The Graduate School is expanding an existing student-led program which prepares and supports prospective students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to include all graduate fields starting in the summer of 2022.
Adam Hoffman, assistant professor of psychology and an expert on the development of ethnic-racial and gender identities in youth, says Sesame Street is allowing children to ‘see themselves’ in these muppets.
Building on their longtime commitment to social justice, equity and diversity, Louise and Leonard Riggio have made a $5.6 million gift to Weill Cornell Medicine to establish a scholarship for Black medical students with financial need.
In 1829, abolitionist David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored People of the World” went viral, enabling enslaved people to imagine freedom and why they deserved it.
A Cornell graduate student partners with library experts to create an online collection of images of the Philippines during the early days of American annexation.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have shown that three months of social worker follow-up support to people hospitalized with HIV in Tanzania had health benefits at low cost.
The Graduate School welcomed over 80 new Dean’s Scholars into the community of over 300 current Dean’s Scholars at Cornell. The Dean’s Scholars program honors recipients of competitive diversity-focused fellowships.
Professor Yuval Grossman has been traveling to Israel to lead math and physics activities with young people in Arab villages since 2019. His most recent trip was in January.
Clues about life on exoplanets could be as strange as a bioluminescent glow or a rainbow hue, astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger describes in her new book, “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos.”
