The mission of Cornell Botanic Gardens is to share the deep and enduring connections between the rich diversity of the plant world and the equally rich diversity of cultures worldwide. This garden display and exhibit shares the knowledge, skill, and resilience of enslaved Africans, their descendants, and today’s Black community and their deep connections to plants and the cuisines they…

Visit this two-part exhibit celebrating quilting in the African American community.

[Featured image: "Dearly Beloved" by LaQuita Tummings]

Precious Scraps: Toni Morrison and the African American Quilting Experience

Across cultures, quilt making is often a community experience, a chance to work amongst friends and family while creating useful objects for the…

This is a five-week online peer-to-peer discussion program that runs concurrently with the asynchronous Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom course. Forming an interdisciplinary cohort, faculty meet weekly via Zoom to explore course-related topics and strategies, focused on how to create and sustain inclusive learning environments.

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eCornell Keynote - Join Us!

As organizations strive to diversify their workforces, addressing potential bias in the hiring process is imperative. How can this work for you and your teams?

In this keynote, you’ll learn from Devon Proudfoot, Assistant Professor of Human Resources Studies at Cornell’s ILR School, about evidence-based strategies for reducing bias in the hiring…

The often-fraught pathways of human migration come alive through art. From storytelling to innovative sculpture, theater, cartoons, and painting, students, faculty, and artists supported by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge will tell their stories and showcase their art.

Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literatureDebra A. Casillo, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of…

Register by June 12

EISS Summer Session 1 runs June 20–July 7, 2023

This online, part-time, noncredit course is for international scholars, their spouses, students, and other visitors seeking to improve their basic English-language skills.

The focus is on "Life in the United States—Communicating Across Cultures," with a special emphasis on proficiency in spoken…

Part of the Pathways from Postdoc to Faculty series: In this session we will discuss the differences between chalk talks and seminars, why they are so important, what the interviewers are looking for, what your presentation says about you, and most of all, how to stand out as a candidate!

Asad L. Asad, assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, will give the keynote address at this year's Migrations Summer Pathways Program.

Asad will present on his current research that considers how institutional categories—in particular, legal status—matter for multiple forms of inequality. His new book, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage…

Join us for a special sale featuring plants contained in the “Seeds of Survival and Celebration: Plants and the Black Experience” exhibit. Following a guided tour of the exhibit at 1:00 pm, you can take home some of the plants featured in the exhibit, including okra, black-eyed peas, eggplant, collard greens, gourds, and other plants grown and used by enslaved Africans and their descendants…

Get an early start on your Cornell experience and graduate career! This orientation for international graduate and professional students will connect you with fellow global classmates and provide an introduction to the resources and tools you have available to you as an international student. Register by August 6.

Hosted by International Services, part of the Office of Global Learning…