Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has seriously affected Native Americans, said panelists Nov. 3 on campus, pointing out that it has legitimized racism and triggered more violence against Native people. (Nov. 9, 2010)
Cornell President David Skorton read the Gettysburg Address and spoke of the power of oratory in persuading people, Sept. 6, at a kickoff event for Educate the Vote, Cornell's fall election series. (Sept. 8, 2008)
A panel of three Cornell academics discussed the controversy in India about the film, Peepli Live, and the representations of an epidemic of farmer suicides there, Oct. 26. (Oct. 29, 2010)
Journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn '81 discussed how the economic empowerment of women is the best strategy for fighting poverty worldwide in a talk April 29 on campus. (May 4, 2010)
Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. (April 2, 2009)
Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke of faith, hope, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the power of children, and the value of memory and 'bearing witness' in a talk April 29. (April 30, 2010)
Hip-hop collector, historian and author Johan Kugelberg praised the leadership of Cornell librarians during a Library Salon, held Oct. 6 at the Union League Club in New York City. (Oct. 8, 2009)
The Cornell University Library has launched the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative to help faculty members help student to become better researchers in the digital age.
Rosemary Stasek '85, founder of a nonprofit that helps Afghan women, focused on activism as the keynote speaker March 8 at a campus celebration for International Women's Day. (March 10, 2009)