Diversity officers from campuses across the country attended a three-day workshop on how faculty can incorporate diversity into their classrooms. The Faculty Diversity Institute has become well-known for its innovative approach.
Katherine Bunting-Howarth, an attorney with a Ph.D. in marine studies, is now the program leader for New York Sea Grant's extension program, supervising more than a dozen staff throughout New York. (April 4, 2011)
Lois Spier Gray, an iconic ILR School professor who committed her life to advancing social justice and workers’ rights, died Sept. 20 in New York City.
Cornell has joined nearly 50 universities in a commitment to address global hunger. University leaders will sign the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security Dec. 9 at the United Nations.
Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a 2010 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. (Dec. 2, 2010)
The third cohort of Posse Foundation students came to Cornell this fall. The full-scholarship and youth leadership program brings promising Chicago students to 10 top-tier universities.
Very few successful people would have succeeded if they hadn't been lucky, too, economist Robert H. Frank says in his book, "Success and Luck." He calls on policymakers to create the conditions that put luck on everyone's side.
Five Cornell undergraduates won the 2012 Nielsen Case Competition in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 24. The competition required teams to solve a real-world business challenge faced by Nielsen.
More than 200 books published by the Negro Universities Press, reprinting rare historical materials on the black experience, have been donated to the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.