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Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Awards Convocation on May 1. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in Lecture Room D in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Mar'a Jesoes Bux, the 1999-2000 Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies at Cornell, will give the annual Einaudi Lecture Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House.
Two free public events will mark the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Cornell University in February. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in Sage Chapel, the speaker will be the Rev. Amos Cleophilus Brown Sr., the pastor of San Francisco's Third Baptist Church since 1976. On Wednesday, Feb 6, at noon, Brown will participate in a panel discussion titled "African American Political Empowerment: Preparing for 2004" in the Founders Room of Anabel Taylor Hall on campus. The Rev. Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), will serve as moderator. Other panelists will include: James Turner, Cornell professor of Africana studies, and Dorothy Cotton, who was education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under King. (January 29, 2002)
Events this week include Light in Winter Festival activities, new exhibits at the Johnson Museum of Art, inspirational talks at Sage Chapel, and a lecture on archaeology and photography. (Jan. 14, 2010)
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin called for more diversity in faculty hiring in her first Academic State of the University Address March 7. (March 8, 2007)
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Receiving standing ovations both before and after he delivered his farewell State of the University address June 10, Cornell Interim President Hunter Rawlings told the packed Bartels Hall alumni group during Reunion Weekend that…