A visiting Humanities Lecture series speaker used the history of the Soviet Union as a case in point that Islam is much better understood in the context of history. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Vanessa Ulmer, from Woodstock, N.Y., a Cornell senior majoring in policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, is the recipient of a 2002 Carnegie Junior Fellowship from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellows Program.
In a panel discussion Nov. 12, four women from the Cornell community addressed complex questions about education, career and family during the all-day Women of Color conference. (Nov. 21, 2011)
Author and associate professor of English J. Robert Lennon featured some of the local flavor in his fiction Oct. 26 at a Literary Luncheon at the home of President David Skorton and Robin Davisson. (Oct. 27, 2010)
Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, a central figure in Botswana's remarkable transformation and its former president, spoke at Cornell on Oct. 31 about the development of sustainable leadership in Africa as part of the Institute for African Development's Special Speaker Series. (November 03, 2005)
It pays to remember that Cornell is composed of thousands of individuals, all of them pursuing a dream. Three of them tell their stories on the Far Above ... The Campaign for Cornell Web site. (Sept. 20, 2007)
The study provides a revised classification of 97 metallic sweat bee species found in eastern North America, including 11 identified for the first time.
Juliet Mitchell, a psychoanalyst, feminist theorist and member of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, will visit Cornell on March 23 to 31 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
Glenn Evans, the new director of agricultural operations for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, has sustainability as one of his primary goals. (May 10, 2011)
A journalist speaking as part of Cornell's CHINA Town Hall program Oct. 18, said that although China does censor journalists, reporters still do some investigative reporting. (Oct. 19, 2010)