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The holiday reminds professor Riché Richardson of exciting celebrations of her youth, but also of obstacles that stand in the way of fully achieving Black freedom.
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A&S faculty will lead many courses on campus and join educational vacations as part of Cornell Adult University.
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"Eight years ago this spring, unelected bureaucrats in Flint, Mich., switched the city’s municipal water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The sting of the decision persists to this day."
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Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, has awarded grants totaling more than $500,000 to support faculty research addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration.
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A number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.
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On 5/27 and 5/28, Kristen Wright's one act play A PURSUIT will be performed in person at The Cherry Arts in Ithaca at 7:30 pm on both nights. If you will be in the Ithaca area at that time, please come out!
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Seed grants, student travel grants and internships totaling $355,000 in the 2021–22 academic year supported international work done by many A&S faculty and students.
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Hear about the Cornell experiences of some of the amazing students in our graduating class.
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The attitude of African states to the Ukraine war is ambivalent. Political scientist Siba Grovogui explains why this is the case and why he also blames the West.
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In the early 1900s, Cornell was one of a few major universities that welcomed Black students, but social segregation of the time prohibited them from living in campus housing.
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