Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94, an expert in property law and land use, and Cornell faculty member from 2006 to 2012, has been named the next Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School, effective July 1.
To engage teens in STEM fields through fashion design, Cornell offered a weeklong course, “Smart Clothing, Smart Girls: Engineering through Apparel Design,” July 14-18 to 33 middle school girls.
Noticing the lack of portraits of women around campus, Jordana Gilman '14 assembled an exhibition of 250 notable Cornell women - along with two mirrors so visitors can consider their place in Cornell history.
On March 8, Thaddeus Talbot retraced the steps of civil-rights marchers 1965 trek from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Things have changed, but more remains to be done, Talbot writes.
The third annual Diversity in Higher Education and the Workplace Conference, cosponsored by Cornell, focused on sustainable inclusion and drew panelists and participants from around the country. (April 27, 2012)
To make the STEM field workforce look more like the U.S. population, more minorities need to be encouraged and supported to enter these fields, said Irving McPhail '70 speaking on campus Oct. 17. (Oct. 18, 2012)
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which aims to boost the number of faculty members from groups underrepresented in higher education, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Thanks to $2 million from the Mellon Foundation, the first four Mellon Diversity fellows have arrived on campus to conduct research and attend weekly multidisciplinary seminars. (Oct. 4, 2012)