Rachel Bezner Kerr, associate professor of development sociology, and Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government, have been named International Faculty Fellows.
Professor María Cristina García, Cornell's Howard A. Newman Professor in American Studies, has received a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship supporting her work in migration studies.
Cornell doctoral students in the fields of government, history and anthropology invited graduate student scholars to an interdisciplinary conference on peace and conflict April 16.
Cornell faculty and alumni are helping to advise Breakthrough Starshot - a $100 million research and engineering project aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for light-propelled nanocrafts that could capture images and scientific data in our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
A pilot project in Mexico is bringing together Cornell researchers and Maya leaders to manage community forests for biodiversity conservation now and livelihoods, including bee-keeping and ecotourism, into the future.
Ten students received when they participated in the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting, April 1-3, at UC Berkeley to compete for funding to support social justice projects.
Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will lecture on nuclear energy post-Fukushima on campus April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall.