"My talk today will be mostly from the vantage point of black Americans, which, of course, is my perspective. But I want to be clear that I view the celebration of diversity to be inclusive of all groups in our society." The Hon. Harry Edwards '62, chief judge emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, prefaced his speech with these words April 30 when he spoke about his experiences as an African-American student during the 1960s and about issues facing minority students, then and now. Edwards, who received a standing ovation after his speech in Bartels Hall at Cornell, was one of several keynote speakers at last weekend's conference, "Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion."
A paper co-authored by Cornell economist Vicki Bogan suggests that mental health issues or substance abuse in a household may have an effect on investment decisions and management of retirement assets. (June 24, 2010)
Some of the same evolutionary "predispositions" that held together extended families for our hunter-gatherer ancestors -- and even prototypical nuclear families until recently -- are partly to blame for today's dysfunction, conflict and violence within fractured families, according to a Cornell.
At the first Cornell intercampus debate Nov. 4, students from Ithaca debated Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar students in Doha about funding from tobacco companies. The Cornell-Ithaca team won. (Nov. 12, 2009)
A $30,000 endowment from the Class of 1956 will establish a fund to boost Cornell's humanities print collection, allowing the university library to purchase additional English-language monographs and a range of materials in foreign languages. (July 3, 2008)
Qing Li, a visiting scholar from the Beijing Dance Academy, is being hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance through the spring, to study American teaching in dance. (Jan. 11, 2011)
The new universitywide Cornell Department of Economics combines all economics faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences and ILR School and some faculty with joint appointments in other colleges.
Scholar, activist and author Ekwueme Michael Thelwell will read from his latest book, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (Scribner, 2003), Thursday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road. The reading, free and open to the public, is part of the Africana center's Black Authors/New Books Series, Spring 2004. A book-signing and reception will follow the event. (March 26, 2004)
The Friend of Man, a newspaper published for the New York State Anti-Slavery Society between 1836 and 1842, is now available online to scholars worldwide, thanks to Cornell University Library. (April 26, 2007)
Lynette Chappell-Williams, director of the Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality at Cornell University, has been named a 2006 Rising Star by Human Resource Executive magazine for "having demonstrated leadership…