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<p>As an environmental activist and lobbyist, Rafe Pomerance ’68 played an early, pivotal role in raising awareness about the threat of climate change in the late 1970s. He connected scientists with government policymakers and the media, efforts that led to congressional hearings.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/as/files/olinlecture600.jpg" style="float: left;" /><em>Former national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley ’69, right, in conversation with former Rep. Steve Israel, left, director of Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, at the Olin Lecture June 7 in Bailey Hall.</em><br /><br /></p>
A reunion panel featured journalists and professors taking on the problem of "fake news."
Student business leaders gathered for pitch practice and feedback, then worked on their own at various locations across campus.
"A place that once seemed intimidating and untouchable became strangely comforting," said Estefania Perez, of her Supreme Court internship.
Might today's political rhetoric signal an end to the modern era of free enterprise?
“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."
<p>The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/grant/engaged-curriculum-grants/">Engaged Curriculum Grants</a> to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.</p><p>This year’s awards involve 99 Cornell faculty and staff from 46 departments. The 39 community partners are from 10 countries; 11 projects are based in New York state.</p>
<h3>Olga Litvak, Laurie B. and Eric M. Roth Professor of Modern European Jewish History</h3><p><strong>What drew you to Cornell?</strong></p>
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, is a chance for all Americans to celebrate this nation’s founding document. And Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has a letter – handwritten by the “Father of our Country” himself – that offers some insight into the convention that produced that document.
<div>How do you trick a disciplined opponent with state-of-the-art equipment into entering a killing field? How do you turn an enemy’s strengths into his weaknesses? How do you get inside an enemy’s head?</div>
<p>Historian Francis J. Gavin will present this year’s LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, “California Dreaming – The Crisis and Rebirth of American Power in the 1970s”. The talk is Thursday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kaufmann Auditorium/Room G64 in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sponsored by the Department of History, the talk is free and open to the public.</p>
For the first time, undergraduates can be immersed in the work of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.
<p>Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/program/faculty-fellowship/">Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program</a>.</p><p>The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.</p>
<p>Researchers from every corner of Cornell are mobilizing to tackle one of the grand challenges of the modern era.</p>
<p>For 16 years, Cornell audiences have enjoyed lectures, performances and events sponsored by the Atkinson Forum in American Studies. This year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers will visit campus for a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Alice Statler Auditorium.</p><p>Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. and the concert is free and open to the public.</p>
<p class="videoContainer"><iframe scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/697696609&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" title="Climate change as threat multiplier"></iframe></p>
CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts, is halfway toward its goal of 10 new faculty.
“Our initiative aims to stimulate new conversations about the sedimented histories that shape our contemporary world.”
<p><em><em>This column by <a href="https://classics.cornell.edu/michael-fontaine">Michael Fontaine</a>, </em>professor of classics and Cornell’s associate vice provost for undergraduate education, appears in this month's <a href="http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/action-figures-classical-literature">Ezra Magazine.</a></em></p><p>There’s a great story from the ancient world. As Cicero tells it, it goes like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://history.cornell.edu/lawrence-b-glickman">Lawrence B. Glickman,</a> the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History, recently wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post discussing the historical origins of President Trump's use of the phrase "lynching" in a recent tweet concerning the impeachment inquiry.</p>
City governments are often forced to rely on the private sector to support the public good. But it wasn’t always this way.
"Clinical activists" in Philadelphia improvised new therapeutic approaches, guided by their own ethics and experiences.
<p dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://history.cornell.edu/durba-ghosh&source=gmail&ust=1574446484136000&usg=AFQjCNFcCfqpTGevJ8DtTBw3DhUUcSWtkA" href="https://history.cornell.edu/durba-ghosh" target="_blank">Durba Ghosh, </a>professor of history and director of the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been named the director of the College’s new <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/humanities-scholars</body></html>"></a></p>
Postdoctoral associate of History Adrienne Bitar was featured in TIME Magazine dertialing the hisotry of vegetarian opposition to serving turkey on Thanksgiving. Bitar specializes in the study of American food and health history and culture. She is the author of "Diets and the Disease of Civilization