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)
The 'ShakesQueer' symposium brought more than 20 scholars to campus Sept. 25-27 to discuss their work and present bold interpretations of Shakespeare where few before have dared to tread. (Sept. 30, 2008)
Vermont veterinarian Karen Anderson, a 1982 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine, spent almost two weeks in Haiti last year helping to spread knowledge about caring for and treating animals. (Feb. 5, 2008)
The Institute for the Social Sciences has kicked off its Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project, a three-year effort to understand the causes and solutions to chronic poverty. (May 6, 2009)
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced that two distinguished vice provosts who inaugurated their positions will be stepping down and returning to the faculty, making way for two accomplished faculty members to step into those vice provost positions, effective July 1.
On the seventh annual trip to Brighton Beach, 33 Cornellians spent the day immersing themselves in Russian culture, including a performance by the acclaimed Russian National Folk Dance Ensemble. (Nov. 19, 2009)
A Cornell horse was the sole DNA donor for the entire horse genome, which has been recently completed with help from the beginning from Doug Antczak, a veterinary immunologist. (Nov. 16, 2009)