Seven College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty members participated in an event created as a fun way to get to know young faculty and their research March 19.
The Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, established by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, comes at a time when funding for the humanities is under fire on national, state and local levels. (Feb. 17, 2011)
On May 1 President David Skorton updated the Cornell community on the diversity planning effort Toward New Destinations, highlighting engagement with such off-campus constituents as community organizations and vendors.
Events this week include Cornell Orchards' Apple Spectacular, a student-made film reflecting on service in Thailand; the Cornell Orchestras playing jazz with special guests; MFA students reading poetry and fiction; and lectures on law and technology, global child welfare and the Middle East.
More than 3,000 tickets were sold for the Oct. 16 Fall Employee Celebration, where staff, faculty, retirees and their families gathered at Barton Hall for a chicken barbecue and pasta dinner. (Oct. 19, 2010)
Increases in support for child care and research assistant stipends and a reduced tuition for self-pay doctoral students in their sixth or seventh year were announced Aug. 31 at the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting.
Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences has announced the recipients of its biannual small-grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support. (April 24, 2012)
In his new book, Bruno Bosteels examines the revived interest among younger Latin Americans in the ideas of Marx and Freud, after their influence on an earlier generation of activists and artists.