Kenneth A. McClane ’73, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor Emeritus of Literature, spoke about friendship in a Phi Beta Kappa lecture on campus Oct. 28. He drew on experiences growing up in Harlem.
The sixth Cornell Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference, held April 19-21 in Shanghai, drew record-high attendance of nearly 100 Cornell alumni, parents, friends and faculty members.
Samantha Sheppard, an expert on African-American cinema and movie fan, has several scholarly and critical works forthcoming and runs the Voices and Visions in Black Cinema series at Cornell.
Students from universities across the country who spent the summer working in Cornell or Syracuse University research labs presented their work at an Aug. 10 symposium in Hollister Hall. (Aug. 11, 2010)
Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, was honored by the White House as a Cesar Chavez 'Champion of Change' March 29. (March 30, 2012)
History of art students have organized a faculty symposium April 27 on the student-curated exhibition “Hair: Untangling Roots of Identity” at the Johnson Museum, examining hair’s political, social, cultural and artistic contexts.
Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, pointed out the severe disparities of facing women in STEM careers in the Iscol public service lecture on campus Oct. 7.
At a March 22 workshop aimed to encourage grade-school girls to pursue science and technology, Girl Scouts decoded secret messages and investigated a scene to earn scouting detective badges, among other activities.
Kimberlé Crenshaw '81, a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, School of Law and Columbia Law and specialist in race and gender theory, will present a lecture and several other talks and participate in meetings.