Students in the Minority Organization of Architecture, Art and Planning are engaged in field study and cultural immersion on a winter break trip to India.
Liberation, not equality, should be the goal of social justice, asserted Amber Hollibaugh, an activist for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in Cornell's Lewis auditorium, March 4.
Martin Luther King's legacy of activism and commitment to social justice is reflected in the lives of four Cornell students who discussed their work on behalf of social change in Sage Chapel Feb. 19. (Feb. 20, 2008)
'Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions and Other Many-Legged Creatures' by Cornell's Thomas and Maria Eisner and Emory University's Melody Siegler.
Cornell and the Africana Studies and Research Center are co-sponsoring a major international conference, 'Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan,' at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 21-22. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Whether the European Union or Asia will reign as the global regional power was a focus of a panel discussion to celebrate a new Cornell student journal, the Cornell International Affairs Review. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Cornell University has announced the creation of a scholarship for deaf, hearing impaired and/or people fluent in American Sign Language that will provide free tuition for Cornell Outdoor Education (COE) class offerings. Qualified Cornell students, community members and members of the general public are all eligible for this new scholarship. The Moving Hands Scholarship is the result of a gift from the Figure Foundation of Bethel, Maine. It is an outgrowth of an earlier, successful scholarship providing free tuition to members of the deaf community for wilderness first-aid training at COE.
The income disparity between workers at the top and those in the middle and bottom the income scale keeps widening, Francine Blau told alumni at 'Opportunity 103: Inequality at Work,' Oct. 2 in New York City. (Oct. 3, 2008)