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Stanford Professor was featured as the guest speaker for 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, where he reflected on college admissions and affirmative action.
A professor of political science at the University of Victoria, Amy Verdun, will give a lecture on Feb. 22 about the European single market’s use on the geopolitical stage.
In the 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, journalist Tristan Ahtone and historian Robert Lee discussed their investigations of how land grant universities, including Cornell, financially benefited from Indigenous displacement.
Most questions that come to mind aren’t grand or conceptual in any particular way; they arise in a much more preliminary stage of the learning process, as we try to understand the details of going from point A to B. It just wouldn’t be productive for all of our hands to shoot up when the professor asks “Any questions?”, only to go over a certain part of the lecture over again.
As the distinguished speaker for the 37th annual Bartel’s World Affairs fellowship lecture, Amartya Sen discussed the new components of democratic backsliding across the world, focusing specifically on India and the United States.
Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr B.A. ’77, J.D. ’81, law, discussed the current administration’s rising restrictions against immigration and offered solutions to existing problems.
During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide soon evolved into Pauk’s 1962 best-selling book, How to Study in College, and attracted international acclaim for its revolutionary study technique: the Cornell Note-Taking System. The Cornell Note-Taking System involves writing questions in the margin to summarize large chunks of information. The learning system relies on a revision technique called “recitation,” where students answer the questions, then without looking at their notes, recall what they’ve learnt. “By relating newly learned conceptual material that is stored in the left brain, to a visualized object stored in the right brain, you can efficiently affect long-term memory,” Pauk said in a 1998 interview with the Journal of Developmental Education.
Amidst frenzied talks of impeachment and stiffening partisan warfare, public trust in government has reached a near all-time low. But according to Prof. Steven Levitsky, government, Harvard University, while there are reasons to sound the alarm, American democracy is here to stay.
“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” one audience member said, according to The George-Anne.
The talk will be held in Statler Auditorium in Statler Hall and will start at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a public reception from 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Statler Hotel Carrier Ballroom.