Nancy M. Schlichting, MBA ’79, retired CEO of the Henry Ford Health System, delivered a keynote address on "Unconventional Leadership" at the inaugural Sloan Women in Healthcare Leadership Symposium.
Africana professor Riche Richardson will travel to Montgomery, Ala., to speak at the 100th birthday celebration of the late civil rights icon Rosa Parks Feb. 4.
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology, uses knitting and weaving techniques to make on-skin devices that express the wearer’s personality.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a symposium at Cornell Plantations March 15. The event is free and open to the public.
In a new book, assistant professor Ella Maria Diaz explores the Royal Chicano Air Force collective, from its murals in Sacramento, California to texts, cultural engagement, education and activism.
In his new book, Russell Rickford, assistant professor of history, looks at the impact of black national and Pan-African schools founded in the 1960s and 70s as part of the civil rights movement.
A memorial fund to benefit minority students interested in geosciences has been established in the name of Cornell undergraduate Michael Augustin, who died June 3.
Political activist and historian Barbara Ransby will speak on “’Black Lives Matter,’ Past and Present: Ella Baker's Legacy and the Implications for 21st Century Activism” Wednesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m.
“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.