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A student-run organization, Cornell's Diversity Admissions Ambassadors help historically underrepresented groups learn about, apply to and thrive at Cornell.

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A new program, the CALS Student Success Navigator Program , provides additional assistance to new first-year and transfer students and their families, and it aims to build a community of support to ensure academic, personal and professional...
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Gender equality is a hot topic in the development sector, but opportunities to learn about complexities within gender and development are hard to come by in higher education. A fresh take on a course in Cornell Global Development seeks to change...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
Jane Eleanor Datcher, Cornell's first Black woman graduate, stands front and center in the class photo of 1890.

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After graduating with a degree in botany in 1890, Jane Eleanor Datcher taught chemistry at the first – and best – public high school in the U.S. for Black youth and helped organize regional and national networks for Black women.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture

Events

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Seminar

In three vignettes, Steven Johnson, Ph.D., will describe a way to design and establish climate cooperatives – sets of nations that share similar ocean environments separated by time.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

This talk by Shauna Downs, Ph.D., will focus on three main areas of research aimed at providing solutions to increase the availability, affordability, and acceptability of healthy foods produced by sustainable food systems.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Francisca (Kika) Santana will discuss how different social processes – social norms, social support, and place attachment – shape the ways that individuals respond to threats and changes in their biophysical environment.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Amber M. Hamilton draws on 24 months of digital ethnographic fieldwork within Black Twitter to define a theory of "doing race" in the digital sphere.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar