Tickets are now on sale through Feb. 8 for the Winter Employee Celebration for staff, faculty, retirees and their families. The event features athletics events, a Cornell community dinner and family bowling.
Celebrating the author’s work and the community-building tradition of African American quilt-making, the Toni Morrison Quilting Project kicks off on Feb. 22, noon to 1:30 p.m., with a virtual quilting traditions workshop, featuring Ithaca-based fiber artist Heather Stewart.
Avery August, vice provost for academic affairs and presidential advisor on diversity and equity, and Wendy Wolford, vice provost for international affairs, issued a statement April 15 providing resources for confronting anti-Asian bias, including a teach-in May 7.
The College of Arts and Sciences is launching a semester-long celebration of the arts and humanities with marquee events, speaker series and panel discussions, and a celebration for Klarman Hall.
Karen Jaime '97 has returned to Cornell as a faculty member in performing and media arts and Latino studies following a varied career in New York City, including being a bouncer at queer bars.
At the start of this year, Cornell launched a fundraising challenge aimed at creating up to 100 new endowed scholarships, totaling an estimated $25 million, for aid-eligible students.
Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology at Cornell University, is an expert on French politics and the history and development of populism and fascism in Europe. Berezin comments on the “yellow vest” protest that have called for their fourth demonstration on Saturday in Paris. The movement, which started as a response to a proposed hike in fuel taxes, is continuing to protest despite the government’s decision – earlier this week – to walk back the tax increase.
