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April 20 episode of All Things Equal featured Richard Rivera, community activist working to support successful re-entry into society post-incarceration. Richard works with local nonprofits Ultimate Re-entry Organization (URO) and Opportunities, Alternatives, Resources (OAR) of Tompkins County, and serves on the Board of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).
Join us for Town Gown Tuesdays on May 4, 9-9:30 for a panel discussion and Q & A with Richard Rivera, Professor Jamila Michener and CPEP Education Coordinator Elizabeth Caughey Violette.
All Things Equal airs Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. on WHCU 870-AM. Guesting April 27 will be Joanna Papadakis, Cornell ’21, recipient of the 2021 Cornell University Relations Campus-Community Leadership Award. Contact Kate Supron in Cornell’s Office of Community Relations
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The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) has selected doctoral students Giulia Andreoni and Vasilis Charisopoulos as recipients of the 2020-2021 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
“Their commitment to mentoring and guiding their students beyond the classroom and engaging their students with the Cornell community to enhance learning is what stood out to the committee,” said Kim Kenyon, an associate director at the CTI and chair of the award selection committee.
Andreoni, from Rome, Italy, will receive her Ph.D. in Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences in May 2021. She has been a teaching assistant for a range of Italian courses at Cornell and instructor of record for several first-year writing seminars as well as the Languages Across the Curriculum program.
Teaching assistant award winners encourage new perspectives on learning cornell.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cornell.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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When his father died last year of an overdose, Rodney Watson thought he would miss the funeral and his last chance to say goodbye not because of the pandemic, but because he was in jail. Watson, 36, was awaiting trial in Houston after shooting and wounding his brother during a fight, an act he swears was unintentional.
In the past, Watson’s incarceration could have forced him to miss the elegant church funeral with the white roses and the military burial where they played Smokey Robinson. He wouldn’t have heard his family tell him they loved him and it would be all right.