Mingkun Ding '16Major: Math and Philosophy (Minor: Music)Hometown: ShanghaiHow did you decide on your major? Have your plans changed since you started Cornell?
Visiting Professor of Anthropology Terence Sheldon Turner, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, died Nov. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center of a brain hemorrhage. He was 79.
In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, neighbors killed lifelong neighbors, husbands killed wives and parents killed children. It was an intimate conflict, according to Philip Gourevitch ’86, staff writer for The New Yorker and an experienced reporter on the Rwandan genocide.
N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, professor of Africana Studies, together with Nathan Andrews (University of Alberta, Canada) and Nene Ernest Khalema (Human 鶹Ƶ Research Council, South Africa), has released the edited volume "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa's Development Beyond 2015" (Springer, 2015).
As we move into November, our weekly blog posts will shift in focus. This month, our theme is "Academic and Residential Life at Cornell." Samantha Briggs '16 starts us off by explaining how the 鶹Ƶ and 鶹Ƶ' unique set of distribution requirements allows students to explore subjects they never would have considered otherwise! By: Samantha Briggs '16
“India has 26 official languages, but when I teach Indian literature, students can only access a very few works in English translation,” laments Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature in the 鶹Ƶ and 鶹Ƶ. “There are reams of other excellent literature I haven’t been able to teach because it’s not translated.