Cornell Atkinson at 15: celebrating science, fostering hope

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s 15th-anniversary conference addressed past successes and future efforts to support climate and sustainability.

Religious leaders, physicians fight hypertension in Tanzania and beyond

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers and Tanzanian colleagues are leveraging clergy's influence to lower life-threatening hypertension rates in Tanzania, and potentially the U.S.

A crucial first step: WHO Pandemic Agreement

The WHO Pandemic Agreement directly addresses the risk of zoonotic spillovers — transmission of pathogens from animals to humans. With over a million undiscovered viruses in animal hosts, Raina Plowright and her colleagues urge swift action. 

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Changes in bats’ diets increase spread of viruses, spillover risk

When bats lose access to their habitat and natural food sources, they seek food on agricultural lands - new research explains why, when their diets change, they shed more virus and infect more hosts, increasing the risk of outbreaks and pandemics.

Panel conversation explores pathways to peace for Israel, Palestine

The event, held March 10 in Bailey Hall before an audience of several hundred students, faculty, staff and local community members, explored the complex politics, power dynamics and the historical and ethnic conflicts that have shaped the Mideast.

Cornell faculty honored for community-engaged innovation

Thirteen faculty members from across Cornell are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards

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‘Pathways to Peace’ panel to shed light on Middle East conflict

Former Middle East leaders and ambassadors will hold a wide-ranging public conversation on the historical background and potential paths toward a peaceful future on March 10.

A 24-year collaboration transforms health care in Tanzania

Weill Cornell Medicine and Weill Bugando School of Medicine collaborate to strengthen medical education, health care and innovative global health research at both institutions.

Upgrading skills, downgrading women’s work in China

ILR Assistant Professor Yiran Zhang has published a pair of papers exploring the garment supply chain in China – both factory jobs and informal, home-based ones that have sprung up out of need as women try to make money while also serving as “companion mothers” to their school-aged children.

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