The ninth annual Soup & Hope series opened with a talk by Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo ’08, who described her personal journey toward authenticity, letting herself learn how to express and control her emotions in public.
The university system increasingly resembles a corporate or business enterprise for a variety of reasons, largely economic but also societal. While this shift has benefited many academic units in terms of resource allocation, it has tended to marginalize the humanities and social sciences, say leading academic humanists.
Anil Nerode, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics, will receive an honorary degree from the University of Chicago for his 'profound impact' on mathematical logic and theoretical computer science June 12. (May 18, 2010)
Speaking Jan. 19 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration in Ithaca, professor Locksley Edmondson said that Barack Obama's election does not indicate that America has become a 'post-racial society.' (Jan. 20, 2009)
At 11 a.m. on Sept. 7, Cornell President David Skorton's inauguration day, the grass on the Arts Quad was still wet from the morning fog. A sea of 3,399 empty, white chairs fanned out from the round stage on the west side of the…
New students entering Cornell in the fall will read and discuss E.L. Doctorow's 'Homer and Langley,' a 2009 historical novel based on the lives of New York City's reclusive Collyer brothers. (Feb. 10, 2011)
Activist attorney Sandra Fluke '03 returned to campus March 1 for the annual meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women and urged her audience to view women's rights as family rights and workers' rights.