gannett Health Services work collaboratively to identify and assist individuals who engage in self-injurious behavior (SIB).