In the Auburn Correctional Facility's gray stone chapel, incarcerated students and prison staff waited alongside Cornell faculty and staff April 26, eager to hear the results of who won a debate between inmates and law students.
At the International Human Rights Clinicians Conference April 28 on campus, Arafat Jamal '92 spoke on "A Crisis of War and a Crisis of Will: Prospects for Responding to a Global Refugee Phenomenon."
A panel of doctoral students reminisced about their experiences as the first class of commercialization fellows April 28 at Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Celebration conference.
Martha E. Pollack, in her third week as Cornell's 14th president, speaks to and answers questions from the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly during the group's final meeting of 2016-2017.
Cornell hopes to enroll 100 military veterans in the university's undergraduate programs over the next three years, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced at the Ivy League Veterans Council meeting April 29.
Cornell undergraduates joined 200,000 green advocates to parade down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue for the Peoples Climate March April 29 – in sultry heat – to advocate for rescuing the world from environmental deterioration.
Plant sciences major Nicolas Glynos '17 has received a Young Botanist Award from the Botanical Society of America, which recognizes outstanding graduating seniors in the plant sciences nationwide.
Gerald R. Beasley, vice provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, has been named the next Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell. His appointment is effective Aug. 1.
The U.K.'s astronomer royal, Lord Martin Rees, will explore our vulnerabilities and possibilities in the first Carl Sagan Distinguished Lecture at Cornell Monday, May 8, at 7 p.m. in Call Auditorium.
